Sophocles Antigone 88

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Antigone

Ex una frater matre et ab eodem patre.

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)) — 88 focus

θερμὴν ἐπὶ ψυχροῖσι καρδίαν ἔχεις.

Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 88 focus

θερμὴν ἐπὶ ψυχροῖσι καρδίαν ἔχεις.

Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 88 focus

θερμὴν ἐπὶ ψυχροῖσι καρδίαν ἔχεις.

Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879)) — 88 focus

θερμὴν ἐπὶ ψυχροῖσι καρδίαν ἔχεις.

Greek (A. Colonna, 1978) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Colonna, 1978)) — 88 focus

θερμὴν ἐπὶ ψυχροῖσι καρδίαν ἔχεις.

Greek (A. Dain, 1955) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Dain, 1955)) — 88.mvp-line-88 focus

θερμὴν ἐπὶ ψυχροῖσι καρδίαν ἔχεις.

Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979)) — 88 focus

θερμὴν ἐπὶ ψυχροῖσι καρδίαν ἔχεις.

Greek (G. Hermann, 1830) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (G. Hermann, 1830)) — 88 focus

θερμὴν ἐπὶ ψυχροῖσι καρδίαν ἔχεις.

Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906)) — 88 focus

θερμὴν ἐπὶ ψυχροῖσι καρδίαν ἔχεις.

Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924)) — 88.mvp-line-88 focus

θερμὴν ἐπὶ ψυχροῖσι καρδίαν ἔχεις.

Antigone (OCR draft) Experimental (Antigone) — 88 focus

θερμὴν ἐπὶ ψυχροῖσι καρδίαν ἔχεις.

Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949)) — 88 focus

θερμὴν ἐπὶ ψυχροῖσι καρδίαν ἔχεις.

Translations (10)

German (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 88 focus

ANTIGONE

Begehrst du Gröfsres, als den Tod mir anzuthun?

Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921)) — 88 focus

ANTIGONA

Hermano de la misma madre y del mismo padre.

English (Lewis Campbell, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Lewis Campbell, 1906)) — 88 focus

ANT

My own true brother from both parents’ blood.

German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review)) — 100 focus

Strahl des Helios, schönstes Licht,¹
100

Das der siebenthorigen Stadt

Thebe's nimmer zuvor erschien!

Du strahlst endlich, des gold'nen Tags

Aufblick, herrlich herauf,

Ueber Dirke's Fluten herüberwandelnd;²
105

Und Ihn, der mit leuchtendem Schild

Kam von Argos in voller Wehr,

Triebest du flüchtig in eilendem Lauf

Fort mit hastigem Zügel:

English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759)) — 88 focus

Antigone

Perhaps that brother thinks not so.
515

Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889)) — 88 focus

ANTÍGONA

¿Pues qué te detiene? Ningún discurso tuyo me es agradable, ni lo podría ser jamás, ni las palabras mías pueden ser gratas para tí. En cambio, ¿qué gloria más pura para mi que la de haber dado sepultura á un hermano? Todos cuantos me escuchan elogiarían mi proceder, si su lengua no estuviera encadenada por el terror. ¡Privilegio de los tiranos!: ellos pueden solos decir y hacer lo que les place.

German (F. Hölderlin, 1804) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (F. Hölderlin, 1804)) — 88 focus

KREON

Und du bringst doch Gottlosen einen Dank?

English (Sir Richard Jebb1, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb1, 1904)) — 88 focus

Antigone

Brother by the same mother and the same sire.

English (Robert Potter, 1788) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Robert Potter, 1788)) — 88 focus

Creon
STRO. 2. ANTIS. 2. 631cont2

Shall man's presumptuous pride control

Thy pow'r, O sovereign ruler of the skies?

Enfeebling sleep ne'er closed thy eyes :
640

The months of gods of toil unconscious roll;

And time, that leads old age along

Withering the vigour of the strong,

Beholds thee, glorious in immortal might,

High-throned in heav'n's resplendent light.

But this firm law, ordain'd through ages past,
645

Is now, and will for ever last;

No state to mortals shall remain

From wasting ills secure, and sorrow's sickly train.

Yet Hope oft waves her wanton wings

And flattering dreams of distant joy inspires;

Oft o'er man's gay and light desires
650

The dreary gloom of blank illusion flings;
650

Forward with eager pace he goes;

He hath no sense of latent woes,

Till on the treacherous fires he treads aghast.

Well said the Sage in ages past,

Ills they misdeem as good, whose darkling mind

The god to misery hath assigned;...
655

Heedless awhile through life they stray,

But ruin couches close to spring upon its prey.

See Hæmon comes, the youngest of thy sons,

Oppress'd with sorrow for the virgin's fate,

And grieving of his bride to be deprived.

We soon shall know more certain than the Seers.
660

style its elevation, are represented as three persons cutting down this last

branch of the imperial stem.

Vid. Valckanaer. in Eurip. Phœniss.

Hearing the sentence we have firmly pass'd

On her that should have been thy bride, my son,

Enraged against thy father art thou come,
665

Or doing this am I still dear to thee?
665

My father, [ am thine: be thou my guide

Where honour calls; to follow shall be mine.

With me no nuptials ever shall be deem'd

Of higher import than thy just commands.

Thus it behoves thee from thy heart, my son,

A father more than all things to revere.
670

This is the pride, the glory of a man,

To train obedient children in his house,

Prompt on his enemies t' avenge his wrongs,

And with the father's zeal in honour high

To hold his friends. But he, who nurtures sons

That in the hour of trial from his aid
675

Shrink spiritless and weak, hath to himself

Engender'd grief, and slaughter to his foes.

Then do not for a woman now, my son,

Debase thy noble mind; be not a slave

To pleasure: cold is the embrace of her

Who shares thy nuptial bed, if baseness taint
680

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.
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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.
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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!
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?
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Commentary

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

mvp-comment-144-1 πῦρ διέρπειν ¹

mvp-comment-144-2 θεοὺς ὁρκ. ³

mvp-comment-144-3 τὸ μήτε δρ ⁴

mvp-comment-144-4 μήτ’ είργασμένῳ ⁵ μηδ ⁶

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.