Sophocles Antigone 257

σημεῖα δ᾽ οὔτε θηρὸς οὔτε του κυνῶν

Antigone. Sophocles. Torino, Italy. 1978.

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Current edition Experimental

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

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Editions (11)
Greek (L. Benloew, 1858) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (L. Benloew, 1858)) — 257 focus
ἐλθόντος, οὐ σπάσαντος ἐξεφαίνετο.
Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 257 focus
πληγὴ τελευτῶσ᾽, οὐδ᾽ ὁ κωλύσων παρῆν.
Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 257 focus
λόγοι δ᾽ ἐν ἀλλήλοισιν ἐῤῥόθουν κακοὶ,
Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879)) — 257 focus
σημεῖα δ᾽ οὔτε θηρὸς οὔτε του κυνῶν
Greek (A. Dain, 1955) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Dain, 1955)) — 257.mvp-line-257 focus
σημεῖα δ’ οὔτε θηρὸς οὔτε του κυνῶν
Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979)) — 257 focus
σημεῖα δ᾽ οὔτε θηρὸς οὔτε του κυνῶν
Greek (G. Hermann, 1830) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (G. Hermann, 1830)) — 257 focus
σημεῖα δ᾽ οὔτε θηρός, οὔτε τοὺ κυνῶν
Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906)) — 257 focus
σημεῖα δ᾽ οὔτε θηρὸς οὔτε του κυνῶν
Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924)) — 257.mvp-line-257 focus
σημεῖα δ᾽ οὔτε θηρὸς οὔτε του κυνῶν
Antigone (OCR draft) Experimental (Antigone) — 257 focus
σημεῖα δʼ οὔτε θηρὸς οὔτε του κυνῶν
Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949)) — 257 focus
σημεῖα δ᾽ οὔτε θηρὸς οὔτε του κυνῶν
Translations (10)
German (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 257 focus
CHOR.
Wie magst du das wol deuten? Fort schon ist die Frau,
noch eh' ein gutes oder böses Wort sie sprach.
Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921)) — 257 focus
EL MENSAJERO
1278 ¡Ah, señor! ¡Cómo teniendo y sintiendo la desgracia que llevas en tus manos, tienes otra en casa, que pronto verás!
Latin (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Latin (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 257 focus
Creon
1281 Quaenam alia calamitas hac maior denuo accedit?
English (Lewis Campbell, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Lewis Campbell, 1906)) — 257 focus
CH
1293
No longer hidden in the house. Behold!
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)) — 257 focus
Messenger
The queen is dead ;
Her wounds yet fresh. Eager, alas ! to show
A mother's love, she followed hfer lost child.
Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889)) — 257 focus
EL MENSAJERO
Él mismo se ha dado muerte, irritado con- tra su padre por el suplicio de su Antigona.
German (F. Hölderlin, 1804) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (F. Hölderlin, 1804)) — 257 focus
CHOR
Wie ist sie scharfgetroffen, wie geschlachtet rings!
English (Sir Richard Jebb1, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb1, 1904)) — 257 focus
Messenger
Thy queen hath died, true mother of yon corpse—ah, hapless lady !—by blows newly dealt. 1
English (Sir Richard Jebb2, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb2, 1904)) — 332-380 focus

Commentary

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

mvp-comment-140-1 θηρός 1

mvp-comment-140-2 του 2 θηρός 3

mvp-comment-140-3 οὐ σπάσαντος 4 οὐ 5 σπάσαντος 6 σπάσαντος οὐδ’ ἐλθόντος 7

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.