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.) — 686-711 focus
Χορος
θὴς δορίμαργος
3
ἄτα φερέτω: κακοῦ δ᾽
ἔκβαλ᾽
4
ἔρωτος ἀρχάν.
Ετεοκλης
ἐπεὶ τὸ πρᾶγμα κάρτ᾽ ἐπισπέρχει θεός,
ἴτω κατ᾽ οὖρον κῦμα Κωκυτοῦ λαχὸν
690
Φοίβῳ στυγηθὲν πᾶν τὸ Λαΐου γένος.
692
Χορος
ὠμοδακής σ᾽ ἄγαν ἵμερος ἐξοτρύ-
νει πικρόκαρπον ἀνδροκτασίαν
5
τελεῖν
αἵματος οὐ θεμιστοῦ.
Ετεοκλης
ξηροῖς ἀκλαύτοις
8
ὄμμασιν προσιζάνει,
λέγουσα κέρδος πρότερον ὑστέρου μόρου.
698
Χορος
ἀλλὰ σὺ μὴ ᾽ποτρύνου: κακὸς οὐ κεκλή-
σει βίον εὖ κυρήσας: μελάναιγις ἐκ δ᾽
9
εἶσι δόμων Ἐρινύς, ὅταν ἐκ χερῶν
700
θεοὶ θυσίαν δέχωνται.
Ετεοκλης
θεοῖς μὲν ἤδη πως παρημελήμεθα,
χάρις δ᾽ ἀφ᾽ ἡμῶν ὀλομένων θαυμάζεται:
τί οὖν ἔτ᾽ ἂν σαίνοιμεν ὀλέθριον μόρον;
705
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ Θήβας Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922.) — 686-711 focus
Χορός
τί μέμονας, τέκνον; μή τί σε θυμοπλη-
θὴς δορίμαργος ἄτα φερέτω· κακοῦ δʼ
ἔκβαλʼ ἔρωτος ἀρχάν.
Ἐτεοκλής
ἐπεὶ τὸ πρᾶγμα κάρτʼ ἐπισπέρχει θεός,
ἴτω κατʼ οὖρον κῦμα Κωκυτοῦ λαχὸν
690
Φοίβῳ στυγηθὲν πᾶν τὸ Λαΐου γένος.
Χορός
ὠμοδακής σʼ ἄγαν ἵμερος ἐξοτρύ-
νει πικρόκαρπον ἀνδροκτασίαν τελεῖν
αἵματος οὐ θεμιστοῦ.
Ἐτεοκλής
φίλου γὰρ ἐχθρά μοι πατρὸς τάλαινʼ ἀρὰ
695
ξηροῖς ἀκλαύτοις ὄμμασιν προσιζάνει,
λέγουσα κέρδος πρότερον ὑστέρου μόρου.
Χορός
ἀλλὰ σὺ μὴ ʼποτρύνου· κακὸς οὐ κεκλή-
σῃ βίον εὖ κυρήσας· μελάναιγις
δʼ· οὐκ
εἶσι δόμων Ἐρινύς, ὅταν ἐκ χερῶν
700
θεοὶ θυσίαν δέχωνται;
Ἐτεοκλής
θεοῖς μὲν ἤδη πως παρημελήμεθα,
χάρις δʼ ἀφʼ ἡμῶν ὀλομένων θαυμάζεται·
τί οὖν ἔτʼ ἂν σαίνοιμεν ὀλέθριον μόρον;
Χορός
νῦν ὅτε σοι παρέστακεν· ἐπεὶ δαίμων
705
λήματος ἐν τροπαίᾳ χρονίᾳ μεταλ-
λακτὸς ἴσως ἂν ἔλθοι θελεμωτέρῳ
πνεύματι· νῦν δʼ ἔτι ζεῖ.
Ἐτεοκλής
ἐξέζεσεν γὰρ Οἰδίπου κατεύγματα·
ἄγαν δʼ ἀληθεῖς ἐνυπνίων φαντασμάτων
710
ὄψεις, πατρῴων χρημάτων δατήριοι.
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 686 focus
ΧΟ.
τί μέμονας, τέκνον; μή τί σε θυμοπλη-
θὴς δορίμαργος ἄτα φερέτω· κακοῦ δ᾽
ἔκβαλ᾽ ἔρωτος ἀρχάν.
ΕΤ.
ἐπεὶ τὸ πρᾶγμα κάρτ᾽ ἐπισπέρχει θεὸς,
ἴτω κατ' οὗρον κῦμα Κωκυτοῦ λαχὸν
690
Φοίβῳ στυγηθὲν πᾶν τὸ Λαΐου γένος.
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 686 focus
Χορὸς Παρθένων
στρ. α'.
τί μέμονας τέκνον; μήτι σε θυμοπλη-
θὴς δορίμαργος ἄτα φερέτω, κακοῦ δ᾽
ἔκβαλ᾽ ἔρωτος ἀρχάν.
Ἐτεοκλῆς
ἐπεὶ τὸ πρᾶγμα κάρτ᾽ ἐπισπέρχει θεός,
670
ἴτω κατ᾽ οὖρον κῦμα Κωκυτοῦ λαχόν,
Ἐτεοκλῆς
Φοίβῳ στυγηθέν, πᾶν τὸ Λαΐου γένος.
ΕΠΤΑ ΕΠΙ θΗΒΑΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΕΠΤΑ ΕΠΙ θΗΒΑΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 686 focus
Τί μέμονας, τέκνον; μή τί σε θυμοπλη-
Str. 1.
θὴς δορίμαργος ἄτα φερέτω· κακοῦ δ'
ἔκβαλ' ἔρωτος ἀρχάν.
ΕΤΕΟΚΛΗΣ
Ἐπεὶ τὸ πρᾶγμα κάρτ' ἐπισπέρχει θεός,
690
ἴτω κατ' οὖρον κῦμα Κωκυτοῦ λαχὸν
Φοίβῳ στυγηθὲν πᾶν τὸ Λαΐου γένος.
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 686 focus
τί μέμονας, τέκνον; μήτι σε θυμοπλη-
θὴς δορίμαργος ἄτα φερέτω· κακοῦ δ᾽
ἔκβαλ᾽ ἔρωτος ἀρχάν.
675
ΕΤ.
ἐπεὶ τὸ πρᾶγμα κάρτ᾽ ἐπισπέρχει θεός,
ἴτω κατ᾽ οὗρον κῦμα Κωκυτοῦ λαχὸν
Φοίβῳ στυγηθὲν πᾶν τὸ Λαΐου γένος.
ΧΟ.
Aeschyli Septem contra Thebas (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Septem contra Thebas. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 686 focus
ΧΟ.
τί μέμονας, τέκνον; μήτι σε θυμοπλη-
θὴς δορίμαργος ἄτα φερέτω· κακοῦ
δ᾽ ἔκβαλ᾽ ἔρωτος ἀρχάν.
ΕΤ.
ἐπεὶ τὸ πρᾶγμα κάρτ᾽ ἐπισπέρχει θεός,
ἴτω κατ᾿ οὐρον κύμα Κωκυτοῦ λαχόν
690
Φοίβωι στυγηθὲν πᾶν τὸ Λαΐου γένος. –
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.)) — 686-710 focus
Chorus
For what are you so eager, child? Do not let mad lust for battle fill your soul and carry you away. Reject this evil passion while it is still young.
Eteocles
Since God hastens the deed so urgently,
let the whole race of Laius, hated by Phoebus, be swept on the wind to Cocytus’ destined flood!
690
Chorus
A savage desire eats away at you, drives you to murder, blood-sacrifice proscribed by divine law, whose only fruit is bitterness.
Eteocles
True, my own beloved father’s hateful, ruinous curse hovers before my dry, unweeping eyes, and informs me of benefit preceding subsequent death.
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Chorus
No, do not let yourself be driven to it. You will not be called a coward if you retain life nobly. Will not the avenging Erinys in her dark aegis
leave your house, when the gods receive sacrifice from your hands?
700
Eteocles
The gods, it seems, have already banished us from their care, yet they admire the grace we offer them when we perish. So then, why should we cringe and shy away from deadly fate?
Chorus
It is only at this moment that death stands close by you, for the divine spirit may change its purpose even after a long time and come on a gentler wind. But now it still seethes.
705
Eteocles
Yes, the curses of Oedipus have made it seethe in fury.
Too true were the phantoms in my sleeping visions, predicting the division of our father’s wealth!
710
The Seven against Thebes. (OCR draft) Experimental (The Seven against Thebes.. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 686 focus
Eteocles
Since the deity with all power urges on the matter, let the whole race of Laius, abhorred by Phoebus, having received for its portion the wave of Cocytus, drift down with the wind.
Chorus
LES SEPT CONTRE THÈBES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES SEPT CONTRE THÈBES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 686 focus
ÉTÉOCLE
Puisque le Ciel lui-même précipite les choses, qu'elle aille donc, au gré du vent qui la pousse,
vers son lot, l'onde du Cocyte, la race odieuse à Phoibos, la race entière de Laïos !
vers son lot, l'onde du Cocyte, la race odieuse à Phoibos, la race entière de Laïos !
LE CHŒUR
Ah ! de quelle dent cruelle te mord donc le désir qui t'entraîne
The Seven Chiefs against Thebes (OCR draft) Experimental (The Seven Chiefs against Thebes. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 686 focus
ETEOCLES.
No: ſince the God impels me, I will on.
And let the race of Laius, let them all,
Abhor'd by Phœbus, in this ſtorm of fate
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Sink down to deep Cocytus' dreary flood.
CHORUS.
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.) — 686 focus
ETEOCLE
Poi che gli eventi incalza un Dio, rapito
dai venti sia di Laio il seme tutto,
odio di Febo, sul fatal Cocito.
775
1
Antistrofe I
CORO
Aeschylus, Septem ad Thebas: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Septem ad Thebas: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 686 focus
Eteocles
Postquam negotium tantopere inſtigat Deus,
Eat ſecundis uentis fluctum Cocyti affecutum,
Phœbo inuifum omne Laij genus.
660
Cho.
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.) — 686 focus
Ah, what is thy desire?
Let not the lust and ravin of the sword
Bear thee adown the tide accursed, abhorred!
Fling off thy passion's rage, thy spirit's prompting dire!
Eteocles
Nay—since the god is urgent for our doom,
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Let Laïus' house, by Phoebus loathed and scorned,
Follow the gale of destiny, and win
Its great inheritance, the gulf of hell!
Chorus
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.) — 686 focus
Und du beharrst, o Kind? Daß dich im Zorne doch
Des Kampfs wilde Lust nicht fortreiße! Nein,
Tilg' im Beginn die Mordgier!
Eteokles.
Weil doch zum Ausgang ungestüm hindrängt ein Gott,
So fahre Lajos' ganzes Haus, von Phöbos' Haß
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Verfolgt, Kokytos' düstre Flut im Sturm hinab!
Zweiter Halbchor.
Erste Gegenstrophe.
Notes on the current edition
Seven Against Thebes
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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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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