Sophocles Antigone 251

τροχοῖσιν, ἀλλ᾽ ἄσημος οὑργάτης τις ἦν.

Antigone. Sophocles. Paris, France. 1858.

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Editions (11)
Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 251 focus
ὁ μὲν γὰρ ἠφάνιστο, τυμβήρης μὲν οὔ,
Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 251 focus
ὅπως δ᾽ ὁ πρῶτος ἡμὶν ἡμεροσκόπος
Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879)) — 251 focus
καὶ χέρσος, ἀρρὼξ οὐδ᾽ ἐπημαξευμένη
Greek (A. Colonna, 1978) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Colonna, 1978)) — 251 focus
καὶ χέρσος, ἀρρὼξ οὐδ᾽ ἐπημαξευμένη
Greek (A. Dain, 1955) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Dain, 1955)) — 251.mvp-line-251 focus
καὶ χέρσος, ἀρρὼξ οὐδ’ ἐπημαξευμένη
Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979)) — 251 focus
καὶ χέρσος, ἀρρὼξ οὐδ᾽ ἐπημαξευμένη
Greek (G. Hermann, 1830) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (G. Hermann, 1830)) — 251 focus
καὶ χέρσος, ἀῤῥωὼξ οὐδ᾽ ἐπημαξευμένη
Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906)) — 251 focus
καὶ χέρσος, ἀρρὼξ οὐδ᾽ ἐπημαξευμένη
Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924)) — 251.mvp-line-251 focus
καὶ χέρσος, ἀρρὼξ οὐδ᾽ ἐπημαξευμένη
Antigone (OCR draft) Experimental (Antigone) — 251 focus
καὶ χέρσος, ἀρρὼξ οὐδʼ ἐπημαξευμένη
Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949)) — 251 focus
καὶ χέρσος, ἀρρὼξ οὐδ᾽ ἐπημαξευμένη
Translations (10)
German (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 251 focus
BOTE.
Selbst that er's, grollend seinem Vater ob des Mords.
1120
Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921)) — 251 focus
CORO
No sé; porque a mí, el demasiado silencio me parece compañero de algo grave, lo mismo que el inmoderado clamor.
Latin (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Latin (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 251 focus
Nuntius
At mox domum ingressus comperiam, num quid etiam cohibendum clam tegat animo irato: quippe bene dicis; etenim haud sine periculo est nimium silentium.
English (Lewis Campbell, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Lewis Campbell, 1906)) — 251 focus
CH
1270
Alas for him who sees the right too late!
1270
German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review)) — 237 focus
Was ist's, warum befiel dich solche Bangigkeit?
English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759)) — 251 focus
Creon
1261
Ah me ! What deadly woes from the bad mind
Perpetual flow. Thus in one wretched house
Have you beheld the slayer and the slain !
O fatal counsels ! O unhappy son !
Thus with thy youthful bride to sink in death ;
Thou diest, my child, and I alone have killed thee !
Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889)) — 251 focus
EL MENSAJERO
1155 Habitantes del palacio de Cadmo y de Anfion, á ningún ser viviente se puede considerar como dichoso ni como desgraciado, mientras existe; porque sin cesar la voluble Fortuna nos levanta ó nos abate, nos envía la prosperidad ó nos sume en la desgracia, sin que haya adivino que pueda leexnos lo porvenir por lo presente. Creonte era, á mi juicio, digno ha poco de ser envidiado; él había librado de sus enemigos á esta tierra de Cadmo; él reinaba prósperamente como señor absoluto del pais; una prole generosa aumentaba su gloria... hoy todo ha desaparecido. Que el hombre cuando picrde la dicha, ante mis ojos ya no vive; para mi es un cadáver que respira. En vano posees en tu palacio inmensos tesoros; el regio fausto en vano te circunda. Si has perdido la alegría, todo lo demás, comparado con ella, es menos que humo, menos que vana sombra.
German (F. Hölderlin, 1804) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (F. Hölderlin, 1804)) — 251 focus
BOTE
O Herr! wie hast du schon und wie empfängst du.
Das in den Händen trägst du, das. Unddasim Haufs’
1335
Auch das Unglük znsehen musst du kommen.
English (Sir Richard Jebb1, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb1, 1904)) — 251 focus
Chorus
Lo, yonder the king himself draws near, bearing that which tells too clear a tale,—the work of no 1260 stranger’s madness,—if we may say it,—-but of his own misdecds. 1
English (Sir Richard Jebb2, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb2, 1904)) — 332-380 focus

Commentary

Commentary (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) (Commentary (Lewis Campbell, 1879)) focus

223-330. mvp-comment-136-1 The half-comic or rustic character of the watchman in this play is an extension of the common character of the messenger, whose natural rudeness of speech and thought brings into greater prominence the horror or pathos of the events he describes. The grotesqueness disappears when he speaks of the action of Antigone in 407-440. The employment of this artifice by Sophocles arises from the same motive to which Shakespeare gave a far wider range in such creations as the gravediggers in Hamlet, and the rural fellow in Antony and Cleopatra. The Messenger in the Trachiniae, the Corinthian in the Oedipus Tyrannus, Menelaus in the Ajax, the pretended Shipmaster in the Philoctetes, afford the same sort of contrast to the more tragic personages: and the superstition of the Coloniatae may be compared with the cowardice of the Phrygian slave in the Orestes of Euripides.

223-330. mvp-comment-136-2 The vulgarity of the common-place Athenian of the fifth century в.с. takes the form of misplaced subtlety of wit. Cp. Shak. Hamlet, 5. 1 ,

We must speak by the card, or equivocation will undo us. The age is grown so picked, that the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier, he galls his kibe.

251. mvp-comment-155-1 ἀρρώξ .. τροχοῖσιν Unbroken, and with no mark of wheels. ἐπημαξευμένη τροχοῖσιν] Lit. Carted over with wheels.' Essay on Language p. 88, note.