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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.) — 758 focus
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 758 focus
κακῶν δ᾽ ὥςπερ θάλασσα κῦμ᾽ ἄγει·
τὸ μὲν πίτνον, ἄλλο δ᾽ ἀείρει
740
τρίχαλον, ὃ καὶ περὶ πρύ-
μναν πόλεως καχλάζει·
μεταξὺ δ᾽ ἀλκὰν δι᾽ ὀλίγου
τείνει πύργος ἐν Ἄρει.
δέδοικα δέ, σὺν βασιλεῦσι
745
μὴ πόλις δαμασθῇ.
στρ. δ'.
τέλειαι γὰρ παλαιφάτων ἀρᾶν
βαρεῖαι καταλλαγαί· τὰ δ᾽ ὀλοὰ
πελόμεν᾽ οὐ παρἔρχεται.
πρόπρυμνα δ᾽ ἐκβολὰν φέρει
750
ἀνδρῶν ἀλφηστᾶν
τίν᾽ ἀνδρῶν γὰρ τοσόνδ᾽ ἐθαύμασαν
θεοὶ καὶ ξυνέστιοι πόλεος, ὁ
πολύβοτός τ' αἰὼν βροτῶν,
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ὅσον τότ' Οἰδίπουν τίον,
τὰν ἁρπαξάνδραν
κῆρ᾽ ἀφελόντα χώρας;
στρ. ε'.
ΕΠΤΑ ΕΠΙ θΗΒΑΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΕΠΤΑ ΕΠΙ θΗΒΑΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 758 focus
Κακῶν δ' ὥσπερ θάλασσα κῦμ' ἄγει,
Ant. 3.
τὸ μὲν πίτνον, ἄλλο δ' ἀείρει
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τρίχαλον, ὃ καὶ περὶ πρύμ-
ναν πόλεως καχλάζει·
μεταξὺ δ' ἀλκὰ δι' ὀλίγου
τείνει πύργος ἐν εὔρει
δέδοικα δὲ σὺν βασιλεῦσι
765
μὴ πόλις δαμασθῇ.
Τέλειαι γὰρ παλαιφάτων παλαίφατοι ἀρᾶν ἀραὶ
Str. 4.
βαρεῖαι καταλλαγαί·
Τίν' ἀνδρῶν γὰρ τοσόνδ' ἐθαύμασαν
Ant. 4.
θεοί τε καὶ (cf. 253) ξυνέστιοι
πόλεος ὁ πόλεως πολύβατός τ' ἀγὼν πολύβοτος τ' αἰὼν βροτῶν
775
ὅσον τότ' Οἰδίπουν τίον,
τὰν ἁρπαξάνδραν ἀναρπ-
κῆρ' ἀφελόντα χώρας ;
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 758 focus
κακῶν δ᾽ ὥσπερ θάλασσα κῦμ᾽ ἄγει,
τὸ μὲν πίτνον, ἄλλο δ' ἀείρει
τρίχαλον, ὃ καὶ περὶ πρύ-
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μναν πόλεως καχλάζει.
μεταξὺ δ᾽ ἀλκὰ δι᾿ ὀλίγου
τείνει πύργος ἐν εὔρει.
τέλειαι γὰρ παλαιφάτων ἀρᾶν
βαρεῖαι καταλλαγαί· τὰ δ᾽ ὀλοὰ
πενομένους παρέρχεται,
πρόπρεμνα δ' ἐκβολὴν φέρει
ἀνδρῶν ἀλφηστῶν
755
ὄλβος ἄγαν παχυνθείς.
τίν' ἀνδρῶν γὰρ τοσόνδ᾽ ἐθαύμασαν
θεοὶ καὶ ξυνέστιοι πόλεος ὁ
πολύβοτος τ᾽ αἰών βροτῶν,
ὅσον τότ' Οἰδίπουν τίον,
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Aeschyli Septem contra Thebas (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Septem contra Thebas. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 758 focus
κακῶν δ᾽ ὥσπερ θάλασσα κῦμ᾽ ἄγει,
τὸ μὲν πίτνον, ἄλλο δ᾽ ἀείρει
τρίχαλον, ὃ καὶ περὶ πρύ-
μναν πόλεως καχλάζει.
760
μεταξὺ δ᾽ ἄλκαρ δι᾽ ὀλίγου
βαρεῖαι γὰρ παλαιφάτων ἀρᾶν
765
τελεῖν καταλλαγαί· τὰ δ᾽ ὀλο-
ὰ πενομένους παρέρχεται,
πρόπρυμνα δ᾽ ἐκβολὰν φέρει
ἀνδρῶν ἀλφηστᾶν ὄλβος ἄγαν παχυνθείς. —
τίν᾿ ἀνδρῶν γὰρ τοσόνδ᾽ ἐθαύμασαν
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θεοὶ καὶ ξυνέστιοι πόλεος
ὁ πολύβοτός τ᾽ αἰὼν βροτῶν,
ὅσον τότ᾽ Οἰδίπουν τίον,
τὰν ἁρπαξάνδραν κῆρ᾽ ἀφελόντα χώρας.
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.) — 758 focus
as it were a sea of troubles brings on one billow that subsides, and rears another triply cloven, which too dashes about the stern of our state. But between [it and us] there stretches a fence at a small interval, a tower in width alone
. And I fear lest the city should be overcome along with its princes.
For the execrations, that were uttered long ago, are finding their accomplishment: bitter is the settlement, and deadly things in their consummation pass not away. The wealth of enterprising merchants
, too thickly stowed, brings with it a casting overboard from the stern.
For whom of mortals did the gods, and his fellow-inmates in the city, and the many lives of herding men
, admire so much as they then honoured Œdipus, who had banished from the realm the baneful pest that made men her prey.
LES SEPT CONTRE THÈBES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES SEPT CONTRE THÈBES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 758 focus
elle en soulève une autre, trois fois
plus puissante, qui gronde et bouillonne autour de l'étrave de notre cité. Entre elle et nous ne s'étend d'autre défense que l'épaisseur d'un médiocre rempart ; et j'ai peur que
Thèbes ne succombe avec ses rois 1 .
Car voici que s'achève le douloureux règlement des imprécations d'autrefois. Les misérables voient
les désastres passer
et de l'agora populeuse comme était
révéré Œdipe, depuis qu'il avait délivré cette terre du monstre qui lui ravissait ses hommes ?
The Seven Chiefs against Thebes (OCR draft) Experimental (The Seven Chiefs against Thebes. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 758 focus
The dreadful curſe pronounc'd of old
To vengeance rouſes ruthless hate;
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And ſlaughter, ranging uncontrol'd,
Purſues the hideous work of fate.
Wreck'd in the ſtorm the great, the brave, the wise
Are ſunk beneath the roaring tide.
Such was the chief, this city's pride,
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Dear to each God in yon' bright ſkies,
Whoſe prudence took our dread away,
The rav'ning monſter gorg'd with human prey,
Where now the chief? His glories where?
Fall'n, fall'n. From the polluted bed
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Indignant madness, wild deſpair,
And agonizing grief ſucceed.
The light of Heav'n, himſelf, his ſons abhor'd,
Darkling he feeds his gloomy rage,
Bids them, with many' a curſe, engage,
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And part their empire with the ſword.
That curſe now holds its unmov'd ſtate,
The furious fiend charg'd with the work of fate.
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.) — 758 focus
Un estuare di sciagure, simile
ad un mar, li sospinge. Un flutto piomba,
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s'erge un altro, con triplice
artiglio: un terzo avvolge con gran romba
della città la poppa. A schermo tendesi
poco la torre entro l'immensità.
Ond'io nel cuore trepido
850
che coi suoi re sprofondi la città.
4 Strofe IV
Esito avran per essi le molteplici
imprecazioni avite: e poi che giunsero,
i rovinosi guai tardi dileguano.
Allor che aggrava troppa
855
dovizia il legno, debbono
lunge scagliarla i nauti da la poppa.
4 Antistrofe IV
Or, qual mortale mai tanto onorarono
i Numi, o quelli che partecipavano
le sacre are di Tebe, o le molteplici
860
umane stirpi, quanto
Edipo, che fe' libera
la patria sua dall'omicida incanto?
5 Strofe V
Aeschylus, Septem ad Thebas: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Septem ad Thebas: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 758 focus
Quemadmodum mala fluctus marinus ducit,
Hoc quidem proftrat, aliud tollit
720
Tridente, ille uerò circa puppim
Vrbis ſtrepitum habet, ſubſidium inter nos:
Paulo post contendit, nempe amplitudine turris...
Vereor ne cum regibus urbs pereat.
Adimpletæ funt olim prolata execrationes,
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Graues permutationes:pernicies,
Que immittitur, non præteribit.
Summam iacturam fert
Virorum clarorum beatitudo ualde magna.
Aliquem uirorum enim tantum admirati ſunt
730
Dij & incolæ urbis,
Vita mortalium altrix
Tantum tunc Oedipoda honorauit, letiferam
Parcam expellentem ex regione,
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.) — 758 focus
And now the waxing surge, the wave of fate,
Rolls on them, triply great—
One billow sinks, the next towers, high and dark,
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Above our city's bark—
Only the narrow barrier of the wall
Totters, as soon to fall;
And, if our chieftains in the storm go down,
What chance can save the town?
775
Curses, inherited from long ago,
Bring heavy freight of woe:
Rich stores of merchandise o'erload the deck,
Near, nearer comes the wreck—
And all is lost, cast out upon the wave,
780
Floating, with none to save!
Whom did the gods, whom did the chief of men,
Whom did each citizen
In crowded concourse, in such honour hold,
As Oedipus of old,
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When the grim fiend, that fed on human prey,
He took from us away?
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.) — 758 focus
Ein Meer, wälzt er des Leides Flut heran;
Da sinkt sie, da thürmt sie sich dreifach,
Schwillt, bis sie zuleht um der Stadt
Steuerbord emporschlägt.
Im Mittel schirmt nur kurze Frist
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Uns im Kampfe die Mauer.
Ich fürchte, zugleich mit den Herrschern
Fällt die Stadt im Sturme.
Vierte Strophe.
Denn, ach! jetzt reift der altverhängte Fluch,
Ja, graunvoll erfüllt er sich:
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Der Sturm, der aufsteigt, zieht nicht spurlos hin.
Vom Bord hinab versinkt das Glück
Der erfindsamen Menschen,
Wenn es zu sehr sich häufte.
Vierte Gegenstrophe.
Denn wer ward so von Göttern hochgeehrt,
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Von Mitbürgern und dem Volk,
Das reichgesegnet blüht' in stolzem Glück,
Als Oedipus in jener Zeit,
Da die Brut er vertilgte,
Räuberin tapf'rer Männer?
750
Fünfte Strophe.

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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ἐπεὶ δ᾽ ἀρτίφρων:
ἐπεὶ δ᾽ ἀρτίφρων. γρ. δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἔμφρων
ex Par. B. Faelsius affert.
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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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οθνεῖοι (für das handschrift- liche θεοὶ καὶ) ξυνέστιοι wie Plat. Prot. S. 316C καὶ οἰκείων καὶ ὀθ νείων, die zur Familie und die nicht zur Familie gehören. λεος ὁ (so Dindorf für πόλεως) που λυβατός (so Blomfield für πολύβοτος nach dem Schol. ὁ ὑπὸ πολλῶν ἐμ- βατευόμενος ἀνδρῶν) τ' ἀγὼν (30 Weil für αἰών) βροτῶν, der viel- betretene Versammlungsplatz der Leute oder der von vielen Leuten besuchte Marktplatz der Stadt. Vgl. Schol. zu Hom. Q 1 παρὰ Βοιω- τοῖς ἀγὼν ἡ ἀγορά· ὅθεν καὶ ἀγω νίους θεοὺς Αἰσχύλους τοὺς ἀγο- ραίους.