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

. In O. C. 807

ἑξ ἅπαντος εὖ λέγει

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

mvp-comment-161-1 τι ¹³

mvp-comment-161-2 δέ ¹⁴ δώσεις ¹⁵

mvp-comment-161-3 οὕτως ¹⁶

mvp-comment-161-4 ἴω ¹⁷

mvp-comment-161-5 καὶ νῦν ὡς ¹⁸ ἀνιαρῶς ¹⁹ ι— ²⁰

mvp-comment-162-1 ἐν ²¹ ὠσίν ²²

mvp-comment-162-2 ἐπί ²³

mvp-comment-163-1 τί δὲ ²⁴ τί δαὶ ²⁵

mvp-comment-163-2 ῥυθμίζεις ²⁶ ὅπου ²⁷ ὅπου ²⁸

mvp-comment-164-1 τὰς φρένας...τὰ δ’ ὦτ’ ²⁹ σε ³⁰

mvp-comment-164-2 οἴμ’ ὡς ³¹

mvp-comment-164-3 λάλημα ³² ἄλημα ³³ ἄλημα ³⁴

mvp-comment-164-4 δῆλον, ³⁵

mvp-comment-165-1 ‘At any rate (

—babbler or not) I certainly have not done this deed.’ εἰμί ³⁶ οὔκουν … γε ³⁷

mvp-comment-166-1 ‘Yes, (you have done it,) and that, too, at the cost of betraying,’ etc. The particle γε ³⁸ καὶ ταῦτα ³⁹ προδούς ⁴⁰

mvp-comment-167-1 ἦ δεινόν ⁴¹ καὶ ⁴² γε ⁴³

mvp-comment-168-1 κόμψευε . . τὴν δόξαν ⁴⁴

mvp-comment-168-2 τὴν δόξαν ⁴⁵

mvp-comment-168-3

(the of which you speak), not merely, ‘the word .’ If the v. l. (see cr. n.) was intended to mean the latter, it should have been

mvp-comment-168-4 νυν ⁴⁶ νῦν ⁴⁷ ταῦτα … τοὺς δρῶντας = τοὺς ταῦτα δρῶντας ⁴⁸

mvp-comment-169-1 δειλά ⁴⁹

mvp-comment-169-2 δεινά ⁵⁰ ν ⁵¹

mvp-comment-170-1 ἀλλ’ ⁵² εὑρεθείη ⁵³ καὶ ⁵⁴

mvp-comment-171-1 καὶ ⁵⁵ γάρ ⁵⁶

mvp-comment-171-2 γνώμης ⁵⁷

mvp-comment-173-1 πολλὰ … κοὐδέν ⁵⁸

mvp-comment-173-2 καί ⁵⁹

mvp-comment-173-3 τὰ δεινά ⁶⁰

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 ,

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,

315. mvp-comment-183-1 εἰπεῖν τι δέ (v. rr.) is unmeaning. τι as in θέλεις τι μεῖζον, infr. 497.

316. mvp-comment-184-1 καὶ νῦν with λέγεις.

317. mvp-comment-185-1 δάκνει; (1) Act. impersonal. Is the smart in your ears or in your mind? Cp Hdt. 7. 16. Or (2) 2nd pers. pass. Are you stung? (2) agrees better with τὴν ἐμὴν λ. in the following line.

318. mvp-comment-186-1 τί δαί; though not found elsewhere in Sophocles or Aeschylus, may be admitted on the authority uthority of of the MS, where it is so obviously in keeping. Cp. ὦ τἂν in Ο. Τ. 1145, Phil. 1387.

318. mvp-comment-186-2 ῥυθμίζεις .. ὅπου; Do you scan the whereabouts of my annoyance?

320. mvp-comment-187-1 λάλημα The reading is doubtful between ἄλημα, A clever rogue, and λάλημα, Α prating fellow. ἄλημα is better known, and was read by the Scholiast, but λάλημα is sufficiently supported by Eur. Andromache 937, τούσδε Σειρήνων λόγους, | σοφῶν, πανούργων, ποικίλων λαλημάτων. And this word τίνεσθαι. fits more closely to the context of the present passage. 'Fie, tis too clear you are a born chatterbox. Then it is clear that I never did this deed. 323. What a pity that one who is opinionated should have a false opinion. For the subjunctive δοκῇ, cp. О. Т. 316, 317.

324. mvp-comment-188-1 κόμψευε . . δόξαν 'Ay do, refine now on the word "opinion."" This does not seem to be one of the cases where viv with the imperative mood should be changed to vuv, as there is a sufficient reason for the emphatic particle.

325. mvp-comment-189-1 ἐξερεῖτε You shall tell the world. Cp. Pind. Pyth. 2. 22, Ιξίονα φαντὶ ταῦτα βροτοῖς λέγειν ἐν πτερόεντι τροχῷ .. τὸν εὐεργέταν ἀγαναῖς ἀμοιβαῖς 332 ff. The chorus, in their first stasimon, express, in a veiled manner, their emotions at what has occurred. Not being able to say what they really think, that Creon's rash edict has already recoiled on his own family, they descant on the wonderful range of human enterprize, adding that where boldness and resource are combined with justice, they confer glory, but only bring ruin where they are subservient to wrong. The elders do not decide who in the present instance is the transgressor. The ode consists of two strophes and antistrophes, in which glyconic rhythms are mixed with lyrical dactyls, iambi, and trochees, in different proportions, the scheme being as follows:- ICC CC CI CICIC α'. } Iamb. Dact. Troch. Glycon. The two long syllables at the beginning of l. 8 of a form the transition from the dactyls to the trochees. There is a sensible change to a lighter and less simple movement at the beginning of β'. The resolved trochees in B' 5 mark a climax of feeling.