N. Wecklein Seven Against Thebes 723.comm-723

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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.)

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Editions (7)
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ Θήβας First1KGreek (Aeschyli Tragoediae. Sidgwick, Arthur, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.) — 720-791 focus
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ Θήβας Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922.) — 720-791 focus
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 720 focus
ξένος δὲ κλήρους ἐπινωμᾷ Χάλυβος Σκυθῶν
ἄποικος,
κτεάνων χρηματοδαίτας πικρὸς, ὠμόφρων σίδαρος,
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χθόνα ναίειν διαπήλας, ὁπόσαν καὶ φθιμένοισιν
κατέχειν,
τῶν μεγάλων πεδίων ἀμοίρους
ἐπειδὰν αὐτοκτόνως
αὐτοδάϊκτοι θάνωσι,
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καὶ χθονία κόνις πίῃ
μελαμπαγὲς αἷμα φοίνιον,
τις ἂν καθαρμοὺς πόροι,
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 720 focus
ξένος δὲ κλήρους ἐπινωμᾷ
Χάλυβος, Σκυθῶν ἄποικος,
κτεάνων χρηματοδαίτας
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πικρός, ὠμόφρων σίδαρος,
χθόνα ναίειν διαπήλας,
ὁπόσαν καὶ φθιμένοισιν κατέχειν,
τῶν μεγάλων πεδίων ἀμοίρους.
στρ. β'.
ἐπειδὰν αὐτοκτόνως
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αὐτοδάϊκτοι θάνωσι
καὶ γαῖα κόνις πίῃ
μελαμπαγὲς αἷμα φοίνιον,
τίς ἂν καθαρμοὺς πόροι;
τίς ἄν σφε λούσειεν; ὦ
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πόνοι δόμων νέοι παλαι-
ΕΠΤΑ ΕΠΙ θΗΒΑΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΕΠΤΑ ΕΠΙ θΗΒΑΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 720 focus
Ξένος δὲ κλήρους ἐπινω-
Ant. 1.
μᾷ Χάλυβος Σκυθῶν ἄποικος,
κτεάνων χρηματοδαίτας
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πικρός, ὠμόφρων σίδαρος,
χθόνα ναίειν διαπήλας
ὁπόσαν καὶ φθιμένοισιν κατέχειν,
τῶν μεγάλων πεδίων ἀμοίρους.
Ἐπειδὰν αὐτοκτόνως
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Str. 2.
αὐτοδάϊκτοι θάνωσι,
καὶ χθονία κόνις πίῃ
μελαμπαγὲς αἷμα φοίνιον,
τίς ἂν καθαρμοὺς πόροι,
τίς ἄν σφε λούσειεν ; ὦ
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Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 720 focus
πέφρικα τὴν ὠλεσίοικον
θεόν, οὐ θεοῖς ὁμοίαν,
παναληθῆ, κακόμαντιν,
πατρὸς εὐκταίαν Ἐρινὺν
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τελέσαι τὰς περιθύμους
ξένος δὲ κλήρους ἐπινωμᾷ
Χάλυβος Σκυθῶν ἄποικος,
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κτεάνων χρηματοδαίτας
πικρός, ὠμόφρων σίδαρος,
χθόνα ναίειν διαπήλας,
ὁπόσαν καὶ φθιμένοισιν κατέχειν,
τῶν μεγάλων πεδίων ἀμοίρους.
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ἐπειδὰν αὐτοκτόνως
Aeschyli Septem contra Thebas (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Septem contra Thebas. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 720 focus
ξένος δὲ κλήρους ἐπινω-
μᾶι Χάλυβος Σκυθῶν ἄποι-
κος, κτεάνων χρηματοδαί-
τας πικρός, ὠμόφρων σίδα-
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ρος, χθόνα ναίειν διαπήλας ὁπόσαν
καὶ φθιμένοισιν κατέχειν,
τῶν μεγάλων πεδίων ἀμοίρους. =
ἐπεὶ δ᾽ ἂν αὐτοκτόνως
αὐτοδάικτοι θάνωσι καὶ γαΐα κόνις
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πίηι μελαμπαγὲς αἷμα φοίνιον,
τίς ἂν καθαρμοὺς πόροι,
τίς ἄν σφε λύσειεν; ὦ
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.)) — 720-790 focus
The Seven against Thebes. (OCR draft) Experimental (The Seven against Thebes.. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 720 focus
I shudder with dread that the power that lays waste this house, not like the gods, the all-true, the evil-boding Erinnys summoned by the curses of the father, is bringing to a consummation the wrathful curses of distracted Œdipus
. 'Tis this quarrel, fatal to his sons, that arouses her.
And the Chalybian stranger, emigrant from Scythia, is apportioning their shares, a fell divider of possessions, the sternhearted steel
, allotting them land to occupy, just as much as it may be theirs to possess when dead, bereft of their large domains
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When they shall have fallen, slain by each other's hands in mutual slaughter, and the dust of the ground shall have drunk up the black-clotted blood of murder, who will furnish expiation? who will purify them? Alas for the fresh troubles mingled with the ancient horrors of this family!
LES SEPT CONTRE THÈBES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES SEPT CONTRE THÈBES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 720 focus
aux déesses, la prophétesse trop véridique de malheurs, l'Érinys appelée par les vœux d'un
père, n'accomplisse les imprécations courroucées d'Œdipe en démence : c'est à leur perte que ce conflit jette ses fils.
Celui qui agite les dés, l'étranger
Chalybe, émigré de
Scythie, dur partageur de patrimoines, le Fer au cœur cruel, a déjà, en secouant les sorts, décidé qu'ils n'occuperaient de leurs terres que ce qu'en peut tenir un mort à jamais frustrés de leurs vastes champs !
Plus vif.

Quand ils seront morts, tous deux tués, tous deux massacrés par un frère, quand la poussière du sol aura bu le sang noir et figé du meurtre, qui en saurait offrir des puri-
The Seven Chiefs against Thebes (OCR draft) Experimental (The Seven Chiefs against Thebes. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 720 focus
She comes, the fierce tremendous pow'r q
,
And harrows up my ſoul with dread;
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No gentle Goddess, prompt to ſhow'r
Her bleſſings on ſome favour'd head.
I know her now, the propheteſs of ill,
And vengeance ratifies each word,
The votive fury, fiend abhor'd;
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The father's curſes to fulfill
Dreadful ſhe comes, and with her brings
The brood of fate, that laps the blood of kings.
The rude barbarian, from the mines
Of Scythia, o'er the lots preſides;
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Ruthless to each his ſhare aſſigns,
And the conteſted realm divides;
To each allots no wider a domain
Than, on the cold earth as they lie,
Their breathless bodies occupy,
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Regardless of an ampler reign.
Such narrow compaſs does the ſword,
A cruel umpire, their high claims afford.
Conflicting thus in furious mood,
Shou'd each by other's hand be ſlain;
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Shou'd the black fountain of their blood
Spout forth, and drench the thirſty plain;
Who ſhall the ſolemn expiation pay?
Who with pure lavers cleanſe the dead?
Miſeries to miſeries thus ſucceed,
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And vengeance marks this houſe her prey,
Swift to chaſtiſe the firſt ill deed;
And the ſon's ſons in her deep fury bleed.
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.) — 720 focus
Pavento io, che la Diva, a niuno eguale
dei Celesti, che stermina
le progenie, del male
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profetessa verace, l'imprecatrice Erine,
del dissennato Edipo non effettui
le fiere imprecazioni; e la discordia
sospinge i figli a esizïale fine.
1 Antistrofe I
Distributore dei dominî aviti
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è lo straniero càlibo,
colono degli Sciti,
il crudo ferro, amaro compartitor di beni,
che a ciascun d'essi tanta terra prodiga
quanta la spenta loro spoglia n'empia,
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orbato ognun degli ampli suoi terreni.
Quando, con mutua strage,
con mutuo scempio, essi trafitti cadano,
e sorbito abbia la terrestre polvere
il sangue sparso in livida compage,
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chi mai riscatto, espïazione, porgere
potrebbe? Ahi, nuovi della casa affanni,
commisti a quelli antichi ormai negli anni!
2 Antistrofe II
Aeschylus, Septem ad Thebas: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Septem ad Thebas: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 720 focus
Horrui pernicioſam deam, non dijs fimilem,
Que noctu acceßit, narrauit
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Vere malam uatem, patris optatam
Furiam, perficere excandefcentes
Execrationes uefanientis Oedipodis.
Pucrorum uaftatrix contentio hæc hortatur.
Hoſpes fortes agit
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Chalybis Scythicarum poßeßionum colonus
Neceßarias, acerbum, crudele ferrum,
Terram incolere quatiens tantam,
Et mortuis occupare
Magnorum camporum expertes.
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Postquam fponte fua & hoſtiliter
Mortui fuerint, terreus puluis biberit
Nigrum cruorem .quis
Expiationes præbebit? quis ipfos lauabit?
O' noui labores domuum antiquis
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Commixti malis:antiquam enim dico
Transgreßionem, cuius comes est celer pœna,
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.) — 720 focus
I shudder in dread of the power, abhorred by the gods of high heaven,
The ruinous curse of the home till roof-tree and rafter be riven!
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Too true are the visions of ill, too true the fulfilment they bring
To the curse that was spoken of old by the frenzy and wrath of the king!
Her will is the doom of the children, and Discord is kindled amain,
And strange is the Lord of Division, who cleaveth the birthright in twain,—
The edged thing, born of the north, the steel that is ruthless and keen,
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Dividing in bitter division the lot of the children of teen!
Not the wide lowland around, the realm of their sire, shall they have,
Yet enough for the dead to inherit, the pitiful space of a grave!
Ah, but when kin meets kin, when sire and child,
Unknowing, are defiled
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By shedding common blood, and when the pit
Of death devoureth it,
Drinking the clotted stain, the gory dye—
Who, who can purify?
Who cleanse pollution, where the ancient bane
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Rises and reeks again?
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.) — 720 focus
Mir graut: die stammtilgende Göttin,
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Die den Göttern nicht Verwandte,
Sie, des Leids wahre Prophetin,
Von des Vaters Fluch beschworen,
Sie erscheint, Dedipus' wahnsinnigen, zornschnaubenden Fluch führt sie hinaus;
Brudervertilgender Zwist erweckt sie.
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Erste Gegenstrophe.
Die Loose dort würfelt ein Fremdling,
Aus der Skythen Lande kam er,
Des Gebiets roher Vertheiler,
Der ergrimmte Stahl, der Mörder;
Er verloost heimischen Lands jedem soviel, als ihm genügt, fiel er im Kampf,
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Wann ihm das größere Reich entschwunden.
Zweite Strophe.
Wenn Brudermord Beide nun
Todt in den Staub streckte, die Brüder,
Wenn dann die Heimaterde trank
Den schwarzdunklen Strom, ihr Todesblut:
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Wer böte Sühnopfer dar,
Wer wüsche sie rein von Schuld?
O dieses Hauses neue Noth,
Altem Leide zugesellt!
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

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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zweites Stasimon, welches die Verkettung von Schuld und Buße im Labdakidenhause und den inneren Zusammenhang der Trilogie darlegt: Der Fluch des Ödipus, dessen Erfüllung der Streit seiner Söhne beschleunigt, wird zu dem Wechselmorde der Brüder füh- ren und so wird ein unsühnbarer Greuel zur. alten Not des Labda- kidenhauses hinzukommen. Diese alte Not begann mit der Schuld des Laios, dem Ungehorsam gegen das Gebot des Delphischen Gottes. Die Schuld des Laios, welche er alsbald mit seinem Leben büßte, übt ihre verderbliche Wirkung fort auf die nächste und übernächste Generation, auf Ödipus, dessen hohes Glück mit der Selbstblendung und der Verfluchung der Söhne schmählich endigte, jetzt auf die Söhne des Ödipus, und mit den Fürsten leidet der Staat, wenn er nur nicht mit ihnen zugrunde geht". In ähnlicher Weise faßt der Chor- gesang Cho. 1063 ff. die Schicksale des Atridenhauses zusammen. Der Gesang wird vom Gesamtchor vorgetragen.

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Genaue Responsion wird her- gestellt mit der Emendation von Hermann καὶ γαῖα κόνις πίῃ.