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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 (6)
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ Θήβας Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922.) — 1011-1084 focus
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 1011 focus
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 1011 focus
ΕΠΤΑ ΕΠΙ θΗΒΑΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΕΠΤΑ ΕΠΙ θΗΒΑΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 1011 focus
Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 1011 focus
δοκοῦντα καὶ δόξαντ᾽ ἀπαγγέλλειν με χρὴ
δήμου προβούλοις τῆσδε Καδμείας πόλεως.
Ἐτεοκλέα μὲν τόνδ᾽ ἐπ᾽ εὐνοίᾳ χθονὸς
θάπτειν ἔδοξε γῆς φίλαις κατασκαφαῖς·
στέγων γὰρ ἐχθροὺς θάνατον εἵλετ᾽ ἐν πόλει,
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ἱερῶν πατρῴων ὅσιος ὢν μομφῆς ἄτερ
τέθνηκεν οὗπερ τοῖς νέοις θνῄσκειν καλόν.
Aeschyli Septem contra Thebas (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Septem contra Thebas. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 1011 focus
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.)) — 1011-1080 focus
The Seven against Thebes. (OCR draft) Experimental (The Seven against Thebes.. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 1011 focus
'Tis my duty to announce the good pleasure and the decree of the senators of the people of this city of Cadmus. It is resolved to bury this body of Eteocles for his attachment to his country, with the dear interment in earth! for in repelling our foes he met death in the city, and being pure in respect to the sacred rites of his country, blameless hath he fallen where 'tis glorious for the young to fall; thus, indeed, hath it been commissioned me to announce concerning this corpse: But [it has been decreed] to cast out unburied, a prey for dogs, this the corpse of his brother Polynices, inasmuch as he would have been the overturner of the land of Cadmus, if some one of the gods had not stood in opposition to his spear: and even now that he is dead, he will lie under the guilt of pollution with the gods of his country, whom he having dishonoured was for taking the city by bringing against it a foreign host. So it is resolved that he, having been buried dishonourably by winged fowls, should receive his recompense, and that neither piling up by hands of the mound over his tomb should follow, nor any one honour him with shrill-voiced wailings, but that he be ungraced with a funeral at the hands of his friends. Such is the decree of the magistracy of the Cadmaeans.
LES SEPT CONTRE THÈBES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES SEPT CONTRE THÈBES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 1011 focus
The Seven Chiefs against Thebes (OCR draft) Experimental (The Seven Chiefs against Thebes. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 1011 focus
My office leads me to proclaim the mandate
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Of the great rulers of the Theban state.
Eteocles, for that he lov'd his country,
They have decreed with honour to inter.
To shield her from her foes he sought, he fell,
Her sacred rites rever'd, unstain'd with blame,
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Where glory calls the valiant youth to bleed,
He bled. Thus far of him am I bid say.
Of Polynices, that his corse shall lie
Cast out unburied, to the dogs a prey;
Because his spear, had not the Gods oppos'd,
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Threaten'd destruction to the lands of Thebes.
In death the vengeance of his country's Gods
Pursues him, for he scorn'd them, and presum'd
To lead a foreign host, and storm the town.
Be this then his reward, to lie expos'd
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To rav'nous birds, unhonour'd, of the rites t
That grace the dead, libations at the tomb,
The solemn strain, that 'midst the exequies
Breathes from the friendly voice of woe, depriv'd.
These are the mandates of the Theban rulers.
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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.) — 1011 focus
Ciò che decise ed ordina il senato
della città di Cadmo, annunciar devo.
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Onorato sepolcro Etèocle s'abbia,
che questa terra amò, che di sé schermo
facendole ai nemici, estinto cadde;
pio verso l'are avite, e senza biasimo,
morí dove morir bello è pei giovani.
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Tanto intorno a costui dire io vi debbo.
Ma il fratello di lui, ma il corpo spento
di Polinice, sia gettato fuori,
senza sepolcro, in preda ai cani: ch'egli
distrutta avrebbe la città di Cadmo,
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se alcun dei Numi non si fosse opposto
alla sua lancia. E dopo morto, ancora
accatterà dei patrî Numi l'ira:
ché li offendeva allor ch'ei, qui piombando,
con accozzate genti, la città
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espugnare voleva. Or si decreta
che senza onor, nel ventre degli alati
trovi sepolcro, ad espiare il fallo.
Né su la tomba sua libami cadano,
né degli acuti lai l'onori il sonito,
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né s'abbia il fregio delle amiche esequie.
Questo il senato dei Cadmei v'impone.
Aeschylus, Septem ad Thebas: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Septem ad Thebas: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 1011 focus
Quæ uisa funt & decreta, renunciare me oportet
Populi confiliarijs huius Cadmeæ urbis.
Eteoclem quidem hunc in beneuolentia terræ
Inhumare decretum eft,terre charis euerfionibus.
Odio babens enim hostes, mortem elegit pro urbe.
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Sanctus exiftens ſine reprehenſione ſanorum paternorum
Occubuit, quemadmodum iuuenibus pulchrum eſt mori.
Sic pro hoc miſſus eſt dicere.
Huius fratrem Polynicis cadauer
Foras eijcere, inhumatum prædam canibus,
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Tanqam deſtructorem Cadmee terre,
Nisi deorum aliquis impedimento fuerit hasta
Huius, fcelus etiam mortuus poſsidebit,
A dijs patrijs:quos inhonorans huc
Exercitum peregrinum ducens obſidebat urbem.
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Sic uifum à uolucribus auibus hunc
Sepultum turpè premium accipere,
Neq; ſequi mortualia manibus facta,
Neq; honorare acutis lamentationibus.
Dedecori eſse ab exclamatione amicorum
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Hec uiſa ſunt prefectis Cadmeorum.
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.) — 1011 focus
I bear command to tell to one and all
What hath approved itself and now is law,
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Ruled by the counsellors of Cadmus' town.
For this Eteocles, it is resolved
To lay him on his earth-bed, in this soil,
Not without care and kindly sepulture.
For why? he hated those who hated us,
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And, with all duties blamelessly performed
Unto the sacred ritual of his sires,
He met such end as gains our city's grace,—
With auspices that do ennoble death.
Such words I have in charge to speak of him:
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But of his brother Polynices, this—
Be he cast out unburied, for the dogs
To rend and tear: for he presumed to waste
The land of the Cadmeans, had not Heaven—
Some god of those who aid our fatherland—
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Opposed his onset, by his brother's spear,
To whom, tho' dead, shall consecration come!
Against him stood this wretch, and brought a horde
Of foreign foemen, to beset our town.
He therefore shall receive his recompense,
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Buried ignobly in the maw of kites—
No women-wailers to escort his corpse
Nor pile his tomb nor shrill his dirge anew—
Unhouselled, unattended, cast away!
So, for these brothers, doth our State ordain.
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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.) — 1011 focus
Ich muß verkünden, was beschließt und was beschloß
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Des Kadmosvolkes hoher Nath in dieser Stadt.
Eteokles soll als seines Landes treuer Freund
Ein Grab empfangen in der Erde theurem Schooß:
Am Thor die Feinde wehrend, bot er sich dem Tod;
Der Ahnen Heiligthümer fromm beschirmend, flel
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Er ohne Tadel, wie's dem Mann zu sterben ziemt.
Dies über ihn zu sagen, ist mir auferlegt.
Doch Polyneikes', seines Bruders, Leiche soll,
Ein Raub den Hunden, ohne Grab zur Stadt hinaus
Geworfen werden, weil er Kadmos' Land zerstört,
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Wenn nicht des Mannes Lanze sich ein Himmlischer
Entgegenstellte. Selbst im Tode bleibt er noch
Ein Fluch der Heimat Göttern, die der Freche schnöd
Entehrend, einbrach auf die Stadt mit fremdem Volk.
So nehm' er denn von räuberischer Vögel Brut
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Chrlos bestattet seinen Ehrenlohn dahin,
Und weder spende seinem Grab die fromme Hand,
Noch darf ein Klaglied schallend ihn verherrlichen,
Der Freunde keiner ehren ihn durch Grabgeleit!
So will's des Volkes hoher Nath in Kadmos' Stadt.
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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: 1885 correspondence corroborated by source Greek on this page. 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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νεκρὸν
in Vit. scriptum
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Schol. τὰ δόξαντα τοῖς προ- βούλοις ἀπαγγείλαί με χρή. Präsens ἀπαγγέλλειν weist darauf hin, daß der Herold sein bleiben- des Amt, nicht bloß einen vor- übergehenden Auftrag angeben will. Demnach wird δοκοῦντα καὶ δόξαντα frühere wie gegenwärtige Be- schlüsse", "nicht was der Rat des Volkes beschlossen hat und was als Beschluß feststeht" bedeuten. W. Headlam vermutet δόξαντα καὶ δόξοντ', Weil will die Worte um- stellen: δόξαντα καὶ δοκοῦντ᾽. Nach Aristot. Pol. VI 15 und VII 8 bezeichnete man mit πρόβουλοι den Rat in oligarchischen, mit βουλή den in demokratischen Staaten. Wie aus 1016f. hervorgeht, denkt sich der Dichter, daß dieser Rat nach dem Tode des Regenten provisorisch die Herrschaft ausübt, wie das Kollegium, welches vor der Herr- schaft der 400 in Athen die Ge- schäfte leitete, aus 10 πρόβουλοι bestand (Lys. XII 65, Aristot. Ath. pol. 29). Ebenso wird das Synedrion auf dem Isthmus, welches die vor- bereitenden Maßregeln für den Krieg gegen die Perser zu treffen hatte, von Herod. VII 172 πρόβουλοι τῆς Ἑλλάδος genannt.