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Antigone

Pulchris iis quidem tibi visis; verum hisce ego sapere mihi videbar.

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)) — 117 focus

στὰς δ᾽ ὑπὲρ μελάθρων, φονώ-

Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 117 focus

σαισιν ἀμφιχανὼν κύκλῳ

Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 117 focus

στὰς δ᾽ ὑπὲρ μελάθρων, φονί-

Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879)) — 117 focus

στὰς δ᾽ ὑπὲρ μελάθρων *φονώσαισιν ἀμφιχανὼν κύκλῳ

Greek (A. Colonna, 1978) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Colonna, 1978)) — 117 focus

στὰς δ᾽ ὑπὲρ μελάθρων φονώ-

Greek (A. Dain, 1955) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Dain, 1955)) — 117.mvp-line-117 focus

στὰς δ’ ὑπὲρ μελάθρων φονώ-

Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979)) — 117 focus

στὰς δ᾽ ὑπὲρ μελάθρων φονώ-

Greek (G. Hermann, 1830) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (G. Hermann, 1830)) — 117 focus

στὰς δ᾽ ὑπὲρ μελάθρων φονώ-

Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906)) — 117 focus

στὰς δ᾽ ὑπὲρ μελάθρων, φονώσαισιν ἀμφιχανὼν κύκλῳ 1

Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924)) — 117.mvp-line-117 focus

στὰς δ᾽ ὑπὲρ μελάθρων φονώ-

Antigone (OCR draft) Experimental (Antigone) — 117 focus

στὰς δʼ ὑπὲρ μελάθρων φονώσαισιν ἀμφιχανὼν κύκλῳ

Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949)) — 117 focus

στὰς δ᾽ ὑπὲρ μελάθρων φονώ-

Translations (10)

German (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 117 focus

ANTIGONE

Den Kreon frage: nur für ihn ja sorgest du.

Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921)) — 117 focus

ANTIGONA

Por buenas las tuviste tú; pero las mias crei yo que eran más prudentes.

English (Lewis Campbell, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Lewis Campbell, 1906)) — 117 focus

ANT

Yes, your prudence is admired

On earth. My wisdom is approved below.

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
120

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)) — 117 focus

Creon

Both seem deprived

Of reason. One indeed was ever thus.

Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889)) — 117 focus

ANTÍGONA

¡Ah! este sarcasmo lo empleo con hondo pesar.

German (F. Hölderlin, 1804) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (F. Hölderlin, 1804)) — 117 focus

ISMENE

Allein der Fehl ist für uns beide gleich,
580

English (Sir Richard Jebb1, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb1, 1904)) — 117 focus

Antigone

Qne_world approved thy wisdom; another, mine.

English (Robert Potter, 1788) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Robert Potter, 1788)) — 117 focus

Chorus
724cont2

If well what prudence dictates he hath urged,

Thee it behoves, O king, to hear: and thou

To him attend. The words of both are wise.
725

Shall I then, at my age shall I be taught
725

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-159-1 μοῦνος ¹ πρὶν ἂν . . δηλώσητε ² κρεμαστοί ³ ζῶντες κρεμαστοί ⁴

mvp-comment-159-2 δηλώσηθ’ ⁵

mvp-comment-159-3 ὕβριν ⁶

mvp-comment-160-1 ἵν’ … ἁρπάζητε ⁷

mvp-comment-160-2 τὸ κέρδος ⁸ ἔνθεν οἰστέον ⁹

mvp-comment-160-3 μάθηθ’ ¹⁰

mvp-comment-160-4 ἐξ ἅπαντος ¹¹ τὸ κερδαίνειν ¹²

mvp-comment-160-5

πιεῖν

. In O. C. 807

ἑξ ἅπαντος εὖ λέγει

=speaks well on any theme (starting from anything).

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.

308-311. mvp-comment-181-1 οὐχ ὑμὶν ῞Αιδης.. ἁρπάζητε] Death shall not alone suffice for you, but first you shall be hung up alive to show the heinousness of this offence, that for the future, in your wrongful gettings, you may know better where to look for gain. See Essay on Language § 37. p. 64. There is a confusion of two constructions: (1) οὐχ ὑμὶν ῞Αιδης ἀρκέσει, τo which μοῦνος is added for emphasis, i. e. οὐ θανεῖσθε μόνον: and (2) οὐ θανεῖσθε πρίν, κ.τ.λ. Cp. 1064 ff., and see Aj. 106 ff., θανεῖν γὰρ αὐτὸν οὐτί πω θέλω, κ.τ.λ. The Φύλαξ is to take this message to his fellows.

313-314. mvp-comment-182-1 The sentence is redundant, either the article or ἢ σεσωσμένους being unnecessary. Weckl. reads σεσωμένους. For the article, cp. Eur. Phoen. 606, τοῦ μέρους ἔχων τὸ πλεῖον,

Sophocles Antigone 117

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Antigone

Pulchris iis quidem tibi visis; verum hisce ego sapere mihi videbar.

Current edition Experimental

ANTIGONE

Den Kreon frage: nur für ihn ja sorgest du.

ANTIGONA

Por buenas las tuviste tú; pero las mias crei yo que eran más prudentes.

ANT

Yes, your prudence is admired

On earth. My wisdom is approved below.

Creon

Both seem deprived

Of reason. One indeed was ever thus.

ANTÍGONA

¡Ah! este sarcasmo lo empleo con hondo pesar.

ISMENE

Allein der Fehl ist für uns beide gleich,
580

Antigone

Qne_world approved thy wisdom; another, mine.

Chorus
724cont2

If well what prudence dictates he hath urged,

Thee it behoves, O king, to hear: and thou

To him attend. The words of both are wise.
725

Shall I then, at my age shall I be taught
725

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 Pulchris iis quidem tibi visis; verum hisce ego sapere mihi videbar.

Current edition Experimental

ANTIGONE Den Kreon frage: nur für ihn ja sorgest du.

ANTIGONA Por buenas las tuviste tú; pero las mias crei yo que eran más prudentes.

ANT Yes, your prudence is admired On earth. My wisdom is approved below.

Creon Both seem deprived Of reason. One indeed was ever thus.

ANTÍGONA ¡Ah! este sarcasmo lo empleo con hondo pesar.

ISMENE Allein der Fehl ist für uns beide gleich, 580

Antigone Qne_world approved thy wisdom; another, mine.

Chorus 724cont2 If well what prudence dictates he hath urged, Thee it behoves, O king, to hear: and thou To him attend. The words of both are wise. 725 Shall I then, at my age shall I be taught 725

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

Pulchris iis quidem tibi visis; verum hisce ego sapere mihi videbar.

ANTIGONE

Den Kreon frage: nur für ihn ja sorgest du.

ANTIGONA

Por buenas las tuviste tú; pero las mias crei yo que eran más prudentes.

ANT

Yes, your prudence is admired

On earth. My wisdom is approved below.

Creon

Both seem deprived

Of reason. One indeed was ever thus.

ANTÍGONA

¡Ah! este sarcasmo lo empleo con hondo pesar.

ISMENE

Allein der Fehl ist für uns beide gleich,
580

Antigone

Qne_world approved thy wisdom; another, mine.

Chorus
724cont2

If well what prudence dictates he hath urged,

Thee it behoves, O king, to hear: and thou

To him attend. The words of both are wise.
725

Shall I then, at my age shall I be taught
725

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