κισσήρεις ὄχθαι χλωρά τ᾽ ἀκ-
Antigone. Sophocles. Torino, Italy. 1978.
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Greek (A. Colonna, 1978) (OCR draft) (Greek) (Greek (A. Colonna, 1978))
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Greek (L. Benloew, 1858) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (L. Benloew, 1858)) — 1132 focus
ματρὶ σὺν κεραυνίᾳ·
Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 1132 focus
δείσασα πρὸς δμωαῖσι, κἀποπλήσσομαι.
Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 1132 focus
οὐκ ἔσθ᾽ ὁποῖον στάντ᾽ ἂν ἀνθρώπου βίον
Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879)) — 1132 focus
κισσήρεις ὄχθαι
Greek (A. Dain, 1955) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Dain, 1955)) — 1132.mvp-line-1116 focus
κισσήρεις ὄχθαι χλωρά τ’ ἀκ-
Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979)) — 1132 focus
κισσήρεις ὄχθαι χλωρά τ᾽ ἀ-
Greek (G. Hermann, 1830) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (G. Hermann, 1830)) — 1132 focus
ἰὼ τῶν πῦρ πνεόντων
Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906)) — 1132 focus
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Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924)) — 1132.mvp-line-1119 focus
κισσήρεις ὄχθαι χλωρά τ᾽ ἀ-
Antigone (OCR draft) Experimental (Antigone) — 1132 focus
κισσήρεις ὄχθαι χλωρά τʼ ἀκτὰ
Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949)) — 1132 focus
κισσήρεις ὄχθαι χλωρά τ᾽ ἀκτὰ
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German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review)) — 1137 focus
Der Stadt, die du weit höher ehrst als jegliche Stadt,
Samt der Mutter, die des Zeus
1
Donner traf! Auch nun komm,
1110
Da gewaltig schwere Noth über das ganze Land
Einstürmte, rettend über des Parnassos Höh'n
Daher, oder über die wilde Meerfurt!
Zweite Gegenstrophe.
Der Stadt, die du weit höher ehrst als jegliche Stadt,
Samt der Mutter, die des Zeus
1
Donner traf! Auch nun komm,
1110
Da gewaltig schwere Noth über das ganze Land
Einstürmte, rettend über des Parnassos Höh'n
Daher, oder über die wilde Meerfurt!
English (Sir Richard Jebb2, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb2, 1904)) — 1115-1150 focus
Chorus
God of many names, glory of the Cadmeian bride and offspring of loud-thundering Zeus, you who watch over far-famed
Italy
and reign
1115
in the valleys of Eleusinian Deo where all find welcome! O Bacchus, denizen of
Thebes
, the mother-city of your Bacchants, dweller by the wet stream of Ismenus on the soil
1120
of the sowing of the savage dragon’s teeth!
1125
God of many names, glory of the Cadmeian bride and offspring of loud-thundering Zeus, you who watch over far-famed
Italy
and reign
1115
in the valleys of Eleusinian Deo where all find welcome! O Bacchus, denizen of
Thebes
, the mother-city of your Bacchants, dweller by the wet stream of Ismenus on the soil
1120
of the sowing of the savage dragon’s teeth!
1125
Chorus
The smoky glare of torches sees you above the cliffs of the twin peaks, where the Corycian nymphs move inspired by your godhead,
and Castalia’s stream sees you, too. The ivy-mantled slopes of
Nysa
’s hills and the shore green with many-clustered vines send you, when accompanied by the cries of your divine words,
1130
you visit the avenues of
Thebes
.
1135
The smoky glare of torches sees you above the cliffs of the twin peaks, where the Corycian nymphs move inspired by your godhead,
and Castalia’s stream sees you, too. The ivy-mantled slopes of
Nysa
’s hills and the shore green with many-clustered vines send you, when accompanied by the cries of your divine words,
1130
you visit the avenues of
Thebes
.
1135
Chorus
Thebes
of all cities you hold foremost in honor, together with your lightning-struck mother.
And now when the whole city is held subject to a violent plague, come, we ask, with purifying feet over steep
Parnassus
,
1140
or over the groaning straits!
1145
Thebes
of all cities you hold foremost in honor, together with your lightning-struck mother.
And now when the whole city is held subject to a violent plague, come, we ask, with purifying feet over steep
Parnassus
,
1140
or over the groaning straits!
1145
Chorus
O Leader of the chorus of the stars whose breath is fire, overseer of the chants in the night, son begotten of Zeus,
appear, my king, with your attendant Thyiads, who in night-long frenzy dance and sing you as Iacchus the Giver!
1150
O Leader of the chorus of the stars whose breath is fire, overseer of the chants in the night, son begotten of Zeus,
appear, my king, with your attendant Thyiads, who in night-long frenzy dance and sing you as Iacchus the Giver!
1150
Commentary
Commentary (R. C. Jebb) (OCR draft) (Commentary (R. C. Jebb))
mvp-comment-684-1 κισσήρεις ὄχθαι 1
mvp-comment-684-2
for the fact was noticed in antiquity (schol. on Aratus
Phaenom. 33). Thus
Pind.
P. 1. 64
ὄχθαις ὕπο Ταϋγέτου:
Eur.
Suppl. 655
Ἰσμήνιον πρὸς ὄχθον.—The
κισσός was to Dionysus what the
δάφνη was to Apollo. The crowning with ivy (
κίσσωσις) was a regular incident of his festivals: he was called
κισσεύς, κισσοκόμης, κισσοχαίτης. Cp. Alciphron
Epist. 2. 3 § 10
μὰ τὸν Διόνυσον καὶ τοὺς Βακχικοὺς αὐτοῦ κισσούς.
F. 3. 767
hedera est gratissima Baccho.
Commentary (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) (Commentary (Lewis Campbell, 1879)) focus
1131-1136. mvp-comment-652-1 Νυσαίων. ἀγυιάς Bacchus is imagined as leaving the throng of revellers, who follow in his train along the Nysaean slopes in Euboea, and as crossing the sounding frith' (1. 1145) to visit the streets of Thebes.