Sophocles Trachiniae 1046

ed. Lewis Campbell

πλευραῖσι γὰρ προσμαχθὲν ἐκ μὲν ἐσχάτας

Trachiniae. Sophocles. ed. Lewis Campbell. Oxford. 1879.

Current edition Experimental

Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) (Greek) (Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879))

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Translations (1)
German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review)) — 1044 focus
Mit Schaudern hör' ich, welche Qual, o Freundinnen,
Den König (welchen Helden, ach!) grimmvoll bestürmt.

Commentary

Commentary (R. C. Jebb) (OCR draft) (Commentary (R. C. Jebb))

mvp-comment-536-1 ὦ πολλὰ δὴ 1

mvp-comment-536-2 Cicero's version is essentially that of an orator; the true test for it would be declamation. But even a reader can feel its sonorous vigour, and its Roman gravity; Cicero succeeds as Lord Derby succeeded in much of the Iliad. The rendering of the Greek is very free, sometimes inadequate, but always manly, and highly terse; indeed, the 57 lines of the original become 45; in one place, eleven verses (1079—1089) are reduced to four (vv. 30—33).

mvp-comment-536-3 θερμὰ 2

mvp-comment-536-4 κοὐ λόγῳ κακὰ 3 θερμά 4 οὐ λόγῳ 5

mvp-comment-536-5 The MS. reading, καὶ λόγῳ κακὰ 6