ἄληθες;
ἀλλ᾽ οὐ, τόνδ᾽ Ὄλυμπον, ἴσθ᾽, ὅτι
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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)) — 755 focus
αἰτουμένη που τεύξεται τὸ μὴ θανεῖν,
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Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 755 focus
τοὐμὸν προσόψει κρᾶτ᾽ ἐν ὀφθαλμοῖς ὁρῶν,
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Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879)) — 755 focus
εἰ μὴ πατὴρ ἦσθ', εἶπον ἄν σ᾽ οὐκ εὖ φρονεῖν.
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Greek (A. Colonna, 1978) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Colonna, 1978)) — 755 focus
εἰ μὴ πατὴρ ἦσθ᾽, εἶπον ἄν σ᾽ οὐκ εὖ φρονεῖν.
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Greek (A. Dain, 1955) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Dain, 1955)) — 755.mvp-line-748 focus
εἰ μὴ πατὴρ ἦσθ’, εἶπον ἄν σ’ οὐκ εὖ φρονεῖν.
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Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979)) — 755 focus
εἰ μὴ πατὴρ ἦσθ', εἶπον ἄν σ᾽ οὐκ εὖ φρονεῖν.
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Greek (G. Hermann, 1830) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (G. Hermann, 1830)) — 755 focus
χαίρων ἐπὶ ψόγοισι δεννάσεις ἐμέ.
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Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906)) — 755 focus
εἰ μὴ πατὴρ ἦσθ᾽, εἶπον ἄν σ᾽ οὐκ εὖ φρονεῖν.
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Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924)) — 755.mvp-line-748 focus
εἰ μὴ πατὴρ ἦσθ᾽, εἶπον ἄν σ᾽ οὐκ εὖ φρονεῖν.
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Antigone (OCR draft) Experimental (Antigone) — 755 focus
εἰ μὴ πατὴρ ἦσθʼ, εἶπον ἄν σʼ οὐκ εὖ φρονεῖν.
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Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949)) — 755 focus
εἰ μὴ πατὴρ ἦσθ᾽, εἶπον ἄν σ᾽ οὐκ εὖ φρονεῖν.
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Translations (2)
German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review)) — 758 focus
Wahrhaftig? Bei'm Olympos, nicht zur Freude dir,
Das sei versichert, höhnst du mich mit frechem Wort.
(zu den Begleitern:)
Führt her das Scheusal, daß sie gleich im Angesicht
Des Bräutigams an seiner Seite sterbe hier!.
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Wahrhaftig? Bei'm Olympos, nicht zur Freude dir,
Das sei versichert, höhnst du mich mit frechem Wort.
Führt her das Scheusal, daß sie gleich im Angesicht
Des Bräutigams an seiner Seite sterbe hier!.
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Hämon.
Nie soll sie wahrlich, wähne das doch nimmermehr,
An meiner Seite sterben, noch wirst du hinfort
Mich je mit Augen wiederseh'n: dann rase nur
Vor deinen Freunden, welchen dies gefallen mag!
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Kreon. Der Chor.
Nie soll sie wahrlich, wähne das doch nimmermehr,
An meiner Seite sterben, noch wirst du hinfort
Mich je mit Augen wiederseh'n: dann rase nur
Vor deinen Freunden, welchen dies gefallen mag!
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Der Chor.
Der Mann, o König, eilte rasch im Zorne fort:
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Wohl Schweres brütet schmerzempört so junger Sinn.
(ab.)
Der Mann, o König, eilte rasch im Zorne fort:
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Wohl Schweres brütet schmerzempört so junger Sinn.
Kreon.
Er geh' und thue, sinne mehr als Menschliches;
Doch diese Jungfrau'n soll er nicht dem Tod entziehn.
Er geh' und thue, sinne mehr als Menschliches;
Doch diese Jungfrau'n soll er nicht dem Tod entziehn.
Der Chor.
Den Beiden also hast du gar den Tod bestimmt?
Den Beiden also hast du gar den Tod bestimmt?
Kreon.
Der nicht, die Nichts verbrochen. Wohl ermahnst du mich.
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Der nicht, die Nichts verbrochen. Wohl ermahnst du mich.
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Der Chor.
Und welche Todesstrafe denkst du jener zu?
Und welche Todesstrafe denkst du jener zu?
Kreon.
Wo keines Menschen Tritte geh'n, am öden Ort,
Berg' ich in tiefem Felsengrab die Lebende,
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An Speise nur darreichend, was die Sühne heischt,
Daß vor Befleckung sicher sei die ganze Stadt.
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Und dort zum Gotte, welchen sie allein verehrt,
Zum Hades flehend, mag sie wohl dem Tod entgeh'n;
Wo nicht, erkennt sie endlich doch, daß unbelohnt
Sich mühe, wer verehre, was im Hades ist.
(ab in den Palast. Der Chor bleibt allein zurück.)
Erste Strophe.
Wo keines Menschen Tritte geh'n, am öden Ort,
Berg' ich in tiefem Felsengrab die Lebende,
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An Speise nur darreichend, was die Sühne heischt,
Daß vor Befleckung sicher sei die ganze Stadt.
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Und dort zum Gotte, welchen sie allein verehrt,
Zum Hades flehend, mag sie wohl dem Tod entgeh'n;
Wo nicht, erkennt sie endlich doch, daß unbelohnt
Sich mühe, wer verehre, was im Hades ist.
Der Chor.
English (Sir Richard Jebb2, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb2, 1904)) — 781-805 focus
Chorus
Love, the unconquered in battle, Love, you who descend upon riches, and watch the night through on a girl’s soft cheek,
you roam over the sea and among the homes of men in the wilds. Neither can any immortal escape you,
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nor any man whose life lasts for a day. He who has known you is driven to madness.
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Love, the unconquered in battle, Love, you who descend upon riches, and watch the night through on a girl’s soft cheek,
you roam over the sea and among the homes of men in the wilds. Neither can any immortal escape you,
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nor any man whose life lasts for a day. He who has known you is driven to madness.
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Chorus
You seize the minds of just men and drag them to injustice, to their ruin. You it is who have incited this conflict of men whose flesh and blood are one.
But victory belongs to radiant Desire swelling from the eyes of the sweet-bedded bride. Desire sits enthroned in power beside the mighty laws.
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For in all this divine Aphrodite plays her irresistible game.
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You seize the minds of just men and drag them to injustice, to their ruin. You it is who have incited this conflict of men whose flesh and blood are one.
But victory belongs to radiant Desire swelling from the eyes of the sweet-bedded bride. Desire sits enthroned in power beside the mighty laws.
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For in all this divine Aphrodite plays her irresistible game.
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Enter Antigone under guard from the palace.
Chorus
But now, witnessing this, I too am carried beyond the bounds of loyalty. The power fails me to keep back my streaming tears any longer, when I see Antigone making her way to the chamber where all are laid to rest,
now her bridal chamber.
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But now, witnessing this, I too am carried beyond the bounds of loyalty. The power fails me to keep back my streaming tears any longer, when I see Antigone making her way to the chamber where all are laid to rest,
now her bridal chamber.
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Commentary
Commentary (R. C. Jebb) (OCR draft) (Commentary (R. C. Jebb))
Commentary (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) (Commentary (Lewis Campbell, 1879)) focus
446. mvp-comment-256-1 μήκος Adverbial, cp. O. С. 92, κέρδη μὲν οἰκήσαντα τοῖς δεδεγμένοις.
446. mvp-comment-256-2 'Tell us, no long tale, but briefly, knew you of the edict that forbade this deed? I knew; 'twas plain enough. How could I fail to know? And were you, then, so hardy as to transgress our law? That edict came not to me from the mouth of Zeus, nor from the Right, whose throne is with the Gods below. They also have appointed unto men a law. Methought your edict could not so prevail, as that a mortal should overleap the silent irrefragable ordinances of heaven. Their life is not of to-day or yesterday. They are eternal. None knoweth of a time when they began. I feared not so the mind of any man, as to incur before the Gods the penalty of that law. I knew, forsooth, without your edict, that I was to die. And if I am to die before the time, I count it gain. For he must surely gain by death who lives, as I do, midst abounding woes. And so for me to meet this doom is a grief I reck not of. If I had borne to leave unburied the corpse, fallen in carnage, of my mother's son, that had been a grief to me, but this is no grief. And if I seem to you to be now doing foolishly, it comes to this;-I am condemned of folly by a fool.'
447. mvp-comment-257-1 τὰ κηρυχθέντα The proclamation made. Cobet's conjecture ᾔδησθα κηρυχθέντα (Νov. Lect. 1858. p. 215), while restoring the recognised Attic form, is unobjectionable in point of syntax. But the use of the article in pointing to his own decree is characteristic of Creon, and if ἠείδης is retained in the Iliad, 22. 280, why not ᾔδης in Tragedy?