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    Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes (ed. Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph.D.)

    Editions and translations: Greek (ed. Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph.D.) | English (ed. Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph. D.)
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    Eteoklês
    Kadmou politai, chrê legein ta kairia
    hostis+ phulassei+ pragos+ en prumnêi+ poleôs+
    oiaka+ nômôn++, blephara+ mê koimôn+ hupnôi+.
    ei men gar eu praxaimen, aitia theou:
    5
    ei d' auth', ho mê genoito, sumphora tuchoi,
    Eteokleês an heis polus kata ptolin
    humnoith' hup' astôn phroimiois polurrothois
    oimôgmasin th', hôn Zeus alexêtêrios
    epônumos genoito Kadmeiôn polei.
    10

    humas de chrê nun, kai ton elleipont' eti
    hêbês akmaias kai ton exêbon chronôi,
    blastêmon aldainonta sômatos polun,
    hôran t' echonth' hekaston hôste sumprepes,
    polei t' arêgein kai theôn enchôriôn
    15
    bômoisi, timas mê 'xaleiphthênai pote:
    teknois te, Gêi te mêtri, philtatêi trophôi:
    hê gar neous herpontas eumenei pedôi,
    hapanta pandokousa paideias otlon,
    ethrepsat' oikêtêras aspidêphorous
    20
    pistous hopôs genoisthe pros chreos tode.
    kai nun men es tod' êmar eu rhepei theos:
    chronon gar êdê tonde purgêroumenois
    kalôs ta pleiô polemos ek theôn kurei.
    nun d' hôs ho mantis phêsin, oiônôn botêr,
    25
    en ôsi+ nômôn kai phresin, puros+ dicha+,
    chrêstêrious+ ornithas+ apseudei+ technêi+:
    houtos toiônde despotês manteumatôn
    legei megistên prosbolên Achaiida
    nuktêgoreisthai kapibouleusein polei.
    30
    all' es t' epalxeis kai pulas purgômatôn
    hormasthe pantes, sousthe sun panteuchiai,
    plêroute thôrakeia, kapi selmasin
    purgôn stathête, kai pulôn ep' exodois
    mimnontes eu tharseite, mêd' epêludôn
    35
    tarbeit' agan homilon: eu telei theos.

    skopous de kagô kai katoptêras stratou
    epempsa, tous pepoitha mê matan hodôi:
    kai tônd' akousas ou ti mê lêphthô dolôi.

    There are a total of 12 comments on and cross references to this page.

    Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus:
    * [720-1043: Second episode]

    Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Antigone:
    * [162-210]

    Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Ajax:
    *

    Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Electra:
    * [251-471]

    Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Philoctetes:
    * [219-675]

    Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Trachiniae:
    * [1-93]

    Cross references from Walter Leaf, Commentary on the Iliad (1900):
    5, 233 [Book 5 (E)]

    Cross references from William Watson Goodwin, Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb:
    295 [Section IV: ou mê with the Subjunctive and the Future Indicative.]

    Cross references from Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, Syntax of Classical Greek:
    36 [Adjectives]

    Cross references from Sir Richard C. Jebb, Selections from the Attic Orators:
    Andocides, 2, 12 [Peri tês heautou kathodou]

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    This text is based on the following book(s):
    Aeschylus. Aeschylus, with an English translation by Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph. D. in two volumes. 1.Seven Against Thebes. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1926.
    OCLC: 13109528
    ISBN: 0674991605

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