Sophocles Antigone 269

λέγει τις εἷς ὃς πάντας ἐς πέδον κάρα

Antigone. Sophocles. Torino, Italy. 1978.

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Editions (11)
Greek (L. Benloew, 1858) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (L. Benloew, 1858)) — 269 focus
νεῦσαι φόβῳ προὔτρεψεν. οὐ γὰρ εἴχομεν
Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 269 focus
σοὶ τοὔργον εἴη τοῦτο κοὐχὶ κρυπτέον.
Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 269 focus
οὔτ᾽ ἀντιφωνεῖν, οὔθ᾽, ὅπως δρῶντες καλῶς
Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879)) — 269 focus
λέγει τις εἷς, ὃς πάντας ἐς πέδον κάρα
Greek (A. Dain, 1955) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Dain, 1955)) — 269.mvp-line-269 focus
λέγει τις εἷς ὃς πάντας ἐς πέδον κάρα
Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979)) — 269 focus
λέγει τις εἷς ὃ πάντας ἐς πέδον κάρα
Greek (G. Hermann, 1830) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (G. Hermann, 1830)) — 269 focus
λέγει τις εἷς, ὃς πάντας ἐς πέδον κάρα
Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906)) — 269 focus
λέγει τις εἷς, ὃς πάντας ἐς πέδον κάρα
Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924)) — 269.mvp-line-269 focus
λέγει τις εἷς, ὃ πάντας ἐς πέδον κάρα
Antigone (OCR draft) Experimental (Antigone) — 269 focus
λέγει τις εἷς, ὃ πάντας ἐς πέδον κάρα
Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949)) — 269 focus
λέγει τις εἷς, ὃ πάντας ἐς πέδον κάρα
Translations (10)
German (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 269 focus
CHOR.
Du kannst es sehen; nicht im Innern ist sie mehr.
Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921)) — 269 focus
CORO
Bien nos exhortas, si es que algún bien puede haber en el mal; pues de los males presentes, los más breves son los mejores.
Latin (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Latin (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 269 focus
Creon
1328 Age, adpareat fatorum feliciter meorum ultimum, inihi supremum adferens diem! age veniat, ut saltem diem haud amplius adspiciam !
English (Lewis Campbell, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Lewis Campbell, 1906)) — 269 focus
CH
But prayer is bootless. For to mortal men
There is no saviour from appointed woe.
German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review)) — 278 focus
Schon lang, o König, überlegt mein Inneres,
Ob eine Gottheit diese That nicht angeregt.
English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759)) — 269 focus
Chorus
1334
Pray for nothing ;
Tliere's no reversing the decrees of fate.
1335
Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889)) — 269 focus
EL CORO
1270 ¡Ah! muy tarde reconoces la justicia de los dioses.
German (F. Hölderlin, 1804) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (F. Hölderlin, 1804)) — 269 focus
BOTE
Du musst nichts wünschen. Vom zuvorgesezten
Verlängnifs hat kein Sterblicher Befreiung.
English (Sir Richard Jebb1, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb1, 1904)) — 269 focus
Chorus
1334 These things are in the future; present tasks claim our care: the ordering of the future rests where it should rest.
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.

269. mvp-comment-165-1

His verbis et sequentibus significatur terror quem Creontis auctoritas custodibus incutit.
(Dind.).

269. mvp-comment-165-2 λέγει, κ.τ.λ. The sense is interrupted by the relative clause, but resumed in the words ἦν δ᾽ ὁ μῦθος in l. 272. For τις εἷς, cp. Thuc. 6. 61, καί τινα μίαν νύκτα, κ.τ.λ. The emphatic use of little words shows the common mind; cp. infr. 404, ὃν σὺ τὸν νέκυν, κ.τ.λ. Wolff and Weckl. join els with what follows: but the antithesis of eἷς πάντας is too pointless here. Cp. Plat. Rep. 6. 496 D, εἰς πᾶσιν ἀγρίοις ἀντέχειν.