Sophocles Antigone 254

ἐλθόντος, οὐ σπάσαντος ἐξεφαίνετο.

Antigone. Sophocles. Leipzig. 1884.

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Editions (11)
Greek (L. Benloew, 1858) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (L. Benloew, 1858)) — 254 focus
ὁ μὲν γὰρ ἠφάνιστο, τυμβήρης μὲν οὔ·
Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 254 focus
λεπτὴ δ᾽, ἄγος φεύγοντος ὥς, ἐπῆν κόνις·
Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879)) — 254 focus
δείκνυσι, πᾶσι θαῦμα δυσχερὲς παρῆν.
Greek (A. Colonna, 1978) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Colonna, 1978)) — 254 focus
δείκνυσι, πᾶσι θαῦμα δυσχερὲς παρῆν·
Greek (A. Dain, 1955) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Dain, 1955)) — 254.mvp-line-254 focus
δείκνυσι, πᾶσι θαῦμα δυσχερὲς παρῆν·
Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979)) — 254 focus
δείκνυσι, πᾶσι θαῦμα δυσχερὲς παρῆν
Greek (G. Hermann, 1830) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (G. Hermann, 1830)) — 254 focus
δείκνυσι, πᾶσι, θαῦμα δυσχερὲς παρῆν.
Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906)) — 254 focus
δείκνυσι, πᾶσι θαῦμα δυσχερὲς παρῆν.
Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924)) — 254.mvp-line-254 focus
δείκνυσι, πᾶσι θαῦμα δυσχερὲς παρῆν.
Antigone (OCR draft) Experimental (Antigone) — 254 focus
δείκνυσι, πᾶσι θαῦμα δυσχερὲς παρῆν.
Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949)) — 254 focus
δείκνυσι, πᾶσι θαῦμα δυσχερὲς παρῆν.
Translations (10)
German (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 254 focus
CHOR.
Dort seh' ich schon die Arme nahn, Eurydike,
Kreons Gemahlin: aus dem Hause trat sie vor,
sei's hörend von dem Sohne, sei's von Ohngefähr.
1125
Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921)) — 254 focus
CREONTE
1261 ¡Oh crueles y mortales pecados de mis desatentados consejos! ¡Oh vosotros que veis al muerto y al matador en una misma familia! ¡Oh infaustas resoluciones mias mías! ¡Oh hijo! ¡Tan joven, y de prematura muerte, ayay, ayay, has muerto! Te has ido por mis funestas resoluciones, no por las tuyas.
Latin (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Latin (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 254 focus
Chorus
1270 Quanquam sero, videris tamen deüm iustitiam agnovisse!
English (Lewis Campbell, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Lewis Campbell, 1906)) — 254 focus
CR
1281
What more of woe,
Or what more woeful, sounds anew from thee?
German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review)) — 237 focus
Was ist's, warum befiel dich solche Bangigkeit?
English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759)) — 254 focus
Messenger
Scene V.
Creon, Chorus.
Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889)) — 254 focus
EL CORO
¿Quién es el asesino? ¿Cuál es la victima? Habla.
German (F. Hölderlin, 1804) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (F. Hölderlin, 1804)) — 254 focus
KREON
Io! Io! du schmuziger Hafen
1340
Der Unterwelt! was? mich nun? was? verderbest du mich?
Io! der übelberichtet mir
Hersandte das Unglük, führest solch Geschrei du?
Weh! Weh! du hast zu Grunde den Mann gerichtet.
Was sprichstdu, Kind ? was bringest dumir Neues?
1345
Weh! Weh! Weh!
Geschlachtet an dem Boden liege
Des Weibs Theil über allgemeinem Zerfalle.
English (Sir Richard Jebb1, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb1, 1904)) — 254 focus
Creon
Ah me, I have learned the bitter lesson! But then, methinks, oh then, some god smote me from above with crushing weight, and hurled me into ways of cruelty, woe is me,—overthrowing and trampling on my joy! Woe, woe, for the troublous toils of men! Enter MESSENGER from the house.
English (Sir Richard Jebb2, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb2, 1904)) — 332-380 focus

Commentary

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

223-330. mvp-comment-136-1 The half-comic or rustic character of the watchman in this play is an extension of the common character of the messenger, whose natural rudeness of speech and thought brings into greater prominence the horror or pathos of the events he describes. The grotesqueness disappears when he speaks of the action of Antigone in 407-440. The employment of this artifice by Sophocles arises from the same motive to which Shakespeare gave a far wider range in such creations as the gravediggers in Hamlet, and the rural fellow in Antony and Cleopatra. The Messenger in the Trachiniae, the Corinthian in the Oedipus Tyrannus, Menelaus in the Ajax, the pretended Shipmaster in the Philoctetes, afford the same sort of contrast to the more tragic personages: and the superstition of the Coloniatae may be compared with the cowardice of the Phrygian slave in the Orestes of Euripides.

223-330. mvp-comment-136-2 The vulgarity of the common-place Athenian of the fifth century в.с. takes the form of misplaced subtlety of wit. Cp. Shak. Hamlet, 5. 1 ,

We must speak by the card, or equivocation will undo us. The age is grown so picked, that the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier, he galls his kibe.

254. mvp-comment-158-1 θαῦμα δυσχερές Α sight of wonder and dismay.