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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.) — 321 focus
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 321 focus
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.) — 321 focus
Οἰκτρὸν γὰρ πόλιν ὧδ' ὠγυγίαν
Str. 2.
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 321 focus
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.) — 321 focus
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.) — 321 focus
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.) — 321 focus
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.) — 321 focus
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.) — 321 focus
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.) — 321 focus
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.) — 321 focus
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.) — 321 focus
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: 1885 correspondence corroborated by source Greek on this page. 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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περιρρηγνυμένων:
περιρηγνυμένων
M. a sec. manu et Cantabr. 1. Par. A. B. L. Rob.
περιρηγνυμένων
M. a pr. manu et Par. Ε. N. Colb. 1.
πέρι φηγνυμένων
Vit. Ox. Ven. A. Ald.
περιερηγμένων
Par. G. γρ.
περὶ ἐρηγμένων
Par. B.
περιερρηγμένων
Turn. et sic Lips. in quo hoc et sequens vocabulum a sec. manu in margine scriptum est.
περιρρηγνυμένων
, sed eraso ε ante ρ, G.

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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Zu zerbröckeltem Staube ( σποδῷ dynam. Dativ) von Acher- volk (vgl. 71f.) bis auf die Stätten der Götter schmählich verbrannt". θεόθεν „,samt den Göttern" wie ῥιζόθεν „,samt der Wurzel" Vgl. 569 πόλιν πατρώαν καὶ θεοὺς τοὺς ἐγγενεῖς πορθεῖν. Heimsöth ver- mutet πεδόθεν.