φιλαύλους τ᾽ ἠρέθιζε Μούσας.
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Antigone. Sophocles. Torino, Italy. 1978.
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δισσοῖσι Φινείδαις
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μηροὶ καλυπτῆς ἐξέκειντο πιμελῆς.
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Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 965 focus
τράφη θυέλλῃσιν ἐν πατρῴαις,
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φιλαύλους τ᾿ ἠρέθιζε Μούσας.
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φιλαύλους τ’ ἠρέθιζε Μούσας.
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φιλαύλους τ᾽ ἠρέθιζε Μούσας.
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κατὰ δὲ τακόμενοι μέλεοι μελέαν πάθαν
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φιλαύλους τ᾽ ἠρέθιζε Μούσας.
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φιλαύλους τ᾽ ἠρέθιζε Μούσας.
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φιλαύλους τʼ ἠρέθιζε Μούσας.
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παρὰ δὲ Κυανέων †πελαγέων πετρῶν† διδύμας
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Translations (2)
German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review)) — 966 focus
An der kyanischen Flut des verschwisterten Meeres hin
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Dehnt sich Bosporos' Strand und der Thrakier Salmydessos,
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Wo Ares, im Land waltend als Gott,
An Phineus' zwei Söhnen
Schaute die grause Wunde,
Nachdem die ruchlose Gattin blendend
Der Augen Sterne beiden nicht mit dem Speere, nein,
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Ergrimmt ausstach mit blut'gen Händen,
Mit ihrer Webschiffe scharfen Spizen.
Zweite Gegenstrophe.
Und es vergingen die Armen im Leid und beweinten ihr
An der kyanischen Flut des verschwisterten Meeres hin
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Dehnt sich Bosporos' Strand und der Thrakier Salmydessos,
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Wo Ares, im Land waltend als Gott,
An Phineus' zwei Söhnen
Schaute die grause Wunde,
Nachdem die ruchlose Gattin blendend
Der Augen Sterne beiden nicht mit dem Speere, nein,
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Ergrimmt ausstach mit blut'gen Händen,
Mit ihrer Webschiffe scharfen Spizen.
Und es vergingen die Armen im Leid und beweinten ihr
English (Sir Richard Jebb2, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb2, 1904)) — 944-985 focus
Chorus
So too endured Danae in her beauty to change
the light of the sky for brass-bound walls, and in that chamber, both burial and bridal, she was held in strict confinement. And yet was she of esteemed lineage, my daughter,
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and guarded a deposit of the seed of Zeus that had fallen in a golden rain. But dreadful is the mysterious power of fate—there is no deliverance from it by wealth or by war, by towered city, or dark, sea-beaten ships.
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So too endured Danae in her beauty to change
the light of the sky for brass-bound walls, and in that chamber, both burial and bridal, she was held in strict confinement. And yet was she of esteemed lineage, my daughter,
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and guarded a deposit of the seed of Zeus that had fallen in a golden rain. But dreadful is the mysterious power of fate—there is no deliverance from it by wealth or by war, by towered city, or dark, sea-beaten ships.
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Chorus
And Dryas’s son, the Edonian king swift to rage, was tamed in recompense for his frenzied insults, when, by the will of Dionysus, he was shut in a rocky prison. There the fierce and swelling force of his madness trickled away.
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That man came to know the god whom in his frenzy he had provoked with mockeries. For he had sought to quell the god-inspired women and the Bacchanalian fire,
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and he angered the Muses who love the flute.
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And Dryas’s son, the Edonian king swift to rage, was tamed in recompense for his frenzied insults, when, by the will of Dionysus, he was shut in a rocky prison. There the fierce and swelling force of his madness trickled away.
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That man came to know the god whom in his frenzy he had provoked with mockeries. For he had sought to quell the god-inspired women and the Bacchanalian fire,
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and he angered the Muses who love the flute.
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Chorus
And by the waters of the Dark Rocks, the waters of the twofold sea, are the shores of
Bosporus
and the Thracian city Salmydessus,
where Ares, neighbor of that city, saw the accursed, blinding wound inflicted on the two sons of Phineus by his savage wife. It was a wound that brought darkness to the hollows, making them crave vengeance
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for the eyes she crushed with her bloody hands and with her shuttle for a dagger.
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And by the waters of the Dark Rocks, the waters of the twofold sea, are the shores of
Bosporus
and the Thracian city Salmydessus,
where Ares, neighbor of that city, saw the accursed, blinding wound inflicted on the two sons of Phineus by his savage wife. It was a wound that brought darkness to the hollows, making them crave vengeance
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for the eyes she crushed with her bloody hands and with her shuttle for a dagger.
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Chorus
Wasting away in their misery, they bewailed their miserable suffering
and their birth from their mother stripped of her marriage. But she traced her descent from the ancient line of the Erechtheids, and in far-distant caves she was raised amidst her father’s gusts. She was the child of Boreas,
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running swift as horses over the steep hills, a daughter of gods. Yet she, too, was assailed by the long-lived Fates, my child.
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Wasting away in their misery, they bewailed their miserable suffering
and their birth from their mother stripped of her marriage. But she traced her descent from the ancient line of the Erechtheids, and in far-distant caves she was raised amidst her father’s gusts. She was the child of Boreas,
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running swift as horses over the steep hills, a daughter of gods. Yet she, too, was assailed by the long-lived Fates, my child.
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Commentary
Commentary (R. C. Jebb) (OCR draft) (Commentary (R. C. Jebb))
mvp-comment-573-1 Μούσας 1
mvp-comment-573-2
save the nymph by changing her into a vine; and behind him stand his followers. At the extreme left are three Muses—Urania, with globe; Clio, with roll; Euterpè, prob. with flutes. (Zoega seems clearly right in thus explaining the three women: others have made them Moirae.)—The close relation of Dionysus with the Muses is marked by one of his Attic titles,
Μελπόμενος (
Paus. 1.2.5
), as conversely Apollo had the title
Διονυσόδοτος (id. 1. 31.4). Muses were sometimes said to have nursed him. (Cp. Welcker,
Götterl. 2. 611.)
mvp-comment-573-3 The monuments relating to the myth of Lycurgus have been critically treated by Michaelis ( Annal. Inst. 1872, pp. 248— 270). The Italian vase-paintings follow a version different from that of Soph. , viz. that the frenzy of Lycurgus was wreaked on his own son and wife. A large Neapolitan vase gives two pictures: in one, we see his murderous rage; in the other, Dionysus sits on his throne in calm majesty, stroking his panther.
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944-987. mvp-comment-537-1 The chorus, in the manner of Pindar, moralise on the fate of Antigone through examples drawn from the circle of mythology and legend; and thus suggest the same cold comfort as in their mention of Niobe. The effect of this ode is to repress the excitement and solemnize the thoughts of the spectator. 'Danaë, though of royal lineage, and entrusted with the golden shower, was bound by all-constraining destiny in her brazen cell. 'Bound, too, in a prison of rock, was Lycurgus, who provoked the God. He knew his madness when it was too late. And on the Thracian promontory Phineus sons, blinded by their father's wife (Idothea), bewailed their rejected mother Cleopatra's hapless lot, who, descended from an ancient line, and endowed with swiftness by her divine sire, was notwithstanding overtaken by the long-lived fates.' Danae and Cleopatra were, like Antigone, of royal birth, and, like Antigone, were bound in a living tomb. So also was the son of Dryas, himself a king: and this, in his case, was the penalty of an impetuous and defiant spirit. Sophocles seems to have followed one version of the obscure and variable legend of Phineus, according to which Cleopatra did not die, but was rejected by Phineus for Idothea, and imprisoned in a cave, from which she was afterwards released by Heracles. The sons were blinded by their step-mother. The first strophe and antistrophe are choriambic with an iambic close; the second, logaoedic. The choriambi here were probably chanted slowly, so as to have a weighty, solemn effect. The scheme is as follows: a'. First strophe and antistrophe. IILUCI LUCILー LUCILIITUCICートに IICClluclトー IIICCILUCIトに ICICICI KLCICICI CトートUICIK β'. Second strophe and antistrophe. UCCTCCICCI IICCICCII!یں ILU TUCI くいくいトCICIK Cトートしーーー ―トビトCICIK CÚCCICICICC
964. mvp-comment-553-1 The Bacchic fire,' i.e. The lighted torches of the Bacchanalian rout. Cp. O. T. 214: Eurip. Bacch. 146.
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Μούσας
Inter Bacchi comites a Diodoro 4. 4, recensentur Musae. (Musgrave.) They are associated by Plato in the Laws, B. 2, p. 672 C. The Muses are here lovers of the flute, i.e. of the Phrygian orgiastic music.