Sophocles Antigone 250

τροχοῖσιν, ἀλλ᾽ ἄσημος οὑργάτης τις ἦν.
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Antigone. Sophocles. Berlin. 1806.

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Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) (Greek) (Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806))

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Editions (11)
Greek (L. Benloew, 1858) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (L. Benloew, 1858)) — 250 focus
καὶ χέρσος ἀῤῥὼξ, οὐδ᾽ ἐπημαξευμένη
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Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 250 focus
δείκνυσι, πᾶσι θαῦμα δυσχερὲς παρῆν.
250
Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879)) — 250 focus
πλῆγμ᾽, οὐ δικέλλης ἐκβολή· στύφλος δὲ γῆ
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Greek (A. Colonna, 1978) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Colonna, 1978)) — 250 focus
πλῆγμ᾽, οὐ δικέλλης ἐκβολή στύφλος δὲ γῆ
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Greek (A. Dain, 1955) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Dain, 1955)) — 250.mvp-line-250 focus
πλῆγμ’, οὐ δικέλλης ἐκβολή· στύφλος δὲ γῆ
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Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979)) — 250 focus
πλῆγμ᾽, οὐ δικέλλης ἐμβολή. στύφλος δὲ γῆ
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Greek (G. Hermann, 1830) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (G. Hermann, 1830)) — 250 focus
πλῆγμ᾽, οὐ δικέλλης ἐκβολή· στύφλος δὲ γῆ
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Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906)) — 250 focus
πλῆγμ᾽, οὐ δικέλλης ἐκβολή· στύφλος δὲ γῆ
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Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924)) — 250.mvp-line-250 focus
πλῆγμ᾽, οὐ δικέλλης ἐκβολή· στύφλος δὲ γῆ
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Antigone (OCR draft) Experimental (Antigone) — 250 focus
πλῆγμʼ, οὐ δικέλλης ἐκβολή. στύφλος δὲ γῆ
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Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949)) — 250 focus
πλῆγμ᾽, οὐ δικέλλης ἐκβολή· στύφλος δὲ γῆ
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Translations (10)
German (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 250 focus
CHOR.
Durch Vaters Hand, wie? oder durch die eigne Hand?
Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921)) — 250 focus
EL MENSAJERO
Yo mismo estoy asombrado; pero abrigo la esperanza de que, enterada ella de la muerte del hijo, no creerá que deba llorarlo por las calles de la ciudad; sino que, yéndose a casa, anunciará a las esclavas la desgracia de la familia para que lo lloren; porque no está tan falta de juicio que cometa una atrocidad.
Latin (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Latin (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 250 focus
Chorus
Nescio: quanquam mihi et silens stupor grave quid portendere videtur, et temeraria eiulatio.
English (Lewis Campbell, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Lewis Campbell, 1906)) — 250 focus
CR
Enter CREON with the body of HAEMON . 1261
O error of my insensate soul,
Stubborn, and deadly in the fateful end!
O ye who now behold
Slayer and slain of the same kindred blood!
O bitter consequence of seeming-wise decree!
1265
Alas, my son!
Strange to the world wert thou, and strange the fate
That took thee off, that slew thee; woe is me!
Not for thy rashness, but my folly. Ah me!
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)) — 250 focus
Creon
Scene IV.
Messenger, Chorus.
Creun enters, hearing the body of HiEMON.
Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889)) — 250 focus
CORO
1146 ¡Oh, tú, mancebo, que conduces el coro de los astros; tú que presides los cantos nocturnos, hijo de Júpiter, comparece ante nosotros acompañado de las hijas de Naxos, de las Thyadas que celebran en danzas delirantes 4 Baco su soberano.
German (F. Hölderlin, 1804) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (F. Hölderlin, 1804)) — 250 focus
KREON
Ich hab’s gelernet in Furcht. An meinem Haupt aber
Ein Gott dort, dort mich
Mit grolser Schwere gefalst
1330
Und geschlagen hat, und geschüttelt auf wilden Wegen.
Ach! ach!
Io! ihr Mühen der Menschen! ihr Mühsamen !
Dritte Scene DER BOTE. KREON. DER CHOR.
English (Sir Richard Jebb1, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb1, 1904)) — 250 focus
Messenger
1257 Well, I will enter the house, and learn whether indeed she is not hiding some repressed purpose in the depths of a passionate heart. Yea, thou sayest well: excess of silence, too, may have a perilous meaning. Exit MESSENGER. Enter CREON, on the spectators’ left, with attendants, carrying the shrouded body of HAEMON on a bier.
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.

250. mvp-comment-154-1 στύφλος .. καὶ χέρσος Hard and bare. χέρσος γῆ is untilled land, and so here, Undisturbed by implements of husbandry. Cp. infr. 773, 1197.