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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.) — 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.) — 727 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.) — 727 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
715
αὐτοδάϊκτοι θάνωσι
καὶ γαῖα κόνις πίῃ
μελαμπαγὲς αἷμα φοίνιον,
τίς ἂν καθαρμοὺς πόροι;
τίς ἄν σφε λούσειεν; ὦ
720
πόνοι δόμων νέοι παλαι-
παλαιγενῆ γὰρ λέγω
παρβασίαν ὠκύποινον·
αἰῶνα δ᾽ ἐς τρίτον μένει,
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Ἀπόλλωνος εὖτε Λάϊος
βίᾳ, τρὶς εἰπόντος ἐν
μεσομφάλοις Πυθικοῖς
χρηστηρίοις, θνάσκοντα γέν-
νας ἄτερ σώζειν πόλιν.
730
στρ. γ'.
κρατηθεὶς δ᾽ ἐκ φίλων ἀβουλίαις
ἐγείνατο μὲν μόρον αὑτῷ,
πατροκτόνον Οἰδιπόδαν,
ὅςτε μὴ πρὸς ἁγνὰν
σπείρας ἄρουραν, ἵν᾽ ἐτράφη,
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ῥίζαν αἱματόεσσαν
ἔτλα· παράνοια συνᾶγε
νυμφίους φρενώλεις.
ἀντ. γ'.
ΕΠΤΑ ΕΠΙ θΗΒΑΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΕΠΤΑ ΕΠΙ θΗΒΑΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 727 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
735
Str. 2.
αὐτοδάϊκτοι θάνωσι,
καὶ χθονία κόνις πίῃ
μελαμπαγὲς αἷμα φοίνιον,
τίς ἂν καθαρμοὺς πόροι,
τίς ἄν σφε λούσειεν ; ὦ
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Παλαιγενῆ γὰρ λέγω
Ant. 2.
παρβασίαν παραβασίαν (vel παραιβ-) ὠκύποινον
αἰῶνα δ' ἐς τρίτον μένει
745
Ἀπόλλωνος εὖτε Λάϊος
βίᾳ, τρὶς εἰπόντος ἐν
μεσομφάλοις Πυθικοῖς
χρηστηρίοις θνάσκοντα γέν-
νας ἄτερ σῴζειν πόλιν·
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κρατηθεὶς δ' ἐκ φίλων ἀβουλιᾶν ἀβουλίαν ἀβουλίαι seu ἀβουλίαις
Str. 3.
ἐγείνατο γείνατο μὲν μόρον αὑτῷ
πατροκτόνον Οἰδιπόδαν,
ὅστε ματρὸς ἁγνὰν
σπείρας ἄρουραν, ἵν' ἐτράφη,
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ῥίζαν αἱματόεσσαν
ἔτλα· παράνοια συνάγε
νυμφίους φρενώλεις φρενώλης.
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 727 focus
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.
720
ἐπειδὰν αὐτοκτόνως
παλαιγενῆ γὰρ λέγω
παρβασίαν ὠκύποινον·
αἰῶνα δ᾽ ἐς τρίτον μένει,
730
Ἀπόλλωνος εὖτε Λάιος
βίᾳ, τρὶς εἰπόντος ἐν
μεσομφάλοις Πυθικοῖς χρηστηρίοις
θνάσκοντα γέννας ἄτερ σῴζειν πόλιν,
κρατηθεὶς ἐκ φίλων ἀβουλιᾶν
735
ἐγείνατο μὲν μόρον αὑτῷ,
πατροκτόνον Οἰδιπόδαν,
ὅστε ματρὸς ἁγνὸν
σπείρας ἄρουραν, ἵν᾿ ἐτράφη,
ῥίζαν αἱματόεσσαν
740
ἔτλα· παράνοια συνάγε
νυμφίους φρενώλεις.
Aeschyli Septem contra Thebas (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Septem contra Thebas. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 727 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
παλαιγενῆ γὰρ λέγω
παρβασίαν ὠκύποινον, αἰῶνα δ᾽ ἐς τρίτον
μένειν, ᾿Απόλλωνος εὔτε Λάιος
βίαι τρὶς εἰπόντος ἐν
745
μεσομφάλοις Πυθικοῖς
χρηστηρίοις θνάισκοντα γέν-
νας ἄτερ σώιζειν πόλιν, =
κρατηθεὶς δ᾽ ἐκ φίλων ἀβουλιᾶν
ἐγείνατο μὲν μόρον αὑτῶι,
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πατροκτόνον Οἰδιπόδαν,
ὅστε ματρὸς ἁγνάν
σπείρας ἄρουραν, ἵν᾽ ἐτράφη,
ῥίζαν αἱματόεσσαν
ἔτλα· παράνοια συνάγε
755
νυμφίους φρενώλης. –
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.) — 727 focus
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
.
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!
for I speak of the ancient transgression with its speedy punishment; yet it abides unto the third generation: since Laius, in spite of Apollo, who had thrice declared, in the central oracles of Pytho, that, dying without issue, he would save the state
,
did, notwithstanding, overcome by his friends, in his infatuation beget his own destruction, the parricide Œdipus, who dared to plant in an unhallowed field, where he had been reared, a bloody root.— 'Twas phrenzy linked the distracted pair; and
LES SEPT CONTRE THÈBES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES SEPT CONTRE THÈBES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 727 focus
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-
pourtant dure encore à la troisième génération, la faute de Laïos,
rebelle à Apollon, qui, par trois fois, à Pytho, son sanctuaire prophétique, centre du monde, lui avait déclaré qu'il devait mourir sans enfant, s'il voulait le salut de Thèbes

Mais Laïos succombe à un doux égarement 2 ,
et il engendre sa propre mort, Œdipe le parricide, qui a osé ensemencer le
sillon sacré où il s'était formé et y planter une souche sanglante : un délire unissait les époux en folie 3 !
Et maintenant une mer de maux vers nous pousse ses lames. Si l'une s'écroule,
The Seven Chiefs against Thebes (OCR draft) Experimental (The Seven Chiefs against Thebes. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 727 focus
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,
840
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.
The firſt ill deed from Laius ſprung:
Thrice from his ſhrine these words of fate
855
Aweful the Pythian Phœbus ſung,
"Die childless, wou'dſt thou ſave the ſtate."
Urg'd by his friends, as round the free wine flows,
To Love's forbidden rites he flies.
By the ſon's hand the father dies.
860
He in the chaſte ground, whence he aroſe,
Was bold t' implant the deadly root;
And madneſs rear'd each balefulſpreading ſhoot.
Wide o'er misfortune's ſurging tide
Billows ſucceeding billows ſpread;
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Shou'd one, its fury ſpent, ſubſide,
Another lifts its boiſt'rous head,
And foams around the city's ſhatter'd prow.
But ſhou'd the rough tempeſtuous wave
Force thro' our walls too ſlight to ſave,
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And lay the thin partition low,
Will not the flood's reſiſtleſs ſway
Sweep kings and people, town and realms away?
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.) — 727 focus
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,
820
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,
825
chi mai riscatto, espïazione, porgere
potrebbe? Ahi, nuovi della casa affanni,
commisti a quelli antichi ormai negli anni!
2 Antistrofe II
Parlo del fallo antico
di Laio, a cui seguia la pena súbita,
830
ma su la terza stirpe ancora indugia.
Il Nume Apollo a lui, dall'umbilico
della terra, ove surge il pitio oracolo,
tre volte ripetea che la città,
se muoia orbo di prole, ei salverà.
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3 Strofe III
Ma degli amici alle parole improvvide
cede' poi vinto, e al suo fatal destino
diede la vita: ad Èdipo,
che fu del genitor suo l'assassino,
che il campo seminando ond'ebbe origine,
840
una progenie a sanguinosi eventi
sacra die' a luce: insania
i due consorti strinse, ambi dementi.
Aeschylus, Septem ad Thebas: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Septem ad Thebas: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 727 focus
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
705
Commixti malis:antiquam enim dico
Transgreßionem, cuius comes est celer pœna,
In tertium euum manebit.
Apollini, quando Laius
Ter dicente in meditullio
710
Pythicis oraculis, quod fimoreretur
Sine liberis, feruaret urbem, uictus ex amicorum inme
prudentia
Genuit quidem fibi interitum,
Patricidam nempe Oedipoda , qui matris
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Castum feminans uterum, ubi nutritus erat,
Stirpem cruentam ſuſtinuit, amentia uerò induxit
Amentes nuptias.
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.) — 727 focus
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
745
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
750
Rises and reeks again?
Whilome in olden days the sin was wrought,
And swift requital brought—
Yea on the children of the child came still
New heritage of ill!
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For thrice Apollo spoke this word divine,
From Delphi's central shrine,
To Laius— Die thou childless! thus alone
Can the land's weal be won!
But vainly with his wife's desire he strove,
760
And gave himself to love,
Begetting Oedipus, by whom he died,
The fateful parricide!
The sacred seed-plot, his own mother's womb,
He sowed, his house's doom,
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A root of blood! by frenzy lured, they came
Unto their wedded shame.
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.) — 727 focus
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.
Der schweren Schuld alter Zeit
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Denk' ich, da schnell büßte der Frevler;
Doch herrscht sie fort in's dritte Glied.
Es bot Lajos Phöbos' Worte Troy,
Das dreimal einst warnend ihm
Aus Pytho's Erdmitte dort
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Entgegenscholl: nur kinderlos
Sterbend, rett' er Haus und Stadt.
Dritte Strophe.
Bethört dann durch die Lust im Unverstand,
Erzeugt' er sich selbst das Verderben,
Den Sohn, der den Vater erschlägt,
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Der auf ungeweihtes
Saatland, aus dem er selbst entsproß,
Kühn die blutigen Wurzeln
Gepflanzt. Die verblendeten Gatten
Einte wilder Wahnsinn.
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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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φρενώλεις:
φρενώλης
, supra scripto a recentiore manu εις, M.
φρενωλεῖς
Lips. Male haec Schützius de Laii et Iocastae concubitu interpretatur: qua interpretatione praeclara vis, quae in hoc loco est, valde minuitur.
Παράνοια
est error, quem chorus propterea fortiore vocabulo nominat, quod caeci in eum fatorum necessitate, tamquam furibundi, irruerunt Oedipus et Iocasta.
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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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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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. ἄρουραν μητρός wie μη- τρώαν . . ἄρουραν οὗ τε καὶ τέκ των Soph. Ο. Τ. 1256, τὴν τεκοῦσαν ἤροσεν ὅθενπερ αὐτὸς ἐσπάρη ebd. 1497. Nach der Ansicht alter Phy- siologen ist die Mutter das Acker- feld, auf welchem der eingestreute Same aufgeht. ἐτράφη wie ἐ- σπάρη in der angeführten Stelle. ῥίζαν αἱματόεσσαν steht als Appo- sition zum Inhalt von σπείρας ἄρου- ,woraus ein Wurzel von Blut und Wunden wurde". σπείρας ἔτλα wie Soph. Εl. 943 τλῆναι σε δρῶσαν, Eur. Hipp. 476 τόλμα δ' ἐρῶσα, Simonid. Fragm. 85, 14 τλῆθι χαριζόμενος.