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KREON.
Gegenstr. 1.

O weh!
1225
1284

O weh! nie versöhnlich Reich, Hades' Schlund,

Ha, du vernichtest mich! O des graunvollesten

Unheils Bote mir, welch Wort sprichst du aus?

Du giebst, ach! dem Todten noch Todesstofs!

O! was kündest du? welch neu Todesloos,
1230

ach ach, ach ach,

des Weibs sagst du mir, in Mord hingeschlachtet sie mein Gemahl!

Antigone. Sophocles. ed. August Boeckh. Leipzig. 1884.

Current edition Experimental

German (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) (German) (German (A. Boeckh, 1884))

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Editions (12)

Greek (L. Benloew, 1858) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (L. Benloew, 1858)) — 268 focus

λέγει τις εἷς, ὃς πάντας ἐς πέδον κάρα

Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 268 focus

πράξαιμεν. ἦν δ᾽ ὁ μῦθος, ὡς ἀνοιστέον

Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 268 focus

νεῦσαι φόβῳ προὔτρεψεν· οὐ γὰρ εἴχομεν

Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879)) — 268 focus

τέλος δ᾽, ὅτ᾽ οὐδὲν ἦν ἐρευνῶσιν πλέον,

Greek (A. Colonna, 1978) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Colonna, 1978)) — 268 focus

τέλος δ᾽ ὅτ᾽ οὐδὲν ἦν ἐρευνῶσιν πλέον,

Greek (A. Dain, 1955) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Dain, 1955)) — 268.mvp-line-268 focus

τέλος δ’ ὅτ’ οὐδὲν ἦν ἐρευνῶσιν πλέον,

Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979)) — 268 focus

τέλος δ᾽, ὅτ᾽ οὐδὲν ἦν ἐρευνῶσιν πλέον,

Greek (G. Hermann, 1830) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (G. Hermann, 1830)) — 268 focus

τέλος δ᾽, ὅτ᾽ οὐδὲν ἦν ἐρευνῶσιν πλέον,

Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906)) — 268 focus

τέλος δ᾽, ὅτ᾽ οὐδὲν ἦν ἐρευνῶσιν πλέον,

Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924)) — 268.mvp-line-268 focus

τέλος δ᾽ ὅτ᾽ οὐδὲν ἦν ἐρευνῶσιν πλέον,

Antigone (OCR draft) Experimental (Antigone) — 268 focus

τέλος δʼ ὅτʼ οὐδὲν ἦν ἐρευνῶσιν πλέον,

Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949)) — 268 focus

τέλος δ᾽ ὅτ᾽ οὐδὲν ἦν ἐρευνῶσιν πλέον,

Translations (9)

Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921)) — 268 focus

CREONTE

1317 ¡Ay de mí! No se impute nada de esto a otro hombre, porque ha sucedido por mi culpa. Pues yo, yo te maté, desdichado, yo; lo digo verdaderamente. ¡Oh siervos!, echadme a toda prisa; echadme fuera de aquí, que ya no soy nada.

Latin (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Latin (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 268 focus

Chorus

Bene mones, si quid in malis est boni.

English (Lewis Campbell, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Lewis Campbell, 1906)) — 268 focus

CR

All my desire was gathered in my prayer.

German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review)) — 278 focus

Schon lang, o König, überlegt mein Inneres,

Ob eine Gottheit diese That nicht angeregt.

Kreon.

Schweig', eh mich deine Rede gar mit Zorn erfüllt,
280

Daß du, der Alte, nicht zugleich als Thor erscheinst.

Denn unerträglich ist es, daß du sagen magst,

Die Götter trügen Sorge für den Todten dort.

Sie hätten, wie zu schöner That Verherrlichung,

Den Mann begraben, der mit Brand zu tilgen kam
285

Die säulumringten Tempel und der Gaben Schmuck,

Und ihre Fluren, ihr Gesez zu stürzen sann?

Wann sahst du Frevler je geehrt durch Götterhuld?

Nie wahrlich, nie! Doch lange murrten schon darum,

Ungern gehorsam, wider mich die Bürger hier,
290

Geheim die Häupter schüttelnd; ja, sie hielten nicht

Pflichttreu den Nacken unter'm Joch, wie's mir genügt.

Von ihnen wurden jene, sicher weiß ich das,

Durch Lohn verleitet und verübten diese That.

Denn wahrlich, nichts von Allem, was bei Menschen gilt,
295

Ist, wie das Geld, verderblich: dies mag Städte selbst

Zerstören, dies treibt Männer aus von Hof und Herd;

Dies unterweiset und verkehrt den edlen Sinn

Rechtschaff'ner Männer, nachzugeh'n ruchloser That,

Zeigt an die Wege böser List den Sterblichen,
300

Und bildet sie zu jedem gottverhaßten Werk.

Doch die für Lohn gedungen diese That vollbracht,

Erwirkten sich's nun endlich, daß sie Strafe trifft.

Ia, wenn noch irgend Ehre Zeus von mir empfängt,

So sei versichert, und mein Schwur betheur' es dir:
305

Wofern ihr nicht den Frevler, der den Todten dort

Bestattet, aufspürt und mir hier vor Augen stellt,

Genügt es nicht an eurem Tode nur, ihr sollt

Am Kreuze hängen, bis ihr offenbart die Schmach,

Auf daß ihr, wissend, wo Gewinn zu suchen sei,
310

Ihn künftig dort erhaschet und begreifen lernt,

Daß nicht in Allem nach Gewinn zu spähen frommt.

Denn mit dem Preis des Schlechten wirst du Mehrere

Unglücklich enden, als das Glück gewinnen seh'n.

Der Wächter.

English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759)) — 268 focus

Creon
1328

Quick let my last, my happiest hour appear !

Would it were come, the period of my woes !

Oh ! that I might not see another day !
1330

CiioR. Time must determine that : the present hour

Demands our rare ; the rest 1:>e left to heaven.

Oreon. But I have wished and prayed for 't.

Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889)) — 268 focus

CREONTE

1261 ¡Oh fatal error, cruel irreparable error de mis sentidos perturbados!... ¡Ah! vosotros los que contemplais á los miembros de una misma familia, los unos dando la muerte, cadáveres los otros... ¡Enfaustos consejos miosl... ¡hijo de mi corazón! has muerto en la flor de tu juventud... y yo, tu padre... ¡ay! ¡ay!... yo mismo he sido quien con su temeridad te ha asesinado.

German (F. Hölderlin, 1804) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (F. Hölderlin, 1804)) — 268 focus

KREON

Was ich gesaget, eben, das hab’ ich gewünschet.

English (Sir Richard Jebb1, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb1, 1904)) — 268 focus

Creon

1328 Oh, let it come, let it appear, that fairest of anv. 3. 1330 fates for me, that brings my last day,—aye, best fate of all! Oh, let it come, that I may never look upon to-morrow’s light.

English (Sir Richard Jebb2, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb2, 1904)) — 332-380 focus

Chorus

Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than man.

This power spans the sea, even when it surges white before the gales of the south-wind, and makes a path under swells that threaten to engulf him. Earth, too, the eldest of the gods, the immortal, the unwearied,
335

he wears away to his own ends, turning the soil with the offspring of horses as the plows weave to and fro year after year.
340

343

Chorus

The light-hearted tribe of birds

and the clans of wild beasts and the sea-brood of the deep he snares in the meshes of his twisted nets, and he leads them captive, very-skilled man. He masters by his arts
345

the beast who dwells in the wilds and roams the hills. He tames the shaggy-maned horse, putting the yoke upon its neck, and tames the tireless mountain bull.
350

354

Chorus

Speech and thought fast as the wind and the moods that give order to a city he has taught himself, and how to flee the arrows of the inhospitable frost under clear skies and the arrows of the storming rain.

He has resource for everything. Lacking resource in nothing he strides towards what must come. From Death alone he shall procure no escape, but from baffling diseases he has devised flights.
360

365

Chorus

Possessing resourceful skill, a subtlety beyond expectation he moves now to evil, now to good. When he honors the laws of the land and the justice of the gods to which he is bound by oath,
365

his city prospers. But banned from his city is he who, thanks to his rashness, couples with disgrace. Never may he share my home,
370

never think my thoughts, who does these things!
375

376

Enter the Guard, on the spectators’ left, leading in Antigone.

Chorus

What marvel sent by the gods is this?—I am bewildered! I know her. How can I deny that this girl is Antigone? O unhappy child

of your unhappy father, of Oedipus! What can this mean? What! Surely they are not bringing you captive for disobeying the King’s laws and being caught in lunacy?
380

Commentary

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

mvp-comment-742-1 σφε ¹

mvp-comment-742-2 στυγνόν ²

mvp-comment-743-1 οἷον ἔργον ³ τίνα νοῦν ἔσχες ⁴

mvp-comment-743-2 ἐν τῷ συμφορᾶς ⁵

mvp-comment-743-3 διεφθάρης ⁶

mvp-comment-744-1 ἱκέσιος ⁷

mvp-comment-744-2 ὄσσοισι ⁸

mvp-comment-744-3 παπτήνας ⁹

mvp-comment-745-1 πτύσας προσώπῳ ¹⁰

mvp-comment-746-1 διπλοῦς κνώδοντας ξίφους ¹¹ διπλοῦς κνώδοντας ¹²

mvp-comment-746-2 ἐκ δ’ ὁρμ. ¹³

mvp-comment-746-3 φυγαῖσιν ¹⁴

mvp-comment-746-4 Haemon, in his madness, meant to kill his father. He had harboured no such purpose before ( see on 752

); and his frantic impulse is instantly followed by violent remorse. Arist. ( Arist. Poet. 14 ) observes that it is not conducive to a properly tragic effect (

οὐ τραγικόν, ἀπαθές

) if a person contemplates a dreadful act, and then desists from it, in the light of sober thought or fuller knowledge:

διόπερ οὐδεὶς ποιεῖ ὁμοίως εἰ μὴ ὀλιγάκις

(such incidents in Tragedy are rare),

οἷον ἐν Ἀντιγόνῃ Κρέοντα ὁ Αἵμων

. It need not be assumed that Arist. meant to censure Sophocles; it is more natural to suppose that he cited the exception as one justified by the circumstances. But it should further be noticed that Aristotle was not accurate in taking this incident as the exception which illustrated his rule. For Haemon did not abandon his dreadful purpose; he was simply foiled by his father's flight. And then, in swift remorse, he actually did

τῶν ἀνηκέστων τι

mvp-comment-747-1 ὥσπερ εἶχ’ ¹⁵ ἐπενταθείς ¹⁶

mvp-comment-747-2 πλευραῖς ¹⁷

mvp-comment-747-3 μέσσον ¹⁸

mvp-comment-747-4 ἔγχος ¹⁹

mvp-comment-747-5 ἐς δ’ ὑγρὸν ἀγκῶν’ ²⁰

mvp-comment-748-1 φυσιῶν ²¹

mvp-comment-748-2 ῥοὴν ²²

mvp-comment-749-1 τέλη ²³

mvp-comment-749-2 ἔν γ’ Ἅιδου ²⁴ ἔν γ ²⁵ γε ²⁶ ἔν γε ²⁷

mvp-comment-750-1 δείξας … τὴν ἀβουλίαν ²⁸

mvp-comment-751-1 πρόσκειται ²⁹

mvp-comment-752-1 τί τοῦτ’ ἂν εἰκάς. ³⁰

mvp-comment-752-2 ἐσθλὸν ἢ κακόν ³¹

mvp-comment-753-1 τεθάμβηκ’ ³²

mvp-comment-753-2 βόσκομαι ³³

mvp-comment-754-1 γόους … ἀξιώσειν ³⁴

mvp-comment-754-2 ὑπὸ στέγης ³⁵

mvp-comment-755-1 προθήσειν ³⁶ στένειν ³⁷

mvp-comment-755-2 them’ by making a lament, after which her handmaids, sitting around her, will wail in chorus. Il. 24.746 (Andromache has bewailed Hector,)

ὡς ἔφατο κλαίουσ’· ἐπὶ δὲ στενάχοντο γυναῖκες. | τῇσιν δ’ αὖθ’ Ἑκάβη ἀδινοῦ ἐξῆρχε γόοιο

mvp-comment-756-1 γνώμης … οὐκ ἄπειρος ³⁸

mvp-comment-757-1 δ’ οὖν ³⁹ προσεῖναι ⁴⁰

mvp-comment-758-1 εἰσόμεσθα, μή τι … καλύπτει ⁴¹

mvp-comment-758-2 καὶ ⁴² κατάσχετον … καλύπτει ⁴³

mvp-comment-758-3 κατάσχετον ⁴⁴

mvp-comment-759-1 δόμους παραστείχοντες ⁴⁵

mvp-comment-760-1 καὶ μήν ⁴⁶

mvp-comment-760-2 ἐφήκει ⁴⁷

mvp-comment-761-1 μνῆμ ⁴⁸ ἐπίσημον ⁴⁹

mvp-comment-761-2 διὰ χειρός ⁵⁰

mvp-comment-762-1 εἰ θέμις εἰπεῖν ⁵¹ ἄτην ⁵² ἀλλοτρίαν ⁵³

mvp-comment-762-2 ἁμαρτών ⁵⁴

mvp-comment-763-1 This

κομμός

is composed of four strophes and four antistrophes, which correspond as follows. (1) 1st strophe 1261—1269=1st antistr. 1284—1292. (2) 2nd str. 1271—1277 =2nd ant. 1294—1300. (3) 3rd str. 1306—1311=3rd ant. 1328—1333. (4) 4th str. 1317—1325=4th ant. 1339— 1347.

mvp-comment-763-2 The lyric strophes and antistrophes are divided from each other by iambic trimeters, spoken by the Chorus or by the Messenger.—See Metrical Analysis.

mvp-comment-763-3 φρενῶν δυσφρόνων ⁵⁵

mvp-comment-763-4 στερεά ⁵⁶

mvp-comment-764-1 ὦ … βλέποντες ⁵⁷

mvp-comment-764-2 κτανόντας ⁵⁸ θανόντας ⁵⁹

mvp-comment-764-3 ἐμφυλίους ⁶⁰

mvp-comment-765-1 ἐμῶν ἄνολβα βουλευμάτων ⁶¹ ἄνολβα ⁶²

mvp-comment-766-1 νέος νέῳ ξυν μόρῳ ⁶³ νέῳ ⁶⁴

mvp-comment-767-1 ἀπελύθης ⁶⁵

mvp-comment-768-1 ἐμαῖς οὐδὲ σαῖσι ⁶⁶

mvp-comment-769-1 ἔχω μαθὼν ⁶⁷ με ⁶⁸ μέγα βάρος ἔχων ⁶⁹ ἐν δ’ ἐμῷ κάρᾳ ⁷⁰ ἔπαισε ⁷¹ με ⁷² κάρᾳ ⁷³

mvp-comment-769-2 ἐν δ’ ἔσεισεν ⁷⁴

mvp-comment-769-3 ἀγρίαις ὁδοῖς ⁷⁵

mvp-comment-770-1 λακπάτητον ⁷⁶ κ ⁷⁷ ξπ ⁷⁸ κ ⁷⁹

mvp-comment-770-2 ἀντρέπων ⁸⁰

mvp-comment-771-1 φεῦ φεῦ, ὦ ⁸¹

mvp-comment-771-2 πόνοι .. δύσπονοι ⁸²

mvp-comment-772-1 ὡς ἔχων τε καὶ κεκτημένος ⁸³ ἔχων ⁸⁴ κεκτημένος ⁸⁵

mvp-comment-773-1 πρὸ χειρῶν ⁸⁶

mvp-comment-773-2 τάδε ⁸⁷

mvp-comment-773-3 τὰ δ’ ἐν δόμοις ⁸⁸ τὰ μὲν … φέρων ⁸⁹ ἔοικας ἥκειν ⁹⁰ καὶ τάχ’ ὄψεσθαι ⁹¹

mvp-comment-773-4 Since τὰ δ’ ἐν δόμοις ⁹² ἥκειν καὶ ⁹³

mvp-comment-773-5 (

καὶ στᾶθι καὶ

)

εἴσιδε

. Others, indeed, take καὶ τάχα ⁹⁴

mvp-comment-774-1 τί δ’ ἔστιν ⁹⁵ ἦ ⁹⁶

mvp-comment-774-2 (2) Transposing αὖ ⁹⁷ ἤ ⁹⁸ ἦ ⁹⁹

mvp-comment-774-3 (3) Canter gave,

τί δ’ ἔστιν αὖ κάκιον ἐκ κακῶν ἔτι

; The change of

ἐκ

ἢ

would have been peculiarly easy before initial

(KAKIONEKAKON for KAKIONEKKAKON). For ἐκ ¹⁰⁰

mvp-comment-774-4 reading. The comparat. κάκιον ¹⁰¹

mvp-comment-775-1 παμμήτωρ ¹⁰²

mvp-comment-775-2 νεοτόμ ¹⁰³ ἄρτι ¹⁰⁴

mvp-comment-776-1 δυσκάθαρτος Ἅιδου λιμήν ¹⁰⁵ λιμήν ¹⁰⁶

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

1225. mvp-comment-693-1 Lamenting the ruin of his bridal, that was only to be found in death (τῆς κάτω).' λέχος] Bride.

1228. mvp-comment-694-1 τίνα νοῦν ἔσχες What design possessed you?

1229. mvp-comment-695-1 ἐν τῷ.. διεφθάρης At what point of calamity did you go mad? Cp. Hom. Il. 15. 128, μαινόμενε, φρένας ἠλέ, διέφθορας: Eur. Hell. 1192, λύπῃ σὰς διέφθαρσαι φρένας;

1231. mvp-comment-696-1 τόν is governed by πτύσας ('Abhorring,' i.e. expressing abhorrence of, cp. 1. 653) as well as by παπτήνας, ='Glaring wildly upon.' 1232. It is not clear whether Aristotle means to find fault with this when he says that Knowingly to intend evil, and not perform it, is at once abominable and without tragic interest;' διόπερ οὐδεὶς ποιεῖ ὁμοίως, εἰ μὴ ὀλιγάκις, οἷον ἐν Ἀντιγόνῃ τὸν Κρέοντα ὁ Αἵμων, Poet. 1453 b. But he clearly had not anticipated the refinement of the Scholiast and some modern critics, who think that Haemon only meditated suicide, and that his action is misunderstood by the messenger who reports the circumstance. Cp. supr. 751.

1231. mvp-comment-696-2 ξίφους Seyffert thinks that the Laurentian reading points to βέλους with ξίφους as a gloss. But although the generic word is used in Aj. 658, τόδ' ἔγχος τοὐμόν, ἔχθιστον βελῶν, it would be out of place here.

1233. mvp-comment-697-1 ξίφους διπλοῦς κνώδοντας Probably, the double-hilted sword.

1235. mvp-comment-698-1 ἐπενταθείς 'Stretching himself over it, i. e. Falling upon his sword.

1236-1237. mvp-comment-699-1 He clung to the maiden, enfolding her in his slackening arm. The construction of ἐς .. ἀγκῶνα is as if λαμβάνει, or some such verb, were to follow. 6

1236. mvp-comment-700-1 ἤρεισε.. μέσσον Drove the blade right into his side. See on O. C. 1595. Essay on Language § 51. p. 85.

1238. mvp-comment-701-1 πνοήν, which the Scholiast read, is at once a harder reading than ῥοήν, and harmonizes better with the context. And panting hard, he cast on her pale cheek sharp breath of gory dew.' Cp. Aesch. Ag. 1388: Essay on Language § 10. p. 17.

1241. mvp-comment-702-1 εἰν ῞Αιδου δόμοις The particle γε, which Heath introduced, reading ἔν γ', is defended by Seyffert: Apud inferos saltem, inquit poeta, nactus est Haemon nuptias rite confectas, quarum vivus expers fuit: in complexu tenet mortuam mortuus (v. 1235, sq.). But iv, the reading of L², is supported by the other Epic forms which occur in the play. See Introd., and cp. the Homeric καὶ εἰν Ἀίδαο δόμοισι.

1244-1245. mvp-comment-703-1 Cp. the silent exit of Jocasta, O. T. 1075, and of Deianira, Tr. 813.

1247. mvp-comment-704-1 ἐς πόλιν γόους | οὐκ ἀξιώσειν She will not deign to make public lamentation. The ellipse of ποιεῖν or some other general word (cp. 1. 577), or the imperfect construction of γύους with ἀξιώσειν, is made more easy by the introduction of στένειν in what follows.

1249. mvp-comment-705-1 πένθος is governed at once by προθήσειν and στένειν, and προθήσειν is used as in l. 216,='To appoint as a duty,' with some allusion to the other meaning of To lay out for mourning before burial.

1250. mvp-comment-706-1 γνώμης In respect of judgment. ἁμαρτάνειν is euphemistic.

1251. mvp-comment-707-1 ἐμοὶ δ᾽ οὖν Qy. ἔμοιγ' οὖν ? See the accentuation of the MS. reading.

1258. mvp-comment-708-1 μνῆμ᾽ ἐπίσημον A monument with evident tokens. The blood-stained corpse of Haemon was, as it were, a monument, on which was inscribed the record of the calamitous error of Creon. The metres of the concluding κομμός are as follows. The dochmiac rhythm prevails. a'. First strophe and antistrophe. 1261-1277=1184-1300. ںトトトㄈIトトー Five Iambic trimeters. 5-トリート! トトしに Cトトートトー 10010 レム DI 15 トトーchclcl ―トトートトーつつ 1500 「トトートトートトートトー「トトートca Cトトートトに tu a'. I, may be scanned either as diiambus, cretic, and dochmiac, or as an iambus and 2 dochmiacs; 3, two cretics; 15, dochmiac and iambic tri pody. The first strophe and antistrophe are followed by five iambic trimeters. β'. Second strophe and antistrophe. 1306-1325-1328-1346. トートトートトー (トトートトー 5 トトートトートート The intervention of the Exangelus at 1278, and the ἐκκύκλημα at 1293, are special features, which must have made this commos extraordinarily impressive. The coryphaeus chants 1257 ff., 1347 ff. The four other members of the front row interpose their remarks at intervals.

1262. mvp-comment-709-1 στερεά may be explained, either with Dindorf, (1) Propter duram et inexorabilem Creontis mentem, = Stubborn, by hypallage for στερεῶν φρενῶν ἁμαρτήματα, or more simply (2) as Pindar speaks of στερεαὶ ὀδυναί, = * Hard to endure.' The first (1) is best.

1265. mvp-comment-710-1 A confusion of ὤμοι ἐμῶν βουλευμάτων, ὡς ἄνολβα, and ὤμοι ἐγὼ ἄνολβος τῶν ἐμῶν βουλευμάτων. Ε. on L. pp. 17, 67.

1266. mvp-comment-711-1 νέῳ ξὺν μόρῳ By a strange doom.

1268. mvp-comment-712-1 ἀπελύθης Thou wast cut off. The word has some something of the notion of Shuffling off this mortal coil. Cp. 559.

1273. mvp-comment-713-1 θεὸς .. ἔπαισεν A God held and smote me with mighty force. ἔχων is almost pleonastic, and μέγα βάρος adverbial. But there is some difficulty in the construction of ἐν ἐμῷ κάρᾳ with ἔπαισεν. Qy. μέγα βάρος πεσών? As the words stand, the whole expression μέγα .. ἔπαισεν must be taken as = ἐνήλατο.

1274. mvp-comment-714-1 ἐν δ᾽ ἔσεισεν This use of language (implying 'furious driving') recurs in Plut. Phoc. 23, ἐνσείειν τὴν πόλιν εἰς πόλεμον. A similar expression occurs in El. 737. See also Eur. Or. 255.

1275. mvp-comment-715-1 λακπάτητον is proleptic. Overturning and trampling upon.' 1277. ὡς is to be construed with ἔοικας ἥκειν, which is postponed to the participle, as in Phil. 971, πρὸς κακῶν δ᾽ ἀνδρῶν μαθὼν ἔοικας ἥκειν αἰσχρά: and the meaning is, O master, how truly thou wouldst seem, having at τέθνηκε Α. once in hand and also in possession, to have come hither bearing one load of evil in thine arms, while there is another burden which thou wilt quickly behold within the palace. The address, ὦ δέσποτα, suggests the words ἔχων τε καὶ κεκτημένος (Creon is lord 'of dire mischance'), in which there is the distinction afterwards adopted in philosophy between ἕξις and κτῆσις.

1280. mvp-comment-716-1 By an attraction from ἔοικας, ἥκειν ὀψόμενος, or ἥκων ὄψεσθαι, is changed to ἥκειν καὶ ὄψεσθαι. Cp. Ο. Τ. 413.

1281. mvp-comment-717-1 And what worse evil is there? or what more of evil?' Some would read τί δ᾽ ἔστιν; ἢ κάκιον αὖ κακῶν ἔτι;

1282. mvp-comment-718-1 παμμήτωρ The royal mother. For this use of παν in composition, see Essay on Language § 55. p. 101; and cp. O. Τ. 930, παντελὴς δάμαρ.

1284. mvp-comment-719-1 δυσκάθαρτος Ἅιδου λιμήν] O harbour of Hades, hard to cleanse; i. e. Choked with the dead. Cp. Hell has enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure.'

Sophocles Antigone 268

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1317 ¡Ay de mí! No se impute nada de esto a otro hombre, porque ha sucedido por mi culpa. Pues yo, yo te maté, desdichado, yo; lo digo verdaderamente. ¡Oh siervos!, echadme a toda prisa; echadme fuera de aquí, que ya no soy nada.

Chorus

Bene mones, si quid in malis est boni.

CR

All my desire was gathered in my prayer.

Schon lang, o König, überlegt mein Inneres,

Ob eine Gottheit diese That nicht angeregt.

Der Wächter.

Creon
1328

Quick let my last, my happiest hour appear !

Would it were come, the period of my woes !

Oh ! that I might not see another day !
1330

CiioR. Time must determine that : the present hour

Demands our rare ; the rest 1:>e left to heaven.

Oreon. But I have wished and prayed for 't.

KREON

Was ich gesaget, eben, das hab’ ich gewünschet.

Creon

1328 Oh, let it come, let it appear, that fairest of anv. 3. 1330 fates for me, that brings my last day,—aye, best fate of all! Oh, let it come, that I may never look upon to-morrow’s light.

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CREONTE 1317 ¡Ay de mí! No se impute nada de esto a otro hombre, porque ha sucedido por mi culpa. Pues yo, yo te maté, desdichado, yo; lo digo verdaderamente. ¡Oh siervos!, echadme a toda prisa; echadme fuera de aquí, que ya no soy nada.

Chorus Bene mones, si quid in malis est boni.

CR All my desire was gathered in my prayer.

Schon lang, o König, überlegt mein Inneres, Ob eine Gottheit diese That nicht angeregt.

Der Wächter.

Creon 1328 Quick let my last, my happiest hour appear ! Would it were come, the period of my woes ! Oh ! that I might not see another day ! 1330 CiioR. Time must determine that : the present hour Demands our rare ; the rest 1:>e left to heaven. Oreon. But I have wished and prayed for 't.

KREON Was ich gesaget, eben, das hab’ ich gewünschet.

Creon 1328 Oh, let it come, let it appear, that fairest of anv. 3. 1330 fates for me, that brings my last day,—aye, best fate of all! Oh, let it come, that I may never look upon to-morrow’s light.

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CREONTE

1317 ¡Ay de mí! No se impute nada de esto a otro hombre, porque ha sucedido por mi culpa. Pues yo, yo te maté, desdichado, yo; lo digo verdaderamente. ¡Oh siervos!, echadme a toda prisa; echadme fuera de aquí, que ya no soy nada.

Chorus

Bene mones, si quid in malis est boni.

CR

All my desire was gathered in my prayer.

Schon lang, o König, überlegt mein Inneres,

Ob eine Gottheit diese That nicht angeregt.

Creon
1328

Quick let my last, my happiest hour appear !

Would it were come, the period of my woes !

Oh ! that I might not see another day !
1330

CiioR. Time must determine that : the present hour

Demands our rare ; the rest 1:>e left to heaven.

Oreon. But I have wished and prayed for 't.

KREON

Was ich gesaget, eben, das hab’ ich gewünschet.

Creon

1328 Oh, let it come, let it appear, that fairest of anv. 3. 1330 fates for me, that brings my last day,—aye, best fate of all! Oh, let it come, that I may never look upon to-morrow’s light.