Sophocles Antigone 533

ed. Lewis Campbell

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τρέφων δύʼ ἄτα κἀπαναστάσεις θρόνων,

Antigone. Sophocles. ed. Lewis Campbell. Oxford. 1879.

Current edition Experimental

Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) (Greek) (Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879))

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Editions (11)

Greek (L. Benloew, 1858) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (L. Benloew, 1858)) — 533 focus

δέδρακα τοὔργον, εἴπερ ἥδ᾽ ὁμοῤῥοθεῖ,

Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 533 focus

μή μοι θάνῃς σὺ κοινά, μηδ᾽ ἃ μὴ 'θιγες

Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 533 focus

ἀλλ᾽ ἐν κακοῖς τοῖς σοῖσιν οὐκ αἰσχύνομαι

Greek (A. Colonna, 1978) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Colonna, 1978)) — 533 focus

τρέφων δύ᾽ ἄτα κἀπαναστάσεις θρόνων,

Greek (A. Dain, 1955) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Dain, 1955)) — 533.mvp-line-530 focus

τρέφων δύ’ ἄτα κἀπαναστάσεις θρόνων,

Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979)) — 533 focus

τρέφων δύ᾽ ἄτα κἀπαναστάσεις θρόνων,

Greek (G. Hermann, 1830) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (G. Hermann, 1830)) — 533 focus

καὶ ξυμμετίσχω καὶ φέρω τῆς αἰτίας.

Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906)) — 533 focus

τρέφων δύ᾽ ἄτα κἀπαναστάσεις θρόνων,

Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924)) — 533.mvp-line-530 focus

τρέφων δύ᾽ ἄτα κἀπαναστάσεις θρόνων,

Antigone (OCR draft) Experimental (Antigone) — 533 focus

τρέφων δύʼ ἄτα κἀπαναστάσεις θρόνων,

Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949)) — 533 focus

τρέφων δύ᾽ ἄτα κἀπαναστάσεις θρόνων,

Translations (2)

German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review)) — 531 focus

Du, die im Hause, gleich der Natter angeschmiegt,

Mich heimlich ausgesogen, der ich unbewußt
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Zwei Gräuel mir zum Sturze meines Throns erzog:

Auf, sage mir, bekennst du, Theil an dieser That

Zu haben, oder schwörst du dich der Sünde rein?

Ismene.

Die That verübt' ich, stimmt dazu die Schwester ein,

Und theile mit ihr, trage mit ihr diese Schuld.
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Antigone.

Nein, dies verbietet dir das Recht; du hast ja nicht

Gewollt, und ich gewährte dir kein Theil daran.

Ismene.

Doch jezt in deinem Leiden acht' ich's keine Schmach,

Dir Mitgefährtin durch das Meer der Noth zu sein.

Antigone.

Wer Thäter war, weiß Hades und die drunten sind;
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Ich liebe nicht die Freundin, die mit Worten liebt.

Ismene.

Geliebte Schwester, achte mich nicht zu gering,

Mit dir zu sterben und des Todten Grab zu weih'n.

Antigone.

Du darfst mit mir nicht sterben, darfst nicht, was du nicht

Berührt, das Deine nennen: mein Tod ist genug.
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Ismene.

Und welches Leben ist mir werth, getrennt von dir?

Antigone.

Dies frage Kreon; sorgtest du doch nur für ihn.

Ismene.

Was so mich kränken, ohne daß dir's Nuzen bringt?

Antigone.

Mit Schmerzen thu' ich's, wenn ich Hohn dir bieten muß.

Ismene.

Wie könnt' ich doch auch jezo dir noch nüzlich sein?
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Antigone.

Errette dich nur; gerne duld' ich's, wenn du fliehst.

Ismene.

Weh, weh mir! Theilen soll ich auch nicht dein Geschick?

Antigone.

Du hast das Leben dir gewählt, und ich den Tod.

Ismene.

English (Sir Richard Jebb2, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb2, 1904)) — 583-630 focus

Chorus

Blest are those whose days have not tasted of evil. For when a house has once been shaken by the gods,

no form of ruin is lacking, but it spreads over the bulk of the race, just as, when the surge is driven over the darkness of the deep by the fierce breath of Thracian sea-winds,
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it rolls up the black sand from the depths, and the wind-beaten headlands that front the blows of the storm give out a mournful roar.
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593

Chorus

I see that the ancient sorrows of the house of the Labdacids

are heaped upon the sorrows of the dead. Each generation does not set its race free, but some god hurls it down and the race has no release. For now that dazzling ray of hope that had been spread
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over the last roots in the house of Oedipus—that hope, in its turn, the blood-stained dust of the gods infernal and mindlessness in speech and frenzy at the mind cuts down.
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Chorus

Your power, great Zeus—what human overstepping can check it? Yours is power that neither Sleep, the all-ensnaring, nor the untiring months of the gods can defeat. Unaged through time,
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you rule by your power and dwell thereby in the brilliant splendor of Olympus . And through the future, both near and distant, as through the past, shall this law prevail: nothing that is vast comes to the life of mortals without ruin.
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Chorus

See how that hope whose wanderings are so wide truly is a benefit to many men, but to an equal number it is a false lure of light-headed desires. The deception comes to one who is wholly unawares until he burns his foot on a hot fire.
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For with wisdom did someone once reveal the maxim, now famous, that evil at one time or another seems good, to him whose mind a god leads to ruin.
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But for the briefest moment such a man fares free of destruction.
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Enter Haemon.

Chorus

But here is Haemon, the last of your offspring. Does he come grieving for the doom of Antigone, his promised bride,

and bitter for the deceived hope of their marriage?
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Commentary

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

mvp-comment-305-1 ἄτα κἀπαναστάσεις ¹

mvp-comment-305-2 ἐπαναστάσεις ² θρόνων ³

Commentary (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) (Commentary (Lewis Campbell, 1879)) focus

533. mvp-comment-313-1 ἄτα κἀπαναστάσεις Abstract for concrete. See Essay on Language p. 94.

533. mvp-comment-313-2 θρόνων, obj. gen. Ib. § 9. p. 12.