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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.) — 211 focus
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 211 focus
ΕΠΤΑ ΕΠΙ θΗΒΑΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΕΠΤΑ ΕΠΙ θΗΒΑΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 211 focus
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 211 focus
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.
ἔστι· θεοῦ δ᾽ ἔτ᾽ ἰσχὺς καθυπερτέρα·
πολλάκι δ᾽ ἐν κακοῖσιν τὸν ἀμήχανον
κἀκ χαλεπᾶς δύας ὕπερθ᾽ ὀμμάτων
κρημναμενᾶν νεφελῶν ὀρθοῖ.
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διὰ θεῶν πόλιν νεμόμεθ᾽ ἀδάματον,
δυσμενέων δ᾽ ὄχλον πύργος ἀποστέγει.
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τίς τάδε νέμεσις στυγεῖ;
Aeschyli Septem contra Thebas (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Septem contra Thebas. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 211 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.) — 211 focus
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.
But the gods have a power superior still, and oft in adversity does this raise the helpless out of severe calamity, when clouds are overhanging his brow.
'Tis by the blessing of the gods that we inhabit a city unconquered, and that our fortification is proof against the multitude of our enemies. What Nemesis can feel offended at this?
LES SEPT CONTRE THÈBES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES SEPT CONTRE THÈBES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 211 focus
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 !
issue, en sa détresse amère, voit un brouillard déjà descendre sur ses yeux, brusquement le relève.
Nous devons aux dieux d'habiter une ville invaincue et de voir nos remparts nous protéger encore des
hordes ennemies. Quelle inquiétude jalouse peut prendre ombrage de mes prières ?
The Seven Chiefs against Thebes (OCR draft) Experimental (The Seven Chiefs against Thebes. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 211 focus
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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Yet in the Gods is a superior pow'r,
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Which often in afflictions clears away
Th' impenetrable cloud, whose sullen gloom
Sharp misery hung before our darken'd eyes.
That we possess our city yet unconquer'd,
That yet our tow'rs repel th' assailing foe,
Is from the Gods: from them our voice calls down
Further success: Why should this move thy anger?
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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.) — 211 focus
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!
Sí, ma più grande è il potere dei Numi:
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spesso chi giace nel mal senza scampo,
quando già nubi sul capo gli pendono,
da disperata sciagura redimono.
Dei Numi è grazia, se Tebe non dòmasi,
se l'urto ostile le torri schermiscono :
di quale biasmo può l'odio colpirmi?
Aeschylus, Septem ad Thebas: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Septem ad Thebas: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 211 focus
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.
Eſt autem dijs fortitudo potentior,
Que fepe in malis improuidam
Ex molesta anxietate fupra oculos
Suſpenſam nubem expellit.
A'dijs urbem incolimus indomitam;
Hostium turbam turris arcet:
Quid hæc inuidia odit?
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Seven Against Thebes (OCR draft) Experimental (Seven Against Thebes. Anna Swanwick, 1886.) — 211 focus
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.) — 211 focus
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!
'Tis true: yet stronger is the power divine,
And oft, when man's estate is overbowed
With bitter pangs, disperses from his eyne
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The heavy, hanging cloud!
By grace of the gods we hold it, a city untamed of the spear,
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And the battlement wards from the wall the foe and his aspect of fear!
What need of displeasure herein?
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.) — 211 focus
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!
Doch weit höher ragt, höher der Götter Macht;
Oft, in der Zeit der Noth, wann dem Verzweifelnden
Ueber das Auge schwer hingen die Wolken, sie
Hebt ihn empor aus des Unglücks Nacht.
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Nur mit der Götter Huld bleiben wir unbesiegt,
Wehren der Feinde Schwarm schirmende Mauern ab.
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Was ergrimmt der Tadel drob?

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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. Scribendum esse
τίς
Heathius vidit.
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στυγεῖ:
στυγείση
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οὔτοι:
οὗτοι
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supra adscripto Lips. Ceteri
οὔτι
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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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πειρωμένοις, als ob ανδράσι προσήκει vorherginge, weil bei πολεμίων πειρωμένων eine Unklar- heit entstehen könnte. Dem πει- ρωμένοις entspricht das folgende σοί, welches nach dem Schol. τῇ yvvaní für oóv hergestellt ist. In gleicher Weise wechselt die Kon- struktion Eum. 411 πᾶσι δ᾽ ἐς κοινὸν λέγω, βρέτας τε τοὐμὸν τῷδ᾽ ἐφημένῳ ξένῳ ὑμᾶς θ᾽ ὁμοίας οὐδενὶ σπαρτῶν γένει. Zum Ge- danken vgl. Soph. Αi. 293 γύναι, γυναιξὶ κόσμον ἡ σιγὴ φέρει, Eur. Heraklid. 476 γυναικὶ χὰρ σιγή τε καὶ τὸ σωφρονεῖν κάλλιστον εἴσω θ' ἥσυχον μένειν δόμων, Fragm. 927 ἔνδον γυναικῶν καὶ παρ' (1. πρὸς) οἰκέτας λόγος.