Sophocles Antigone 526

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Sed ecce pro foribus Ismena, sororis ob desiderium fundens lacrimas, nube vero frontem obducta, amabilem deformat vultum, venustas irrigans genas.

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)) — 526 focus
καὶ μὴν πρὸ πυλῶν 1 ἥδ᾽ Ἰσμήνη
φιλάδελφα κάτω δάκρυ᾽ εἰβομένη.
νεφέλη δ᾽ ὀφρύων ὕπερ αἱματόεν
525
ῥέθος αἰσχύνει,
τέγγουσ᾽ εὐῶπα παρειάν.
Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 526 focus
Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 526 focus
καὶ μὴν πρὸ πυλῶν ἥδ᾽ Ἰσμήνη
φιλάδελφα κάτω δάκρυ᾽ εἰβομένη·
520
νεφέλη δ᾽ ὀφρύων ὕπερ ἱμερτὸν
ῥέθος αἰσχύνει,
τέγγουσ᾽ εὐῶπα παρειάν.
Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879)) — 526 focus
καὶ μὴν πρὸ πυλῶν ἥδ᾽ Ἰσμήνη,
φιλάδελφα κάτω δάκρυʼ εἰβομένη·
νεφέλη δ᾽ ὀφρύων ὕπερ αἱματόεν
ῥέθος αἰσχύνει,
τέγγουσ᾽ εὐῶπα παρειάν.
530
Greek (A. Colonna, 1978) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Colonna, 1978)) — 526 focus
καὶ μὴν πρὸ πυλῶν ἥδ᾽ Ἰσμήνη,
φιλάδελφα κάτω δάκρυ᾽ εἰβομένη·
νεφέλη δ᾽ ὀφρύων ὕπερ αἱματόεν
ῥέθος αἰσχύνει,
τέγγουσ᾽ εὐῶπα παρειάν.
530
Greek (A. Dain, 1955) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Dain, 1955)) — 526 focus
καὶ μὴν πρὸ πυλῶν ἥδ’ Ἰσμήνη,
φιλάδελφα κάτω δάκρυ᾽ εἰβομένη·
νεφέλη δ’ ὀφρύων ὕπερ αἱματόεν
ῥέθος αἰσχύνει,
τέγγουσ’ εὐῶπα παρειάν.
530
Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979)) — 526 focus
καὶ μὴν πρὸ πυλῶν ἥδ᾽ Ἰσμήνη,
φιλάδελφα κάτω δάκρυ᾽ εἰβομένη·
νεφέλη δ᾽ ὀφρύων ὕπερ αἱματόεν
ῥέθος αἰσχύνει
τέγγουσ᾽ εὐῶπα παρειάν.
530
Greek (G. Hermann, 1830) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (G. Hermann, 1830)) — 526 focus
καὶ μὴν πρὸ πυλῶν ἥδ᾽ Ἰσμήνη
φιλάδελφα κάτω δάκρυ᾽ εἰβομένη·
νεφέλη δ᾽ ὀφρύων ὕπερ αἱματόεν
ῥέθος αἰσχύνει,
525
τέγγουσ᾽ εὐῶπα παρειάν.
Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906)) — 526 focus
καὶ μὴν πρὸ πυλῶν ἥδ᾽ Ἰσμήνη,
φιλάδελφα κάτω δάκρυ᾽ εἰβομένη·
νεφέλη δ᾽ ὀφρύων ὕπερ αἱματόεν
ῥέθος αἰσχύνει,
τέγγουσ᾽ εὐῶπα παρειάν.
530
Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924)) — 526 focus
καὶ μὴν πρὸ πυλῶν ἥδ᾽ Ἰσμήνη,
φιλάδελφα κάτω δάκρυ᾽ εἰβομένη·
νεφέλη δ᾽ ὀφρύων ὕπερ αἱματόεν
ῥέθος αἰσχύνει,
τέγγουσ᾽ εὐῶπα παρειάν.
530
Antigone (OCR draft) Experimental (Antigone) — 526 focus
Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949)) — 526 focus
καὶ μὴν πρὸ πυλῶν ἥδ᾽ Ἰσμήνη,
φιλάδελφα κάτω δάκρυ᾽ εἰβομένη·
νεφέλη δ᾽ ὀφρύων ὕπερ αἱματόεν
ῥέθος αἰσχύνει,
τέγγουσ᾽ εὐῶπα παρειάν.
530
Translations (10)
German (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 526 focus
Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921)) — 526 focus
Ya en la puerta tienes a Ismena derramando lágrimas de amor por su hermana; la nube de dolor que le oprime los ojos ensombrece su encendida cara, bañándole las hermosas mejillas.
English (Lewis Campbell, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Lewis Campbell, 1906)) — 526 focus
Now comes Ismenè forth. Ah, see,
From clouds above her brow
The sister-loving tear
Is falling wet on her fair cheek,
Distaining all her passion-crimson’d face!
530
German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review)) — 526 focus
Dort tritt vor das Thor Ismene heraus,
Die Thränen der Lieb' um die Schwester vergießt:
525
Ein Gewölk um die Brauen entstellt ihr Gesicht,
Rothglühend im Schmerz,
Und bethaut liebreizende Wangen.
Ismene (die von Dienern Kreons herbeigeführt wird). Die Vorigen.
English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759)) — 526 focus
Lo ! At the portal stands the fair Ismene,
Tears in her lovely eyes, a cloud of grief
Sits on her brow, wetting her beauteous cheek
With pious sorrow for a sister's fate.
Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889)) — 526 focus
Ved ahí á Ismena en el dintel del Palacio: viene llorando de compasión por su hermana; una nube cubre su frente y desfigura su rostro ruborizado, regando de lágrimas sus hermosas mejillas.
German (F. Hölderlin, 1804) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (F. Hölderlin, 1804)) — 526 focus
English (Sir Richard Jebb1, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb1, 1904)) — 526 focus
Lo, yonder Ismene comes forth, shedding such tears as fond sisters weep; a cloud upon her brow casts 530 its shadow over her darkly-flushing face, and breaks in rain on her fair cheek.
English (Robert Potter, 1788) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Robert Potter, 1788)) — 531 focus
Thou, like a viper creeping through my house
English (Sir Richard Jebb2, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb2, 1904)) — 583-630 focus

Commentary

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

mvp-comment-149-1 πρὶν ὀργῆς καί με μεστῶσαι 1 καί 2 πρίν 3 μεστῶσαι 4 καί 5 με 6

mvp-comment-149-2 κἀμέ 7

mvp-comment-149-3 μεστῶσαι 8

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.

280. mvp-comment-168-1 Cease, ere you have quite filled me with wrath. καί, which is combined with πρίν, according to the common idiom (πρὶν καὶ..), is slightly displaced so as to emphasize the phrase ἐμὲ μεστῶσαι. The language is made clearer by the emendation καί με, but the emphatic ἐμέ is more suitable in the mouth of Creon. Cp. Phil. 1042.

281. mvp-comment-169-1 ἄνους τε καὶ γέρων Cp. О. С. 930-931, καί σ᾽ ὁ πληθύων χρόνος | γέρονθ' ὁμοῦ τίθησι καὶ τοῦ νοῦ κενόν. See Essay on Language § 41. p. 78. 285-286. Who came to burn their pillared shrines and offerings, and to break in pieces their land and laws. It seems more likely that the ἀναθήματα are joined in one expression with ναούς than with γῆν and νόμους, which are in a different category.