CHOR.
Du kannst es sehen; nicht im Innern ist sie mehr.
Antigone. Sophocles. ed. August Boeckh. Leipzig. 1884.
Antigone. Sophocles. ed. August Boeckh. Leipzig. 1884.
German (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) (German) (German (A. Boeckh, 1884))
Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.
mvp-comment-746-1 διπλοῦς κνώδοντας ξίφους 1 διπλοῦς κνώδοντας 2
mvp-comment-746-2 ἐκ δ’ ὁρμ. 3
mvp-comment-746-3 φυγαῖσιν 4
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 (
1233. mvp-comment-697-1 ξίφους διπλοῦς κνώδοντας Probably, the double-hilted sword.