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Fest ward Dryas' im Zorn heftig entbrannter

Sohn, Edonisches Volks König, den Hohn büfsend,

durch Dionysos' Kraft umgürtet in engen Felsbanden.'

So enttriefet der wahnsinnigen Wuth furchtbar
920

wildaufschäumender Grimm; jener empfand's, daſs er den Gott

angriff, spottend im Wahnsinne, mit Hohnworten.

Denn gottentzückten Frauen wehrt'

er und dem Flammenschein der Nacht,

und reizt' euch, flötenfrohe Musen!
925
Str. 2.

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)) — 955 focus

ζεύχθη δ᾽ ὀξύχολος παῖς ὃ Δρύαντος ¹,
950

Ἠδωνῶν βασιλεὺς, κερτομίοις

ὀργαῖς, ἐκ Διονύσου

πετρώδει κατάφρακτος ἐν δεσμῷ.

οὕτω τᾶς μανίας δεινὸν ἀποστάζει

ἀνθηρόν τε μένος. κεῖνος
955

ἐπέγνω μανίαις

ψαύων τὸν θεὸν ἐν κερτομίοις γλώσσαις.

παύεσκε μὲν γὰρ ἐνθέους

γυναῖκας ² εὔϊόν τε πῦρ,

φιλαύλους τ᾽ ἠρέθιζε Μούσας ³.
960

b

Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 955 focus

ζεύχθη δ᾽ ὀξύχολος παῖς ὁ Δρύαντος,

Ἠδωνῶν βασιλεύς, κερτομίοις ὀργαῖς,

ἐκ Διονύσου πετρώδει κατάφαρκτος ἐν δεσμῷ.

οὕτω τᾶς μανίας δεινὸν ἀποστάζει
920

ἀνθηρόν τε μένος. κεῖνος ἐπέγνω μανίαις

ψαύων τὸν θεὸν ἐν κερτομίοις γλώσσαις.

παύεσκε μὲν γὰρ ἐνθέους

γυναῖκας εὔϊόν τε πῦρ,

φιλαύλους τ’ ἠρέθιζε Μούσας.
925

2

Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 955 focus

ζεύχθη δ᾽ ὀξύχολος παῖς ὁ Δρύαντος,

Ἠδωνῶν βασιλεὺς, κηρεσίοις ὀργαῖς

ἐκ Διονύσου πετρώδει
940

κατάφρακτος ἐν δεσμῷ.

οὕτω μανίας δεινὸν ἀποστάζειν

ἀτηρόν τε μένος, κεῖνος ἐπέγνω, μανίαις

ψαύων τὸν θεὸν ἐν κερτομίαις γλώσσας.

παύεσκε μὲν γὰρ ἐνθέους γυναῖκας, Εὔϊόν τε πῦρ,
945

φιλαύλους τ᾽ ἠρέθιζε Μούσας.

2

Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879)) — 955 focus

ζεύχθη δ' *ὀξύχολος παῖς ὁ Δρύαντος,
955

Ἠδωνῶν βασιλεύς, κερτομίοις ὀργαῖς

ἐκ Διονύσου πετρώδει κατάφαρκτος ἐν δεσμῷ.

οὕτω τᾶς μανίας δεινὸν ἀποστάζει

ἀνθηρόν τε μένος, κεῖνος ἐπέγνω μανίαις
960

ψαύων τὸν θεὸν ἐν κερτομίοις γλώσσαις.

παύεσκε μὲν γὰρ ἐνθέους γυναῖκας εὔιόν τε πῦρ,

φιλαύλους τ᾿ ἠρέθιζε Μούσας.
965
β

Greek (A. Colonna, 1978) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Colonna, 1978)) — 955 focus

ζεύχθη δ᾽ ὀξύχολος παῖς ὁ Δρύαντος,
955

Ἠδωνῶν βασιλεύς, κερτομίοις ὀργαῖς,

ἐκ Διονύσου

πετρώδει κατάφαρκτος ἐν δεσμῷ.

οὕτω τᾶς μανίας δεινὸν ἀποστάζει

ἀνθηρόν τε μένος. κεῖνος ἐπέγνω μανίαις
960

ψαύων τὸν θεὸν ἐν κερτομίοις γλώσσαις.

παύεσκε μὲν γὰρ ἐνθέους

γυναῖκας εὔιόν τε πῦρ,

φιλαύλους τ᾽ ἠρέθιζε Μούσας.
965
2

Greek (A. Dain, 1955) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Dain, 1955)) — 955 focus

ζεύχθη δ’ ὀξύχολος παῖς ὁ Δρύαντος,
955

Ἠδωνῶν βασιλεύς, κερτομίοις ὀργαῖς,

ἐκ Διονύσου

πετρώδει κατάφαρκτος ἐν δεσμῷ.

οὕτω τᾶς μανίας δεινὸν ἀποστάζει

ἀνθηρόν τε μένος. κεῖνος ἐπέγνω μανίαις
960

ψαύων τὸν θεὸν ἐν κερτομίοις γλώσσαις.

παύεσκε μὲν γὰρ ἐνθέους

γυναῖκας εὔιόν τε πῦρ,

φιλαύλους τ’ ἠρέθιζε Μούσας.
965
2

Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979)) — 955 focus

ζεύχθη δ᾽ ὀξύχολος παῖς ὁ Δρύαντος,
955

Ἠδωνῶν βασιλεύς, κερτομίοις

ὀργαῖς, ἐκ Διονύσου

πετρώδει κατάφαρκτος ἐν δεσμῶι.

οὕτω τᾶς μανίας δεινὸν ἀποστάζει

ἀνθηρόν τε μένος. κεῖνος ἐπέγνω μανίαις
960

ψαύων τὸν θεὸν ἐν κερτομίοις γλώσσαις.

παύεσκε μὲν γὰρ ἐνθέους

γυναῖκας εὔιόν τε πῦρ,

φιλαύλους τ᾽ ἠρέθιζε Μούσας.
965

2

Greek (G. Hermann, 1830) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (G. Hermann, 1830)) — 955 focus

ζεύχθη δ᾽ ὀξυχόλως παῖς ὃ Δρύαντος,
945

Ἠδωνῶν βασιλεύς, κερτομίοις

ὀργαῖς, ἐκ Διονύσου

πετρώδει κατάφρακτος ἐν δεσμῷ.

οὕτω τᾶς μανίας δεινὸν ἀποστάζει

ἀνθηρόν τε μένος. κεῖνος ἐπέγνω μανίαις
950

ψαύων τὸν θεὸν ἐν κερτομίοις γλώσσαις.

παύεσκε μὲν γὰρ ἐνθέους

γυναῖκας, εὔϊον τε πῦρ,

φιλαύλους τ᾽ ἠρέθιζε Μούσας.

2

Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906)) — 955 focus

ζεύχθη δ᾽ ὀξύχολος παῖς ὁ Δρύαντος, 1
955

Ἠδωνῶν βασιλεύς, κερτομίοις ὀργαῖς, 2

ἐκ Διονύσου πετρώδει κατάφαρκτος ἐν δεσμῷ. 3

οὕτω τᾶς μανίας δεινὸν ἀποστάζει 4

ἀνθηρόν τε μένος. κεῖνος ἐπέγνω μανίαις 5
960

ψαύων τὸν θεὸν ἐν κερτομίοις γλώσσαις. 6

παύεσκε μὲν γὰρ ἐνθέους γυναῖκας εὔιόν τε πῦρ, 7

φιλαύλους τ᾽ ἠρέθιζε Μούσας. 8
965
2

Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924)) — 955 focus

ζεύχθη δ᾽ ὀξύχολος παῖς ὁ Δρύαντος,
955

Ἠδωνῶν βασιλεύς, κερτομίοις

ὀργαῖς ἐκ Διονύσου

πετρώδει κατάφαρκτος ἐν δεσμῷ.

οὕτω τᾶς μανίας δει-

νὸν ἀποστάζει
960

ἀνθηρόν τε μένος. κεῖνος ἐπέγνω μανίαις

ψαύων τὸν θεὸν ἐν κερτομίοις γλώσσαις.

παύεσκε μὲν γὰρ ἐνθέους

γυναῖκας εὔιόν τε πῦρ,

φιλαύλους τ᾽ ἠρέθιζε Μούσας.
965

Antigone (OCR draft) Experimental (Antigone) — 955 focus

Χορός

ζεύχθη δʼ ὀξύχολος παῖς ὁ Δρύαντος,
955

Ἠδωνῶν βασιλεύς, κερτομίοις ὀργαῖς

ἐκ Διονύσου πετρώδει κατάφαρκτος ἐν δεσμῷ.

οὕτω τᾶς μανίας δεινὸν ἀποστάζει

ἀνθηρόν τε μένος. κεῖνος ἐπέγνω μανίαις
960

ψαύων τὸν θεὸν ἐν κερτομίοις γλώσσαις.

παύεσκε μὲν γὰρ ἐνθέους γυναῖκας εὔιόν τε πῦρ,

φιλαύλους τʼ ἠρέθιζε Μούσας.
965

Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949)) — 955 focus

ζεύχθη δ᾽ ὀξύχολος παῖς ὁ Δρύαντος,
955

Ἠδωνῶν βασιλεύς, κερτομίοις

ὀργαῖς ἐκ Διονύσου

πετρώδει κατάφαρκτος ἐν δεσμῶι.

οὕτω τᾶς μανίας δεινὸν ἀποστάζει

ἀνθηρόν τε μένος· κεῖνος ἐπέγνω μανίαις
960

ψαύων τὸν θεὸν ἐν κερτομίοις γλώσσαις.

παύεσκε μὲν γὰρ ἐνθέους

γυναῖκας εὔιόν τε πῦρ,

φιλαύλους τ᾽ ἠρέθιζε Μούσας.

Translations (10)

Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921)) — 955 focus

Fué Fue encadenado también el irascible niño hijo de Driante y rey de los edones, quien, por su indole índo- le procaz, fué fue encerrado por Dióniso en pétrea cárcel; y así, la terrible y vigorosa violencia de su iracundia se desvanece gota a gota; reconoció él que en su furor había insultado a un dios con su ultrajante lengua. Quería, en verdad, acabar con las endemoniadas bacantes y con el báquico fuego, y ultrajaba a las musas amantes de las flautas.

Latin (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Latin (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 955 focus

Iugum accepit etiam impotens irae filius Dryantis , rex Edonum, quem Bacchus, ob infestam indolem, saxoso conclusit in carcere.

Adeo a furore destillare terribilem noxiamque poenam, adgnovit demum ille, qui rabiei petulantibus conviciis deum laesit. Enimvero entheas cohibuit feminas, sacrasque Bacchi exstinxit lampades, et tibiarum amantes irritavit Musas.

English (Lewis Campbell, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Lewis Campbell, 1906)) — 955 focus

Against great Destiny may once rebel.
955

He too in darksome durance was compressed,

King of Edonians, Dryas’ hasty son,

In eyeless vault of stone

Immured by Dionysus’ hest,
960

All for a wrathful jest.

Fierce madness issueth in such fatal flower.

He found ’twas mad to taunt the Heavenly Power,
965

German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review)) — 955 focus

Dryas' zornigen Sohn, Herrn der Edonen,¹

Als er wider den Gott frevelte voll Hohnlust,
935

Band Dionysos,

In felsstarrende Kluft ihn einzwängend.

So verbrauste des wahnwizigen Grimm's arge

Wildaufschäumende Kraft. Sener empfand's, daß er den Gott

Mit Hohnworten in wahnsinnigem Muth anfiel.
940

Denn gottentzückter Frauen Schwarm,

Des Bacchos Flammen wehrt' er keck,

Und reizt' euch, flötenfrohe Musen.²

Zweite Strophe.

English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759)) — 955 focus

The Thracian monarch, Dryas' hapless son,
955

Chained to a rock in to rment lay.

And breathed his angry soul away,

By wrath misguided, and by pride undone ;

Taught by the offended god to know
960

From foul reproach what evils flow ;

For he the rites profaned with slanderous tongue,

The holy flame he quenched, disturbed the song,

A.nd waked to wrath the Muses' tuneful throng.
965

Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889)) — 955 focus

Asi también se vió encadenado el impetuoso hijo de Dryas, rey de los Edonios; por su violencia y maneras impetuosas fué encerrado por Baco en una prisión de piedra. Tales terribles venganzas suscita el furor. Él recono- ció al fin al dios á quien, en su insania, había ofendido con acerbas blasfemias: habiendo cohibido á sus sacerdotisas delirantes y apagado el fuego sacro, y ofendido á las musas, amantes de la armonía.

Estrofa 2.a

CORO

German (F. Hölderlin, 1804) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (F. Hölderlin, 1804)) — 955 focus

Und gehascht ward zornig behend Dryas Sohn,

Der Edenen König in begeistertem Schimpf

Von Dionysos, von den stürzenden
995

Steinhaufen gedeket,

Den Wahnsinn weint’ er so fast aus,

Und den blühenden Zorn. Und kennen lernt’ er,

Im Wahnsinn tastend, den Gott mit schimpfender Zunge.

Denn stoken macht’ er die Weiber
1000

Des Gottes voll, und das evische Feuer

Und die flötenliebenden

Reizt er, die Musen.

English (Sir Richard Jebb1, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb1, 1904)) — 955 focus

And by the waters of the Dark Rocks, the waters of the twofold sea, are the shores of Bosporus, and 970 Thracian Salmydessus; where Ares, neighbour to the city, saw the accurst, blinding wound dealt to the two sons of Phineus by his fierce wife,—the wound that brought darkness to those vengeance-craving orbs, smitten with her bloody hands, smitten with her shuttle for a dagger.

2

English (Robert Potter, 1788) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Robert Potter, 1788)) — 955 focus

For this the slaves that lead her shall be taught

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-545-1 ἀνυμέναιον ¹

mvp-comment-546-1 ἀλλ’ ²

mvp-comment-546-2 πρὸς φίλων ³ ἔρημος ⁴

mvp-comment-547-1 δαιμόνων δίκην ⁵

mvp-comment-548-1 If the gods allow her to suffer for obeying them, is it not vain for her to invoke them?

mvp-comment-548-2 βλέπειν ⁶

mvp-comment-548-3 τίνα … ξυμμάχων ⁷

mvp-comment-548-4 ἐπεί γε δή ⁸

mvp-comment-548-5 τὴν δυσσέβειαν ⁹

mvp-comment-549-1 The gods are allowing her to perish. But it does not follow that they approve of her doom: for they are sometimes slow in punishing wrong ( O. C. 1536 ). Hence the dilemma, introduced

mvp-comment-549-2 by ἀλλ’ οὖν ¹⁰

mvp-comment-549-3 ἐν θεοῖς ¹¹

mvp-comment-549-4 ξυγγνοῖμεν ¹²

mvp-comment-549-5 ἡμαρτηκότες ¹³ παθόντες ¹⁴

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

918. mvp-comment-520-1 παιδείου τροφῆς The rearing of children. This is censured by Dindorf as unmaidenly: but cp. El. 963-966, καὶ τῶνδε μέντοι μηκέτ᾽ ἐλπίσῃς ὅπως | τεύξει ποτ· οὐ γὰρ ὧδ᾽ ἄβουλός ἐστ᾿ ἀνὴρ | Αἴγισθος, ὥστε σόν ποτ᾿ ἡ κἀμὸν γένος | βλαστεῖν ἐᾶσαι, πημονὴν αὐτῷ σαφή : Eur. Ion 485 ff., ἐμοὶ μὲν πλούτου τε πάρος | βασιλικῶν τ' εἶεν θαλάμων | τροφαὶ κήδειοι κεδνῶν τέκνων, κ.τ.λ. For the active sense of τροφή in the passage last quoted and in the text, see Essay on Language $ 53. p. 98, and cp. El. 1143 ff., οἴμοι τάλαινα τῆς ἐμῆς πάλαι τροφῆς | ἀνωφελήτου, τὴν ἐγὼ θάμ᾽ ἀμφί σοι | πόνῳ γλυκεῖ πάρεσχον.

919. mvp-comment-521-1 ἔρημος πρὸς φίλων For the redundant preposition, see Essay on Language §19. p. 28.

920. mvp-comment-522-1 θανάτων, which occurs only in L and M³, is very unlikely to have been changed to θανόντων in the Byzantine period. The latter is therefore probably the authentic reading, and not merely due to conjecture.

921-922. mvp-comment-523-1 ποίαν..; τί χρή ..; The suddenness of these transitions is very expressive of the agitation of Antigone's mind. Her fate leads her even to doubt the providence of the gods, but not to admit that she has done wrong. She will make the admission when death has taught it her, but not before. If her judges are wrong they will suffer too.

922-923. mvp-comment-524-1 ἐς θεοὺς .. βλέπειν Cp. El. 925, μηδὲν ἐς κεῖνόν γ᾽ ὅρα.

923. mvp-comment-525-1 ξυμμάχων ; The partitive genitive expresses with greater emphasis what might have been expressed by the accusative.

923. mvp-comment-525-2 ἐπεί γε δή The momentary doubt about the vindication of right in the world heightens the tragic effect. Cp. Phil. 428, τί δῆτα δεῖ σκοπεῖν; ib. 451, 2, ποῦ χρὴ τίθεσθαι ταῦτα, ποῦ δ᾽ αἰνεῖν, ὅταν | τὰ θεῖ᾽ ἐπαινῶν, τοὺς θεοὺς εὕρω κακούς; Trach. 1266: Aj. 950 ff.

924. mvp-comment-526-1 τὴν δυσσέβειαν The vice of impiety is confused with the blame of impiety, just as ἀρετή sometimes means a reputation for virtue. Cp. Phil. 1443, ἡ γὰρ εὐσέβεια συνθνήσκει βροτοῖς. Εςsay on L. p. 95.

925. mvp-comment-527-1 If, after all, this course of theirs is approved in heaven, when I have suffered I suppose I shall acknowledge my fault. The emphatic position of παθόντες implies, After I have suffered, but not before.' K εγ

Sophocles Antigone 955

ed. August Boeckh