Sophocles, Antigone, 121

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Ismene

Non enim, o rex, ne quae quidem fuit olim, manet mens adflictis in rebus, sed movetur statu.

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)) — 121 focus

αἱμάτων γένυσιν ¹

Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 121 focus

πευκάενθ' Ἥφαιστον ἑλεῖν.

Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 121 focus

αἱμάτων γένυσι

Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879)) — 121 focus

αἱμάτων γένυσιν

Greek (A. Colonna, 1978) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Colonna, 1978)) — 121 focus

αἱμάτων γένυσιν πλησθῆ-

Greek (A. Dain, 1955) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Dain, 1955)) — 121.mvp-line-121 focus

αἱμάτων γένυσιν πλησθῆ-

Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979)) — 121 focus

αἱμάτων γένυσιν πλησθῆ-

Greek (G. Hermann, 1830) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (G. Hermann, 1830)) — 121 focus

αἱμάτων γένυσιν

Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906)) — 121 focus

αἱμάτων γένυσιν πλησθῆναί τε καὶ στεφάνωμα 4

Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924)) — 121.mvp-line-121 focus

αἱμάτων γένυσιν πλησθῆ-

Antigone (OCR draft) Experimental (Antigone) — 121 focus

πευκάενθʼ Ἥφαιστον ἑλεῖν. τοῖος ἀμφὶ νῶτʼ ἐτάθη

Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949)) — 121 focus

αἱμάτων γένυσιν πλησθῆ-

Translations (10)

German (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 121 focus

ANTIGONE

Errette dich nur; nicht beneid' ich dieses dir.
540

Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921)) — 121 focus

ISMENA

Nunca, ¡oh rey!, ni siquiera la razón con que Naturaleza nos dota al nacer persiste en los desgraciados, sino que se les altera.

English (Lewis Campbell, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Lewis Campbell, 1906)) — 121 focus

ISM

My lord, in misery, the mind one hath

Is wont to be dislodged, and will not stay.

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)) — 121 focus

Creon

Then think not of it. For she is no more.

Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889)) — 121 focus

ANTÍGONA

Tú preferiste vivir: yo el morir.

German (F. Hölderlin, 1804) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (F. Hölderlin, 1804)) — 121 focus

KREON

Dir, weil du schlimm mit Schlimmen dich gestellt.

English (Sir Richard Jebb1, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb1, 1904)) — 121 focus

Ismene

Yea, O king, such reason as nature may have given abides not with the unfortunate, but goes astray.

English (Robert Potter, 1788) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Robert Potter, 1788)) — 121 focus

Haemon

Now argues.

And for thee, and for myself,

And for th' infernal gods.

She shall not live

To be thy bride.

And if she dies, alone

She shall not die.

What, is thy daring pride

Ris'n to this height, to threats ?

What threats, to plead."

Against a rash decree ?

Of wisdom void

Thou shalt be taught by sorrow to be wise....

HEM. I will not say my father is unwise.

Thou woman's slave, forbear; urge me no more.

HEM. Is it thy will to speak, and nothing hear?

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

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 121

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Ismene

Non enim, o rex, ne quae quidem fuit olim, manet mens adflictis in rebus, sed movetur statu.

Current edition Experimental

ANTIGONE

Errette dich nur; nicht beneid' ich dieses dir.
540

ISMENA

Nunca, ¡oh rey!, ni siquiera la razón con que Naturaleza nos dota al nacer persiste en los desgraciados, sino que se les altera.

ISM

My lord, in misery, the mind one hath

Is wont to be dislodged, and will not stay.

Creon

Then think not of it. For she is no more.

ANTÍGONA

Tú preferiste vivir: yo el morir.

KREON

Dir, weil du schlimm mit Schlimmen dich gestellt.

Ismene

Yea, O king, such reason as nature may have given abides not with the unfortunate, but goes astray.

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 Non enim, o rex, ne quae quidem fuit olim, manet mens adflictis in rebus, sed movetur statu.

Current edition Experimental

ANTIGONE Errette dich nur; nicht beneid' ich dieses dir. 540

ISMENA Nunca, ¡oh rey!, ni siquiera la razón con que Naturaleza nos dota al nacer persiste en los desgraciados, sino que se les altera.

ISM My lord, in misery, the mind one hath Is wont to be dislodged, and will not stay.

Creon Then think not of it. For she is no more.

ANTÍGONA Tú preferiste vivir: yo el morir.

KREON Dir, weil du schlimm mit Schlimmen dich gestellt.

Ismene Yea, O king, such reason as nature may have given abides not with the unfortunate, but goes astray.

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

Non enim, o rex, ne quae quidem fuit olim, manet mens adflictis in rebus, sed movetur statu.

ANTIGONE

Errette dich nur; nicht beneid' ich dieses dir.
540

ISMENA

Nunca, ¡oh rey!, ni siquiera la razón con que Naturaleza nos dota al nacer persiste en los desgraciados, sino que se les altera.

ISM

My lord, in misery, the mind one hath

Is wont to be dislodged, and will not stay.

Creon

Then think not of it. For she is no more.

ANTÍGONA

Tú preferiste vivir: yo el morir.

KREON

Dir, weil du schlimm mit Schlimmen dich gestellt.

Ismene

Yea, O king, such reason as nature may have given abides not with the unfortunate, but goes astray.

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