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CHOR.

Auch der Danaë Leib mufste des Himmels

Licht, die hehre Gestalt, missen im erzdichten

Str. 1.

Haus, und es barg sie fesselnd düsterer Gruft Kerker.
910

Und doch war von Geschlecht edel sie, o Kind, Kind,

und wahrt' hegend des Zeus strömender Saat goldenen Schatz.

Ja stets waltet die Allmacht des Geschicks furchtbar;

Reichthümer nicht, noch Heeresmacht,

nicht feste Burg entrinnen ihr,
915

noch flutumpeitscht die dunklen Schiffe.

Gegenstr. 1.

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)) — 944 focus

ἔτλα καὶ ¹ Δανάας οὐράνιον φῶς

ἀλλάξαι δέμας ἐν χαλκοδέτοις ²
940

αὐλαῖς· κρυπτομένα δ᾽ ἐν

τυμβήρει θαλάμῳ κατεζεύχθη·

καίτοι γενεᾷ τίμιος, ὦ παῖ, παῖ,

καὶ Ζηνὸς ταμιεύεσκε

γονὰς χρυσορύτους.
945

ἀλλ᾽ ἁ μοιριδία τις δύνασις δεινά·

οὔτ᾽ ³ ἄν νιν ὄμβρος, οὔτ᾽ Ἄρης,

οὐ πύργος, οὐχ ἁλίκτυποι

κελαιναὶ νᾶες ἐκφύγοιεν.

a

Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 944 focus

ἔτλα καὶ Δανάας οὐράνιον φῶς

ἀλλάξαι δέμας ἐν χαλκοδέτοις αὐλαῖς·

κρυπτομένα δ᾽ ἐν τυμβήρει θαλάμῳ κατεζεύχθη.
910

καίτοι καὶ γενεᾷ τίμιος, ὦ παῖ, παῖ,

καὶ Ζηνὸς ταμιεύεσκε γονὰς χρυσορύτους.

ἀλλ᾽ ἁ μοιριδία τις δύνασις δεινά·

οὔτ᾽ ἄν νιν ὄλβος οὔτ' Ἄρης,

οὐ πύργος, οὐχ ἁλίκτυποι
915

κελαιναὶ νᾶες ἐκφύγοιεν.

1

Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 944 focus

ἔτλα καὶ Δανάας οὐράνιον φῶς

ἀλλάξαι δέμας ἐν χαλκοδέτοις αὐλαῖς·
930

κρυπτομένα δ᾽ ἐν τυμβήρει

θαλάμῳ κατεζεύχθη·

καὶ τοι γενεᾷ τίμιος, ὦ παῖ, παῖ,

καὶ Ζηνὸς ταμιεύεσκε γονὰς χρυσορύτους.

ἀλλ’ ἁ μοιριδία τις δύνασις δεινὰ
935

οὔτ᾽ Ἄρης, οὐ πύργος, οὐχ ἁλίκτυποι

κελαιναὶ νᾶες ἐκφύγοιεν.

1

Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879)) — 944 focus

ἔτλα καὶ Δανάας οὐράνιον φῶς

ἀλλάξαι δέμας ἐν χαλκοδέτοις αὐλαῖς·
945

κρυπτομένα δ᾽ ἐν τυμβήρει θαλάμῳ κατεζεύχθη

καίτοι καὶ γενεᾷ τίμιος, ὦ παῖ παῖ,

καὶ Ζηνὸς ταμιεύεσκε γονὰς χρυσορύτους.
950

ἀλλ᾽ ἁ μοιριδία τις δύνασις δεινά·

οὔτ᾽ ἄν νιν ὄλβος οὔτ᾽ Ἄρης, οὐ πύργος, οὐχ ἁλίκτυποι

κελαιναὶ νᾶες ἐκφύγοιεν.

ἀντ. α΄.

Greek (A. Colonna, 1978) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Colonna, 1978)) — 944 focus

ἔτλα καὶ Δανάας οὐράνιον φῶς

ἀλλάξαι δέμας ἐν χαλκοδέτοις αὐλαῖς·
945

κρυπτομένα δ᾽ ἐν

τυμβήρει θαλάμῳ κατεζεύχθη·

καίτοι καὶ γενεᾷ τίμιος, ὦ παῖ, παῖ,

καὶ Ζηνὸς ταμιεύεσκε γονὰς χρυσορύτους.
950

ἀλλ᾽ ἁ μοιριδία τις δύνασις δεινά·

οὔτ' ἄν νιν ὄλβος οὔτ᾽ Ἄρης,

οὐ πύργος, οὐχ ἁλίκτυποι

κελαιναὶ νᾶες ἐκφύγοιεν.

1

Greek (A. Dain, 1955) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Dain, 1955)) — 944 focus

ἔτλα καὶ Δανάας οὐράνιον φῶς

ἀλλάξαι δέμας ἐν χαλκοδέτοις αὐλαῖς·
945

κρυπτομένα δ’ ἐν

τυμβήρει θαλάμῳ κατεζεύχθη·

καίτοι καὶ γενεᾷ τίμιος, ὦ παῖ, παῖ,

καὶ Ζηνὸς ταμιεύεσκε γονὰς χρυσορύτους.
950

ἀλλ’ ἁ μοιριδία τις δύνασις δεινά·

οὔτ’ ἄν νιν ὄλβος οὔτ’ Ἄρης,

οὐ πύργος, οὐχ ἁλίκτυποι

κελαιναὶ νᾶες ἐκφύγοιεν.

1

Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979)) — 944 focus

ἔτλα καὶ Δανάας οὐράνιον φῶς

ἀλλάξαι δέμας ἐν χαλκοδέτοις
945

αὐλαῖς· κρυπτομένα δ᾽ ἐν

τυμβήρει θαλάμωι κατεζεύχθη.

καίτοι καὶ γενεᾶι τίμιος, ὦ παῖ, παῖ,

καὶ Ζηνὸς ταμιεύεσκε γονὰς χρυσορύτους.
950

ἀλλ᾽ ἁ μοιριδία τις δύνασις δεινά·

οὔτ᾽ ἄν νιν ὄλβος οὔτ᾽ Ἄρης,

οὐ πύργος, οὐχ ἁλίκτυποι

κελαιναὶ νᾶες ἐκφύγοιεν.

1

Greek (G. Hermann, 1830) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (G. Hermann, 1830)) — 944 focus

ἔτλα καὶ Δανάας οὐράνιον φῶς
935

ἀλλάξαι δέμας ἐν χαλκοδέτοις

αὐλαῖς· κρυπτομένα δ᾽ ἐν

τυμβήρει θαλάμῳ κατεζεύχθη.

καίτοι καὶ γενεᾷ τίμιος, ὦ παῖ, παῖ,

καὶ Ζηνὸς ταμιεύεσκε γονὰς χρυσορύτους.
940

ἀλλ᾽ ἁ μοιριδία τις δύνασις δεινά·

οὔτ᾽ ἄν νιν ὄλβος, οὔτ᾽ Ἄρης,

οὐ πύργος, οὐχ ἁλίκτυποι

κελαιναὶ νᾶες ἐκφύγοιεν.

1

Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906)) — 944 focus

ἔτλα καὶ Δανάας οὐράνιον φῶς 1

ἀλλάξαι δέμας ἐν χαλκοδέτοις αὐλαῖς· 2
945

κρυπτομένα δ᾽ ἐν τυμβήρει θαλάμῳ κατεζεύχθη· 3

καίτοι καὶ γενεᾷ τίμιος, ὦ παῖ παῖ, 4

καὶ Ζηνὸς ταμιεύεσκε γονὰς χρυσορύτους. 5
950

ἀλλ᾽ ἁ μοιριδία τις δύνασις δεινά· 6

οὔτ᾽ ἄν νιν ὄλβος οὔτ᾽ Ἄρης, οὐ πύργος, οὐχ ἁλίκτυποι 7

κελαιναὶ νᾶες ἐκφύγοιεν. 8

1

Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924)) — 944 focus

ἔτλα καὶ Δανάας οὐράνιον φῶς

ἀλλάξαι δέμας ἐν χαλκοδέτοις
945

αὐλαῖς· κρυπτομένα δ᾽ ἐν

τυμβήρει θαλάμῳ κατεζεύχθη·

καίτοι καὶ γενεᾷ τί-

μιος, ὦ παῖ παῖ,

καὶ Ζηνὸς ταμιεύεσκε γονὰς χρυσορύτους.
950

ἀλλ᾽ ἁ μοιριδία τις δύνασις δεινά·

οὔτ᾽ ἄν νιν ὄλβος οὔτ᾽ Ἄρης,

οὐ πύργος, οὐχ ἁλίκτυποι

κελαιναὶ νᾶες ἐκφύγοιεν.

Antigone (OCR draft) Experimental (Antigone) — 944 focus

Χορός

ἔτλα καὶ Δανάας οὐράνιον φῶς

ἀλλάξαι δέμας ἐν χαλκοδέτοις αὐλαῖς·
945

κρυπτομένα δʼ ἐν τυμβήρει θαλάμῳ κατεζεύχθη·

καίτοι καὶ γενεᾷ τίμιος, ὦ παῖ παῖ,

καὶ Ζηνὸς ταμιεύεσκε γονὰς χρυσορύτους.
950

ἀλλʼ ἁ μοιριδία τις δύνασις δεινά·

οὔτʼ ἄν νιν ὄλβος οὔτʼ Ἄρης, οὐ πύργος, οὐχ ἁλίκτυποι

κελαιναὶ νᾶες ἐκφύγοιεν.

Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949)) — 944 focus

ἔτλα καὶ Δανάας οὐράνιον φῶς

ἀλλάξαι δέμας ἐν χαλκοδέτοις
945

αὐλαῖς· κρυπτομένα δ᾽ ἐν

τυμβήρει θαλάμωι κατεζεύχθη·

καίτοι καὶ γενεᾶι τίμιος, ὦ παῖ παῖ,

καὶ Ζηνὸς ταμιεύεσκε γονὰς χρυσορύτους.
950

ἀλλ᾽ ἁ μοιριδία τις δύνασις δεινά·

οὔτ᾽ ἄν νιν ὄλβος οὔτ᾽ Ἄρης,

οὐ πύργος, οὐχ ἁλίκτυποι

κελαιναὶ νᾶες ἐκφύγοιεν.

Translations (10)

Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921)) — 944 focus

También sufrió Dánae cambiar la celestial luz por las tinieblas en mansión ceñida de bronce, y escondida en funerario tálamo está aprisionada. Y en verdad que por su nacimiento era ilustre, ¡oh niña, niña!, y guardaba en su seno los gérmenes de la lluvia de oro de Júpiter. Pero la fatalidad tiene una fuerza terrible ni las riquezas, ni Marte, ni las torres, ni las negras naves que sufren el embate de las olas la pueden evitar.

Latin (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Latin (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 944 focus

Sustinuit etiam Daneë coelesti lumine privari in aereo.

conclavi, abditaque sepulcralis thalami iugum tulit; atqui o nata, nata, genere erat nobilis, gremioque recondita servabat auriílua Iovis semina. At ingens est fati vis; quam nec fortis vel Mars, vel turris, neque undisonae nigrae naves effugiant.

English (Lewis Campbell, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Lewis Campbell, 1906)) — 944 focus

Even Danaë’s beauty left the lightsome day.

Closed in her strong and brass-bound tower she lay

In tomb-like deep confine.
945

Yet she was gendered, O my child!

From sires of noblest line,

And treasured for the Highest the golden rain.
950

Fated misfortune hath a power so fell:

Not wealth, nor warfare wild,

Nor dark spray-dashing coursers of the main

German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review)) — 944 focus

Auch der Danaë Reiz mußte des Himmels

(sie wird abgeführt.)

Lichtstrahl einst mit der Nacht tauschen im erzdichten
925

Haus und verborgen

Im grabähnlichen Ruhgemach wohnen.

Und doch war sie, o Kind, Kind, von Geburt edel,

Und trug hegend im Schooß goldener Saat Ströme von Zeus.

Ja, wohl ist des Geschicks Obergewalt furchtbar;
930

Nie kann der Reichthum, Ares nie,¹

Nicht Vesten ihr, kein dunkles Schiff

Entflieh'n, das rings umbraust die Woge.

Erste Gegenstrophe.

English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759)) — 944 focus

Chorus.

Remember what fair Danae endured,

Condemned to change he^iven's cheerful light
945

For scenes of horror and of night,

Within a brazen tower long time immured ;

Yet was the maid of noblest race,
950

And honoured e'en with Jove's embrace ;

But, oh ! when fate decrees a mortal's woe

Naught can reverse the doom or stop the blow —

Nor heaven above, nor earth and seas below.

Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889)) — 944 focus

Del propio modo se vió privada Danae de la claridad de la luz, en su prisión de bronce, oculta á todos los ojos y cautiva en su sepul. cro,—á pesar de ser ilustre su origen, hija mía, y de haber fecundado su seno Júpiter transformado en lluvia de oro. Pero el poder del Destino es incontrastable¹: sin que puedan librarse de él ni la riqueza, ni el ficro Marte, ni los fuertes castillos, ni las nayes cn cuyos negros costados se estrellan las olas.

Antistrofa 1.a

CORO

German (F. Hölderlin, 1804) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (F. Hölderlin, 1804)) — 944 focus

CHOR

Der Leib auch Danaes mufste,

Statt himmlischen Lichts , in Gedult

Das eiserne Gitter haben.

Iın Dunkel lag sie

In der Todtenkammer, in Fesseln ;
985

Obgleich an Geschlechtadel, o Kind!

Sie zählete dem Vater der Zeit

Die Stundenschläge, die goldnen.

Aber des Schiksaals ist furchtbar die Kraft.

Der Reegen nicht, der Schlachtgeist
990

Und der Thurm nicht, und die meerumrauschten

Fliehn sie, die schwarzen Schiffe.

English (Sir Richard Jebb1, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb1, 1904)) — 944 focus

And bonds tamed the son of Dryas, swift to wrath, that king of the Edonians ; so paid he for his frenzied taunts, when, by the will of Dionysus, he was pent in a rocky prison. There the fierce exuberance of his 960 madness slowly passed away. That man learned to know the god, whom in his frenzy he had provoked with mockeries; for he had sought to quell the godpossessed women, and the Bacchanalian fire; and he angered the Muses that love the flute. 2

English (Robert Potter, 1788) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Robert Potter, 1788)) — 944 focus

The same impetuous spirit rules her yet.

English (Sir Richard Jebb2, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb2, 1904)) — 944-985 focus

Chorus

So too endured Danae in her beauty to change

the light of the sky for brass-bound walls, and in that chamber, both burial and bridal, she was held in strict confinement. And yet was she of esteemed lineage, my daughter,
945

and guarded a deposit of the seed of Zeus that had fallen in a golden rain. But dreadful is the mysterious power of fate—there is no deliverance from it by wealth or by war, by towered city, or dark, sea-beaten ships.
950

955

Chorus

And Dryas’s son, the Edonian king swift to rage, was tamed in recompense for his frenzied insults, when, by the will of Dionysus, he was shut in a rocky prison. There the fierce and swelling force of his madness trickled away.
955

That man came to know the god whom in his frenzy he had provoked with mockeries. For he had sought to quell the god-inspired women and the Bacchanalian fire,
960

and he angered the Muses who love the flute.
965

966

Chorus

And by the waters of the Dark Rocks, the waters of the twofold sea, are the shores of Bosporus and the Thracian city Salmydessus,

where Ares, neighbor of that city, saw the accursed, blinding wound inflicted on the two sons of Phineus by his savage wife. It was a wound that brought darkness to the hollows, making them crave vengeance
970

for the eyes she crushed with her bloody hands and with her shuttle for a dagger.
975

977

Chorus

Wasting away in their misery, they bewailed their miserable suffering

and their birth from their mother stripped of her marriage. But she traced her descent from the ancient line of the Erechtheids, and in far-distant caves she was raised amidst her father’s gusts. She was the child of Boreas,
980

running swift as horses over the steep hills, a daughter of gods. Yet she, too, was assailed by the long-lived Fates, my child.
985

Commentary

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

mvp-comment-541-1 πρὸς χάριν ¹

mvp-comment-542-1 Cp. Her. 3.119 , which clearly supplied, not merely the thought, but the form, of these verses:—

ἀνὴρ μέν μοι ἂν ἄλλος γένοιτο, εἰ δαίμων ἐθέλοι, καὶ τέκνα ἄλλα, εἰ ταῦτα ἀποβάλοιμι· πατρὸς δὲ καὶ μητρὸς οὐκέτι μοι ζωόντων, ἀδελφεὸς ἂν ἄλλος οὐδενὶ τρόπῳ γένοιτο

(3.119.6) . Arist. Rhet. 3.16 § 9 (if you introduce a trait of character which will seem improbable, the reason ofit should be added):

ἂν δ’ ἄπιστον ᾖ, τότε τὴν αἰτίαν ἐπιλέγειν, ὥσπερ Σοφοκλῆς ποιεῖ παράδειγμα τὸ ἐκ τῆς Ἀντιγόνης, ὅτι μᾶλλον τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ ἐκήδετο ἢ ἀνδρὸς ἢ τέκνων· τὰ μὲν γὰρ ἂν γενέσθαι ἀπολόμενα

[this=vv. 909, 910]:

μητρὸς δ’ ἐν ᾅδου κ.τ.λ.

(he then quotes 911 f., with

βεβηκότων

,—a mere slip of memory: ).

mvp-comment-542-2 Three points in these vv. are strange. (1) The gen. abs. κατθανόντος ² πόσις ³ ἀπ’ ἄλλου φωτός ⁴

mvp-comment-543-1 ἐκπροτιμήσασ’ ⁵

mvp-comment-544-1 διὰ χερῶν … λαβών ⁶

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

908. mvp-comment-515-1 νόμου Principle. Cp. supr. ll. 191, 613.

909. mvp-comment-516-1 κατθανόντος Sc. τοῦ πόσεως.

910. mvp-comment-517-1 τοῦδε τοῦ παιδός.

912. mvp-comment-518-1 οὐκ ἔστ᾿ .. ποτέ Although not strictly logical, this is much more touching and expressive than οὐκ ἔσθ' ὅπως ἀδελφὸς ἂν βλάστοι ποτέ, which it has been proposed to substitute here.

916. mvp-comment-519-1 διὰ χερῶν .. λαβών διά lit. = Between. Cp. διαλαμβάνω in Hdt., e.g. 1. 114, ἐκέλευε αὐτὸν τοὺς ἄλλους παῖδας διαλαβεῖν: Plat. Rep. В. 10. p. 615 Ε, τοὺς μὲν διαλαβόντες ἦγον.

Sophocles Antigone 944