Aeschylus, Septem Contra Thebas 780–7

The starting point of this brief discussion is the emendation in line 782 of Aeschylus' Septem proposed by M.L. West in his 1990 Teubner edition. In the fifth strophe of the second stasimon, the chorus recollects the misfortunes that struck Oedipus when he finally discovered the truth about his marriage. This severely corrupt passage, whose original meaning was lost at an early stage of transmission, runs as follows: ἐπεὶ δ' ἀρτίφρων ἐγένετο [στρ. ε] μέλεος ἀθλίων γάμων, ἐπ' ἄλγει δυσφορῶν 780 μαινομέναι κραδίαι δίδυμα κάκ' ἐτέλεσεν πατροφόνωι χερὶ τῶν †κρεισσοτέκνων δ' ὀμμάτων† ἐπλάγχθη. τέκνοις δ' †ἀραίας† ἐφῆκεν [ἀντ. ε] ἐπίκοτος τροφᾶς, αἰαί, 786 πικρογλώσσους ἀράς. 782 δίδυμ' ἃ West 784 κρεισσοτέκνων M 2 PKQ 1 Tr κρείσσω τέκνων rell. κυρσοτέκνων Herm. δ' ὀμμάτων HaQTr δ' ἀπ ̓ ὀμμάτων rell. δωμάτων Schütz χρυσοτέχνων πωμάτων Verrall κρεισσοτέρων γνωμάτων West 785 ἀθλίας Prien ἀρχαίας Wil. But when the miserable man became aware of his wretched marriage, vexed with pain in his frenzied heart, he committed double evil: with his parricidal hand †he wandered from his eyes, dearer than children†. But upon his sons he put bitter-tongued curses, angry on account of his †accursed† sustenance

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