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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.) — 333 focus
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 333 focus
κλαυτὸν δ᾽ ἀρτιτρόποις
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ὠμοδρόπων νομίμων προπάροιθεν διαμεῖψαι
δωμάτων στυγερὰν ὁδόν.
τί τὸν φθίμενον γὰρ προλέγω
βέλτερα τῶνδε πράσσειν;
πολλὰ γάρ, εὖτε πτόλις δαμασθῇ,
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ἒ ἔ,
δυςτυχῆ τε πράσσει·
ἄλλος δ᾽ ἄλλον ἄγει, φονεύ-
ει, τὰ δὲ πυρφορεῖ·
καπνῷ δὲ χραίνεται πόλισμ᾽ ἅπαν·
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κορκορυγαὶ δ᾽ ἂν ἄστυ· πρότι δ᾽ ὁρκάνα πυργῶτις.
πρὸς ἀνδρὸς δ᾽ ἀνὴρ ἀμφὶ δορὶ καίνεται·
βλαχαὶ δ' αἱματόεσσαι
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τῶν ἐπιμαστιδίων
ἀρτιτρεφεῖς βρέμονται.
ἁρπαγαὶ δέ, διαδρομᾶν ὁμαίμονες.
ξυμβολεῖ φέρων φέροντι,
καὶ κενὸς κενὸν καλεῖ,
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ξύννομον θέλων ἔχειν,
οὔτε μεῖον, οὔτ᾽ ἴσον λελιμμένοι.
τῶν ἐκ τῶνδ᾽ εἰκάσαι λόγος πάρα.
ἀντ. γ'.
ΕΠΤΑ ΕΠΙ θΗΒΑΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΕΠΤΑ ΕΠΙ θΗΒΑΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 333 focus
Κλαυτὸν δ' ἀρτιτρόποις ὠμοδρόπων
Ant. 2.
νομίμων προπάροιθεν διαμεῖψαι
δωμάτων στυγερὰν ὁδόν·
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τί ; τὸν φθίμενον γὰρ προλέγω
βέλτερα τῶνδε πράσσειν.
Πολλὰ γάρ, εὖτε πτόλις δαμασθῇ,
ἐή, δυστυχῆ τε πράσσει·
ἄλλος δ' ἄλλον ἄγει, φονεύ-
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ει, τὰ δὲ πυρφορεῖ· καπνῷ καπνῷ δὲ
χραίνεται πόλισμ' ἅπαν·
μαινόμενος δ' ἐπιπνεῖ λαοδάμας
μιαίνων εὐσέβειαν Ἄρης.
Κορκορυγαὶ δ' ἀν' ἄστυ, περὶ ποτὶ δ' ὁρκάνα
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Str. 3.
πυργῶτις· πρὸς πτόλιν δ' ἀνδρὸς δ' ἀνὴρ
δόρει δορὶ κλίνεται καίνεται·
βλαχαὶ δ' αἱματόεσσαι
τῶν ἐπιμαστιδίων
ἀρτιτρεφεῖς ἀρτιβρεφεῖς βρέμονται·
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Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 333 focus
κλαυτὸν δ᾽ ἀρτιδρόποις ὠμοδρόπων,
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νομίμων προπάροιθεν, διαμείψαι
κορκορυγαὶ δ᾽ ἀν᾿ ἄστυ, ποτὶ πτόλιν δ᾽
ὁρκάνα πυργῶτις.
πρὸς ἀνδρὸς δ᾽ ἀνὴρ δορὶ καίνεται·
βλαχαὶ δ᾽ αἱματόεσσαι
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Aeschyli Septem contra Thebas (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Septem contra Thebas. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 333 focus
κλαυτὸν δ᾽ †ἀρτιτρόποις ὠμοδρόπων
νομίμων προπάροιθεν διαμεῖψαι
δώματα στυγερὰν ὁδόν.
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τί; τὸν φθίμενον γὰρ προλέγω
βέλτερα τῶνδε πράσσειν·
πολλὰ γάρ, εὔτε πτόλις δαμασθῆι,
ἔ ἔ, δυστυχή τε πράσσει.
ἄλλος δ᾽ ἄλλον ἄγει, φονεύ-
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κορκορυγαὶ δ᾽ ἀν᾽ ἄστυ, περὶ [πόλιν] δ᾽ ὁρκάνα
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πυργῶτις.
πρὸς ἀνδρὸς δ᾽ ἀνὴρ δόρει καίνεται·
βλαχαὶ δ᾽ αἱματόεσσαι
τῶν ἐπιμαστιδίων
ἀρτιτρεφεῖς βρέμονται.
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ἁρπαγαὶ δὲ διαδρομᾶν ὁμαίμονες·
ξυμβολεῖ φέρων φέροντι,
καὶ κενὸς κενὸν καλεῖ,
ξύννομον θέλων ἔχειν,
οὔτε μεῖον οὔτ᾽ ἴσον λελιμμένοι.
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τἀκ τῶνδε
εἰκάσαι λόγος πάρα. –
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.) — 333 focus
And a mournful thing it is for [maidens] just marriageable
, before the celebration of rites for culling the fresh flower of their virginity, to have to traverse a hateful journey from their homes. What? I pronounce that the dead fares better than these; for full many are the calamities, alas! alas! which a city undergoes when it has been reduced. One drags another
, slaughters, and to parts he sets fire—the whole city is defiled with smoke, and raving Mars that tramples down the nations, violating piety, inspires them.
Throughout the town are uproars, against the city rises the turreted circumvallation
, and man is slain by man with the spear. And the cries of children at the breast all bloody resound, and there is rapine sister of pell-mell confusion. Pillager meets pillager, and the empty-handed shouts to the empty-handed, wishing to have a partner, greedy for a portion that shall be neither less nor equal. What of these things can speech picture?
LES SEPT CONTRE THÈBES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES SEPT CONTRE THÈBES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 333 focus
de chastes vierges, avant les rites
qui cueilleront leur tendre fleur, prissent la route nouvelle d'une demeure abhorrée. Ah ! les morts, je l'assure, ont un meilleur destin ! Quand une cité succombe, hélas ! innombrables
sont ses maux. Tel vainqueur fait des prisonniers, tel autre tue ; ailleurs, on incendie. La fumée souille la ville entière. Arès souffle en furieux 1 , domptant
les hommes, violant tout ce qu'on révère.
Un peu plus agité.

Et voici des clameurs par toute la ville. Autour d'elle s'étend le filet où se prennent les places fortes 2 . Le guerrier s'affaisse sous la lance du guerrier. Les vagissements san-
glants des nourrissons élèvent leur plainte enfantine. Par-
The Seven Chiefs against Thebes (OCR draft) Experimental (The Seven Chiefs against Thebes. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 333 focus
Before my sad presaging soul
What scenes of imag'd horror roll!
I see the tender virgin's woe,
E'er yet her ripen'd beauties glow;
The hateful way I see her tread,
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Forcibly torn from her sweet home:
Happier, far happier are the dead;
They rest within the silent tomb.
But, the walls humbled to the ground,
What dreadful mis'ries rage around!
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Furious one leads the vengeful bands;
One stains with blood his reeking hands;
Wide roll, outrageous to destroy,
The dusky smoke, and torrent fires;
Whilſt slaught'ring Mars with hideous joy
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The heav'ncontemning rage inspires.
From house to house, from street to street u
,
The crashing flames roar round, and meet;
Each way the firey deluge preys,
And girds us with the circling blaze.
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The brave, that 'midst these dire alarms
For their lost country greatly dare,
And fir'd with vengeance rush to arms,
Fall victims to the bloodstain'd spear x
.
The bleeding babe, with innocent cries,
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Drops from his mother's breast, and dies,
See rapine rushes, bent on prey,
His hasty step brooks no delay.
The spoiler, loaded with his store,
Envious the loaded spoiler views;
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Disdains another should have more,
And his insatiate toil renews.
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.) — 333 focus
E trascinate le donne vedove,
ahimè, le vecchie presso alle giovani,
come cavalle, per la cesarie,
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fatte a brandelli le vesti. Ed ulula
la città vuota, mentre esse vanno
fra le commiste grida, a rovina.
lo tutta tremo già per il grave futuro danno.
2 Antistrofe II
Ahi, quale pianto, pria delle nozze, le intatte vergini
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vederle muovere, per la cesarie
tratte, a le case che ancora tenere
le coglieranno! Per certo assevero
che miglior sorte
di questa s'ebbe chi trovò morte.
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Ahimè, ché orribili sciagure, orribili,
sopra una vinta città s'aggravano.
Questi trafigge, prigioni stràscica
quegli, ed un altro le fiamme suscita.
Sozza è di fumo la città tutta:
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ché, furïando, Marte ivi soffia,
sterminatore, ch'entro nei cuori la pietà brutta.
3 Strofe III
Tutto è fragor: di torri su la rocca
Aeschylus, Septem ad Thebas: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Septem ad Thebas: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 333 focus
Lacrymabile eſt puellis, crudeliter
Ante iura connubialia migrare
Ex domibus suis inuisa uia,
Quid prædico eum qui interijt,
Meliora his habere?
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Multa ſunt, quando urbs expugnata fuerit,
Heuheu infœliciter agere:alius alium
Ducit, interficit, hæc ignem ferunt,
Fumo uerò inquinatur omnis urbs.
Furens uerò inſpirat hominum domitor
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Cruentans pietatem Mars
Eiulatus it per urbem, per urbem
Machina turrica,à uiro
Vir haſta interficitur.
ciulatus cruenti
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Lactentium pueriles ſtrepunt:
Rapinæ difcurrerunt fraterne.
Congreditur onustus onusto,
Vacuusq; uacuum prouocat,
Conſortem uolens habere
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Neq; minus neq; æqualiter cupiens.
Quædam ex his conijcere poßunt ratione.
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.) — 333 focus
For a woe and a weeping it is, if the maiden inviolate flower
Is plucked by the foe in his might, not culled in the bridal bower!
Alas for the hate and the horror—how say it?—less hateful by far
Is the doom to be slain by the sword, hewn down in the carnage of war!
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For wide, ah! wide is the woe when the foeman has mounted the wall;
There is havoc and terror and flame, and the dark smoke broods over all,
And wild is the war-god's breath, as in frenzy of conquest he springs,
And pollutes with the blast of his lips the glory of holiest things!
Up to the citadel rise clash and din,
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The war-net closes in,
The spear is in the heart: with blood imbrued
Young mothers wail aloud,
For children at their breast who scream and die!
And boys and maidens fly,
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Yet scape not the pursuer, in his greed
To thrust and grasp and feed!
Robber with robber joins, each calls his mate
Unto the feast of hate—
The banquet, lo! is spread—seize, rend, and tear!
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No need to choose or share!
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.) — 333 focus
O Leid, zöge die Braut, eben erblüht,
Vor der Feier der frischpflückenden Brautnacht
Weg vom Haus den verhaßten Weg!
Was sag' ich es noch? Glücklicher ist,
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Welchen der Tod entraffte!
Vieles ja muß, wenn der Feind die Stadt nahm,
Grauses muß sie dulden:
Ringsum schaltet Gewalt,
Und Mord wüthet, und Brand lodert auf.
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Geschwärzt vom Nauche qualmt die ganze Stadt;
Völkervertilgend in Wuth, schnaubt er herein,
Verunreint fromme Stätten, Ares.
Dritte Strophe.
Dumpf in den Gassen Aufruhr:
Die Stadt umzäunt ein Thurmwall.
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Dem Mann sinkt der Mann, sterbend von der Lanze Stoß.
Blutaufröchelndes Wimmern
Sterbender Säuglinge stöhnt,
Die man der Brust entrissen.
Wüstes Schweifen, wilder Naub verschwistern sich:
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Auf den Plünd'rer stößt der Plünd'rer,
Und der Leere ruft dem Leeren,
Will zum Raubgenossen ihn;
Doch das Mind're, doch das Gleiche wünscht er nicht.
Und nun - auf welches Schicksal hoffen wir?
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Dritte 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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ἀρτιτρεφεῖς:
ἀρτιτρεφεῖς
M. Vit. Lips. Par. A. Ven. B. Rob.
ἀρτιβρεφεῖς
G. Ox. Par. B. H. Ven. A. Ald. Turn.
ἀντιστραφεῖς
Par. E. Vagitum dicit infantium, quos modo matres occisae mammis admoverant.
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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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κορκορυγαί: Schol. ταραχαί. κεκωμώδηται δὲ ἡ λέξις, vgl. Ari- stoph. Frie. 991 λῦσον δὲ μάχας καὶ κορκορυγάς, Lys. 491, Wo. 387. ἄστη (um des Versmaßes willen für das überlieferte άorv gesetzt) von den verschiedenen Teilen (Straßen) der Stadt. ποτὶ, näm- lich ἄστη (überliefert ist ποτὶ πτόλιν δ', verbessert von Hermann), gegen die Stadt ist eine Umwallung ge- richtet, welche sie wie ein Jagd- netz umschließt. Schol. ὁρκάνη τὸ θηρατικὸν δίκτυον ὃ καὶ σαργάνη καλεῖται, Phot. ὁρκάνη· ὁ περιέχων τοῖχος οἴκησιν ἢ χωρίον, λέγεται δὲ ἀπὸ τοῦ ἕρκος ὅ ἐστι περίβολον φράγμα. Versteht man ὁρκάνη vom Jagdnetz, so hat man die Ausdrucks- weise, welche zu 64 besprochen ist: „nicht eine δρκάνη gewöhnlicher Art, sondern wallartig".