Sophocles Antigone 77

ed. August Boeckh

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WÄCHTER

und greifen rasch sie; ruhig bleibt sie und gefafst.
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Und jener frühern und der jetzt vollbrachten That

beziehen wir sie: nichts verläugnend stand sie da.

Das ist mir wahrlich Freude, wenn auch Schmerz zugleich.

Denn selber aus Unglückes Noth entronnen seyn

ist sehr erfreulich; doch in Unglück ziehn den Freund
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ist schmerzlich: aber minder gilt nach meiner Art

mir dennoch alles dieses als mein eigen Wohl.

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)) — 77 focus

τὰ τῶν θεῶν ἔντιμ᾽ ἀτιμάσασ᾽ ἔχε.

Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 77 focus

τὰ τῶν θεῶν ἔντιμ᾽ ἀτιμάσασ᾽ ἔχε.

Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 77 focus

τὰ τῶν θεῶν ἔντιμ᾽ ἀτιμάσασ᾽ ἔχε.

Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879)) — 77 focus

τὰ τῶν θεῶν ἔντιμ᾽ ἀτιμάσασ᾽ ἔχε.

Greek (A. Colonna, 1978) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Colonna, 1978)) — 77 focus

τὰ τῶν θεῶν ἔντιμ᾽ ἀτιμάσασ᾽ ἔχε.

Greek (A. Dain, 1955) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Dain, 1955)) — 77.mvp-line-77 focus

τὰ τῶν θεῶν ἔντιμ’ ἀτιμάσασ’ ἔχε.

Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979)) — 77 focus

τὰ τῶν θεῶν ἔντιμ᾽ ἀτιμάσασ᾽ ἔχε.

Greek (G. Hermann, 1830) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (G. Hermann, 1830)) — 77 focus

τὰ τῶν θεῶν ἔντιμ᾽ ἀτιμάσασ᾽ ἔχε.

Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906)) — 77 focus

τὰ τῶν θεῶν ἔντιμ᾽ ἀτιμάσασ᾽ ἔχε.

Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924)) — 77.mvp-line-77 focus

τὰ τῶν θεῶν ἔντιμ᾽ ἀτιμάσασ᾽ ἔχε.

Antigone (OCR draft) Experimental (Antigone) — 77 focus

τὰ τῶν θεῶν ἔντιμʼ ἀτιμάσασʼ ἔχε.

Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949)) — 77 focus

τὰ τῶν θεῶν ἔντιμ᾽ ἀτιμάσασ᾽ ἔχε.

Translations (10)

Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921)) — 77 focus

ANTIGONA

Como que no era Júpiter quien me las habia había promulgado; ni tampoco Justicia, la compañera de los dioses infernales, ha impuesto esas leyes a los hombres; ni creí yo que tus decretos tuvieran fuerza para borrar e invalidar las leyes divinas, de manera que un mortal pudiese quebrantarlas. Pues no son de hoy ni de ayer, sino que siempre han estado en vigor y nadie sabe cuándo aparecieron. Por esto no debia debía yo, por temor al castigo de ningún hombre, violarlas para exponerme a sufrir el castigo de los dioses. Sabia Sabía que tenía que morir, ¿cómo no?, aunque tú no lo hubieses pregonado. Y si muero antes de tiempo, eso creo yo que gano; pues quien viva, como yo, en medio de tantas desgracias, ¿cómo no lleva ganancia en la muerte? Así que para mi no es pena ninguna el alcanzar muerte violenta; pero lo sería si hubiese tolerado que quedara insepulto el cadáver de mi difunto hermano: eso sí que lo hubiera sentido; esto no me aflige. Y si ahora te parece que soy necia por lo que he hecho, puedo decir que de necia soy acusada por un necio.

Latin (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Latin (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 77 focus

Antigone

Non enim eas mihi Iupiter statuerat, nec, quae diis Manibus adsidet, Iustitia, qui hasce mortalibus sanxerunt leges; nec tantum valere credidi tua edicta, ut non scriptas firmasque deûm leges, mortalis quum sis, queas convellere. Non enim heri fixae illae sunt aut nudius tertius, sed vigent ab omni aevo, nec quisquam novit, quam dudum prodierint. Has quod violassem, cuiusvis hominis fastu perterrita, sane non debui diis poenas luere. Morituram enim me sciebam, quippini? etiam si tu non indixisses: quod si ante tempus moriar, id esse in lucro deputo. Quicumque enim in multis, ut ego, miseriis vitam degit, si mortem oppetat, qui non ille lucrum ferat? Sic sane mihi fatum hoc nancisci nihil dolet; at si matris meae filium insepultum sustinuissem, id mihi doleret: hisce autem quae feci, non doleo; tibi vero si videor stulte fecisse, propemodum dixerim , stulti iudi- €io stulta sum.

English (Lewis Campbell, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Lewis Campbell, 1906)) — 77 focus

ANT

I heard it not from Heaven, nor came it forth
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From Justice, where she reigns with Gods below.

They too have published to mankind a law.

Nor thought I thy commandment of such might

That one who is mortal thus could overbear

The infallible, unwritten laws of Heaven.
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Not now or yesterday they have their being,

But everlastingly, and none can tell

The hour that saw their birth. I would not, I,

For any terror of a man’s resolve,

Incur the God-inflicted penalty
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Of doing them wrong. That death would come, I knew

Without thine edict;—if before the time,

I count it gain. Who does not gain by death,

That lives, as I do, amid boundless woe?

Slight is the sorrow of such doom to me.
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But had I suffered my own mother’s child,

Fallen in blood, to be without a grave,

That were indeed a sorrow. This is none.

And if thou deem’st me foolish for my deed,

I am foolish in the judgement of a fool.
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German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review)) — 69 focus

Nicht mehr verlang' ich's, möchte dich zur Helferin

Nicht mehr, erklärtest du dich auch bereit dazu.
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Nein, wähle deinem Sinne nach: ihn werd' ich selbst

Bestatten; ruhmvoll ist der Tod für diese That.

Bei ihm, dem Lieben, werd' ich ruh'n, die Liebende,

Die frommen Frevel übte; muß ich länger doch

Den Todten dort gefallen, als den Lebenden.
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Denn dort ja ruh' ich ewig; du, wenn dir's gefällt,

Entehre, was in Ehre selbst bei Göttern steht.

Ich acht' es auch der Ehre werth; indeß der Stadt

Zum Troz zu handeln, fühl ich mich nicht stark genug.

Antigone.

So wende du das vor; doch ich geh' unverweilt,
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Und schütt' ein Grab dem heißgeliebten Bruder auf.

Ismene.

Tollkühne, weh mir! Ha, wie fürcht' ich deinethalb!

Antigone.

Sei nicht um mich bang; sich're du nur dein Geschick!

Ismene.

Doch offenbare ja zuvor Niemand die That;

Im Dunkel birg' sie; gerne schweig' auch ich davon.
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Antigone.

Ha, laut verkünd' es! Viel verhaßter wirst du mir

Durch Schweigen, offenbarst du's nicht vor aller Welt.

Ismene.

Dir wallt der Busen glühend, wo mich Schauder faßt.

Antigone.

Doch weiß ich hold mir, deren Huld mein Höchstes iſt.

Ismene.

Wenn du's vermöchtest; doch du willst Unmögliches.
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Nun freilich, wenn ich's nicht vermag, so lass' ich ab.

Auch nicht von Anfang jage nach Unmöglichem.

Antigone.

Durch solche Reden wirst du billig mir verhaßt,

Und billig hassen wird dich auch der Todte dort.

Nein, laß du mich und meines Sinnes Unverstand
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Dies Grauenvolle dulden. Was ich Schweres auch¹

Erleiden möge, bleibt mir doch ein schöner Tod.

Ismene.

Nun, wenn dir's gut dünkt, ziehe hin: ächt schwesterlich

Als Schwester fühlend gehst du, wenn als Thörin auch.

(Sie gehen nach verschiedenen Seiten ab. Der Chor tritt auf.) Erste Strophe.

Der Chor.

English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759)) — 77 focus

Creon
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Sprung from a sire perverse and obstinate,

Like him she cannot bend beneath misfortune ;

But know, the proudest hearts may be subdued ;
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Hast thou not marked the hardest steel by fire

Made soft and flexible ? Myself have seen

By a slight rein the fiery courser held.

"Ks not for slaves to be so haughty ; yet

This proud offender, not content, it seems,
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To violate my laws, adds crime to crime,

Smiles at my threats, and glories in her guilt ;

If I should suffer her to 'scape my vengeance,

She were the man, not I ; but though she sprang
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E'en from my sister, were I bound to her

By ties more dear than is Hercsean Jove,

She should not 'scape. Her sister too I find

Accomplice in the deed — go, call her forth !

She is within, I saw her ra\dng there,
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Her senses lost, the common fate of those

Who practise dark and deadly wickedness.

I cannot bear to see the guilty stand

Convicted of their crimes, and yet pretend

To gloss them o'er with specious names of virtue.

Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889)) — 77 focus

EL CENTINELA

407 El hecho ha ocurrido así. Bajo el terror de tus tremendas conminaciones, llegamos allá y barrimos la tierra que cubría el cadáver. Después que dejamos enteramente descubierto aquel cuerpo ya en corrupción, subimos á sentarnos en lo alto de las colinas, al abrigo del viento, y huyendo de los fétidos miasmas. Excitámonos unos á otros á la vigilancia, conminando á todo el que pudiera descuidar la faena. En tal estado permanecimos hasta el momento en que el disco brillante del Sol llegaba al promedio de su carrera, despidiendo fuego abrasador. Súbitamente un furioso huracán levanta en remolino una polvareda que llegaba hasta las nubes, é invadiendo la llanura, arrancaba las hojas á los árboles, extendiéndose la tormenta por el anchuroso Cielo. Nosotros, con los ojos cerrados, soportábamos aquel divino castigo. Pasado el temporal, al cabo de largas horas, percibimos á esa joven, dando gritos agudos y lamentables, cual pájaro que no encuentra á su tierna cría en el desierto nido. De tal modo, al mirar al difunto despojado de la tierra que le cubriera, prorrumpió en gemidos y lanzaba imprecaciones contra los autores de tamaño ultraje. Seguidamente coge con sus propias manos árida tierra con la que cubre el cadáver, honrándole hasta tres veces con fúnebres libaciones, que vierte del fondo de una preciosa copa de bronce. Tan luego como vimos esto, nos arrojamos sobre ella y la prendimos. Y en verdad, ella permaneció impávida. Interrogámosla sobre sus actos anteriores y por el que acababa de consumar, y nada negó absolutamente: confesión que fué para mí grata y dolorosa á la par; gratísima, porque me libertaba del castigo; dolorosa, porque siempre causa tormento exponer á los amigos. Pero ante todo, es lo natural que miremos cada cual por nuestra salvación.

German (F. Hölderlin, 1804) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (F. Hölderlin, 1804)) — 77 focus

ANTIGONAE

Darum. Mein Zevs berichtete mirs nicht;

Noch hier im Haus das Recht der Todesgötter,

Die unter Menschen das Gesez begrenzet ;

Auch dacht’ ich nicht, es sey dein Ausgebot so sehr viel.
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Dafs eins, das sterben muss, die ungeschriebnen drüber,

Die festen Sazungen im Himmel brechen sollte.

Nicht heut’ und gestern nur, die leben immer,

Und niemand weiss, woher sie sind gekommen.

Drum wollt’ ich unter Himmlischen nicht, aus Furcht
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Vor eines Manns Gedanken, Strafe wagen.

Ich wufste aber, dass ich sterben mülste.

Warum nicht? hättst du’s auch nicht kundgethan.

Wenn aber vor der Zeit ich sterbe, sag’ ich, dass es

So gar Gewinn ist. Wer, wie ich, viel lebt mit Uebeln,
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Bekommt doch wohl im Tod ein wenig Vortheil?

So ist es mir, auf solch Schiksaal zu treffen,

Betrübnifs nicht; wenn meiner Mutter Todten,

Als er gestorben, ich grablos gelassen hätte,

Das würde mich betrüben. Aber das
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Betrübt mich gar nicht. Bin ich aber dir,

Wie ich es that, nun auf die Närrin kummen,

War ich dem Narren fast Narrheit ein wenig schuldig.

CH O R:

Man sieht das rauh Geschlecht vom rauhen Vater

Am Kind! Allein beiseit im Uebel kann’s nicht.
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English (Sir Richard Jebb1, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb1, 1904)) — 77 focus

Antigone

450 Yes; for it was not Zeus that had published me that edict; not such are the laws set among men by the Justice who dwells with the gods below; nor deemed I that thy decrees were of such force, that a mortal could override the unwritten and unfailing statutes of heaven. For their life is not of to-day or yesterday, but from all time, and no man knows when they were first put forth. Not through dread of any human pride could I 460 answer to the gods for breaking these. Die I must,— I knew that well (how should I not?)—even without thy edicts. But if Iam to die before my time, I count that a gain: for when any one lives, as I do, compassed about with evils, can such an one find aught but gain in death? OE A A EB om a DON So for me to meet this doom is trifling grief; but if I had suffered my mother’s son to lie in death an unburied corpse, that would have grieved me; for this, I am not grieved. And if my present deeds are foolish 470 in thy sight, it may be that a foolish judge arraigns my folly.

English (Robert Potter, 1788) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Robert Potter, 1788)) — 77 focus

Ismene

But wilt thou kill the bride

Affianced to thy son?

English (Sir Richard Jebb2, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb2, 1904)) — 100-160 focus

Enter the Chorus on the right.

Chorus

Shaft of the sun, fairest light of all that have dawned on Thebes of the seven gates, you have shone forth at last, eye of golden day, advancing over Dirce’s streams!
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You have goaded with a sharper bit the warrior of the white shield, who came from Argos in full armor, driving him to headlong retreat.
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110

Chorus

He set out against our land because of the strife-filled claims of Polyneices, and like a screaming eagle he flew over into our land, covered by his snow-white wing,
110

with a mass of weapons and crested helmets.
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117

Chorus

He paused above our dwellings; he gaped around our sevenfold portals with spears thirsting for blood; but he left

before his jaws were ever glutted with our gore, or before the Fire-god’s pine-fed flame had seized our crown of towers.
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So fierce was the crash of battle swelling about his back, a match too hard to win for the rival of the dragon.
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127

Chorus

For Zeus detests above all the boasts of a proud tongue. And when he saw them advancing in a swollen flood,

arrogant their clanging gold, he dashed with brandished fire one who was already starting to shout victory when he had reached our ramparts.
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134

Chorus

Staggered, he fell to the earth with a crash,

torch in hand, a man possessed by the frenzy of the mad attack, who just now was raging against us with the blasts of his tempestuous hate. But his threats did not fare as he had hoped, and to the other enemies mighty Ares dispensed each their own dooms with hard blows,
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Ares, our mighty ally at the turning-point.
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Chorus

For the seven captains, stationed against an equal number at the seven gates, left behind their brazen arms in tribute to Zeus the turner of battle—all but the accursed pair who, born of one father and one

mother, set against each other their spears, both victorious, and who now share in a common death.
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Chorus

But since Victory whose name is glory has come to us, smiling in joy equal to the joy of chariot-rich Thebes ,

let us make for ourselves forgetfulness after the recent wars, and visit all the temples of the gods with night-long dance and song. And may Bacchus, who shakes the earth of Thebes , rule our dancing!
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Chorus

But look, the king of the land is coming here, Creon, the son of Menoeceus, our new ruler in accordance with the new circumstances fated by the gods. What policy is he setting in motion,
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that he has proposed this special conference of elders, and summoned it by a general mandate?
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Commentary

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

mvp-comment-233-1 μύσαντες ¹

mvp-comment-233-2 νόσον ²

mvp-comment-233-3 ἐν χρ. μακρ ³

mvp-comment-234-1 πικρᾶς ⁴

mvp-comment-235-1 εὐνῆς...λέχος ⁵

mvp-comment-236-1 οὕτω δέ ⁶

mvp-comment-236-2 ψιλόν ⁷

mvp-comment-237-1 γόοισιν ἐξῴμωξεν ⁸

mvp-comment-237-2 ἐκ δ’ … ἠρᾶτο ⁹

mvp-comment-237-3 διψίαν ¹⁰

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

420. mvp-comment-241-1 ἐν δ' See Essay on Language p. 26. § 18, a.

421. mvp-comment-242-1 μύσαντες .. νόσον Closing lips and eyes, we endured the Divine visitation.

422. mvp-comment-243-1 ἐν χρόνῳ μακρῷ After lasting a long while: giving time for Antigone to come out of her concealment, with the libation ready. 423, foll. κἀνακωκύει] ‘And raises a shrill wailing cry, like the voice of the despairing bird. For the descriptive genitive, see Essay on Language § 9. p. 12.

422. mvp-comment-243-2 πικρᾶς Embittered, 'Full of bitterness: the quality of the object is transferred to the subject: i.e. πικρᾶς, ἅτε πασχούσης πικρά. Also the bitterness of anger is joined to that of grief. Cp. the Latin dolor. For the genitive, cp. Trach. 768, ὥστε τέκτονοs. And for the omission of ὡs, which is supplied in the following clause, cp. supr. 114, λευκῆς χιόνος πτέρυγι στεγανός. G. Wolff reads ὅ. δ. φθόγγον ὥς, ὅταν κ. But this yields a less probable rhythm.

424-425. mvp-comment-244-1 As when it sees robbed of its young ones the desolated couch of its nest. For the pleonasm, see Essay on Language § 40. p. 75.

426. mvp-comment-245-1 οὕτω δέ The apodosis is resumed, as so often happens after a comparison. Essay on Language p. 75. Cp. Aesch. Cho. 252.

427. mvp-comment-246-1 γόοισιν Essay on Language p. 75.

427. mvp-comment-246-2 ἐκ δ᾽.. ἠρᾶτο Essay on Language § 18. p. 27.