Sophocles Antigone 252

τροχοῖσιν, ἀλλ᾽ ἄσημος οὑργάτης τις ἦν.

Antigone. Sophocles. Torino, Italy. 1978.

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Greek (A. Colonna, 1978) (OCR draft) (Greek) (Greek (A. Colonna, 1978))

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Editions (11)
Greek (L. Benloew, 1858) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (L. Benloew, 1858)) — 252 focus
ὅπως δ᾽ ὁ πρῶτος ἡμὶν ἡμεροσκόπος
Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 252 focus
λεπτὴ δ᾽, ἄγος φεύγοντος ὥς, ἐπῆν κόνις.
Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 252 focus
δείκνυσι, πᾶσι θαῦμα δυσχερὲς παρῆν·
Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879)) — 252 focus
τροχοῖσιν, ἀλλ᾽ ἄσημος οὑργάτης τις ἦν.
Greek (A. Dain, 1955) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Dain, 1955)) — 252.mvp-line-252 focus
τροχοῖσιν, ἀλλ’ ἄσημος οὑργάτης τις ἦν.
Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979)) — 252 focus
τροχοῖσιν, ἀλλ᾽ ἄσημος οὑργάτης τις ἦν.
Greek (G. Hermann, 1830) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (G. Hermann, 1830)) — 252 focus
τροχοῖσιν, ἀλλ᾽ ἄσημος οὑργάτης τις ἦν.
Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906)) — 252 focus
τροχοῖσιν, ἀλλ᾽ ἄσημος οὑργάτης τις ἦν.
Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924)) — 252.mvp-line-252 focus
τροχοῖσιν, ἀλλ᾽ ἄσημος οὑργάτης τις ἦν.
Antigone (OCR draft) Experimental (Antigone) — 252 focus
τροχοῖσιν, ἀλλʼ ἄσημος οὑργάτης τις ἦν.
Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949)) — 252 focus
τροχοῖσιν, ἀλλ' ἄσημος ἡμὶν οὑργάτης τις ἦν.
Translations (10)
German (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 252 focus
CHOR.
O Seher, welch ein richtig Wort doch sprachest du!
Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921)) — 252 focus
EL MENSAJERO
Pues vamos a verlo yéndonos a palacio; no sea que algo reprimido oculte secretamente en su irritado corazón; porque bien dices que el demasiado silencio es cosa grave.
Latin (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Latin (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 252 focus
Chorus
1257 Atqui eccum advenit rex ipse, monumentum insigne manibus gestans, haud alienae, si fas est dicere, crimen, sed suae ipsius noxae.
English (Lewis Campbell, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Lewis Campbell, 1906)) — 252 focus
CR
Alas!
I have learnt it now. But then upon my head
Some God had smitten with dire weight of doom;
And plunged me in a furious course, woe is me!
Discomforting and trampling on my joy.
1275
Woe! for the bitterness of mortal pain!
German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review)) — 237 focus
Was ist's, warum befiel dich solche Bangigkeit?
English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759)) — 252 focus
Chorus
1270
O king ! thy justice comes too late.
1270
Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889)) — 252 focus
EL CORO
¿Qué nueva desgracia ocurrida á nuestros reyos vienes á anunciarnos?
German (F. Hölderlin, 1804) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (F. Hölderlin, 1804)) — 252 focus
KREON
Was ist denn schlimmer noch, als das, was schlimm ist?
English (Sir Richard Jebb1, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb1, 1904)) — 252 focus
Creon
1261 Woe for the sins of a darkened soul, stubborn sins, fraught with death! Ah, ye behold us, the sire who hath slain, the son who hath perished! Woe is me, for the wretched blindness of my counsels! Alas, my son, thou hast died in thy youth, by a timeless doom, woe_is_me!—thy spirit hath fled,—not by thy folly, but by mine own!
English (Sir Richard Jebb2, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb2, 1904)) — 332-380 focus

Commentary

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.

252. mvp-comment-156-1 ἀλλ'.. ἦν But whoever did it was one who left no trace.