N. Wecklein Seven Against Thebes 181.comm-181

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Commentary (N. Wecklein, 1902; German; OCR draft) (German) (Seven Against Thebes, explanatory commentary pp. 15–100. Single-witness OCR; source readings and all reference placements require scan review.)

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Editions (7)
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ Θήβας First1KGreek (Aeschyli Tragoediae. Sidgwick, Arthur, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.) — 181-202 focus
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ Θήβας Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922.) — 181-202 focus
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 174 focus
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 174 focus
ΕΠΤΑ ΕΠΙ θΗΒΑΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΕΠΤΑ ΕΠΙ θΗΒΑΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 174 focus
Ἰὼ φίλοι δαίμονες,
Ant. 3.
λυτήριοί <τ'> om. ἀμφιβάντες πόλιν,
δείξαθ' ὡς φιλοπόλιες,
μέλεσθέ θ' μέλεσθε δ' seu μέλεσθ' ἱερῶν δημίων,
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μελόμενοι δ' ἀρήξατε·
φιλοθύτων δέ τοι πόλεος ὀργίων
μνήστορες ἔστε μοι.
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 174 focus
ἰὼ φίλοι δαίμονες
λυτήριοί τ᾽ ἀμφιβάντες πόλιν
δείξαθ᾽ ὡς φιλοπόλεις,
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μέλεσθε δ᾽ ἱερῶν δημίων,
μελόμενοι δ᾽ ἀρήξατε.
φιλοθύτων δέ τοι πόλεος ὀργίων
μνήστορες ἔστε μοι.
ὑμᾶς ἐρωτῶ, θρέμματ᾽ οὐκ ἀνασχετά,
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ἢ ταῦτ᾽ ἄριστα καὶ πόλει σωτήρια,
Aeschyli Septem contra Thebas (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Septem contra Thebas. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 174 focus
ἰὼ φίλοι δαίμονες,
Translations (9)
Seven Against Thebes Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, translator. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922. (Modernized by Perseus.)) — 181-200 focus
The Seven against Thebes. (OCR draft) Experimental (The Seven against Thebes.. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 174 focus
O beloved divinities, hovering around our city as its deliverers, show how ye love it; give heed to our public rituals, and when ye give heed to them succour us, and be ye truly mindful, I beseech ye, of the rites of our city which abound in sacrifices.
Re-enter Eteocles.
Intolerable creatures! is this, I ask you, best and salutary for our city, and an encouragement to this beleaguered force, for you to fall before the statues of our tutelary gods, to shriek, to yell—O ye abominations of the wise. Neither in woes nor in welcome prosperity may I be associated with woman-kind; for when woman prevails, her audacity is more than one can live with; and when she is affrighted, she is a still greater mischief to her home and city. Even now, having brought upon your countrymen this pell-mell flight, ye have, by your outcries, spread dastard cowardice, and ye are serving, as best ye may, the interests of those without, but we within our walls are suffering capture at our own hands;—such blessings will you have if you live along with women. Wherefore if any one give not ear to my authority, be it man or woman, or other between [these names
,] the fatal pebble shall decide against him, and by no means shall he escape the doom of stoning at the hand of the populace. For what passeth without is a man's concern, let not woman offer advice—but remaining within do thou occasion no mischief. Heard'st thou, or heard'st thou not, or am I speaking to a deaf woman?
LES SEPT CONTRE THÈBES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES SEPT CONTRE THÈBES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 174 focus
qui parle une autre langue 1 . Exaucez des vierges, exaucez pleinement les prières des bras tendus vers vous.

Ah ! divinités amies, enveloppez cette ville de votre secours libérateur : montrez que vous chérissez vos cités ! Souvenez-vous
des sacrifices que ce peuple vous offrit, et que ce sou-
venir vous guide à son secours. Ne soyez pas oublieuses des mystères prodigues d'offrandes célébrés dans cette cité.
The Seven Chiefs against Thebes (OCR draft) Experimental (The Seven Chiefs against Thebes. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 174 focus
And show that Thebes is yet your care!
By ev'ry solemn temple, ev'ry shrine,
Each hallow'd orgie, and each rite divine,
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Each honour to your pow'r in rev'rence paid,
Hear us, ye guardian Gods, hear us, and aid!
It is not to be borne, ye wayward race: p
Is this your best, is this the aid you lend
The state, the fortitude with which you steel
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The souls of the besieg'd, thus falling down
Before these images to wail, and shriek
With lamentations loud? Wisdom abhors you.
Nor in misfortune, nor in dear success,
Be woman my associate: if her pow'r
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Bears sway, her insolence exceeds all bounds;
But if she fears, woe to that house and city.
And now, by holding counsel with weak fear,
You magnify the foe, and turn our men
To flight: thus are we ruin'd by ourselves.
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This ever will arise from suffering women
To intermix with men.
But mark me well,
Whoe'er henceforth dares disobey my orders,
Be it or man or woman, old or young,
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Vengeance shall burst upon him, the decree
Stands irreversible, and he shall die.
War is no female province, but the scene
For men: hence, home; nor spread your mischiefs here.
Hear you, or not? Or speak I to the deaf?
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Eschilo, I Sette a Tebe: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, I Sette a Tebe: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 174 focus
Ahimè, dilettissimi Dèmoni,
voi che la rocca cingete, a difenderla,
mostrate adesso che Tebe v'è cara.
Voi proteggete l'altare ed il tempio,
lunge da loro tenete lo scempio.
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E vi sovvenga che a voi tante vittime
ne l'orge sacre spruzzarono l'ara.
Insopportabil razza, a voi medesime
lo chiedo, utile è questo, è salutare
per
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la città, potrà coraggio infondere
in chi combatte su le mura, urlare,
piagnucolar, prostrate ai simulacri
dei Numi della Patria? Odio dei saggi!
--
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Mai nei malanni, mai nella fortuna
non m'abbia in casa la donnesca razza!
Impera, ella è protervia intollerabile:
teme, piú grave è il mal per la sua casa,
per la sua patria. - Ed or, tra i cittadini,
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con lo scompiglio delle vostre fughe,
vociferate esanime viltà.
Cosí vantaggio immenso hanno i nemici;
e noi dai nostri fra le nostre mura
siam cosí posti a sacco. Ecco bel frutto
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del conviver con donne. Ora, se alcuno
non ode il mio comando, o uomo o donna
o chiunque egli sia, pena di morte
sarà votata contro lui, dal popolo
lapidato sarà; né questa sorte
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potrà sfuggire. Gli uomini al governo:
donna non dia consiglio! E tu rimani
in casa, e non far danno. Avete udito
o non avete udito? O parlo a sorde?
Aeschylus, Septem ad Thebas: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Septem ad Thebas: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 174 focus
Liberatores circum urbem euntes,
Oſtendite quòd urbem amatis,
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Vobisq; curæ ſunt delubra plebeia.
Curantes uero ſuccurrite,
Religioforum uerò sacrorum
Sponſi eſis mihi.
Vos interrogo, greges non tolerandos,
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Vtrum hæc optima, & urbi salutaria ſunt,
Exercituiq; audacia huic turres cuſtodienti,
Cadentes ad ſtatuaſes defenſorum deorum
Clamare, uociferari prudentibus odioſa.
Neq; in malis, neq; in felicitate chara,
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Conturbernatis fuero muliebri generi.
Nam confidens truculenta eſt audacia,
Verita domo & urbi plus mali.
Et nunc ciuibus cursores fugas
Ponentes, iniecistis exanimem ignauiam.
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Ea quæ sunt extra portam, tanqui optima, iuuater
Ipſi ab ipſis intus expugnamur.
Talia cohabitans muliebribus habebis.
Quod ſi quis meo imperio non audiens fuerit,
Vir & mulier, horung, medium,
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Calculus perniciofus contra ipſos conſtitutus est,
Lapidariam populi ne effugiat mortem.
Curæ sit uiro, ne mulier conſultet
De his quæ foris funt, intus existens ne danũ inferat.
Audiuisti, aut non audiuiſtian ſurde loquors
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Seven Against Thebes (OCR draft) Experimental (Seven Against Thebes. Anna Swanwick, 1886.) — 169 focus
ISMENE
Twofold to behold.
ANTIGONE
Brothers these by brothers slain.
ISMENE
Near them stand we, sisters twain.
ANTIGONE
Deadly deeds to tell of.
ISMENE
Deadly to behold.
CHORUS
Woe, woe, for wretched Fate,
Donor of baleful dower!
Woe for the shade august of Edipus!
O swart Erinys strong art thou in power!
ANTIGONE
ANTISTROPHE.
Woes, alas, to sight distressing,
ISMENE
Showed he me, his exile past.
ANTIGONE
After slaying he returned not.
ISMENE
Saved, his breath away he cast.
ANTIGONE
Perished hath he; all too true.
ISMENE
Ay, and him he also slew.
ANTIGONE
Wretched kindred!
ISMENE
Wretched fate!
ANTIGONE
Cares from kindred strife that flow.
ISMENE
Steeped, alas, in threefold woe.
ANTIGONE
Deadly deeds to tell of.
ISMENE
Deadly to behold.
CHORUS
Woe, woe, for wretched Fate,
Donor of baleful dower!
Woe for the shade august of Edipus!
O swart Erinys strong art thou in power!
ANTIGONE
EPODE.
This in sooth by proof thou knowest.
ISMENE
Thou not later this hast learned.
ANTIGONE
To this city when thou camest.
ISMENE
And 'gainst him thy spear hast turned.
ANTIGONE
Woe! alas! Dire trouble!
ISMENE
Woe! alas! Dire grief.
ANTIGONE
On our house hath fallen.
ISMENE
Ay, and on this land.
ANTIGONE
On me above all others.
ISMENE
On me who forward see.
ANTIGONE
Woe for these wretched brothers!
ISMENE
Woe, Leader-King, for thee!
ANTIGONE
Of all men most lamented!
ISMENE
English (E. D. A. Morshead, 1908) (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Seven against Thebes — Morshead translation. Wikisource transcription; speech corresp and card milestones aligned to Smyth perseus-grc2.) — 174 focus
Be near us, protect us, and show that the city is dear in your sight!
Have heed for her sacrifice holy, and thought of her offerings take,
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Forget not her love and her worship, be near her and smite for her sake!
[ Re-enter Eteocles.
Hark to my question, things detestable!
Is this aright and for the city's weal,
And helpful to our army thus beset,
That ye before the statues of our gods
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Should fling yourselves, and scream and shriek your fears?
Immodest, uncontrolled! Be this my lot—
Never in troublous nor in peaceful days
To dwell with aught that wears a female form!
Where womankind has power, no man can house,
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Where womankind feeds panic, ruin rules
Alike in house and city! Look you now—
Your flying feet, and rumour of your fears,
Have spread a soulless panic on our walls,
And they without do go from strength to strength,
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And we within make breach upon ourselves!
Such fate it brings, to house with womankind.
Therefore if any shall resist my rule—
Or man, or woman, or some sexless thing—
The vote of sentence shall decide their doom,
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And stones of execution, past escape,
Shall finish all. Let not a woman's voice
Be loud in council! for the things without,
A man must care; let women keep within—
Even then is mischief all too probable!
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Hear ye? or speak I to unheeding ears?
German (J. J. C. Donner, 1854; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylos. Deutsch in den Versmaßen der Urschrift. Stuttgart: Hoffmann, 1854. Native Donner line citations, Smyth card correspondence, selected textual readings and metrical facsimiles. Remaining OCR differences and unattributed reading notes are documented in the linked review inventory.) — 174 focus
O theure Schußgötter, ihr
Zu treuer Hut dieser Stadt zugesellt,
Zeigt, wie ihr liebt die Stadt! 1
Mitleidig schaut die Tempel an,
Sendet mitleidig Schuß! 2
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Seid mir der opferreichen Orgien eingedenk,
Welche die Stadt euch weiht!
(Der König, aus der Stadt zurückkehrend, tritt auf.)
Euch, Weiber, frag' ich, unerträgliches Gezücht,
Dient das zum Besten, schafft es Wohlgedeih'n der Stadt
Und Muth dem Kriegerheere, das der Feind umschloß,
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So vor den Heimatgöttern hier in Staub gestürzt,
Zu schrei'n, zu jammern, ihr dem weisen Mann ein Graun?
Niemals im Unglück, noch im holden Schein des Glücks,
Sei ich in Einem Hause mit dem Frauenvolk!
Denn sind sie oben, ist ihr Troß nicht auszusteh'n;
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Im Leide sind sie größres Leid für Haus und Stadt.
Und jetzt in wildverworr'ner Flucht euch dort und hier
Umtreibend, weckt ihr feige Furcht im Volk umher.
Dem Feinde draußen leistet ihr den besten Dienst,
Und wir vernichten drinnen uns durch eigne Schuld.
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Das hat davon zum Lohne, wer mit Frauen lebt.
Doch wer sich frevelnd meinem Wort entgegenstellt,
Frau'n oder Männer oder wer es immer sei,
Gesprochen werde wider ihn der Todesspruch,
Der Steinigung des Volkes soll er nicht entgeh'n!
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Dem Manne, nicht dem Weibe, liegt zu sorgen ob,
Was außen vorgeht: schade sie nur innen nicht!
Sprech' ich zu Tauben? Hört ihr oder hört ihr nicht?

Notes on the current edition

Seven Against Thebes

1. Single-witness OCR: uncollated. Source layout and readings require scan review; automatic flags are not exhaustive.
2. Reference placement provisional: provisional local reference window from running Greek. Verify the printed source numbering and note scope against the scan.

Commentary

Critical apparatus to Seven Against Thebes (OCR draft) (Latin and Greek critical apparatus to Gottfried Hermann's 1852 edition of Seven Against Thebes.) focus

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μέλει:
μέλλει
G. Vit.
μήλλει
Par. N.
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ἀνδρί:
amig
, supra scripto
dr-δρί
, Vit.
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γυνὴ:
γυνὴ
vocabuli ultima littera in litura est in M.
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Commentary (N. Wecklein, 1902; German; OCR draft) (Seven Against Thebes, explanatory commentary pp. 15–100. Single-witness OCR; source readings and all reference placements require scan review.) focus

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erstes Epeisodion. Eteokles, welcher die im Volke durch die Angstrufe der Jungfrauen (des Chors) entstandene Entmuti- gung wahrgenommen hat (174f.), kommt zurück, weist die Jung- frauen zurecht und lehrt sie die rechte Weise des Gebetes. Die Szene dient der Charakteristik des Eteokles.

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ἀρχῆς, Regiment, Gebot.