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Seven Against Thebes. N. Wecklein. . .

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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.)

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.) — 304 focus
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 304 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
οἰκτρὸν γὰρ πόλιν ὧδ᾽
ὠγυγίαν Ἀΐδᾳ προϊάψαι δορὸς ἄγραν,
δουλίαν, ψαφαρᾷ σποδῷ
ὑπ᾽ ἀνδρὸς Ἀχαιοῦ θεόθεν
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περθομέναν ἀτίμως,
τὰς δὲ κεχειρωμένας ἄγεσθαι,
ἢ ἔ,
νέας τε καὶ παλαιὰς
ἱππηδὸν πλοκάμων, περιρ-
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ρηγνυμένων φαρέων.
βοᾷ δὲ καὶ κενουμένα πόλις,
λαΐδος ὀλλυμένας μιξοθρόου·
βαρείας τις τύχας προταρβῶν.
ἀντ. β'.
ΕΠΤΑ ΕΠΙ θΗΒΑΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΕΠΤΑ ΕΠΙ θΗΒΑΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 304 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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Οἰκτρὸν γὰρ πόλιν ὧδ' ὠγυγίαν
Str. 2.
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 304 focus
ποῖον δ' ἀμείψεσθε γαίας πέδον
οἰκτρὸν γὰρ πόλιν ὧδ᾽ ὠγυγίαν
Ἀίδα προϊάψαι δορὸς ἄγραν,
δουλίαν ψαφαρᾷ σποδῷ
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ὑπ᾽ ἀνδρὸς Ἀχαιοῦ θεόθεν
περθομέναν ἀτίμως.
τὰς δὲ κεχειρωμένας ἄγεσθαι,
ἔ ἔ, νέας τε καὶ παλαιὰς
ἱππηδὸν πλοκάμων, περιρ-
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ρηγνυμένων φαρέων.
βοᾷ δ᾽ ἐκκενουμένα πόλις,
λαΐδος ὀλλυμένας μιξοθρόου.
βαρείας τοι τύχας προταρβῶ.
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Aeschyli Septem contra Thebas (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Septem contra Thebas. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 304 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.) — 304 focus
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.
For sad it is to send prematurely to destruction an ancient city, a prey of slavery to the spear, ingloriously overthrown in crumbling ashes by an Achaean according to the will of heaven; and for its women to be dragged away captives, alas! alas! both the young and the aged, like horses by their hair, while their vestments are rent about their persons. And the emptied city cries aloud, while its booty is wasted amid confused clamours;—verily I fearfully forebode heavy calamities.
LES SEPT CONTRE THÈBES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES SEPT CONTRE THÈBES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 304 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
vous implorent.
Il serait lamentable qu'une aussi vieille cité se vît jeter à l'Hadès, proie asservie par la lance, et, avec l'aveu des
The Seven Chiefs against Thebes (OCR draft) Experimental (The Seven Chiefs against Thebes. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 304 focus
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.
Hear then the mournful, solemn strain:
For dreadful were its fate, should this strong wall,
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This ancient, rampir'd city, fall,
And spread its light dust o'er th' encumber'd plain,
Beneath the proud Achaian spear,
Dishonour'd, sunk, the waste of war.
Should the fresh virgin's bloom, the matron's age,
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By the fierce victor's firey rage,
'Their robes all rent, their bleeding bosoms bare,
Be drag'd by their looseflowing hair,
Like horses, a reluctant prize;
The desolated streets reechoing to their cries,
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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.) — 304 focus
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
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torcete, sí che gittino
l'armi, e la vostra gloria
alta per Tebe voli.
A udir le patrie suppliche,
restar su l'are piacciavi,
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nella patria sicura.
2 Strofe II
Tristo sarebbe, questa vetusta città, precipite
preda alle cúspidi,
piombar nell'Ade, conversa in cenere,
distrutta schiava fra indegni vincoli,
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come gli Dei
vollero, e oprarono gli uomini Achei.
Aeschylus, Septem ad Thebas: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Septem ad Thebas: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 304 focus
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.
Miserum enim, urbem antiquam
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Plutoni mittere, captam hasta,
Seruilem tenui puluere,
A'uiro Achæo diuimitus depopulatam,
Dedecus erit:
manu basq; captas ducere, heu heu
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Puellas matronas, equorum more,
Circum rumpentium uela capillorum.
Clamat urbs uacua,
Predâ corruptâ clamore mixta.
Atrocem fortunam timeo.
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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.) — 304 focus
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!
For pity and sorrow it were that this immemorial town
Should sink to be slave of the spear, to dust and to ashes gone down,
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By the gods of Achaean worship and arms of Achaean might
Sacked and defiled and dishonoured, its women the prize of the fight—
That, haled by the hair as a steed, their mantles dishevelled and torn,
The maiden and matron alike should pass to the wedlock of scorn!
I hear it arise from the city, the manifold wail of despair—
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Woe, woe for the doom that shall be—as in grasp of the foeman they fare!
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.) — 304 focus
In welches Land könnt ihr zieh'n, schöner, als
Dieses Land? O laßt sie nicht dem Feinde, 1
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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.
O Leid, stürzte die ehrwürdige Stadt
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In den Hades hinab, Beute des Speeres,
Dienstbar, düsterer Asche Raub,
Nach göttlichem Rath schmählich vertilgt
Unter der Macht Achäa's,
Würden die Frau'n weggeschleppt in Knechtschaft,
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Alle, jung und alte,
Gleich Kampfrossen am Haar,
Ihr hinflatternd Gewand rings zerfest!
Weit hallt umher die menschenöde Stadt,
Wenn der Entführten Geschrei sterbend sich mischt:
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Vor solch graunvollem Loose beb' ich.
Zweite Gegenstrophe.

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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ἀνδρὸς:
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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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ἔστε τ' ist von Ritschl ein- gesetzt um des Sinnes und der Re- εἴεδροι (94) sponsion willen. στάθητε: last euch durch unsere Bitten) bewegen fest an euren Stätten zu verbleiben (laßt eure Heiligtümer nicht zerstören, damit ihr nicht auszuwandern braucht). ὀξυγόοις λιταίσιν, Schol. διὰ τὰς ὀξυθρηνήτους λιτὰς ἡμῶν.