Sophocles Antigone 129

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Ismene
O carissime Haemon, ut te despicatui habet pater!

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)) — 129 focus
πολλῷ ῥεύματι προσνισσομένους
Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 129 focus
παλτῷ ῥιπτεῖ πυρὶ βαλβίδων
Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 129 focus
πολλῷ ῥεύματι
Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879)) — 129 focus
πολλῷ ῥεύματι προσνισσομένους,
Greek (A. Colonna, 1978) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Colonna, 1978)) — 129 focus
πολλῷ ῥεύματι προσνισομένους,
Greek (A. Dain, 1955) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Dain, 1955)) — 129.mvp-line-129 focus
πολλῷ ῥεύματι προσνισσομένους,
Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979)) — 129 focus
πολλῶι ῥεύματι προσνισσομένους
Greek (G. Hermann, 1830) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (G. Hermann, 1830)) — 129 focus
πολλῷ ῥεύματι προσνισσομένους
Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906)) — 129 focus
πολλῷ ῥεύματι προσνισσομένους,
Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924)) — 129.mvp-line-128 focus
ὑπερεχθαίρει, καί σφας ἐσιδὼν
Antigone (OCR draft) Experimental (Antigone) — 129 focus
πολλῷ ῥεύματι προσνισσομένους
Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949)) — 129 focus
πολλῶι ῥεύματι προσνισσομένους
Translations (10)
German (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 129 focus
ISMENE
Selbst dem, o König, wem Verstand entsproſs, verbleibt
550
er nicht in Unglücksnöthen, sondern weicht von ihm.
Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921)) — 129 focus
ANTIGONA
¡Oh queridísimo Hemón, cómo te insulta tu padre!
English (Lewis Campbell, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Lewis Campbell, 1906)) — 129 focus
ANT
O dearest Haemon! how thy father wrongs thee!
German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review)) — 127 focus
Denn schwer haßt Zeus der vermessenen Zung'
Hochfahrenden Stolz; und als er ihr Heer,
Den heranwogenden Strom, schimmernd in Gold,
Im Geräusch unbändigen Trozes ersah,
130
Da traf er den Mann mit geschwungenem Strahl, 1
Der schon an die Höh'n,
Siegsruf anstimmend, empordrang.
Zweite Strophe.
English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759)) — 129 focus
Creon
Their nuptials shall be finished by death.
575
Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889)) — 129 focus
ISMENA
Pero sin ella... ¿cómo he de soportar la vida?
German (F. Hölderlin, 1804) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (F. Hölderlin, 1804)) — 129 focus
ISMENE
Dem nimmst du sie, der deines Lebens Theil ist.
English (Sir Richard Jebb1, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb1, 1904)) — 129 focus
Antigone
Haemon, beloved! How thy father wrongs thee!
English (Robert Potter, 1788) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Robert Potter, 1788)) — 129 focus
Creon
Deep in a yawning cave beneath a rock
883
From human footsteps far removed, alive
988
I will enclose her, and a little food
Only allow, that no unhallow'd stain
Pollute the state. There to th' infernal king,
1033
Of all the gods whom she reveres alone,
Pouring her vows she haply will obtain
1064
That she die not; or rather learn at length:
How little reverence to the dead avails. o. TON
English (Sir Richard Jebb2, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb2, 1904)) — 100-160 focus

Commentary

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

mvp-comment-166-1 ‘Yes, (you have done it,) and that, too, at the cost of betraying,’ etc. The particle γε 1 καὶ ταῦτα 2 προδούς 3

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.