Sophocles Antigone 1183

ed. August Boeckh

O Bürger alle, welches Wort vernahm ich hier,
als ich zum Ausgang schreite, dafs der Pallas ich,
des Hauses Göttin, nahe mit Gelübd' und Flehn?
Und eben lös' ich an dem wohlverschloſsnen Thor
die Riegel, und mir trifft ein Ruf des eignen Leids
1130
das Ohr; ich sinke tief erschreckt rückwärts dahin
auf meine Frauen, und die Sinne schwinden mir.
Doch wie sie war, die Rede, saget noch einmal;
denn nicht im Leiden unerfahren hör' ich sie.

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

Current edition Experimental

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

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Editions (12)
Greek (L. Benloew, 1858) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (L. Benloew, 1858)) — 1183 focus
ὦ πάντες ἀστοὶ, τοῦ λόγου γ᾽ ἐπῃσθόμην,
πρὸς ἔξοδον στείχουσα, Παλλάδος θεᾶς 1
ὅπως ἱκοίμην εὐγμάτων προσήγορος.
καὶ τυγχάνω γε κλῇθρ᾽ ἀνασπάστου πύλης
χαλῶσα, καί με φθόγγος οἰκείου κακοῦ
1180
βάλλει δι’ ὤτων· ὑπτία δὲ κλίνομαι
δείσασα πρὸς δμωαῖσι, κἀποπλήσσομαι.
ἀλλ᾽ ὅστις ἦν ὁ μῦθος, αὖθις εἴπατε.
κακῶν γὰρ οὐκ ἄπειρος οὖσ᾽ ἀκούσομαι.
Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 1183 focus
Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 1183 focus
ὦ πάντες ἀστοὶ (τοῦ λόγου γ᾽ ἐπῃσθόμην
πρὸς ἔξοδον στείχουσα, Παλλάδος θεᾶς
1160
ὅπως ἱκοίμην εὐγμάτων προσήγορος ·
καὶ τυγχάνω γε κλεῖθρ᾽ ἀνασπαστοῦ πύλης
χαλῶσα. κᾀμὲ φθόγγος οἰκείου κακοῦ
βάλλει δι' ὤτων, ὑπτία δὲ κλίνομαι
δείσασα πρὸς δμωαῖσι, κἀποπλήσσομαι),
1165
ἀλλ’, ὅστις ἦν ὁ μῦθος, αὖθις εἴπατε!
κακῶν γὰρ οὐκ ἄπειρος οὖσ᾽ ἀκούσομαι.
Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879)) — 1183 focus
ὦ πάντες ἀστοί, τῶν λόγων ἐπῃσθόμην
πρὸς ἔξοδον στείχουσα, Παλλάδος θεᾶς
ὅπως ἱκοίμην εὐγμάτων προσήγορος.
1185
καὶ τυγχάνω τε κλῇθρ᾽ ἀνασπαστοῦ πύλης
χαλῶσα, καί με φθόγγος οἰκείου κακοῦ
βάλλει διʼ ὤτων· ὑπτία δὲ κλίνομαι
δείσασα πρὸς δμωαῖσι κἀποπλήσσομαι.
ἀλλ᾽ ὅστις ἦν ὁ μῦθος αὖθις εἴπατε·
1190
κακῶν γὰρ οὐκ ἄπειρος οὖσ᾽ ἀκούσομαι.
Greek (A. Colonna, 1978) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Colonna, 1978)) — 1183 focus
ὦ πάντες ἀστοί, τῶν λόγων ἐπῃσθόμην
πρὸς ἔξοδον στείχουσα, Παλλάδος θεᾶς
ὅπως ἱκοίμην εὐγμάτων προσήγορος.
1185
καὶ τυγχάνω τε κλῇθρ᾽ ἀνασπαστοῦ πύλης
χαλῶσα, καί με φθόγγος οἰκείου κακοῦ
βάλλει δι’ ὤτων, ὑπτία δὲ κλίνομαι
δείσασα πρὸς δμωαῖσι κἀποπλήσσομαι.
ἀλλ᾽ ὅστις ἦν ὁ μῦθος αὖθις εἴπατε·
1190
κακῶν γὰρ οὐκ ἄπειρος οὖσ᾽ ἀκούσομαι.
Greek (A. Dain, 1955) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Dain, 1955)) — 1183 focus
ὦ πάντες ἀστοί, τῶν λόγων ἐπῃσθόμην
πρὸς ἔξοδον στείχουσα, Παλλάδος θεᾶς
ὅπως ἱκοίμην εὐγμάτων προσήγορος.
1185
καὶ τυγχάνω τε κλῇθρ’ ἀνασπαστοῦ πύλης
χαλῶσα, καί με φθόγγος οἰκείου κακοῦ
βάλλει δι' ὤτων, ὑπτία δὲ κλίνομαι
δείσασα πρὸς δμωαῖσι κἀποπλήσσομαι.
ἀλλ’ ὅστις ἦν ὁ μῦθος αὖθις εἴπατε·
1190
κακῶν γὰρ οὐκ ἄπειρος οὖσ’ ἀκούσομαι.
Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979)) — 1183 focus
ὦ πάντες ἀστοί, τῶν λόγων ἐπηισθόμην
πρὸς ἔξοδον στείχουσα, Παλλάδος θεᾶς
ὅπως ἱκοίμην εὐγμάτων προσήγορος.
1185
καὶ τυγχάνω τε κλῆιθρ᾽ ἀνασπαστοῦ πύλης
χαλῶσα, καί με φθόγγος οἰκείου κακοῦ
βάλλει δι’ ὤτων· ὑπτία δὲ κλίνομαι
δείσασα πρὸς δμωαῖσι κἀποπλήσσομαι.
ἀλλ᾽ ὅστις ἦν ὁ μῦθος αὖθις εἴπατε·
1190
κακῶν γὰρ οὐκ ἄπειρος οὖσ᾽ ἀκούσομαι.
Greek (G. Hermann, 1830) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (G. Hermann, 1830)) — 1183 focus
ὦ πάντες ἀστοί, τῶν λόγων ἐπῃσθόμην,
πρὸς ἔξοδον στείχουσα, Παλλάδος θεᾶς
ὅπως ἱκοίμην εὐγμάτων προσήγορος
1170
καὶ τυγχάνω τὲ κλῇθρ᾽ ἀνασπαστοῦ πύλης
χαλῶσα, καί με φθόγγος οἰκείου κακοῦ
βάλλει δι᾽ ὤτων· ὑπτία δὲ κλίνομαι
δείσασα πρὸς δμωαῖσι, κἀποπλήσσομαι.
ἀλλ᾽ ὅστις ἦν ὁ μῦθος, αὖθις εἴπατε.
1175
κακῶν γὰρ οὐκ ἄπειρος οὖσ᾽ ἀκούσομαι.
Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906)) — 1183 focus
ὦ πάντες ἀστοί, τῶν λόγων ἐπῃσθόμην
πρὸς ἔξοδον στείχουσα, Παλλάδος θεᾶς
ὅπως ἱκοίμην εὐγμάτων προσήγορος.
1185
καὶ τυγχάνω τε κλῇθρ᾽ ἀνασπαστοῦ πύλης
χαλῶσα, καί με φθόγγος οἰκείου κακοῦ
βάλλει δι’ ὤτων· ὑπτία δὲ κλίνομαι
δείσασα πρὸς δμωαῖσι κἀποπλήσσομαι.
ἀλλ᾽ ὅστις ἦν ὁ μῦθος αὖθις εἴπατε·
1190
κακῶν γὰρ οὐκ ἄπειρος οὖσ᾽ ἀκούσομαι.
Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924)) — 1183 focus
ὦ πάντες ἀστοί, τῶν λόγων ἐπῃσθόμην
πρὸς ἔξοδον στείχουσα, Παλλάδος θεᾶς
ὅπως ἱκοίμην εὐγμάτων προσήγορος.
1185
καὶ τυγχάνω τε κλῇθρ᾽ ἀνασπαστοῦ πύλης
χαλῶσα, καί με φθόγγος οἰκείου κακοῦ
βάλλει δι’ ὤτων· ὑπτία δὲ κλίνομαι
δείσασα πρὸς δμωαῖσι κἀποπλήσσομαι.
ἀλλ᾽ ὅστις ἦν ὁ μῦθος αὖθις εἴπατε·
1190
κακῶν γὰρ οὐκ ἄπειρος οὖσ᾽ ἀκούσομαι.
Antigone (OCR draft) Experimental (Antigone) — 1183 focus
Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949)) — 1183 focus
ὦ πάντες ἀστοί, τῶν λόγων ἐπηισθόμην
πρὸς ἔξοδον στείχουσα, Παλλάδος θεᾶς
ὅπως ἱκοίμην εὐγμάτων προσήγορος.
1185
καὶ τυγχάνω τε κλῆιθρ᾽ ἀνασπαστοῦ πύλης
χαλῶσα, καὶ με φθόγγος οἰκείου κακοῦ
βάλλει δι᾽ ὤτων· ὑπτία δὲ κλίνομαι
δείσασα πρὸς δμωαῖσι κἀποπλήσσομαι.
ἀλλ᾽ ὅστις ἦν ὁ μῦθος αὖθις εἴπατε·
1190
κακῶν γὰρ οὐκ ἄπειρος οὖσ᾽ ἀκούσομαι.
Translations (10)
Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921)) — 1183 focus
¡Oh ciudadanos todos! Oi Oí algunas de vuestras palabras cuando iba a salir para llegarme a invocar con mis plegarias a la diosa Minerva. Y me hallaba aflojando la cerradura de la puerta para abrirla, cuando me hirió los oídos el rumor de alguna desgracia de mi familia. Llena de miedo, caí de espaldas sobre mis esclavas y perdi perdí el sentido. Pero cualquiera que fuese vuestra conversación, repetidmela; que no ignoro lo que son las desgracias, para poder escucharlas.
Latin (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Latin (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 1183 focus
O vos omnes, quicumque adestis, cives (sermonem enim vesirum audivi, quum ostio propinquarem, egressura, ut Palladis delubrum adirem, deaeque adhiberem preces;
et claustra quidem occlusae portae laxabam, quum aures mihi ferit rumor domestici mali, metuque perculsa revolvor supind inter famularum manus, et linquor animo), age quis fuit iste sermo, rursum dicite! malorum enim nequaquam inexperta audiam.
English (Lewis Campbell, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Lewis Campbell, 1906)) — 1183 focus
Ye men of Thebes, the tidings met mine ear
As I was coming forth to visit Pallas
With prayerful salutation. I was loosening
1185
The bar of the closed gate, when the sharp sound
Of mine own sorrow smote against my heart,
And I fell back astonied on my maids
And fainted. But the tale? tell me once more;
I am no novice in adversity.
German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review)) — 1183 focus
Ihr Bürger alle, welches Wort vernahm ich doch,
Als ich zum Ausgang eilte, hülfesuchend mich
Der Göttin Pallas mit Gelübd' und Fleh'n zu nah'n?
1150
Gerade wollt' ich an dem wohlverschloss'nen Thor
Die Riegel öffnen, als der Ruf von meinem Leid
Das Ohr mir traf; voll Grauen sank ich hinter mich
Zurück in meiner Frauen Arm, von Schreck betäubt.
Doch wie die Kunde lautet, sagt nochmals mir an:
1155
Denn nicht in Leiden ungeübt vernehm' ich sie.
English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759)) — 1183 focus
Messenger, Chorus.
EuB. O citizens ! as to Minerva's fane
E'en now I went to pay my vows, the doors
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I burst, and heard imperfectly the sound
Of most disastrous news which touched me near.
Breathless I fell amidst the virgin throng ;
And now I come to know the dreadful truth :
Whate'er it be, I'll hear it now ; for, oh !
1190
I am no stranger to calamity.
Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889)) — 1183 focus
¡Oh, vosotros, ciudadanos, cuantos estáis aquí presentes! He oído algo de lo que aquí se ha dicho en el momento en que salía para ir á ofrecer mis súplicas á Palas. Abrí las puer. tas de palacio y el rumor de las degracias de mi casa hirió mis oidos; trémula y yerta de espanto, caí desmayada en los brazos de mis siervas. Ahora, decidme lo que se ha contado; repctidmelo, todo lo escucharé, ya no hay desgracia que me quede por probar en el mundo.
German (F. Hölderlin, 1804) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (F. Hölderlin, 1804)) — 1183 focus
English (Sir Richard Jebb1, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb1, 1904)) — 1183 focus
People of Thebes, I heard your words as I was going forth, to salute the goddess Pallas with my prayers. Even as I was loosing the fastenings of the gate, to open it, the message of a household woe smote on mine ear: I sank back, terror-stricken, into 1190 the arms of my handmaids, and my senses fled. But say again what the tidings were; I shall hear them as one who is no stranger to sorrow.
English (Robert Potter, 1788) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Robert Potter, 1788)) — 1183 focus
EURY. Ye citizens of Thebes, I heard the voice!
Of rumour, as I came forth, at the shrine on
Of Pallas suppliant to address my vows:/
The bars, that closed the gates, it chanced my hand
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Was opening, at that instant the report
Of ill my house affecting reach'd my ear.
With terror struck in my attendants armsl
I sunk, and life forsook my fainting frame.
But tell me all; repeat the mournful tale;
1190
In woes not unexperienced I shall hear.
where exposed and torn by dogs
The wretched corse of Polynices lay:
Him (our vows first to Proserpine addressid
And Pluto, that propitious now their wrath
1195
They would avert) in hallow'd lavers cleansed
On a green pyre of new-pluck'd boughs we laid,
And burn'd the mangled relics; then raised high
The earth contiguous, a sepulchral mound.
Thence to the virgin's cavern'd rock we go,
1200
The nuptial couch of Death; when of our train
One heard the distant sounds of loud laments, .....,
Which echoed round that bridal bed of Death ill
With obséquies unhonour'd: to his dord
He bears the tidings. As the king approach'd
1205
The hollow murmurs of al voice resound; n la Al
Deeply he sigh'd, and spoke these mournful words,
"Are then my fears prophetic? Do I tread,t/
"Unhappy me, a path that leads to woe
"The most afflicting? Moaning to my ear
1210
"Comes my son's voice. You, that attend me, go,
"Haste to the cavern, from its mouth remove...
"The rock's obstructing mass; stand near, observe
« If Hamon’s voice I hear, or by the gods
" I am deceived." Obeying these commands,
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Utter'd in deep despair, we went, we look'd,
And in the cave's extreme recess beheld
The virgin strangled; round her neck the zone,
English (Sir Richard Jebb2, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb2, 1904)) — 1155-1260 focus

Commentary

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

mvp-comment-681-1 The general sense is: ‘and on the heights of Parnassus thou holdest thy revels by night amid the Corycian Nymphs, who brandish torches.’

mvp-comment-681-2 διλόφου πέτρας 1

mvp-comment-681-3 By ὑπὲρ διλόφου πέτρας 2

mvp-comment-681-4 λιγνύς 3 στέροψ 4

mvp-comment-681-5 ὄπωπε 5

mvp-comment-681-6 Κωρύκιαι … Νύμφαι 6

mvp-comment-681-7 The simple transposition, στείχουσι νύμφαι 7

mvp-comment-682-1 Κασταλίας τε νᾶμα 8

mvp-comment-683-1 καί σε Νυσαίων 9

mvp-comment-684-1 κισσήρεις ὄχθαι 10

mvp-comment-684-2 for the fact was noticed in antiquity (schol. on Aratus Phaenom. 33). Thus Pind. P. 1. 64

ὄχθαις ὕπο Ταϋγέτου
: Eur. Suppl. 655
Ἰσμήνιον πρὸς ὄχθον
.—The
κισσός
was to Dionysus what the
δάφνη
was to Apollo. The crowning with ivy (
κίσσωσις
) was a regular incident of his festivals: he was called
κισσεύς, κισσοκόμης, κισσοχαίτης
. Cp. Alciphron Epist. 2. 3 § 10
μὰ τὸν Διόνυσον καὶ τοὺς Βακχικοὺς αὐτοῦ κισσούς
. F. 3. 767
hedera est gratissima Baccho.

mvp-comment-685-1 πολυστάφυλος 11

mvp-comment-685-2 πέμπει 12

mvp-comment-686-1 The words ἀμβρότων ἐπέων 13

mvp-comment-686-2 εὐαζόντων 14

mvp-comment-687-1 τὰν ἐκ πασᾶν 15 τάν 16 ἐκ 17 ὑπερτάταν 18

mvp-comment-688-1 κεραυνίᾳ 19

mvp-comment-689-1 ἔχεται ἐπὶ βιαίας νόσου 20 ὑπό 21 ἔχεται 22 βιαι^ας 23 ἀμὰ 24 πόλις 25

mvp-comment-689-2 πάνδαμος 26

mvp-comment-690-1 μολεῖν 27

mvp-comment-690-2 καθαρσίῳ 28

mvp-comment-690-3 κλιτύν 29

mvp-comment-690-4 πορθμόν 30

mvp-comment-690-5 στονόεντα 31

mvp-comment-691-1 πνειόντων 32 πνειόντων 33

mvp-comment-691-2 Other conjectures are: (1) ἰὼ πύρπνων ἄστρων χοραγὲ καὶ νυχίων 34 πῦρ πνεόντων χοραγὲ καὶ νυχίων 35 χοραγὲ ἄστρων 36

mvp-comment-691-3 originally preceded

χοραγέ
. Neglect of elision is frequent in L: thus, to take one play only, the O. C. supplies these examples: 266
τἀμά· ἐπεὶ
: 694
ἔστιν δὲ οἶον
: 883
τάδε. ὕβρις
: 915
κύρια ὦδε
: 1026
θηρῶντα ἡ τύχη
: 1210
ἴσθι, ἐάνπερ
. The deletion of καί 37 νυχίων 38

mvp-comment-691-4 χοράγ’ ἄστρων 39

mvp-comment-691-5 νυχίων φθεγμάτων 40

mvp-comment-692-1 παῖ Διὸς 41

mvp-comment-693-1 ὦναξ 42

mvp-comment-694-1 Θυίαισιν 43

mvp-comment-694-2 χορεύουσι 44

mvp-comment-695-1 ταμίαν 45

mvp-comment-695-2 Ἴακχον 46

mvp-comment-697-1 δόμων 47 Κάδμου 48 πάροικοι 49 δόμων 50

mvp-comment-698-1 οὐκ ἔστι 51 στάντα 52 στάντα 53

mvp-comment-698-2 βίον 54 ὁποίᾳ 55

mvp-comment-699-1 μάντις … τῶν καθεστώτων 56 ἐφεστώτων 57

mvp-comment-700-1 ὡς ἐμοί 58

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

1126-1127. mvp-comment-649-1 στέροψ.. λιγνύς The blinding torch-flame hath beheld. There is an opposition of sound rather than of sense in στέροψ ὄπωπε. Cp. Eur. Phoen. 226, ὦ λάμπουσα πέτρα πυρὸς | δικόρυφον σέλας ὑπὲρ ἄκρων | Βακχείων Διονύσου, where the succeeding lines also deserve to be compared with the description of Mount Parnassus in this passage. The fabled fire on Mount Parnassus was commonly explained of the torches of the Maenads, and seems to have been so understood by Sophocles.

1128. mvp-comment-650-1 Κωρύκιαι So named from the Corycian cave on Mount Parnassus. Aesch. Eum. 22, σέβω δὲ νύμφας, ἔνθα Κωρυκὶς πέτρα, | κοίλη, φίλορνις, δαιμόνων ἀναστροφαί.

1130. mvp-comment-651-1 Κασταλίας.. νᾶμα (1) Sc.

1130. mvp-comment-651-2 ὄπωπέ σε, or (2) ἔνθα Κασταλίας νᾶμα, sc. ἐστί. Probably the latter (2).

1131-1136. mvp-comment-652-1 Νυσαίων. ἀγυιάς Bacchus is imagined as leaving the throng of revellers, who follow in his train along the Nysaean slopes in Euboea, and as crossing the sounding frith' (1. 1145) to visit the streets of Thebes.

1133. mvp-comment-653-1 χλωρά Lustrous with fresh green. The word suggests the richness of young vegetation, especially of the vine. See Essay on Language p. 103. Stephanus in Νύσαι .. δεκάτη ἐν Εὐβοίᾳ, ἔνθα διὰ μιᾶς ἡμέρας τὴν ἄμπελόν φασιν ἀνθεῖν, καὶ τὸν βότρυν πεπαίνεσθαι.

1134. mvp-comment-654-1 By adding *τῶν in this line, and reading ῥεῖθρον in 1124, we obtain ーーム​, a diiambus followed by an epitritus, and a trochee or spondee.

1140. mvp-comment-655-1 νύν, νῦν, as in Pindar.

1141. mvp-comment-656-1 έχεται Cp. Plat. Legg. 10. 887 Ε, ἐν συμφοραῖς παντοίαις ἐχομένων.

1141. mvp-comment-656-2 ἐπὶ νόσου] See Essay on Language § 19. p. 27.

1143. mvp-comment-657-1 μολεῖν

Der Inf. giebt etwas kindlich frommes.
Wecklein.

1146-1147. mvp-comment-658-1 πῦρ πνεόντων *ἄστρων χοραγέ*] Cp. Ar. Ran. 341-342, Ιακχ᾽, ὦ Ιακχε, νυκτέρου τελετῆς φωσφόρος ἀστήρ. Bacchus is lord and leader of the sights and sounds of night. The stars in their courses hold revel with his torchbearers: the voices of the night are wakened by their shouting. This is more probable than an allusion to the mystical notion that Bacchus was an impersonation of the sun. I have ventured to retain καί, transposing the two preceding words and scanning πνεόντων as a spondee by synizesis.

1146-1147. mvp-comment-658-2 πυρπνεόντων may be taken as a compound. Cp. Hom. Il. 7. 310, άελπτεοντες.

1149. mvp-comment-659-1 παῖ Διὸς γένεθλον i.e. as Hermann says, παῖ Διὸς γεγώς. Ever youthful offspring of Zeus.

1150. mvp-comment-660-1 Ναξίαις i.e. From Ariadne's island.

1152. mvp-comment-661-1 τὸν ταμίαν The word ταμίας, as appears from its use in Pindar, had in Doric Greek the special meaning of Lord (cp. the Anglo-Saxon Hlafford): and may have been a favourite attribute of Bacchus in this sense.

1156. mvp-comment-662-1 στάντα (1) The participle is to be taken closely with the adjective = τινὰ στάσιν ἔχοντα, as in the gloss of V. There is no present position of a human life, in which I would praise it, or find fault with it. Cp. Phil. 174, ἐπὶ παντί τῳ χρείας ἱσταμένῳ, where the participle is similarly added in epexegesis. Or, χώρας] χέων Ε.

1156. mvp-comment-662-2 ἐμοί, ποτέ] 1164. θάλλων] possibly, (2) No settled condition, or (3), like στάντες τ' ἐς ὀρθών, Ο. Τ. 50, No life that is in prosperity. (1) is confirmed by 1160.

1160. mvp-comment-663-1 And no one can prophesy to mortals respecting their present state:' i.e. Whether it will continue or change.