Sophocles Antigone 276

παῦσαι, πρὶν ὀργῆς καί με μεστῶσαι λέγων.

Antigone. Sophocles. Leipzig. 1884.

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Editions (11)
Greek (L. Benloew, 1858) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (L. Benloew, 1858)) — 276 focus
στέργει γὰρ οὐδεὶς ἄγγελον κακῶν ἐπῶν.
Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 276 focus
ἄναξ, ἐμοί τοι, μή τι καὶ θεήλατον
Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879)) — 276 focus
πάρειμι δ᾽ ἄκων οὐχ ἑκοῦσιν, οἶδ᾽ ὅτι·
Greek (A. Colonna, 1978) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Colonna, 1978)) — 276 focus
πάρειμι δ᾽ ἄκων οὐχ ἑκοῦσιν, οἶδ᾽ ὅτι·
Greek (A. Dain, 1955) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Dain, 1955)) — 276.mvp-line-276 focus
πάρειμι δ’ ἄκων οὐχ ἑκοῦσιν, οἶδ’ ὅτι·
Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979)) — 276 focus
πάρειμι δ᾽ ἄκων οὐχ ἑκοῦσιν, οἶδ᾽ ὅτι·
Greek (G. Hermann, 1830) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (G. Hermann, 1830)) — 276 focus
πάρειμι δ᾽ ἄκων οὐχ ἑκοῦσιν, οἶδ᾽ ὅτι.
Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906)) — 276 focus
πάρειμι δ᾽ ἄκων οὐχ ἑκοῦσιν, οἶδ᾽ ὅτι·
Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924)) — 276.mvp-line-276 focus
πάρειμι δ᾽ ἄκων οὐχ ἑκοῦσιν, οἶδ' ὅτι·
Antigone (OCR draft) Experimental (Antigone) — 276 focus
πάρειμι δʼ ἄκων οὐχ ἑκοῦσιν, οἶδʼ ὅτι·
Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949)) — 276 focus
πάρειμι δ᾽ ἄκων οὐχ ἑκοῦσιν, οἶδ᾽ ὅτι·
Translations (4)
German (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 276 focus
KREON.
Str. 4. 1317
O weh, weh! der Menschen kein andrer nimmt
1255
auf sich diese Schuld hinweg meinem Haupt.
Denn ich, ich gewiſs, ich Elender war's,
der dir gab den Tod. O kommt, Diener kommt:
fasset mich! führet in Eile weg, führet von hinnen mich!
denn nichts weiter bin ich mehr als ein Nichts!
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German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review)) — 278 focus
Schon lang, o König, überlegt mein Inneres,
Ob eine Gottheit diese That nicht angeregt.
Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889)) — 276 focus
CREONTE
Antistrofa 2.2 Comtemplando el cadáver de Eurydice, y todavía con el de Hemón en sus brazos).—¡Desgraciado de mi! 1294 veo con mis ojos mi última desdicha: ¿qué nuevo infortunio puedo ya esperar? tengo en mis brazos el cuerpo de mi hijo, y en frente el cadáver de esa infeliz... ¡Oh esposa desgraciada!... ¡hijo mio!... ¡hijo mio!...
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.