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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.) — 288-368 focus
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ Θήβας Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922.) — 288-368 focus
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 288 focus
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 288 focus
ποῖον δ᾽ ἀμείψεσθε γαίας πέδον
τῆσδ᾽ ἄρειον, ἐξαφέντες ἐχθροῖς
τὰν βαθύχθον᾽ αἶαν,
ὕδωρ τε Διρκαῖον, εὐ-
τραφέστατον πωμάτων
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ὅσων ἵησιν Ποσειδῶν ὁ γαιάοχος,
Τηθύος τε παῖδες;
πρὸς τάδ᾽, ὦ πολιοῦχοι
ΕΠΤΑ ΕΠΙ θΗΒΑΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΕΠΤΑ ΕΠΙ θΗΒΑΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 288 focus
Ποῖον δ' ἀμείψεσθε γαίας πέδον
Ant. 1.
τᾶσδ' ἄρειον, ἐχθροῖς
ἀφέντες τὰν βαθύχθον' αἶαν
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ὕδωρ τε Διρκαῖον εὐ-
τραφέστατον εὐτρεφέστατον πωμάτων
ὅσων ἵησιν Ποσει-
δῶν ὁ γαιάοχος
Τηθύος τε παῖδες ;
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Πρὸς τάδ', ὦ πολιούχοι
θεοί, τοῖσι μὲν ἔξω
πύργων ἀνδρολέτειραν
κάκαν καὶ τὰν (καταρίψοπλον Μ2), ῥίψοπλον ἄταν,
ἐμβαλόντες ἄροισθε
κύδος τοῖσδε πολίταις,
καὶ πόλεως ῥύτορες ῥυτῆρες εὔεδροι εὔεδροί τε στάθητ'
ὀξυγόοις λιταῖσιν.
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Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 288 focus
μέλει, φόβῳ δ᾽ οὐχ ὑπνώσσει κέαρ·
γείτονες δὲ καρδίας
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μέριμναι ζωπυροῦσι τάρβος
τὸν ἀμφιτειχῆ λεών,
δράκοντας ὥς τις τέκνων
ὑπερδέδοικεν λεχαί-
ποῖον δ' ἀμείψεσθε γαίας πέδον
Aeschyli Septem contra Thebas (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Septem contra Thebas. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 288 focus
ποῖον δ᾽ ἀμείψεσθε γαίας πέδον
τᾶσδ᾽ ἄρειον, ἐχθροῖς
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ἀφέντες τὰν βαθύχθον᾽ αἶαν,
ὕδωρ τε Διρκαῖον, εὐ-
τραφέστατον πωμάτων
ὅσων ἵησιν Ποσει-
δὰν ὁ γαιάοχος
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Τηθύος τε παῖδες.
πρὸς τάδ᾽, ὦ πολιούχοι
θεοί, τοῖσι μὲν ἔξω
πύργων ἀνδρολέτειραν
κάκαν, ῥίψοπλον ἄταν,
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ἐμβαλόντες ἄροισθε
κῦδος τοῖσδε πολίταις,
καὶ πόλεως ῥύτορες εὔ-
εδροι [τε] στάθητ᾽
ὀξυγόοις λιταῖσιν. =
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Translations (8)
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.)) — 288-365 focus
The Seven against Thebes. (OCR draft) Experimental (The Seven against Thebes.. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 288 focus
I attend, but through terror my heart sleeps not, and cares that press close upon my heart keep my dread alive, because of the host that hems our walls
around; like as a dove, an all-attentive nurse, fears, on behalf of her brood, serpents evil intruders into her nest. For some are advancing against the towers in all their numbers, in all their array; (what will become of me?) and others are launching the vast rugged stone at the citizens, who are assailed on all sides. By every means, O ye Jove-descended gods! rescue the city and the army that spring from Cadmus.
What better plain of land will ye take in exchange to yourselves than this, after ye have abandoned to our enemies the fertile land, and Dirce's water best fed of all the streams that earth-encircling Neptune sends forth, and the daughters of Tethys? Wherefore, O tutelary gods of the city! having hurled on those without the towers the calamity that slaughters men, and casts away shields, achieve glory for these citizens, and be your statues placed on noble sites, as deliverers of our city
, through our entreaties fraught with shrill groanings.
LES SEPT CONTRE THÈBES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES SEPT CONTRE THÈBES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 288 focus
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Quelle contrée vous offrira sol préférable au sol thébain, si sous désertez ce pays de glèbe profonde, et l'eau de Dirké 1 , la plus nourricière des sources que font jaillir et Poséidon
qui ceint la terre et les enfants de Téthys 2 ? Ainsi donc, ô dieux maîtres de cette ville, sur ceux qui sont hors de ses murs, faites choir la lâcheté qui perd les hommes 3 , l'égare-
ment qui jette ses armes, et conquérez la gloire pour cette cité ; défenseurs de Thèbes, demeurez fidèles à vos sanc-
tuaires : nos gémissements aigus
The Seven Chiefs against Thebes (OCR draft) Experimental (The Seven Chiefs against Thebes. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 288 focus
I wou'd obey thee; but my breast
Yet pants with fear, and knows not rest:
Too near my heart distracting care
Wakes all the horrors of despair:
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And as the trembling dove, whose fears
Keep watch in her uneasy bow'r,
Thinks in each rustling leaf she hears
The serpent gliding to devour,
I tremble at each sullen sound
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Of clashing arms, that roars around:
With all their troops, with all their pow'rs,
Fierce they advance to storm our tow'rs;
Now hurtling in the darken'd sky,
What does my cruel fate prepare!
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Rude, batt'ring stones incessant fly,
And all the missive storm of war.
Guard, ye great Gods, O guard our wall,
Nor let the tow'rs of Cadmus fall!
Ah, to what fairer, richer plain
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Your radiant presence will you deign,
These fields abandon'd to the foes,
Thro' whose crisp'd shades and smiling meads,
Jocundly warbling as she goes,
Dirce her liquid treasures leads,
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And boasts that Tethys never gave,
Nor all her nymphs, a purer wave!
Deign then, ye Gods that guard this land,
Here deign to take your hallow'd stand:
Assert your glory: on the foe
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Pour rout, and havoc, and dismay,
Confusion wild, foulwith'ring woe,
And flight, that flings his arms away.
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.) — 288 focus
Taccio; ma, sbigottito, requie non trova il cuore
nel sonno. Le finitime
angosce in esso accendono il terrore
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dell'incombente esercito:
cosí pei nidïacei
teme i serpi, funerei
compagni al loro talamo,
la trepida colomba.
325
Questi alle torri incalzano:
sono turba, son popolo !
Di noi che mai sarà ?
Quest'aspra furia scagliano
di sassi, che su i miseri
330
giú da ogni parte piomba.
Di Giove o figli, o Superi,
salvi mandate il popolo
di Cadmo, e la città!
1 Antistrofe I
Dove mai troverete piú devota una terra,
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se adesso in questo fertile
campo lasciate infurïar la guerra,
e su le scaturigini
di Dirce, la purissima
fra quante acque Posidone
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che il suol crolla, e di Tètide
* effondono i figliuoli.
O Numi della Patria,
or voi, questo sterminio
su chi stringe le mura
345
torcete, sí che gittino
l'armi, e la vostra gloria
alta per Tebe voli.
A udir le patrie suppliche,
restar su l'are piacciavi,
350
nella patria sicura.
2 Strofe II
Aeschylus, Septem ad Thebas: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Septem ad Thebas: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 288 focus
Cura, pre timore non quiefcet cor:
Vicinæ cordi ſolicitudines inflammant me,
Metus populum obſesſorem,
Draconem tanquam ob caufam prolis
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Verita est lectorum
Laborans difficultate nidificandi omniu predæ exe
poſita columba.
Certè enim ad turres cateruatim
Et gregatim cunt, quò me uertam
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Quid in dubios inijciunt
Ciues telum lacrymoſum?
Omni modo generofi
Dij urbem exercitum Cadmigenam defendite.
Quale dabitis terræ solum
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Hæc melius, hostibus relinquentes
Optimam terram, aquamq; Dirceam,
Feracißimam fluuiorum,
Quoſcunq; emittit perterricrepus Neptunus
Filiją; Tethyos. Præterea defenfores
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Dij, illis qui extra mænia ſunt, pernicioſum
Et uaftans nocumentum inijcientes,habebitis
Laudem:ciuibus uerò & urbi custodes
Tuti ſtate, luctuoſis precibus.
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.) — 288 focus
I mark his words, yet, dark and deep,
My heart's alarm forbiddeth sleep!
Close-clinging cares around my soul
Enkindle fears beyond control,
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Presageful of what doom may fall
From the great leaguer of the wall!
So a poor dove is faint with fear
For her weak nestlings, while anew
Glides on the snaky ravisher!
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In troop and squadron, hand on hand,
They climb and throng, and hemmed we stand,
While on the warders of our town
The flinty shower comes hurtling down!
Gods born of Zeus! put forth your might
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For Cadmus' city, realm, and right!
What nobler land shall e'er be yours,
If once ye give to hostile powers
The deep rich soil, and Dirce's wave,
The nursing stream, Poseidon gave
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And Tethys' children? Up and save!
Cast on the ranks that hem us round
A deadly panic, make them fling
Their arms in terror on the ground,
And die in carnage! thence shall spring
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High honour for our clan and king!
Come at our wailing cry, and stand
As thronèd sentries of our land!
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.) — 288 focus
Ich will's; doch Furcht läßt den Geist nimmer ruh'n,
Und des Herzens Nachbarin, die Sorge,
Weckt die Glut der Schrecken.
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Um Wall und Thor stürmt der Feind;
Ich zitt're, wie Tauben bang
Um ihre Brut zittern, wann neben ihr Drachen sich
Drohend im Nest gelagert.
Denn dort wider die Thurmhöh'n
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Strömt wildflutend ein Heerstrom
An. Was fürcht' ich und hoff' ich?
Hier prallt wider die Meinen,
Ringsum Alles zerschmetternd,
Hagel kantiger Steine.
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Wie ihr vermögt, Götter, Geschlecht von Zeus, 1
Beschirmt Stadt und Volk,
Schüßt das Geschlecht des Kadmos!
Erste Gegenstrophe.
In welches Land könnt ihr zieh'n, schöner, als
Dieses Land? O laßt sie nicht dem Feinde, 2
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Diese Segensauen,
Und Dirke's Born, dessen Trunk
Erfrischt, wie kein andrer sonst,
So viel der Meerherrscher aussendet, der rings das Land
Gürtet, und Tethys' Töchter!
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Auf denn, schügende Götter
Der Stadt, sendet dem Feinde
Vor der Burg des Verderbens
Fluch, der Waffen und Männer
Mordend rafft, und erstreitet
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Siegesehre den Meinen!
Rettet die Stadt, wahret den alten Sik,
Der lautklagenden
Bitte das Ohr erschließend!
Zweite Strophe.

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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ἄταν, ῥίψοπλον ἄταν:
zaiταgioдλov άtav
a pr. manu M. ex quo sec. manus
zai Tàν óíþолhov йtav
fecit, idque in ceteris libris omnibus est, nisi quod
zai tv
est in Ven. B. ultimum autem vocabulum in G.
urtav
scribitur. Ineptissimum
xai tàv
ferri non potest. Dedi quod olim in Observationibus criticis proposui,
ἦταν, ρίψοπλον ἄταν
. Quamquam dubitari potest, an scripserit Aeschylus, quod cum formis litterarum magis congrueret,
ἀνδρολέτειραν κάκαν, ῥίψοπλον ἄταν
, ita quidem, ut
iyonλov arar
per appositionem, explicandis praecedentibus verbis, adiectum putetur. Virgines has non dedecet ignaviam optare hosti.
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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 Stasimon: Die Jungfrauen bringen es nicht über sich, der Mahnung des Eteo- kles zu gehorchen. In ihrer Angst führen sie sich den allgemeinen Sturmangriff auf die Stadt vor Augen und rufen die Götter um Hilfe an. Welches schönere Land könnt ihr für unser Land ein- tauschen? Bringt deshalb Verderben über die Feinde, verleiht Sieg den Bürgern. Beklagenswert wäre es, wenn eine so uralte Stadt von Hellenen geknechtet würde und die Greuel der Plünderung erdulden müßte". Diese Greuel werden mit den lebhaftesten Farben geschildert nach Hom. I 592 κατέλεξεν ἅπαντα κήδε' ὅσ' ἀνθρώποισι πέλει τῶν ἄστυ ἁλώῃ· ἄνδρας μὲν κτείνουσι, πόλιν δέ τε πῦρ ἀμαθύνει, τέκνα δέ τ' ἄλλοι ἄγουσι βαθυζώνους τε γυναῖκας, Χ 61 κακὰ πόλλ' ἐπιδόντα, υἷάς τ' ὀλλυμένους ἑλκηθείσας τε θύγατρας καὶ θαλάμους κεραϊζο- μένους καὶ νήπια τέκνα βαλλόμενα προτὶ γαίῃ. - Den Gesang trägt wohl der Gesamtchor vor.

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ὅσων: diese Attraktion findet sich seltener bei Äschylos, gar nicht in den Hiketides. Ποσειδῶν: Schol. ὅτι τῆς ὑγρᾶς οὐ σίας δεσπότης Ποσειδῶν. — γαιήο- χοs das Homerische Epitheton. Nach Hes. Theog. 337 sind die Flüsse Kinder des Okeanos und der Tethys.