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Antigone

Tu enim optasti vivere; ego autem mori.

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)) — 115 focus

πολλῶν μεθ’ ὅπλων,

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Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 115 focus

ξύν θ’ ἱπποκόμοις κορύθεσσιν.

115

Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 115 focus

πολλῶν μεθ᾽ ὅπλων,

115

Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879)) — 115 focus

πολλῶν μεθ᾽ ὅπλων

115

Greek (A. Colonna, 1978) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Colonna, 1978)) — 115 focus

πολλῶν μεθ᾽ ὅπλων

115

Greek (A. Dain, 1955) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Dain, 1955)) — 115.mvp-line-115 focus

πολλῶν μεθ’ ὅπλων

115

Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979)) — 115 focus

πολλῶν μεθ᾽ ὅπλων

115

Greek (G. Hermann, 1830) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (G. Hermann, 1830)) — 115 focus

πολλῶν μεθ' ὅπλων,

115

Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906)) — 115 focus

πολλῶν μεθ᾽ ὅπλων

115

Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924)) — 115.mvp-line-115 focus

πολλῶν μεθ᾽ ὅπλων

115

Antigone (OCR draft) Experimental (Antigone) — 115 focus

πολλῶν μεθʼ ὅπλων

115

Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949)) — 115 focus

πολλῶν μεθ᾽ ὅπλων

115

Translations (10)

German (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 115 focus

ANTIGONE

Nicht sollst mit mir du sterben, noch was unberührt

du liefsest, dir zueignen: mein Tod ist genug.

Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921)) — 115 focus

ANTIGONA

Tú, en verdad, preferiste vivir, y yo morir.

English (Lewis Campbell, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Lewis Campbell, 1906)) — 115 focus

ANT

Life was the choice you made. Mine was to die.
555

German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review)) — 117 focus

Ueber den Dächern stehend, umgähnt'

Er den siebenthorigen Mund

Mit blutlechzenden Speeren rings,

Und floh, eh' in unserem Blut
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Sich sein gieriger Schlund

Schwelgend füllt und ehe den Kranz der Thürme

Flammenglut des Hephästos fraß.

Also braust' im Rücken umher

Donner des Kriegs; schwer wurde der Kampf
125

Dem anstürmenden Drachen.¹

English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759)) — 115 focus

Ismene
Thus to fulfil thy prophecy ?

The crime

Was mutual ; mutual be the punishment.

Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889)) — 115 focus

ANTÍGONA

Interrógalo á Creonte: ¿no le guardabas tantos miramientos?

German (F. Hölderlin, 1804) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (F. Hölderlin, 1804)) — 115 focus

ISMENE

Doch was ich sprach zu dir, ist auch dabei doch.

English (Sir Richard Jebb1, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb1, 1904)) — 115 focus

Antigone

Thy choice was to live; mine, to die. #4 oe of

English (Robert Potter, 1788) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Robert Potter, 1788)) — 115 focus

Chorus
HÆMON, CREON, CHORUS. 681

We judge, if not by age of sense bereft,

What thou hast said, with wisdom thou hast said.

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.
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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 (R. C. Jebb) (OCR draft) (Commentary (R. C. Jebb))

mvp-comment-158-1 Ζεύς ¹

mvp-comment-158-2 ὅρκιος ²

mvp-comment-158-3 τὸν αὐτόχειρα ³ τάφου = ταφῆς ⁴

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.

303. mvp-comment-180-1 He implies, This cannot be their first act of disloyalty.' The unity of time is not to be pressed in the Antigone: see below, 11. 1064 ff. Else this suspicion of inveterate disaffection, against one who has reigned only for a few hours, would be too extravagant. The elders were selected for their loyalty. supr. 165 ff.

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Antigone

Tu enim optasti vivere; ego autem mori.

Current edition Experimental

ANTIGONE

Nicht sollst mit mir du sterben, noch was unberührt

du liefsest, dir zueignen: mein Tod ist genug.

ANTIGONA

Tú, en verdad, preferiste vivir, y yo morir.

ANT

Life was the choice you made. Mine was to die.
555

Ismene
Thus to fulfil thy prophecy ?

The crime

Was mutual ; mutual be the punishment.

ANTÍGONA

Interrógalo á Creonte: ¿no le guardabas tantos miramientos?

ISMENE

Doch was ich sprach zu dir, ist auch dabei doch.

Antigone

Thy choice was to live; mine, to die. #4 oe of

Chorus
HÆMON, CREON, CHORUS. 681

We judge, if not by age of sense bereft,

What thou hast said, with wisdom thou hast said.

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

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Antigone Tu enim optasti vivere; ego autem mori.

Current edition Experimental

ANTIGONE Nicht sollst mit mir du sterben, noch was unberührt du liefsest, dir zueignen: mein Tod ist genug.

ANTIGONA Tú, en verdad, preferiste vivir, y yo morir.

ANT Life was the choice you made. Mine was to die. 555

Ismene Thus to fulfil thy prophecy ? The crime Was mutual ; mutual be the punishment.

ANTÍGONA Interrógalo á Creonte: ¿no le guardabas tantos miramientos?

ISMENE Doch was ich sprach zu dir, ist auch dabei doch.

Antigone Thy choice was to live; mine, to die. #4 oe of

Chorus HÆMON, CREON, CHORUS. 681 We judge, if not by age of sense bereft, What thou hast said, with wisdom thou hast said.

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

Antigone

Tu enim optasti vivere; ego autem mori.

ANTIGONE

Nicht sollst mit mir du sterben, noch was unberührt

du liefsest, dir zueignen: mein Tod ist genug.

ANTIGONA

Tú, en verdad, preferiste vivir, y yo morir.

ANT

Life was the choice you made. Mine was to die.
555

Ismene
Thus to fulfil thy prophecy ?

The crime

Was mutual ; mutual be the punishment.

ANTÍGONA

Interrógalo á Creonte: ¿no le guardabas tantos miramientos?

ISMENE

Doch was ich sprach zu dir, ist auch dabei doch.

Antigone

Thy choice was to live; mine, to die. #4 oe of

Chorus
HÆMON, CREON, CHORUS. 681

We judge, if not by age of sense bereft,

What thou hast said, with wisdom thou hast said.

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