Sophocles, Antigone, 108

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Ismene

Ecquaenam mihi, ate destitutae, iucunda sit vita?

Antigone. Sophocles. Berlin. 1806.

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Current edition Experimental

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

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Editions (12)

Greek (L. Benloew, 1858) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (L. Benloew, 1858)) — 108 focus

φυγάδα ¹ πρόδρομον ὀξυτέρῳ

Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 108 focus

κινήσασα χαλινῷ,

Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 108 focus

φυγάδα πρόδρομον ὀξυτέρῳ

Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879)) — 108 focus

κινήσασα χαλινῷ·

Greek (A. Colonna, 1978) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Colonna, 1978)) — 108 focus

φυγάδα πρόδρομον, ὀξυτόρῳ

Greek (A. Dain, 1955) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Dain, 1955)) — 108.mvp-line-108 focus

φυγάδα πρόδρομον, ὀξυτέρῳ

Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979)) — 108 focus

φυγάδα πρόδρομον ὀξυτόρωι

Greek (G. Hermann, 1830) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (G. Hermann, 1830)) — 108 focus

φυγάδα πρόδρομον ὀξυτέρῳ

Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906)) — 107 focus

φυγάδα πρόδρομον ὀξυτέρῳ κινήσασα χαλινῷ· 6

Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924)) — 108.mvp-line-108 focus

φυγάδα πρόδρομον ὀξυτέρῳ.

Antigone (OCR draft) Experimental (Antigone) — 107 focus

φυγάδα πρόδρομον ὀξυτέρῳ κινήσασα χαλινῷ·

Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949)) — 108 focus

φυγάδα πρόδρομον ὀξυτέρωι

Translations (10)

German (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 108 focus

CHOR

Sieh dort vor dem Thor Ismene'n sich nahn,

die Thränen der Lieb' um die Schwester vergiefst;

ein düster Gewölk um die Brauen entstellt
515

ihr glühend Gesicht,

und benetzet die liebliche Wange.

Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921)) — 108 focus

ISMENA

¿Y cómo la vida, privada yo de ti, me será querida?

English (Lewis Campbell, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Lewis Campbell, 1906)) — 108 focus

ISM

What joy have I in life when thou art gone?

German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review)) — 110 focus

Ihn, den Polyneikes' feindlicher Zwist
110

Zu dem Kampfe geführt auf unsere Gau'n,

Der kühn, wie der Aar,

Hellkreischend herab flog über das Land,

Von der Schwinge gedeckt weißglänzenden Schnee's,

Mit der Rüstungen viel
115

Und mähnenumflatterten Helmen.

Erste Gegenstrophe.

English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759)) — 108 focus

Antigone

Alas!

It gives me pain when I am forced to speak

80 bitterly against thee.

Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889)) — 108 focus

ISMENA

Me confieso con la venia de mi hermana culpable: me declaro cómplice suya; recaiga sobre mí también la acusación.

German (F. Hölderlin, 1804) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (F. Hölderlin, 1804)) — 108 focus

ANTIGONAE

Den Kreon, liebe den. Dem weisest du den Wegja.

English (Sir Richard Jebb1, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb1, 1904)) — 108 focus

Ismene

And what life is dear to me, bereft of thee?

English (Robert Potter, 1788) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Robert Potter, 1788)) — 108 focus

Haemon

There is no greater ill: beneath its rage

English (Sir Richard Jebb2, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb2, 1904)) — 100-160 focus

Enter the Chorus on the right.

Chorus

Shaft of the sun, fairest light of all that have dawned on Thebes of the seven gates, you have shone forth at last, eye of golden day, advancing over Dirce’s streams!
100

You have goaded with a sharper bit the warrior of the white shield, who came from Argos in full armor, driving him to headlong retreat.
105

110

Chorus

He set out against our land because of the strife-filled claims of Polyneices, and like a screaming eagle he flew over into our land, covered by his snow-white wing,
110

with a mass of weapons and crested helmets.
115

117

Chorus

He paused above our dwellings; he gaped around our sevenfold portals with spears thirsting for blood; but he left

before his jaws were ever glutted with our gore, or before the Fire-god’s pine-fed flame had seized our crown of towers.
120

So fierce was the crash of battle swelling about his back, a match too hard to win for the rival of the dragon.
125

127

Chorus

For Zeus detests above all the boasts of a proud tongue. And when he saw them advancing in a swollen flood,

arrogant their clanging gold, he dashed with brandished fire one who was already starting to shout victory when he had reached our ramparts.
130

134

Chorus

Staggered, he fell to the earth with a crash,

torch in hand, a man possessed by the frenzy of the mad attack, who just now was raging against us with the blasts of his tempestuous hate. But his threats did not fare as he had hoped, and to the other enemies mighty Ares dispensed each their own dooms with hard blows,
135

Ares, our mighty ally at the turning-point.
140

141

Chorus

For the seven captains, stationed against an equal number at the seven gates, left behind their brazen arms in tribute to Zeus the turner of battle—all but the accursed pair who, born of one father and one

mother, set against each other their spears, both victorious, and who now share in a common death.
145

148

Chorus

But since Victory whose name is glory has come to us, smiling in joy equal to the joy of chariot-rich Thebes ,

let us make for ourselves forgetfulness after the recent wars, and visit all the temples of the gods with night-long dance and song. And may Bacchus, who shakes the earth of Thebes , rule our dancing!
150

155

Chorus

But look, the king of the land is coming here, Creon, the son of Menoeceus, our new ruler in accordance with the new circumstances fated by the gods. What policy is he setting in motion,
155

that he has proposed this special conference of elders, and summoned it by a general mandate?
160

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.

Sophocles Antigone 108

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Ismene

Ecquaenam mihi, ate destitutae, iucunda sit vita?

Current edition Experimental

CHOR

Sieh dort vor dem Thor Ismene'n sich nahn,

die Thränen der Lieb' um die Schwester vergiefst;

ein düster Gewölk um die Brauen entstellt
515

ihr glühend Gesicht,

und benetzet die liebliche Wange.

ISMENA

¿Y cómo la vida, privada yo de ti, me será querida?

ISM

What joy have I in life when thou art gone?

Ihn, den Polyneikes' feindlicher Zwist
110

Zu dem Kampfe geführt auf unsere Gau'n,

Der kühn, wie der Aar,

Hellkreischend herab flog über das Land,

Von der Schwinge gedeckt weißglänzenden Schnee's,

Mit der Rüstungen viel
115

Und mähnenumflatterten Helmen.

Erste Gegenstrophe.

Antigone

Alas!

It gives me pain when I am forced to speak

80 bitterly against thee.

ISMENA

Me confieso con la venia de mi hermana culpable: me declaro cómplice suya; recaiga sobre mí también la acusación.

ANTIGONAE

Den Kreon, liebe den. Dem weisest du den Wegja.

Ismene

And what life is dear to me, bereft of thee?

Haemon

There is no greater ill: beneath its rage

Chorus

He set out against our land because of the strife-filled claims of Polyneices, and like a screaming eagle he flew over into our land, covered by his snow-white wing,
110

with a mass of weapons and crested helmets.
115

Chorus

For Zeus detests above all the boasts of a proud tongue. And when he saw them advancing in a swollen flood,

arrogant their clanging gold, he dashed with brandished fire one who was already starting to shout victory when he had reached our ramparts.
130

Chorus

But look, the king of the land is coming here, Creon, the son of Menoeceus, our new ruler in accordance with the new circumstances fated by the gods. What policy is he setting in motion,
155

that he has proposed this special conference of elders, and summoned it by a general mandate?
160

Commentary

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Ismene Ecquaenam mihi, ate destitutae, iucunda sit vita?

Current edition Experimental

CHOR Sieh dort vor dem Thor Ismene'n sich nahn, die Thränen der Lieb' um die Schwester vergiefst; ein düster Gewölk um die Brauen entstellt 515 ihr glühend Gesicht, und benetzet die liebliche Wange.

ISMENA ¿Y cómo la vida, privada yo de ti, me será querida?

ISM What joy have I in life when thou art gone?

Ihn, den Polyneikes' feindlicher Zwist 110 Zu dem Kampfe geführt auf unsere Gau'n, Der kühn, wie der Aar, Hellkreischend herab flog über das Land, Von der Schwinge gedeckt weißglänzenden Schnee's, Mit der Rüstungen viel 115 Und mähnenumflatterten Helmen. Erste Gegenstrophe.

Antigone Alas! It gives me pain when I am forced to speak 80 bitterly against thee.

ISMENA Me confieso con la venia de mi hermana culpable: me declaro cómplice suya; recaiga sobre mí también la acusación.

ANTIGONAE Den Kreon, liebe den. Dem weisest du den Wegja.

Ismene And what life is dear to me, bereft of thee?

Haemon There is no greater ill: beneath its rage

Chorus He set out against our land because of the strife-filled claims of Polyneices, and like a screaming eagle he flew over into our land, covered by his snow-white wing, 110 with a mass of weapons and crested helmets. 115

Chorus For Zeus detests above all the boasts of a proud tongue. And when he saw them advancing in a swollen flood, arrogant their clanging gold, he dashed with brandished fire one who was already starting to shout victory when he had reached our ramparts. 130

Chorus But look, the king of the land is coming here, Creon, the son of Menoeceus, our new ruler in accordance with the new circumstances fated by the gods. What policy is he setting in motion, 155 that he has proposed this special conference of elders, and summoned it by a general mandate? 160

Commentary

Stable identifiers

Ismene

Ecquaenam mihi, ate destitutae, iucunda sit vita?

CHOR

Sieh dort vor dem Thor Ismene'n sich nahn,

die Thränen der Lieb' um die Schwester vergiefst;

ein düster Gewölk um die Brauen entstellt
515

ihr glühend Gesicht,

und benetzet die liebliche Wange.

ISMENA

¿Y cómo la vida, privada yo de ti, me será querida?

ISM

What joy have I in life when thou art gone?

Ihn, den Polyneikes' feindlicher Zwist
110

Zu dem Kampfe geführt auf unsere Gau'n,

Der kühn, wie der Aar,

Hellkreischend herab flog über das Land,

Von der Schwinge gedeckt weißglänzenden Schnee's,

Mit der Rüstungen viel
115

Und mähnenumflatterten Helmen.

Erste Gegenstrophe.

Antigone

Alas!

It gives me pain when I am forced to speak

80 bitterly against thee.

ISMENA

Me confieso con la venia de mi hermana culpable: me declaro cómplice suya; recaiga sobre mí también la acusación.

ANTIGONAE

Den Kreon, liebe den. Dem weisest du den Wegja.

Ismene

And what life is dear to me, bereft of thee?

Haemon

There is no greater ill: beneath its rage

Chorus

He set out against our land because of the strife-filled claims of Polyneices, and like a screaming eagle he flew over into our land, covered by his snow-white wing,
110

with a mass of weapons and crested helmets.
115

Chorus

For Zeus detests above all the boasts of a proud tongue. And when he saw them advancing in a swollen flood,

arrogant their clanging gold, he dashed with brandished fire one who was already starting to shout victory when he had reached our ramparts.
130

Chorus

But look, the king of the land is coming here, Creon, the son of Menoeceus, our new ruler in accordance with the new circumstances fated by the gods. What policy is he setting in motion,
155

that he has proposed this special conference of elders, and summoned it by a general mandate?
160