Sophocles Antigone 253

δείκνυσι, πᾶσι θαῦμα δυσχερὲς παρῆν.

Antigone. Sophocles. Paris, France. 1858.

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Greek (L. Benloew, 1858) (OCR draft) (Greek) (Greek (L. Benloew, 1858))

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Editions (11)
Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 253 focus
σημεῖα δ᾽ οὔτε θηρὸς οὔτε του κυνῶν
Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 253 focus
ὁ μὲν γὰρ ἠφάνιστο, τυμβήρης μὲν οὐ,
Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879)) — 253 focus
ὅπως δ᾽ ὁ πρῶτος ἡμὶν ἡμεροσκόπος
Greek (A. Colonna, 1978) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Colonna, 1978)) — 253 focus
ὅπως δ᾽ ὁ πρῶτος ἡμὶν ἡμεροσκόπος
Greek (A. Dain, 1955) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Dain, 1955)) — 253.mvp-line-253 focus
ὅπως δ’ ὁ πρῶτος ἡμὶν ἡμεροσκόπος
Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979)) — 253 focus
ὅπως δ᾽ ὁ πρῶτος ἡμὶν ἡμεροσκόπος
Greek (G. Hermann, 1830) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (G. Hermann, 1830)) — 253 focus
ὅπως δ᾽ ὁ πρῶτος ἧμιν ἡμεροσκόπος
Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906)) — 253 focus
ὅπως δ᾽ ὁ πρῶτος ἡμὶν ἡμεροσκόπος
Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924)) — 253.mvp-line-253 focus
ὅπως δ᾽ ὁ πρῶτος ἡμὶν ἡμεροσκόπος
Antigone (OCR draft) Experimental (Antigone) — 253 focus
ὅπως δʼ ὁ πρῶτος ἡμὶν ἡμεροσκόπος
Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949)) — 253 focus
ὅπως δ᾽ ὁ πρῶτος ἡμὶν ἡμεροσκόπος
Translations (10)
German (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 253 focus
BOTE.
Da dieses also, fordert Rath das Übrige.
Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921)) — 253 focus
CORO
1257 Pues he ahi ahí al mismo rey, que viene llevando en sus manos la señal evidente, no de ajena culpa, si me es permitido hablar así, sino de su propio pecado.
Latin (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Latin (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 253 focus
Creon
1261 O dementiae peccata dura, mortifera! O qui cognatos cernitis occisores et occisos! Heu infelicem consiliorum meorum exitum!. Heu, nate, rate, iuvenis, immaturo fato vae! extinctus , mihi ereptus es, mea, non tua, perditus vecordia.
English (Lewis Campbell, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Lewis Campbell, 1906)) — 253 focus
2ND MESS
Enter 2nd Messenger . 1278
My lord and master. Thou art master here
Of nought but sorrows. One within thine arms
Thou bear’st with thee, and in thy palace hall
Thou hast possession of another grief,
Which soon thou shalt behold.
1280
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)) — 253 focus
Creon
It doth,
1 know it well, unhappy as I am ;
For oh ! the god this heavy weight of woe
Hath cast upon me, and his fiercest wrath
Torments me now, changing my joyful state
To keenest anguish. Oh ! the fruitless toils
1275
Of wretched mortals !
Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889)) — 253 focus
EL MENSAJERO
¡Han muerto!... Y los que viven son la causa de su muerte.
German (F. Hölderlin, 1804) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (F. Hölderlin, 1804)) — 253 focus
BOTE
Die Frau ist todt; ganz Mutter dieses Todten.
Noch krümmt sie sich von neugeschlagnen Schlägen.
English (Sir Richard Jebb1, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb1, 1904)) — 253 focus
Chorus
2 1270 1270 Ah me, how all too late thou seemest to see the right !
English (Sir Richard Jebb2, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb2, 1904)) — 332-380 focus

Commentary

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

mvp-comment-138-1 It is still the early morning of the day on which the drama opens. The Argives having fled in the night, Creon had published his edict shortly before dawn. Antigone had done her deed in the short interval between the publication of the edict and the beginning of the watch over the corpse. ὁ πρῶτος ἡμεροσκόπος 1 ἡμεροσκ. 2

mvp-comment-138-2 δείκνυσι … παρῆν 3

mvp-comment-138-3 δυσχερές 4

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.

253. mvp-comment-157-1 ὁ πρῶτος .. ἡμεροσκόπος Our first look-out-man for the day. ἡμεροσκόπος in Xen. Hell. 1. 1. 2, is a watchman who stands at his post at daybreak. Cp. ἡμεροφύλαξ, ib. 7. 2. 6, 7. Antigone's act preceded the setting of this watch.