Sophocles Antigone 85

ed. August Boeckh

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ANTIGONE
Denn wer in mannigfacher Noth, der meinen gleich,
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lebt, wie verschaffte diesem nicht Gewinn der Tod?
So bringet, daſs mich dieses Loos betroffen hat,
mir keine Schmerzen; doch vermöcht' ich ohne Grab
zu sehn den Bruder, meiner eignen Mutter Sohn,
das wäre Schmerz mir, aber jenes schmerzt mich nicht.
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Und scheine dir ich thöricht jetzt mit meinem Thun,
mag wohl der Thorheit mich ein Thor bezüchtigen.

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)) — 85 focus
τοὔργον· κρυφῆ δὲ κεῦθε· σὺν δ᾽ αὕτως ἐγώ.
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Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 85 focus
τοὔργον, κρυφῆ δὲ κεῦθε· σὺν δ᾽ αὔτως ἐγώ.
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Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 85 focus
τοὖργον, κρυφῆ δὲ κεῦθε· σὺν δ᾽ αὕτως ἐγώ.
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Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879)) — 85 focus
τοὔργον, κρυφῆ δὲ κεῦθε, σὺν δ᾽ αὕτως ἐγώ.
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Greek (A. Colonna, 1978) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Colonna, 1978)) — 85 focus
τοὔργον, κρυφῇ δὲ κεῦθε, σὺν δ᾽ αὕτως ἐγώ.
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Greek (A. Dain, 1955) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Dain, 1955)) — 85.mvp-line-85 focus
τοὔργον, κρυφῇ δὲ κεῦθε, σὺν δ’ αὕτως ἐγώ.
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Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979)) — 85 focus
τοὔργον, κρυφῆι δὲ κεῦθε, σὺν δ᾽ αὔτως ἐγώ.
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Greek (G. Hermann, 1830) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (G. Hermann, 1830)) — 85 focus
τοὔργον· κρυφῆ δὲ κεῦθε· σὺν δ᾽ αὔτως ἐγώ.
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Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906)) — 85 focus
τοὔργον, κρυφῇ δὲ κεῦθε, σὺν δ᾽ αὔτως ἐγώ.
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Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924)) — 85.mvp-line-85 focus
τοὔργον, κρυφῇ δὲ κεῦθε, σὺν δ᾽ αὔτως ἐγώ.
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Antigone (OCR draft) Experimental (Antigone) — 85 focus
τοὔργον, κρυφῇ δὲ κεῦθε, σὺν δʼ αὔτως ἐγώ.
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Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949)) — 85 focus
τοὔργον, κρυφῆι δὲ κεῦθε, σὺν δ᾽ αὕτως ἐγώ.
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Translations (10)
Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921)) — 85 focus
CREONTE
¿Y tú no te avergüenzas de disentir de los demás?
Latin (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Latin (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 85 focus
Creon
Te autem non pudet, alia ab his sentire?
English (Lewis Campbell, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Lewis Campbell, 1906)) — 85 focus
CR
And art thou not ashamed, acting alone?
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German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review)) — 100 focus
Strahl des Helios, schönstes Licht, 1
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Das der siebenthorigen Stadt
Thebe's nimmer zuvor erschien!
Du strahlst endlich, des gold'nen Tags
Aufblick, herrlich herauf,
Ueber Dirke's Fluten herüberwandelnd; 2
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Und Ihn, der mit leuchtendem Schild
Kam von Argos in voller Wehr,
Triebest du flüchtig in eilendem Lauf
Fort mit hastigem Zügel:
English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759)) — 85 focus
Creon
But, Eteocles !
Say, was not he thy brother too?
Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889)) — 85 focus
CREONTE
Pues sabe que estas almas tan fieras con facilidad se rinden, como se rompe el acero más fuerte y bien templado: y yo sé bien que con débil freno se sujetan los corceles más fogosos. Pensar con tal soberbia no es tolerable en quien se halla sometido á los demás. No le ha bastado á esta insensata haberme ultrajado, violando mis decretos, sino que, después de haberlo hecho, añade un segundo ultraje, glorificándose y regocijándose de su acción. ¡Por los cielos! dejaría yo de ser hombre, y entonces el hombre sería ella, si tamaña audacia quedara sin castigo. Aunque sea la hija de mi hermana, aunque se hallara unida á mí por vínculo más estrecho que todos los que adoran á Júpiter en el hogar... ella y la hermana suya, no se han de escapar de una muerte terrible, porque sin duda la otra ha de haber sido su cómplice. Que la hagan venir inmediatamente. No ha mucho la vi dentro de palacio, irritada y fuera de sí: ¡ah! el que medita un crimen á la sombra, con frecuencia se hace traición á sí mismo, antes de ejecutarlo. Pero sobre todo, detesto á los que sorprendidos en el negro crimen, pretenden con palabras darle colorido.
German (F. Hölderlin, 1804) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (F. Hölderlin, 1804)) — 85 focus
ANTIGONAE
Man ehrt doch wohldie Menschen eines Fleisches.
English (Sir Richard Jebb1, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb1, 1904)) — 85 focus
Creon
And art thou not ashamed to act apart from them?
English (Robert Potter, 1788) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Robert Potter, 1788)) — 85 focus
Creon
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Be left to range at large; for e'en the bold
English (Sir Richard Jebb2, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb2, 1904)) — 100-160 focus

Commentary

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

mvp-comment-254-1 Ζεύς 1

mvp-comment-255-1 τῶν κάτω θεῶν 2 ξύνοικος 3 τοιούσδ’ … ὥρισεν 4 οἳ τούσδ’ … ὥρισαν 5 τάδε 6

mvp-comment-256-1 ἄγραπτα … νόμιμα 7

mvp-comment-256-2 quotes vv. 456 f.) Cp. O.T. 865 ff.

νόμοι... | ὑψίποδες, οὐρανίαν | δἰ αἰθέρα τεκνωθέντες
, with notes there. Thuc. 2.37 (
νόμοι
)
ὅσοι ἄγραφοι ὄντες αἰσχύνην ὁμολογουμένην φέρουσι
. When ‘the unwritten laws’ are thus called
νόμοι
, the latter word is used figuratively. νόμιμα 8

mvp-comment-256-3 ἀσφαλῆ 9

mvp-comment-256-4 θνητὸν ὄντ’ 10

mvp-comment-256-5 ὑπερδραμεῖν 11

mvp-comment-257-1 νῦν γε κἀχθές 12

mvp-comment-257-2 ζῇ 13

mvp-comment-257-3 ’φάνη 14

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

450. mvp-comment-259-1 I obeyed no decree of yesterday, but the eternal law. That cannot be annulled by any enactment of a mere man. It may be that I shall die for what I have done. But it needed not your proclamation to tell me that I must die. And to die before the term appointed me is to lose so much of sorrow.

451. mvp-comment-260-1 For the mythological fancy, cp. О. С. 1381-1382, εἴπερ ἐστὶν ἡ παλαίφατος | Δίκη ξύνεδρος Ζηνὸς ἀρχαίοις νόμοις.

452. mvp-comment-261-1 This line is rightly explained by the Scholiast and Donaldson, Ἡ δίκη, φησί, καὶ ὁ Ζεὺς ὥρισαν ὥστε θάπτεσθαι τοὺς νεκρούς.. θέλει δὲ εἰπεῖν ὅτι ἀπὸ τῆς φύσεως δίκαιον ἤγημαι θάπτειν τὸν ἀδελφόν. (Schol.) She replies, that she did not consider his proclamations as emanating from Zeus, the supreme God, or from that justice which regulated the rights of the dead, who, she says, have established these laws, namely, the laws of sepulture, which do not need any enactment, but have their ὅροι set up in the human heart. (Donaldson.) The iteration of τούσδε, in contrasting the law which she obeyed with the edict of Creon, is dramatically appropriate, and there is no difficulty in the vague use of the demonstrative. See Essay on Language § 22. p. 34. Cp. Od. 10. 326, τάδε φάρμακα.

454. mvp-comment-262-1 ἄγραπτα κἀσφαλῆ Unwritten and sure. Ср. О. Т. 865 ff., and note. ἀσφαλῆ is not only Never failing to apply, but also Never failing to vindicate their authority. Cp. II. 456 ff.

455. mvp-comment-263-1 θνητὸν ὄντα Sc. σέ, understood from τὰ σὰ κηρύγματα. That a mortal man should run beyond the silent irrefragable ordinances of the Gods. Cp. Eur. Ion 973, καὶ πῶς τὰ κρείσσω θνητός οὖσ᾽ ὑπερδράμω; Ο.Τ. 476-482

456. mvp-comment-264-1 νῦν .. κἀχθές To-day or yes- terday. The particle γε, ay, serves to connect the sentences, and τε is unnecessary, as appears from the similar expression, χθὲς καὶ πρώην, in Plat. Legg. 3. 677 D.

456. mvp-comment-264-2 ἀεί ποτε means Everlastingly, without any clear distinction of past or future. πότε gives the effect of indefiniteness or infinity.

457. mvp-comment-265-1 ζῇ Are in force. Cр. О. Т. 481, ἀεὶ ζῶντα περιποτᾶται.

457. mvp-comment-265-2 ἐξ ὅτου 'φάνη Since when they came into being. Cp. Tr. 1, λόγος ..

457. mvp-comment-265-3 ἀρχαῖος φανείς.