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Seven Against Thebes. N. Wecklein. . .

Current edition Experimental

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.)

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Editions (7)
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ Θήβας First1KGreek (Aeschyli Tragoediae. Sidgwick, Arthur, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.) — 203-244 focus
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ Θήβας Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922.) — 203-244 focus
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 203 focus
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 203 focus
ΕΠΤΑ ΕΠΙ θΗΒΑΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΕΠΤΑ ΕΠΙ θΗΒΑΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 203 focus
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 203 focus
ὦ φίλον Οἰδίπου τέκος, ἔδεισ᾽ ἀκού-
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σασα τὸν ἁρματόκτυπον
ὄτοβον, ὅτε τε σύ-
ριγγες ἔκλαγξαν ἑλίτροχοι,
ἱππικῶν τ᾽ ἀύπνων
πηδαλίων διὰ στόμα
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πυριγενετᾶν χαλινῶν.
ἀλλ᾽ ἐπὶ δαιμόνων πρόδρομος ἦλθον ἀρ-
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μήποτ' ἐμὸν κατ᾽ αἰῶνα λίποι θεῶν
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ἅδε πανάγυρις, μηδ᾽ ἐπίδοιμι τάνδ᾽
ἀστυδρομουμέναν πόλιν καὶ στράτευμ᾽
ἁπτόμενον πυρὶ δαΐῳ.
Aeschyli Septem contra Thebas (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Septem contra Thebas. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 203 focus
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.)) — 203-242 focus
The Seven against Thebes. (OCR draft) Experimental (The Seven against Thebes.. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 203 focus
O dear son of Œdipus, I felt terror when I heard the din from the clatter of the cars, when the wheel-whirling naves rattled, and [the din] of the fire-wrought bits, the rudders
of the horses, passing through their mouths that know no rest.
No; but I came in haste to the ancient statues of the divinities, trusting in the gods, when there was a pattering at our gates of destructive sleet showering down, even then I was carried away by terror to offer my supplications to the Immortals, that they would extend their protection over the city.
At no time during my life may this conclave of gods abandon us: never may I behold our city overrun, and an army firing it with hostile flame.
LES SEPT CONTRE THÈBES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES SEPT CONTRE THÈBES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 203 focus
O cher enfant d'Œdipe, je prends peur à ouïr le fracas, le fracas des chars sonores, le cri qu'ont
poussé les essieux en ébranlant les roues, et aussi le frein des chevaux, qui jamais ne s'endort dans leurs bouches, le mors, fils de la flamme 1 !
je me suis seulement ruée sur les vieilles statues de nos dieux, mettant mon espoir dans le Ciel, au premier grondement de l'avalanche meurtrière qui dévale contre nos portes. C'est alors que l'effroi m'a jetée
vers les Bienheureux, pour les supplier d'étendre leurs secours sur notre cité !
Que jamais je n'aie le spectacle de ma ville parcourue en tout sens par des soldats approchant d'elle une flamme destructrice !
The Seven Chiefs against Thebes (OCR draft) Experimental (The Seven Chiefs against Thebes. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 203 focus
Dear to thy country, son of Oedipus,
My soul was seiz'd with terror, when I heard
The rapid car roll on, its whirling wheels
Grating harsh thunder; and the iron curb
Incessant clashing on the barbed steed.
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Yet therefore to these ancient images,
Confiding in their sacred pow'r, I ran,
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When at the gates sharp fleet of arrowy show'r
Drove hard; my fears impell'd me to implore
The blest Gods to protect the city's strength r
.
Ah, never, whilst I breath the vital air,
May their blest train forsake us; nor these eyes
Behold destruction raging thro' our streets,
And in fierce flames our stately structures blaze!
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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.) — 203 focus
Figlio d'Edipo, m'invase terrore,
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rombare udendo il frastuono dei cocchi
che turbinarono, i mozzi stridettero.
E dalle fauci suonâr secchi i ferrei
timoni equini, temprati alla fiamma.
Ai simulacri vetusti dei Dèmoni
corsi a rifugio, fidente nei Superi,
quando alle porte fu strepito e turbine
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di nevicante procella funerea.
Esterrefatta mi volsi ai Celesti,
che sovra noi la difesa protendano.
Mai questo eccelso di Numi concilio,
sin ch'io respiri, non fugga! Calpesta
Tebe non sia dai nemici: il suo popolo
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non sia soppresso dal fuoco omicida!
Aeschylus, Septem ad Thebas: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Septem ad Thebas: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 203 focus
O chare Oedipi fili, timui audiens
Curruum ftrepitum, strepitum,
Tube clanxerunt flexe,
Equitumq; uigilum clauorum per os
Fabrilium frenorum.
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Sed ad demonum precursor ueni
Statuas confisus dijs antiquas,
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Quoniam pernicioſe niuis ingentis
Strepitus eſt in portis, iam delatus sum metu
Ad beatorum preces, urbem
Vt subſidio protegant.
Ne tandem meo tempore deficiat deoru hec
Congregatio, neq; uideam
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Percurſam urbem,
Et exercitum crematum igni hoſtili.
Seven Against Thebes (OCR draft) Experimental (Seven Against Thebes. Anna Swanwick, 1886.) — 198 focus
ANTIGONE
Woe for these wretched brothers!
ISMENE
Woe, Leader-King, for thee!
ANTIGONE
Of all men most lamented!
ISMENE
ANTIGONE
O ye possessed by Atè!
ISMENE
Where shall we lay the twain?
ANTIGONE
In spot most rich in honour.
ISMENE
Woe, Sire, thy wedded-bane!
HERALD
Me it behoves to publish the resolve,
And statute of Cadmeia's senators.
Eteocles, for love he bore the land,
Shall be with kindly obsequies interred.
For in our city, warding off her foes,
Death he encountered; free from all offence
Against his country's rites, blameless, he died
Where for the young to die is glorious.
Of him, I thus am ordered to proclaim.
But this, his brother Polyneikes' corse,
Unburied to cast forth, of dogs the prey,
As ravager of this Cadmeian land,
Unless against his spear some god had stood;
Thus e'en in death polluted he will lie,
Cursed of ancestral gods in scorn of whom,
With alien host, he sought the town to capture.
By wingèd fowl entombed, inglorious,
For him this just requital is decreed;—
No rearing of the mound by pious hands,
No shrill-voiced wail shall grace his funeral,
Unhonour'd thus with tender obsequies.
So they who rule Cadmeians have ordained.
ANTIGONE
But to Cadmeia's rulers I declare,
If none will join in burying this man,
Myself will bury him, and take the risk,
Interring mine own brother:—shame is none
To cancel fealty and brave the State.
Dread tie the common womb from which we sprang,—
Of wretched mother born and hapless sire.
Wherefore my soul, do thou take willing share
In woes he willed not; living, aid the dead
With sisterly affection; his dear flesh
No hollow-bellied wolves shall piecemeal rend;
Let none suppose it ;-woman though I be,
Tomb and interment will I scheme for him:
Ay, bearing earth in fold of flaxen robe,
Him will I shroud;-let none suppose aught else.
Courage! Effectual means will fail me not.
HERALD
I warn thee not to disobey the State.
ANTIGONE
I warn thee publish no vain words to me.
HERALD
Bitter a people just escaped from harm.
ANTIGONE
Embitter them; unearthed he shall not lie.
HERALD
Whom the State loathes wilt honour with a tomb?
ANTIGONE
Ay, for the gods have not dishonoured him. *
HERALD
Not till he peril brought upon this land.
ANTIGONE
The wrong he bore he would with wrongs requite.
HERALD
Ay, but 'gainst all he wrought instead of one.
ANTIGONE
Last of the gods is Strife to close dispute.
Yet him I will inter, spare then thy words.
HERALD
But know thou headstrong art, and I forbid.
CHORUS
Woe! Woe!
Dire mischiefs, vaunting loud,
House-ruiners, ye Furies dread,
Who from its roots have quenched in doom
The race of Edipus;-alas!
What must I do? What sorrows bear?
What plan devise? How may I dare
Neither for thee the tear to shed
Nor to escort thee to the tomb?
But from the terrors of the crowd
Trembling, I shrink. Thou wilt obtain
[Addressing the corpse of ETEOCLES.]
Many to weep thy death,—but he
Forlorn, unwept, will pass,
Mourn'd by a sister's lonely-wailing strain.
Who may to this agree?
SEMI-CHORUS I
Let the city strike with doom,
Or not, who Polyneikes mourn;
We will go and to the tomb
Him escort,-a train forlorn;
For this woe is common dower,
And the claims of right
In our townsmen's sight
Vary with the hour.
SEMI-CHORUS II
But this other follow we,
As the city doth approve
And Justice; for in sooth 'twas he,
After those who reign above,
And might of Zeus,—Cadmeia's realm
Who in chief did save
From the alien wave
Which threatened to o'erwhelm.
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.) — 203 focus
Ah, but I shudder, child of Oedipus!
I heard the clash and clang!
The axles rolled and rumbled; woe to us
Fire-welded bridles rang!
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Ah, but I fled to the shrines, I called to our helpers on high,
When the stone-shower roared at the portals!
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I sped to the temples aloft, and loud was my call and my cry,
Look down and deliver, Immortals!
Ah, let me die, or ever I behold
The gods go forth, in conflagration dire!
The foemen's rush and raid, and all our hold
Wrapt in the burning fire!
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.) — 203 focus
O du, des Oedipus theuerer Sohn, mit Graun
Vernahm ich der heranrasselnden Wagen Gedröhn,
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Als die räderumrollende Nabe scholl,
Als am stetswachen Steuer das Gebiß der Nosse klang,
Am flammengebornen Zügel.
Hin zu den alten Bildsäulen der Himmlischen
Eilt' ich vertrauenvoll, als der empörte Sturm
Graus und verderbenschwer unter den Thoren scholl;
Aufgeschreckt wandt' ich da mich an die Götter im Gebet,
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Hold über die Stadt zu wachen.
Nimmer, so lange mir leuchtet des Lebens Licht,
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Weiche der Götter Chor von hier, nimmermehr
Mög' ich die Burg erstürmt, nimmer mein Volk versengt
Schau'n von der feindlichen Flamme Glut!

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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φόβῳ:
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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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πρόδρομος (vorwärts eilend): zu 80. 1971. θεοῖς τε πίσυνος für das hdschr. πίσυνος θεοῖς um des Vers- maßes und des Sinnes willen. νιφάδος von dem Steinhagel nach Hom. Μ 156 οἳ δ᾽ ἄρα χερμαδίοισιν ἐνδμήτων ἀπὸ πύργων βάλλον . νιφάδες δ᾽ ὡς πῖπτον ἔραζε. Naber vermutet λιθάδος nach 144, nicht unwahrscheinlich, da νιφομένας folgt. — νιφομένης, nicht νιφούσης: Ζεὺς νίφει, dagegen νιφὰς λιθάς) νίφεται. Zu βρόμος ergänzt sich bei ὅτε leicht ἦν.