Sophocles Antigone 1293

mvp-comment-3-1 ἆρ’ οἶσθ’ … τελεῖ ¹ ὅ τι ² ὅτι ³ ὅ τι ⁴ ὅτι ⁵

mvp-comment-3-2 τῶν ἀπ’ Οἰδ. κακῶν ⁶ ἔτι ζώσαιν ⁷ ἔτι ⁸

mvp-comment-4-1 Paley ( Journ. Ph. 10. 16) regards these three verses as interpolated, because (1) Antigone, like Ismene, should have only seven verses: (2) the words only repeat vv. 2, 3: (3) the double negative offends. But we have no warrant for requiring such a correspondence; and this is not repetition, but development. On (3), see below.

mvp-comment-5-1 οὔτ’ ἄτης ἄτερ ⁹ ἄτης ἄτερ ¹⁰ οὐδ’ ¹¹ οὔτ’ ¹²

mvp-comment-6-1 αἰσχρόν ¹³ ἄτιμον ¹⁴

mvp-comment-6-2 ὁποῖον οὐ … οὐκ ὄπωπα ¹⁵

mvp-comment-6-3 τῶν … κακῶν ¹⁶ ὄπωπα ¹⁷

mvp-comment-7-1 αὖ ¹⁸

mvp-comment-7-2 πανδήμῳ πόλει ¹⁹

mvp-comment-8-1 θεῖναι ²⁰

mvp-comment-8-2 τὸν στρατηγόν ²¹

mvp-comment-9-1 ἔχεις ²²

mvp-comment-9-2 κεἰσήκουσας ²³

mvp-comment-10-1 τῶν ἐχθρῶν κακά ²⁴

mvp-comment-11-1 μέν ²⁵ ἐμοί ²⁶

mvp-comment-11-2 Ἀντιγόνη ²⁷

mvp-comment-11-3 φίλων ²⁸ μῦθος ²⁹

mvp-comment-11-4 ἐξ ὅτου ³⁰

mvp-comment-12-1 δυοῖν … δύο ³¹ δύο ³²

mvp-comment-13-1 θανόντοιν ³³

mvp-comment-13-2 διπλῇ χερί ³⁴

mvp-comment-14-1 ἐπεί ³⁵

mvp-comment-14-2 ἐν νυκτὶ τῇ νῦν ³⁶

mvp-comment-14-3 ὑπέρτερον ³⁷

mvp-comment-14-4 As

, so the participles εὐτυχοῦσα ³⁸ ἀτωμένη ³⁹

mvp-comment-15-1 ᾔδη ⁴⁰ καλῶς ⁴¹

mvp-comment-15-2 αὐλείων πυλῶν ⁴²

mvp-comment-15-3 ἐξέπεμπον ⁴³

mvp-comment-16-1 τί δ’ ἔστι ⁴⁴ δηλοῖς ⁴⁵

mvp-comment-16-2 καλχαίνουσ’ ἔπος τι ⁴⁶

mvp-comment-16-3 is figuratively used like the Homeric

. In the idea of trouble precedes that of colour: in , vice versa.

mvp-comment-17-1 οὐ γάρ ⁴⁷

mvp-comment-17-2 τὼ κασιγνήτω … τὸν μὲν … τὸν δέ ⁴⁸

mvp-comment-17-3 The place of τάφου ⁴⁹ προτίσας ⁵⁰ τάφου ⁵¹ ἀτιμάσας ⁵²

mvp-comment-17-4 ἀτιμάσας ἔχει ⁵³

mvp-comment-18-1 σὺν δίκῃ | χρησθεὶς δικαίᾳ καὶ νόμῳ ⁵⁴ χρησθεὶς ⁵⁵ σὺν δίκης | χρήσει δικαίᾳ καὶ νόμου ⁵⁷ δίκης ⁵⁸ σύν ⁵⁹ δίκῃ ⁶⁰ χρήσει ⁶¹ χρησθείς ⁶² χρῆσθαι δικαιῶν ⁶³

mvp-comment-18-2 νόμου ⁶⁴

mvp-comment-19-1 τοῖς ἔνερθεν ἔντιμον νεκροῖς ⁶⁵ πᾶσι κλεινός ⁶⁶

mvp-comment-20-1 θανόντα … Πολυνείκους νέκυν ⁶⁷

mvp-comment-21-1 ἐκκεκηρῦχθαι ⁶⁸

mvp-comment-21-2 τὸ μὴ … καλύψαι ⁶⁹

mvp-comment-22-1 ἐᾶν δ’ ⁷⁰ ἄταφον ἄκλαυτον ⁷¹

mvp-comment-23-1 θησαυρόν ⁷²

mvp-comment-23-2 εἰσορῶσι ⁷³ εἰσορμῶσι ⁷⁴

mvp-comment-23-3 Take πρὸς χάριν βορᾶς ⁷⁵

mvp-comment-23-4 πρὸς χάριν ⁷⁶

mvp-comment-24-1 σοί ⁷⁷ κἀμοί ⁷⁸ κηρύξαντ’ ἔχειν ⁷⁹

mvp-comment-24-2 τὸν ἀγαθόν ⁸⁰

mvp-comment-24-3 λέγω γὰρ κἀμέ ⁸¹

mvp-comment-24-4 Two other explanations may be noticed. Both make σοι ⁸² σοι ⁸³ τοιαῦτα ⁸⁴ κἀμοί ⁸⁵ σοι ⁸⁶ σοι ⁸⁷ ἀγαθόν ⁸⁸

mvp-comment-25-1 νεῖσθαι ⁸⁹

mvp-comment-25-2 τοῖσι μὴ εἰδόσιν ⁹⁰

mvp-comment-26-1 παρ’ οὐδέν ⁹¹ ὡς ⁹²

mvp-comment-26-2 ὃς ἂν … δρᾷ ⁹³

mvp-comment-27-1 προκεῖσθαι ⁹⁴

mvp-comment-27-2 δημόλευστον ⁹⁵

mvp-comment-28-1 σοι ⁹⁶

mvp-comment-28-2 ἐσθλῶν ⁹⁷

mvp-comment-29-1 ὦ ταλαῖφρον ⁹⁸

mvp-comment-29-2 εἰ τάδ’ ἐν τούτοις ⁹⁹ ἐν τούτοις ¹⁰⁰

mvp-comment-30-1 λύουσ’ … ἢ ’φάπτουσα ¹⁰¹ εἵθ’ ἅπτουσα ¹⁰²

mvp-comment-30-2 προσθείμην ¹⁰³

mvp-comment-30-3 πλέον ¹⁰⁴

mvp-comment-31-1 ξυμπονήσεις ¹⁰⁵ ξυνεργάσει ¹⁰⁶

mvp-comment-31-2 ποῖόν τι κινδύνευμα ¹⁰⁷

mvp-comment-31-3 Read

(from ): cp. El. 390

ποῦ ποτ’ εἶ φρενῶν

. The question between ποῦ ¹⁰⁸ ποῖ ¹⁰⁹

mvp-comment-32-1 εἰ ¹¹⁰ ξὺν τῇδε χερί ¹¹¹

mvp-comment-32-2 κουφιεῖς ¹¹²

mvp-comment-32-3 ἦ γὰρ ¹¹³

mvp-comment-32-4 σφε ¹¹⁴

mvp-comment-32-5 ἀπόρρητον ¹¹⁵

mvp-comment-32-6 πόλει ¹¹⁶

mvp-comment-33-1 τὸν γοῦν ἐμὸν ¹¹⁷ ἐμόν ¹¹⁸ καὶ τὸν σόν, ἢν σὺ μὴ θέλῃς ¹¹⁹ τὸν ἐμόν ¹²⁰ τὸν σόν ¹²¹ ἀδελφόν ¹²² γοῦν ¹²³ τὸν … ἐμὸν καὶ τὸν σόν ¹²⁴ καὶ ¹²⁵ ἤν ¹²⁶

mvp-comment-34-1 ἀδελφὸν … ἁλώσομαι ¹²⁷ ἀδελφόν ¹²⁸ οὐ γὰρ δή ¹²⁹

mvp-comment-35-1 ὦ σχετλία ¹³⁰

mvp-comment-35-2

. ( b) ‘Suffering,’= , as Aesch. PV 644 (of Io), Eur. Hec. 783 . Neither Homer nor Soph. has this use. (2) Of things, ‘cruel,’ ‘wretched,’—a use common to all the poets: so Ai. 887

σχέτλια γάρ

(‘'tis cruel’), Tr. 879 .

mvp-comment-36-1 οὐδέν ¹³¹ μέτα ¹³² τῶν ἐμῶν ¹³³ εἴργειν ¹³⁴

mvp-comment-37-1 νῷν ¹³⁵ ἀπώλετο ¹³⁶ ἀπεχθής ¹³⁷ ἀπώλετο ¹³⁸ ἔπειτα ¹³⁹

mvp-comment-38-1 πρὸς … ἀμπλακημάτων … ἀράξας ¹⁴⁰

mvp-comment-38-2 αὐτοφώρων ¹⁴¹

mvp-comment-38-3 ἀράξας ¹⁴²

mvp-comment-38-4 αὐτὸς αὐτουργῷ χερί ¹⁴³ αὐτός ¹⁴⁴ αὐτ. χερί ¹⁴⁵

mvp-comment-39-1 διπλοῦν ἔπος ¹⁴⁶ πάθος ¹⁴⁷

mvp-comment-39-2 ἀρτάναισι ¹⁴⁸

mvp-comment-40-1 δύο … μίαν ¹⁴⁹

mvp-comment-40-2 αὐτοκτονοῦντε ¹⁵⁰

mvp-comment-41-1 κατειργάσαντ’ ¹⁵¹

mvp-comment-41-2 ἐπαλλήλοιν χεροῖν ¹⁵² ἐπ’ ἀλλήλοιν ¹⁵³ χεροῖν ¹⁵⁴ οιν ¹⁵⁵ ἐπαλλήλοιν ¹⁵⁶ χεροῖν ¹⁵⁷

mvp-comment-42-1 νῦν δ’ αὖ ¹⁵⁸ δ’ ¹⁵⁹ νῦν αὖ ¹⁶⁰ αὖ ¹⁶¹

mvp-comment-42-2 μόνα δή ¹⁶²

mvp-comment-43-1 ψῆφον ¹⁶³

mvp-comment-43-2 τυράννων ¹⁶⁴

mvp-comment-43-3 κράτη ¹⁶⁵ ἢ ¹⁶⁶ καὶ ¹⁶⁷

mvp-comment-44-1 τοῦτο μὲν ¹⁶⁸ ἐννοεῖν ¹⁶⁹ ἔπειτα δ’ ¹⁷⁰

mvp-comment-44-2 ὡς ¹⁷¹ οὐ μαχουμένα ¹⁷²

mvp-comment-45-1 οὕνεκ’ ¹⁷³

mvp-comment-45-2 ἐκ ¹⁷⁴

mvp-comment-45-3 ἀκούειν ¹⁷⁵ ταῦτα ¹⁷⁶ ἀλγίονα ¹⁷⁷

mvp-comment-46-1 ἐγὼ μὲν οὖν ¹⁷⁸

mvp-comment-46-2 τοὺς ὑπὸ χθονός ¹⁷⁹

mvp-comment-46-3 βιάζομαι τάδε ¹⁸⁰

mvp-comment-47-1 τοῖς ἐν τέλει βεβῶσι ¹⁸¹ βεβῶσι ¹⁸²

mvp-comment-47-2 τὸ γὰρ | ...πράσσειν ¹⁸³

mvp-comment-47-3 περισσὰ πρ ¹⁸⁴

mvp-comment-47-4 οὐκ ἔχει νοῦν οὐδ. ¹⁸⁵

mvp-comment-48-1 ἔτι ¹⁸⁶

mvp-comment-48-2 πράσσειν … δρῴης ¹⁸⁷ δρῴης ¹⁸⁸ ἄν ¹⁸⁹ ἡδέως ¹⁹⁰ γε ¹⁹¹ ἡδέως γε ἂν ἐμοῦ ¹⁹² <)μοῦ ¹⁹³ γε ¹⁹⁴ ἐμοί γ’ ¹⁹⁵ μέτα ¹⁹⁶ ἀσμένης ¹⁹⁷ ἡδέως ¹⁹⁸ ἐμοῦ γε ¹⁹⁹

mvp-comment-49-1 ἴσθ’ ²⁰⁰

mvp-comment-49-2 όποία σοι δοκεῖ ²⁰¹ ἴσθ’ ²⁰² ὁποῖά σοι δοκεῖ ²⁰³

mvp-comment-50-1 θάψω ²⁰⁴

mvp-comment-50-2 φίλη … φίλου ²⁰⁵

mvp-comment-50-3 μετ’ αὐτοῦ κείσομαι ²⁰⁶ μετά ²⁰⁷

mvp-comment-51-1 ὅσια πανουργήσασ’ ²⁰⁸ ὅσια ²⁰⁹

mvp-comment-51-2 ἐπεὶ κ.τ.λ. ²¹⁰

mvp-comment-51-3 τῶν ἐνθάδε ²¹¹

mvp-comment-52-1 κείσομαι ²¹²

mvp-comment-52-2 σοὶ δ’ ²¹³ σὺ δ’ ²¹⁴ εἰ δοκεῖ ²¹⁵

mvp-comment-52-3 τὰ τῶν θεῶν ἔντιμα ²¹⁶

mvp-comment-52-4 ἀτιμάσασ’ ἔχε ²¹⁷

mvp-comment-53-1 ἐγὼ ²¹⁸ μέν ²¹⁹ δέ ²²⁰

mvp-comment-53-2 ἄτιμα ποιοῦμαι ²²¹

mvp-comment-53-3 τὸ δὲ | ...δρᾶν ²²²

mvp-comment-54-1 τάδ’ ἂν προὔχοιο ²²³

mvp-comment-54-2 δὴ ²²⁴

mvp-comment-54-3 τάφον χώσουσ’ ²²⁵

mvp-comment-55-1 Join οἴμοι ταλαίνης ²²⁶

mvp-comment-55-2 μὴ ’μοῦ προτάρβει ²²⁷ τὸν σόν ²²⁸ μὴ ’μοῦ ²²⁹ προτάρβει ²³⁰

mvp-comment-55-3 ἐξόρθου ²³¹

mvp-comment-56-1 ἀλλ’ οὖν … γε ²³² ἀλλά ²³³ οὖν ²³⁴

mvp-comment-56-2 κρυφῆ δέ ²³⁵

mvp-comment-56-3 σὺν δ’ ²³⁶

mvp-comment-56-4 αὔτως ²³⁷

mvp-comment-57-1 καταύδα ²³⁸

mvp-comment-57-2 πολλόν ²³⁹ πολλὸν ²⁴⁰

mvp-comment-57-3 σιγῶσ’ ²⁴¹ ἐὰν … τάδε ²⁴² πᾶσι ²⁴³

mvp-comment-58-1 θερμὴν ἐπὶ ψυχροῖσι ²⁴⁴ ἐπί ²⁴⁵ θερμήν ²⁴⁶

mvp-comment-59-1 ἁδεῖν ²⁴⁷

mvp-comment-60-1 εἰ καὶ δυνήσει γ’ ²⁴⁸ καὶ ²⁴⁹ δυνήσει ²⁵⁰ εἰ καί ²⁵¹

mvp-comment-61-1 Since οὐκοῦν ²⁵² δὴ ²⁵³ ὅταν ²⁵⁴

mvp-comment-61-2 πεπαύσομαι ²⁵⁵

mvp-comment-62-1 ἀρχήν ²⁵⁶

mvp-comment-63-1 ἐχθαρεῖ ²⁵⁷

mvp-comment-63-2 ἐξ ἐμοῦ ²⁵⁸

mvp-comment-64-1 ἐχθρὰ...τῷ θανόντι προσκείσει δίκῃ ²⁵⁹ προσκείσει ²⁶⁰ ἐχθρά ²⁶¹

mvp-comment-64-2 Lehrs proposed

, i.e. ‘you will fall under the chastisement of justice.’ Donaldson, following Emper, reads , as iure inimicorum apud mortuum eris: i.e. on the part of the dead you will be deemed to have only the rights of a foe. This is impossible. The ordinary reading is sound.

mvp-comment-65-1 ἔα ²⁶²

mvp-comment-65-2 τὴν ἐξ ἐμοῦ δυσββουλίαν ²⁶³

mvp-comment-65-3 τὸ δεινὸν τοῦτο ²⁶⁴

mvp-comment-65-4 πείσομαι γὰρ οὐ ²⁶⁶

mvp-comment-65-5 μὴ οὐ ²⁶⁷

mvp-comment-66-1 τοῖς φίλοις δ’ ὀρθῶς φίλη ²⁶⁸ ἴσθι ²⁶⁹

mvp-comment-68-1 ἀελίου ²⁷⁰

mvp-comment-68-2 τὸ κάλλιστον ...φάος ²⁷¹

mvp-comment-68-3 ἑπταπύλῳ ²⁷²

mvp-comment-68-4 τῶν προτέρων ²⁷³

mvp-comment-69-1 ἐφάνθης ²⁷⁴

mvp-comment-69-2 χρυσέας ²⁷⁵

mvp-comment-69-3 βλέφαρον ²⁷⁶

mvp-comment-69-4 Διρκαίων ²⁷⁷

mvp-comment-70-1 τὸν λεύκασπιν...φῶτα ²⁷⁸

mvp-comment-70-2 The words

answer metrically to 123 . Instead of (¯˘¯) we therefore require ¯˘˘¯. The short final of is legitimate, the metre being Glyconic (see Analysis Metr.). In the antistrophic verse, the H of is ‘irrational,’ i.e. is a long syllable doing duty for a short: and Nauck is incorrect in saying that the metre ‘requires’ (though it admits) a choriambus beginning with a consonant. The simplest remedy is to read Ἀργόθεν ἐκ | βάντα φῶτα ²⁷⁹ Ἰναχόθεν ²⁸⁰

mvp-comment-71-1 πανσαγίᾳ ²⁸¹

mvp-comment-71-2 φυγάδα πρ. ²⁸² κινήσασα ²⁸³

mvp-comment-71-3 πρόδρομον ²⁸⁴

mvp-comment-71-4 ὀξυτέρῳ...χαλινῷ ²⁸⁵

mvp-comment-71-5 ὀξυτέρῳ ²⁸⁶

mvp-comment-72-1 The MSS. have ὃν...Πολυνείκης ²⁸⁷ ὃς ...Πολυνείκους ²⁸⁸

mvp-comment-72-2 Πολυνείκους … νεικέων ²⁸⁹

mvp-comment-72-3 ἀρθείς ²⁹⁰

mvp-comment-72-4 νεικ. ἐξ ἀμφιλόγων ²⁹¹

mvp-comment-73-1 ὀξέα κλάζων ²⁹²

mvp-comment-73-2 αἰετὸς εἰς γᾶν ὣς ὑπερέπτα ²⁹³ ὥς ²⁹⁴

mvp-comment-73-3 ὑπερέπτα ²⁹⁵

mvp-comment-74-1 λευκῆς χιόνος πτ. ²⁹⁶

mvp-comment-74-2 στεγανός ²⁹⁷

mvp-comment-74-3 ὅπλων … κορύθεσσι ²⁹⁸ ξύν ²⁹⁹ μετά ³⁰⁰ ξύν ³⁰¹

mvp-comment-75-1 In στὰς δ’ ὑπὲρ μελάθρων ³⁰² πτάς ³⁰³

mvp-comment-75-2 The words φονώσαισιν ἀμφιχανὼν... λόγχαις ³⁰⁴

mvp-comment-75-3 φονώσαισιν ³⁰⁵

mvp-comment-75-4 ἑπτάπυλον στόμα ³⁰⁶

mvp-comment-76-1 ἔβα ³⁰⁷

mvp-comment-76-2 πρίν ποθ’ ³⁰⁸ αἱμάτων ³⁰⁹

mvp-comment-76-3 γἑνυσιν ³¹⁰ πλησθῆναι ³¹¹ τε ³¹² τε ³¹³

mvp-comment-76-4 στεφάνωμα ³¹⁴

mvp-comment-76-5 πευκάενθ’ Ἥφαιστον ³¹⁵

mvp-comment-77-1 τοῖος ³¹⁶

mvp-comment-77-2 ἐτάθη ³¹⁷

mvp-comment-77-3 πάταγος ³¹⁸

mvp-comment-77-4 ἀντιπάλῳ δυσχείρωμα δράκοντος ³¹⁹ ἀντιπάλῳ ... δράκοντι ³²⁰ ἀντιπάλου … δράκοντος ³²¹ ἀντιπάλῳ … δράκοντος ³²²

mvp-comment-77-5 The interpretation of the passage turns primarily on two points.

mvp-comment-77-6 (1) The δράκων ³²³

mvp-comment-77-7 (2) The δυς ³²⁴ δυσχείρωμα ³²⁵

mvp-comment-77-8 Those who read ἀντιπάλῳ … δράκοντι ³²⁶ ὲτάθη ³²⁷

mvp-comment-77-9 Those who read ἀντιπάλου … δράκοντος ³²⁸

mvp-comment-78-1 μεγάλης ³²⁹

mvp-comment-78-2 ῥεύματι ³³⁰ ῥεύματι πολλῷ ³³¹

mvp-comment-79-1 χρυσοῦ καναχῆς ὑπεροπλίαις ³³²

mvp-comment-79-2

. In post-Homeric poetry is a freq. epith. of overweening strength ( , etc.).—Other readings are:—(1) , ‘and haughty in the clang of gold.’ This involves an improbable change; the subst. , too, is unsuitable here, and cannot be defended by Theocr. 22. 58

πρὸς πάντα παλίγκοτος ἠδ’ ὑπερόπτης

. Wecklein, reading , keeps in the sense, hoffärtig auf: but a genit. after could not denote that in which one takes pride. (2) , or , i.e., ‘Zeus, a despiser of the clang of gold.’ (3) , adv. neut. plur. (as O. T. 883 ), ‘advancing haughtily in a great stream of clanging gold.’ But the adv. comes weakly at the end, and . is harshly joined with .—Aesch. , too, gives prominence to gold in picturing the Argive chiefs: Capaneus has golden letters on his shield ( Aesch. Th. 434 ), Polyneices has the image of a warrior in golden armour, with a golden legend (644, Aesch. Th. 660 ).

mvp-comment-79-3 καναχῆς ³³³

mvp-comment-80-1 παλτῷ πυρί ³³⁴

mvp-comment-80-2 βαλβίδων ἐπ’ ἄκρων ³³⁵

mvp-comment-80-3 ὁρμῶντα ³³⁶

mvp-comment-80-4 νίκην ³³⁷ ἀλαλάξαι ³³⁸

mvp-comment-81-1 ἀντιτύπᾳ ³³⁹

mvp-comment-81-2 As regards the sense,

was regularly used of hard surfaces, which, as it were, repel that which strikes them (for the accent , not , though the sense is act., see on O. T. 460 ). Probl. 5. 40 . Lucian Amor. 13 . So, fig., Plat. Crat. 420D

τὸ...ἀναγκαῖον καὶ ἀντίτυπον

, what is necessary, and what resists us.

mvp-comment-81-3 τανταλωθείς ³⁴⁰

mvp-comment-82-1 πυρφόρος ³⁴¹

mvp-comment-82-2 βακχεύων ³⁴²

mvp-comment-82-3 ῥιπαῖς...ἀνέμων ³⁴³

mvp-comment-83-1 εἶχε δ’ ἄλλᾳ τὰ μέν ³⁴⁴ εἶχε δ’ ἄλλαι τὰ μὲν ἄλλαι τὰ δ’ ἐπ’ ἄλλοις ³⁴⁵ τὰ μέν ³⁴⁶ ἄλλα δέ ³⁴⁷ τὰ μέν ³⁴⁸ ἄλλᾳ ³⁴⁹

mvp-comment-83-2 ἐπενώμα ³⁵⁰ στυφελίζων ³⁵¹

mvp-comment-83-3 δεξιόσειρος ³⁵²

mvp-comment-83-4 The old v.l. δεξιόχειρος ³⁵³

mvp-comment-84-1 ἑπτὰ λοχαγοί ³⁵⁴

mvp-comment-84-2 ἴσοι πρὸς ἴσους ³⁵⁵

mvp-comment-84-3 Ζηνὶ τροπαίῳ ³⁵⁶

mvp-comment-84-4 πάγχαλκα τέλη ³⁵⁷

mvp-comment-84-5 It was the ordinary practice to set up a

(old ) after a victory, on the spot where it had been won, or, in the case of a sea-fight, on the nearest land ( Thuc. 2.92 ). Such a trophy ordinarily consisted of shields, helmets, and weapons, conspicuously displayed on wooden supports, and dedicated, with an inscription, to a deity. Cp. Eur. Phoen. 1473 (of the Thebans after the victory) (i.e. a wooden image of ), | . Part of the armour would be affixed to the walls of Theban temples (cp. Aesch. Ag. 577 , Th. 276 ).

mvp-comment-85-1 πλὴν τ. στυγεροῖν ³⁵⁸ πατρός ³⁵⁹

mvp-comment-85-2 καθ’ αὑτοῖν ³⁶⁰

mvp-comment-85-3 δικρατεῖς λόγχας ³⁶¹

mvp-comment-85-4 στήσαντε ³⁶²

mvp-comment-86-1 ἀλλὰ γάρ ³⁶³ γάρ ³⁶⁴ γάρ ³⁶⁵

mvp-comment-86-2 μεγαλώνυμος ³⁶⁶

mvp-comment-86-3 πολυαρμάτῳ ³⁶⁷

mvp-comment-86-4 ἀντιχαρεῖσα ³⁶⁸

mvp-comment-87-1 ἐκ...πολέμων τῶν νῦν ³⁶⁹ ἐκ ³⁷⁰ νῦν ³⁷¹

mvp-comment-87-2 θέσθαι ³⁷² θέσθε ³⁷³ παννυχίοις ³⁷⁴

mvp-comment-87-3 ὁ Θήβας ³⁷⁵ ἐλελίχθων ³⁷⁶

mvp-comment-87-4 Βάκχιος ³⁷⁷

mvp-comment-87-5 ἄρχοι ³⁷⁸

mvp-comment-88-1 ἀλλὰ … γάρ ³⁷⁹ Κρέων ³⁸⁰

mvp-comment-88-2 Μενοικέως ³⁸¹

mvp-comment-88-3 νεοχμὸς νεαραῖσι ³⁸²

mvp-comment-88-4 their equivalents. See Appendix I prefer the first of these views. An anapaest or spondee, meaning ‘ruler,’ has probably dropped out before νεοχμός ³⁸³ κρείων ³⁸⁴ ἄρχων ³⁸⁵ ταγός ³⁸⁶

mvp-comment-88-5 θεῶν … συντυχίαις ³⁸⁷ ἐπί ³⁸⁸

mvp-comment-89-1 μῆτιν ἐρέσσων ³⁸⁹

mvp-comment-89-2 σύγκλητον ³⁹⁰

mvp-comment-89-3 προὔθετο ³⁹¹ λέσχην ³⁹²

mvp-comment-89-4 not the meeting, but the discussion which is to take place there: thus the poet's phrase, true to Attic usage, corresponds with

rather than with . Herod. uses of a public discussion (9. 71): cp. O. C. 167 . The midd. προὔθετο ³⁹³

mvp-comment-89-5 κοινῷ κ. πέμψας ³⁹⁴

mvp-comment-91-1 There is a general dramatic analogy between this speech and that of Oedipus in O. T. 216 —275. In each case a Theban king addresses Theban elders, announcing a stern decree, adopted in reliance on his own wisdom, and promulgated with haughty consciousness of power; the elders receive the decree with a submissive deference under which we can perceive traces of misgiving; and as the drama proceeds, the elders become spectators of calamities occasioned by the decree, while its author turns to them for comfort.

mvp-comment-91-2 τὰ μὲν δὴ πόλεος . . ὑμᾶς δ’ ³⁹⁵

mvp-comment-91-3 πόλεος ³⁹⁶ πολλῷ σάλῳ σείσαντες ³⁹⁷

mvp-comment-91-4 The image of the State as a ship dates in Greek literature from Alcaeus (whom Horace copied, Carm. 1. 14 ), fr. 18. The ship of Alcaeus is labouring in the trough of a wild sea,—water is coming in,—the sail is torn,—the anchor will not hold:

It is only through Heracleides Alleg. Homer. 5 that we know the meaning of Alcaeus to have been figurative and political. Aesch. often uses the image ( Aesch. Th. 2 , Aesch. Th. 62 , Aesch. Th. 208 etc.). Creon returns to it at 189. It is peculiarly well suited to his point,—the unity of the public interest.

mvp-comment-91-5 ὤρθωσαν ³⁹⁸

mvp-comment-92-1 ἐκ πάντων ³⁹⁹ δίχα ⁴⁰⁰

mvp-comment-92-2 ἔστειλ’ ἱκέσθαι ⁴⁰¹ τοῦτο μέν ⁴⁰²

mvp-comment-92-3 σέβοντας ⁴⁰³

mvp-comment-92-4 θρόνων . . κράτη ⁴⁰⁴

mvp-comment-93-1 ἡνίκ’ Οἰδίπους ⁴⁰⁵ κείνων ⁴⁰⁶ κείνων παῖδας ⁴⁰⁷ ἡνίκ’ . . ὤρθου πόλιν ⁴⁰⁸ ἐπεὶ διώλετο ⁴⁰⁹ τοῦτο μέν . . τοῦτ’ αὖθις ⁴¹⁰

mvp-comment-93-2 καί ⁴¹¹ καί ⁴¹²

mvp-comment-93-3 ἐμπέδοις φρονήμασιν ⁴¹³ ἐμπέδους ⁴¹⁴ ἐμπέδοις ⁴¹⁵

mvp-comment-94-1 ὅτε ⁴¹⁶

mvp-comment-94-2 πρὸς διπλῆς μ. ⁴¹⁷ διπλῆς . . μίαν ⁴¹⁸

mvp-comment-94-3 παίσαντες . . πληγέντες ⁴¹⁹

mvp-comment-94-4 αὐτόχειρι … μιάσματι ⁴²⁰

mvp-comment-95-1 ἐγὼ . . δή ⁴²¹

mvp-comment-95-2 κράτη ⁴²²

mvp-comment-95-3 γένους κατ’ ἀγχιστεῖα τῶν ὀλ. ⁴²³

mvp-comment-96-1 ἀμήχανον δέ ⁴²⁴ δέ ⁴²⁵ δέ ⁴²⁶

mvp-comment-96-2 Demosthenes, in his speech on the Embassy (343 B.C.), quotes this passage (vv. 175—190) as illustrating maxims

mvp-comment-96-3 which Aeschines had violated, though, accustomed as he had been to play tritagonists' parts, he ought to have known them by heart (or. 19 § 247).

mvp-comment-97-1 ψυχήν ⁴²⁷ φρόνημα ⁴²⁸ γνώμην ⁴²⁹

mvp-comment-98-1 ἀρχαῖς ⁴³⁰ νόμοισιν ⁴³¹

mvp-comment-98-2 ἐντριβής ⁴³²

mvp-comment-98-3 φανῇ ⁴³³

mvp-comment-99-1 ἐμοὶ γάρ ⁴³⁴ γάρ ⁴³⁵ πᾶσαν … πόλιν ⁴³⁶

mvp-comment-99-2 μὴ … ἅπτεται ⁴³⁷ ὅστις μὴ ἅπτεται ⁴³⁸

mvp-comment-99-3 ἐκ φ. του ⁴³⁹

mvp-comment-99-4 ἐγκλῄσας ἔχει ⁴⁴⁰

mvp-comment-99-5 νῦν τε καὶ πάλαι ⁴⁴¹

mvp-comment-100-1 μείζον’ ⁴⁴² ἀντὶ τῆς...πάτρας ⁴⁴³ ἤ ⁴⁴⁴ μεῖζον ⁴⁴⁵

mvp-comment-100-2 οὐδαμοῦ λέγω ⁴⁴⁶

mvp-comment-101-1 ἐγὼ γάρ ⁴⁴⁷ γάρ ⁴⁴⁸ τοῦτο γιγνώσκων ⁴⁴⁹ ἴστω ⁴⁵⁰

mvp-comment-102-1 οὔτ’ ἂν σιωπήσαιμι ⁴⁵¹

mvp-comment-103-1 στείχουσαν ἀστοῖς ⁴⁵² ὁμοῦ ⁴⁵³

mvp-comment-103-2 ἀντὶ τῆς σωτηρίας ⁴⁵⁴ τῆς ⁴⁵⁵

mvp-comment-104-1 ἄνδρα δυσμενῆ χθονός ⁴⁵⁶

mvp-comment-104-2 ἐμαυτῷ ⁴⁵⁷ φίλον ⁴⁵⁸ θείμην ⁴⁵⁹

mvp-comment-105-1 ἡ σῴζουσα ⁴⁶⁰

mvp-comment-105-2 ταύτης ⁴⁶¹ ὀρθῆς ⁴⁶²

mvp-comment-105-3 τοὺς φίλους ποιούμεθα ⁴⁶³

mvp-comment-105-4

. ‘Pericles Thucydidis 11. 60 Sophoclem videtur respexisse, vel eum Sophocles,’ is Dobree's remark ( Adv. 2. 37 ); but there is no adequate ground for such a view. The verbal coincidence of with may well have been accidental. What is really common to poet and historian is the general sentiment of Periclean Athens. For another example of this, cp. O. C. 116 n.

mvp-comment-106-1 νόμοισι ⁴⁶⁴

mvp-comment-106-2 αὔξω ⁴⁶⁵

mvp-comment-107-1 ἀδελφὰ τῶνδε ⁴⁶⁶

mvp-comment-107-2 τῶν ἀπ’ Οἰδίπου ⁴⁶⁷

mvp-comment-108-1 δορί ⁴⁶⁸ δόρει ⁴⁶⁹

mvp-comment-109-1 τὰ πάντ’ ἐφαγνίσαι ⁴⁷⁰ ἐπί ⁴⁷¹ ἐφαγνίσαι ⁴⁷² ἀφαγνίσαι ⁴⁷³ ἀπό ⁴⁷⁴

mvp-comment-110-1 τοῖς ἀρίστοις ⁴⁷⁵

mvp-comment-110-2 ἔρχεται κάτω ⁴⁷⁶

mvp-comment-111-1 L has Πολυνείκην ⁴⁷⁷

mvp-comment-111-2 λέγω ⁴⁷⁸

mvp-comment-112-1 γτ=ν πατρῴαν . . καὶ θεοὺς . . πρῆσαι ⁴⁷⁹

mvp-comment-112-2 θ. τοὺς ἐγγενεῖς ⁴⁸⁰

mvp-comment-112-3 κατελθών ⁴⁸¹

mvp-comment-112-4 γ)θέλησε μέν … ἠθέλ. δέ ⁴⁸² ἠθέλησε μὲν ⁴⁸³

mvp-comment-112-5 πρῆσαι ⁴⁸⁴

mvp-comment-112-6 κατ’ ἄκρας ⁴⁸⁵

mvp-comment-112-7 αἵματος κ. πάσασθαι ⁴⁸⁶

mvp-comment-112-8 τοὺς δὲ … ἄγειν ⁴⁸⁷

mvp-comment-113-1 The traditional ἐκκεκηρῦχθαι τάφῳ ⁴⁸⁸ ἐκκεκήρυκται τάφῳ ⁴⁸⁹ ἐκκεκηρῦχθαι λέγω ⁴⁹⁰ τάφῳ ⁴⁹¹ κτερίζειν ⁴⁹² τάφῳ ⁴⁹³ κτερίζειν ⁴⁹⁴ μήτε ⁴⁹⁵ κωκῦσαι ⁴⁹⁶ τάφῳ ⁴⁹⁷ λέγω ⁴⁹⁸ τάφῳ ⁴⁹⁹ ἐκκεκ ⁵⁰⁰

mvp-comment-114-1 ἐᾶν δ ⁵⁰¹ ἄθαπτον, αἰκισθέντ’ ἰδεῖν ⁵⁰² δέμας καὶ πρὸς οἰωνῶν καὶ πρὸς κυνῶν ἐδεστόν ⁵⁰³ αἰκισθέντ ⁵⁰⁴ αἰκισθέντ ⁵⁰⁵ ἐδεστόν ⁵⁰⁶ αἰκισθέν τ’, δέμας ⁵⁰⁷

mvp-comment-114-2 δέμας ⁵⁰⁸

mvp-comment-114-3 ἰδεῖν ⁵⁰⁹

mvp-comment-115-1 φρόνημα ⁵¹⁰

mvp-comment-115-2 ἔκ γ’ ἐμοῦ ⁵¹¹

mvp-comment-116-1 The MSS. have τιμὴν προέξουσ’ ..τῶν ἐνδ. ⁵¹² τιμήν ⁵¹³ τιμῆ ⁵¹⁴ προσέξους ⁵¹⁵

mvp-comment-117-1 τιμήσεται ⁵¹⁶

mvp-comment-118-1 I print Dindorf's κἀς ⁵¹⁷ καὶ ⁵¹⁸ σοὶ ταῦτ’ ἀρέσκει ⁵¹⁹ Κρέον ⁵²⁰ ταὔτ ⁵²¹ ταῦτ’ ⁵²²

mvp-comment-119-1 In παντί πού γ’ ⁵²³ σοί γ’ … που ⁵²⁴ ἔνεστι ⁵²⁵ χὡπόσοι ζῶμεν ⁵²⁶ πέρι ⁵²⁷

mvp-comment-120-1 ὡς ἂν … ἦτε ⁵²⁸ πῶς ἂν … εἶτε ⁵²⁹

mvp-comment-120-2 σκοποί ⁵³⁰

mvp-comment-120-3 νυν ⁵³¹ νῦν ⁵³²

mvp-comment-120-4 τῶν εἰρ ⁵³³

mvp-comment-121-1 πρόθες τοῦτο ⁵³⁴ βαστάζειν ⁵³⁵

mvp-comment-121-2 τοῦ νεκροῦ γ’ ⁵³⁶

mvp-comment-122-1 τί δῆτ’ ἂν … ἐπεντέλλοις ⁵³⁷

mvp-comment-122-2 The reading ἄλλῳ ⁵³⁸ τοῦτο ⁵³⁹

mvp-comment-122-3 ἐπιχωρεῖν ⁵⁴⁰

mvp-comment-122-4 ἀπιστοῦσιν ⁵⁴¹

mvp-comment-122-5 τάδε, ⁵⁴²

mvp-comment-123-1 ὃς ⁵⁴³ ἐρᾷ ⁵⁴⁴

mvp-comment-123-2 καὶ μὴν ⁵⁴⁵ γε ⁵⁴⁶ μισθός ⁵⁴⁷

mvp-comment-123-3 requital of disobedience is that.’ For

so used, cp. O. T. 836 , 1004 f., El. 556 .

mvp-comment-123-4 τὸ κέρδος ⁵⁴⁸

mvp-comment-123-5 διώλεσεν ⁵⁴⁹

mvp-comment-124-1 ἐρῶ μὲν οὐχ ⁵⁵⁰

mvp-comment-124-2 ὅπως ⁵⁵¹

mvp-comment-124-3 τάχους ὕπο ⁵⁵² τάχους ⁵⁵³

mvp-comment-125-1 ἐξάρας ⁵⁵⁴

mvp-comment-125-2 φροντίδων ⁵⁵⁵ ἐπιστάσεις ⁵⁵⁶

mvp-comment-125-3 ὁδοῖς ⁵⁵⁷

mvp-comment-125-4 κυκλῶν ⁵⁵⁸

mvp-comment-126-1 ψυχὴ γὰρ ηὔδα ⁵⁵⁹ πολλὰ ⁵⁶⁰ μυθουμένη ⁵⁶¹

mvp-comment-127-1 τάλας … τλήμων ⁵⁶²

mvp-comment-127-2 μένεις ⁵⁶³ μενεῖς ⁵⁶⁴ αὖ ⁵⁶⁵

mvp-comment-127-3 πῶς … οὐκ ⁵⁶⁶

mvp-comment-127-4 ἀλγυνεῖ ⁵⁶⁷

mvp-comment-128-1 ἑλίσσων ⁵⁶⁸

mvp-comment-128-2 ἤνυτον ⁵⁶⁹

mvp-comment-128-3 σχολῇ βραδύς ⁵⁷⁰

mvp-comment-129-1 τέλος γε μέντοι ⁵⁷¹

mvp-comment-129-2 ἐνίκησεν ⁵⁷²

mvp-comment-129-3

. That should not be regarded as the subject to , is shown by such an example as Her. 8.9

ἐνίκα τὴν ἡμέρην ἐκείνην αὐτοῦ μείναντάς τε καὶ αὐλισθέντας μετέπειτα νύκτα μέσην παρέντας πορεύεσθαι

, where the length of the interval excludes such a view. The personal constr. occurs below, 274; cp. Thuc. 2.12

ἦν...Περικλέους γνώμη...νενικηκυῖα

.

mvp-comment-130-1 σοί ⁵⁷³ μολεῖν ⁵⁷⁴ σοί ⁵⁷⁵ φράσων ⁵⁷⁶ φράσω δ ⁵⁷⁷ κεἰ ⁵⁷⁸ κεἴ σοι ⁵⁷⁹ σοί. ⁵⁸⁰

mvp-comment-130-2 τὸ μηδέν ⁵⁸¹

mvp-comment-131-1 τῆς ἐλπίδος ⁵⁸²

mvp-comment-131-2 δεδραγμένος ⁵⁸³ πεφραγμένος ⁵⁸⁴ πεπραγμένος ⁵⁸⁵

mvp-comment-131-3 τὸ μὴ παθεῖν ἄν ⁵⁸⁶

mvp-comment-131-4

, depending on . as= : for the art. with infin., cp. 78 n.

mvp-comment-131-5 τὸ μόρσιμον ⁵⁸⁷

mvp-comment-132-1 ἀνθ’ οὗ ⁵⁸⁸

mvp-comment-132-2 τὸ γὰρ | πρᾶγμ’ ⁵⁸⁹ γάρ ⁵⁹⁰

mvp-comment-133-1 εὖ γε στοχάζει ⁵⁹¹ στοχάζει ⁵⁹² ἀποφράγνυσαι ⁵⁹³ στοχάζομαι ⁵⁹⁴

mvp-comment-133-2 κἀποφράγνυσαι ⁵⁹⁵

mvp-comment-133-3 τὸ πρᾶγμα ⁵⁹⁶

mvp-comment-134-1 δηλοῖς δ’ ὥς τι ς. ⁵⁹⁷

mvp-comment-135-1 τὰ δεινά ⁵⁹⁸ γάρ ⁵⁹⁹

mvp-comment-135-2 ποτ ⁶⁰⁰

mvp-comment-135-3 ἀπαλλαχθείς ⁶⁰¹

mvp-comment-136-1 καὶ δή ⁶⁰²

mvp-comment-136-2 θάψας ⁶⁰³ κἀπί ⁶⁰⁴

mvp-comment-136-3 διψίαν ⁶⁰⁵

mvp-comment-136-4 κἀφαγιστεύσας ⁶⁰⁶ ἃ χρή ⁶⁰⁷

mvp-comment-137-1 ἀνδρῶν ⁶⁰⁸

mvp-comment-137-2 οὔτε του γενῇδος … οὐ δικέλλης ⁶⁰⁹ οὔτε … οὐ ⁶¹⁰ γενῄς ⁶¹¹ γενῄς ⁶¹² δίκελλα ⁶¹³

mvp-comment-137-3 δικ. ἐκβολή ⁶¹⁴ ἐκβ. ⁶¹⁵ στύφλος ⁶¹⁶ χέρσος ⁶¹⁷ ἀρρώξ ⁶¹⁸

mvp-comment-137-4 ἐπημαξευμένη ⁶¹⁹ ἐπ‐ ⁶²⁰ ἐφ‐ ⁶²¹

mvp-comment-137-5 ἀλλ’ ὁ ἐργάτης ἄσημός τις ἦν ⁶²²

mvp-comment-138-1 It is still the early morning of the day on which the drama opens. The Argives having fled in the night, Creon had published his edict shortly before dawn. Antigone had done her deed in the short interval between the publication of the edict and the beginning of the watch over the corpse. ὁ πρῶτος ἡμεροσκόπος ⁶²³ ἡμεροσκ. ⁶²⁴

mvp-comment-138-2 δείκνυσι … παρῆν ⁶²⁵

mvp-comment-138-3 δυσχερές ⁶²⁶

mvp-comment-139-1 ὁ μὲν ⁶²⁷

mvp-comment-139-2 τυμβήρης μὲν οὔ ⁶²⁸ τυμβ. ⁶²⁹ λεπτὴ δ’ … ἐπῆν ⁶³⁰

mvp-comment-139-3 ἄγος φεύγοντος ὥς ⁶³¹ ἄγος ⁶³²

mvp-comment-140-1 θηρός ⁶³³

mvp-comment-140-2 του ⁶³⁴ θηρός ⁶³⁵

mvp-comment-140-3 οὐ σπάσαντος ⁶³⁶ οὐ ⁶³⁷ σπάσαντος ⁶³⁸ σπάσαντος οὐδ’ ἐλθόντος ⁶³⁹

mvp-comment-141-1 λόγοι δ’ … φύλακα ⁶⁴⁰ λόγοι κακοὶ ἐρρόθουν ⁶⁴¹ ἐρρόθουν ⁶⁴²

mvp-comment-141-2

, of an unintelligible jargon.

mvp-comment-141-3 ἐλέγχων ⁶⁴³

mvp-comment-141-4 κἂν ἐγίγνετο ⁶⁴⁴

mvp-comment-141-5 τελευτῶς ⁶⁴⁵

mvp-comment-141-6 ὁ κωλύσων ⁶⁴⁶

mvp-comment-142-1 ἦν … οὑξειργ. ⁶⁴⁷

mvp-comment-142-2 ἐναργής ⁶⁴⁸

mvp-comment-142-3 ἀλλ’ ⁶⁴⁹

mvp-comment-142-4 ἕφευγε μὴ εἰδέναι ⁶⁵⁰

mvp-comment-142-5 μὴ ⁶⁵¹ εἰδέναι ⁶⁵²

mvp-comment-143-1 μύδρους ⁶⁵³

mvp-comment-143-2 a red-hot mass of metal, and that the custom was symbolical of an older use of the

in ordeals by fire. This would explain how the Alexandrian poets of the 3rd cent. B.C. (Lycophron, Callimachus) came to use the word , in defiance of its etymology, as simply ‘a lump’ (or even ‘a stone’). They supposed that the had been cold masses.

mvp-comment-144-1 πῦρ διέρπειν ⁶⁵⁴

mvp-comment-144-2 θεοὺς ὁρκ. ⁶⁵⁶

mvp-comment-144-3 τὸ μήτε δρ ⁶⁵⁷

mvp-comment-144-4 μήτ’ είργασμένῳ ⁶⁵⁸ μηδ ⁶⁵⁹

mvp-comment-145-1 πλέον ⁶⁶⁰

mvp-comment-145-2 λέγει ⁶⁶¹

mvp-comment-145-3 τις εἷς ⁶⁶²

mvp-comment-146-1 προὔτρεψεν ⁶⁶³

mvp-comment-146-2 οὐ γὰρ εἴχομεν ⁶⁶⁴

mvp-comment-146-3 As ἀντιφωνεῖν ⁶⁶⁵ δρῶντες ⁶⁶⁶ ὅπως δρῶντες ⁶⁶⁷ εἴχομεν ⁶⁶⁸

mvp-comment-147-1 σοί ⁶⁶⁹

mvp-comment-147-2 ταῦτ’ ἐνίκα ⁶⁷⁰

mvp-comment-147-3 πάλος ⁶⁷¹ καθαιρεῖ ⁶⁷²

mvp-comment-147-4 τἀγαθόν ⁶⁷³ —ἄκων οὐχ ἑκοῦσιν ⁶⁷⁴

mvp-comment-148-1 ἐμοί ⁶⁷⁵ βουλεύει ⁶⁷⁶ μή ⁶⁷⁷

mvp-comment-148-2 τι ⁶⁷⁸

mvp-comment-148-3 θεήλατον, ⁶⁷⁹

mvp-comment-148-4 ἡ ξύννοια ⁶⁸⁰

mvp-comment-148-5 πάλαι ⁶⁸¹

mvp-comment-149-1 πρὶν ὀργῆς καί με μεστῶσαι ⁶⁸² καί ⁶⁸³ πρίν ⁶⁸⁴ μεστῶσαι ⁶⁸⁵ καί ⁶⁸⁶ με ⁶⁸⁷

mvp-comment-149-2 κἀμέ ⁶⁸⁸

mvp-comment-149-3 μεστῶσαι ⁶⁸⁹

mvp-comment-150-1 πότερον ⁶⁹⁰ ἔκρυπτον ⁶⁹¹

mvp-comment-150-2 ἀμφικίονας ναούς ⁶⁹²

mvp-comment-150-3 κἀναθήματα ⁶⁹³

mvp-comment-150-4 Her. 1.50 ; Thuc. 6.46 ; Isae. or. 7 § 41.) The wealth of Delphi in

is already proverbial in Il. 9.404 ; at Thebes the ( O. T. 21 ) also seems to have been rich in them. After the gen. denotes either (as more oft.), or, as here, the divine owner.

mvp-comment-150-5 γῆν ἐκείνων ⁶⁹⁴ πυρώσων ⁶⁹⁵

mvp-comment-150-6 νόμους διασκεδῶν ⁶⁹⁶

mvp-comment-150-7 διασκεδῶν ⁶⁹⁷

mvp-comment-151-1 τοὺς κακοὺς τιμῶντας … θεούς; ⁶⁹⁸

mvp-comment-152-1 ταῦτα ⁶⁹⁹ μόλις φέροντες ⁷⁰⁰ καὶ πάλαι ⁷⁰¹

mvp-comment-152-2 πόλεως ἄνδρες ⁷⁰²

mvp-comment-152-3 ἐρρόθουν ⁷⁰³

mvp-comment-152-4 ἐμοί ⁷⁰⁴

mvp-comment-152-5 κάρα σείοντες ⁷⁰⁵

mvp-comment-152-6 ὑπὸ ζυγῷ ⁷⁰⁶

mvp-comment-152-7 λόφον ⁷⁰⁷

mvp-comment-152-8 δικαίως ⁷⁰⁸

mvp-comment-152-9 equal poise’ ( New Crat. 371).—

( O. T. 84 ): στέργειν ⁷⁰⁹

mvp-comment-153-1 τῶνδε ⁷¹⁰ ἐκ ⁷¹¹

mvp-comment-153-2 τούτους, ⁷¹²

mvp-comment-153-3 εἰργάσθαι ⁷¹³ ἐξεπίσταμαι ⁷¹⁴ παρηγμένους ⁷¹⁵

mvp-comment-154-1 νόμισμ’ ⁷¹⁶

mvp-comment-154-2 ἔβλαστε ⁷¹⁷

mvp-comment-154-3 πορθεῖ ⁷¹⁸

mvp-comment-154-4 τόδ’ ⁷¹⁹ ἄνδρας ⁷²⁰

mvp-comment-155-1 τόδ’ ἐκδ. καὶ παραλλάσσει ⁷²¹ ἵστασθαι ⁷²² καὶ παραλλάσσει ⁷²³

mvp-comment-155-2 ἵστασθαι πρός τι ⁷²⁴

mvp-comment-156-1 πανουργίας … ἔχειν ⁷²⁵

mvp-comment-156-2 εἰδέναι ⁷²⁶ παντὸς ἔργου δυσσέβ. ⁷²⁷ παντὸς ἔργ ⁷²⁸ πανουργίας ⁷²⁹

mvp-comment-157-1 ἤνυσαν ⁷³⁰

mvp-comment-157-2 χρόνῳ ποτέ ⁷³¹ δοῦναι δίκην ⁷³²

mvp-comment-157-3 ἐξέπραξαν ὡς ⁷³³

mvp-comment-158-1 Ζεύς ⁷³⁴

mvp-comment-158-2 ὅρκιος ⁷³⁵

mvp-comment-158-3 τὸν αὐτόχειρα ⁷³⁶ τάφου = ταφῆς ⁷³⁷

mvp-comment-159-1 μοῦνος ⁷³⁸ πρὶν ἂν . . δηλώσητε ⁷³⁹ κρεμαστοί ⁷⁴⁰ ζῶντες κρεμαστοί ⁷⁴¹

mvp-comment-159-2 δηλώσηθ’ ⁷⁴²

mvp-comment-159-3 ὕβριν ⁷⁴³

mvp-comment-160-1 ἵν’ … ἁρπάζητε ⁷⁴⁴

mvp-comment-160-2 τὸ κέρδος ⁷⁴⁵ ἔνθεν οἰστέον ⁷⁴⁶

mvp-comment-160-3 μάθηθ’ ⁷⁴⁷

mvp-comment-160-4 ἐξ ἅπαντος ⁷⁴⁸ τὸ κερδαίνειν ⁷⁴⁹

mvp-comment-160-5

. In O. C. 807

ἑξ ἅπαντος εὖ λέγει

=speaks well on any theme (starting from anything).

mvp-comment-161-1 τι ⁷⁵⁰

mvp-comment-161-2 δέ ⁷⁵¹ δώσεις ⁷⁵²

mvp-comment-161-3 οὕτως ⁷⁵³

mvp-comment-161-4 ἴω ⁷⁵⁴

mvp-comment-161-5 καὶ νῦν ὡς ⁷⁵⁵ ἀνιαρῶς ⁷⁵⁶ ι— ⁷⁵⁷

mvp-comment-162-1 ἐν ⁷⁵⁸ ὠσίν ⁷⁵⁹

mvp-comment-162-2 ἐπί ⁷⁶⁰

mvp-comment-163-1 τί δὲ ⁷⁶¹ τί δαὶ ⁷⁶²

mvp-comment-163-2 ῥυθμίζεις ⁷⁶³ ὅπου ⁷⁶⁴ ὅπου ⁷⁶⁵

mvp-comment-164-1 τὰς φρένας...τὰ δ’ ὦτ’ ⁷⁶⁶ σε ⁷⁶⁷

mvp-comment-164-2 οἴμ’ ὡς ⁷⁶⁸

mvp-comment-164-3 λάλημα ⁷⁶⁹ ἄλημα ⁷⁷⁰ ἄλημα ⁷⁷¹

mvp-comment-164-4 δῆλον, ⁷⁷²

mvp-comment-165-1 ‘At any rate (

—babbler or not) I certainly have not done this deed.’ εἰμί ⁷⁷³ οὔκουν … γε ⁷⁷⁴

mvp-comment-166-1 ‘Yes, (you have done it,) and that, too, at the cost of betraying,’ etc. The particle γε ⁷⁷⁵ καὶ ταῦτα ⁷⁷⁶ προδούς ⁷⁷⁷

mvp-comment-167-1 ἦ δεινόν ⁷⁷⁸ καὶ ⁷⁷⁹ γε ⁷⁸⁰

mvp-comment-168-1 κόμψευε . . τὴν δόξαν ⁷⁸¹

mvp-comment-168-2 τὴν δόξαν ⁷⁸²

mvp-comment-168-3

(the of which you speak), not merely, ‘the word .’ If the v. l. (see cr. n.) was intended to mean the latter, it should have been

mvp-comment-168-4 νυν ⁷⁸³ νῦν ⁷⁸⁴ ταῦτα … τοὺς δρῶντας = τοὺς ταῦτα δρῶντας ⁷⁸⁵

mvp-comment-169-1 δειλά ⁷⁸⁶

mvp-comment-169-2 δεινά ⁷⁸⁷ ν ⁷⁸⁸

mvp-comment-170-1 ἀλλ’ ⁷⁸⁹ εὑρεθείη ⁷⁹⁰ καὶ ⁷⁹¹

mvp-comment-171-1 καὶ ⁷⁹² γάρ ⁷⁹³

mvp-comment-171-2 γνώμης ⁷⁹⁴

mvp-comment-173-1 πολλὰ … κοὐδέν ⁷⁹⁵

mvp-comment-173-2 καί ⁷⁹⁶

mvp-comment-173-3 τὰ δεινά ⁷⁹⁷

mvp-comment-174-1 τοῦτο ⁷⁹⁸ πέραν ⁷⁹⁹ πέρα ⁸⁰⁰

mvp-comment-175-1 χειμερίῳ νότῳ ⁸⁰¹

mvp-comment-176-1 περιβρ … ὑπ’ οἴδμασιν ⁸⁰²

mvp-comment-177-1 ὑπερτάταν ⁸⁰³

mvp-comment-178-1 ἀκαμάταν ⁸⁰⁴

mvp-comment-178-2 ἀποτρύεται ⁸⁰⁵

mvp-comment-179-1 ἰλλομένων ἀρότρων, ⁸⁰⁶ ἀρότων ⁸⁰⁷

mvp-comment-179-2 ἔτος εἰς ἔτος ⁸⁰⁸ εἰς ⁸⁰⁹

mvp-comment-180-1 ἱππείῳ γένει ⁸¹⁰

mvp-comment-180-2 πολεύων ⁸¹¹ τοῦτο ⁸¹²

mvp-comment-181-1 Man's conquests over the animal world are here taken in two groups. First, those of which the primary aim is to kill or to capture. Here the means is netting (

), in its threefold sporting use, as applied to fowling ( ), hunting ( ), and fishing ( ). Secondly, those conquests which aim at reducing wild animals to man's service. These are effected by (349),— arts of taming and training. And their result is aptly expressed by the word

mvp-comment-181-2

: here, man is not merely the slayer or captor; he becomes the master of docile toilers. The horse and the bull are types.

mvp-comment-181-3 Thus, in this ode, the scale of achievement ever ascends: man (1) conquers inanimate nature: (2) makes animals his captives: (3) trains them to be his servants: (4) develops his own social and intellectual life.

mvp-comment-181-4 κουφονόων ⁸¹³

mvp-comment-181-5 ἀμφιβαλὼν ⁸¹⁴

mvp-comment-182-1 πόντου … εἰναλίαν φύσιν ⁸¹⁵

mvp-comment-183-1 περιφραδής ⁸¹⁶

mvp-comment-184-1 μηχαναῖς ⁸¹⁷ ἀγραύλου ⁸¹⁸ ὀρεσσιβάτα ⁸¹⁹

mvp-comment-185-1 λασιαύχενά θ’ ⁸²⁰

mvp-comment-186-1 ὀχμάζεται ⁸²¹ ἀμφὶ λόφον ζυγῶν ⁸²²

mvp-comment-186-2 Rhod. 1. 743

. The midd. voice does not occur elsewhere; but this cannot be regarded as an objection, when we remember how many rare middle forms occur in the dramatists. Thus in O. C. 244 is a solitary example of that verb in the midd., and if the license could be taken with so common a word, much more might it be allowed with a comparatively rare one. Blaydes writes : but the Ms. indicates that the verb, whatever it was, was of the midd. form. was published by G. Schöne in 1833, and by Franz in 1846: they appear to have made the conjecture independently. Donaldson (1848) printed , and seems to ascribe to Franz and Schöne; though Franz, at least, proposed has been revived (seemingly without knowledge of a predecessor) by H. Schütz (1886). Sophocles would write , and thus changes no letter. Aesch. used the fut. (fr. 110), and Soph. has the verbal ( El. 702 ). To it may be objected that, being clear, it was not likely to become - : but, when had once been written, (or ) would easily become . As to the schol. on ,—it cannot fairly be urged for (or for any partic.), since it may be merely a paraphrase of .—Schütz's ἐφέζεται ⁸²³

mvp-comment-187-1 φθέγμα ⁸²⁴

mvp-comment-187-2 beginnings of speech...Speech is the development, through imitation, of a capacity of man—the capacity of making a noise.’ This is quite compatible with

mvp-comment-187-3 ἀνεμόεν φρόνημα ⁸²⁵

mvp-comment-188-1 ἀστυνόμους ὀργάς ⁸²⁶

mvp-comment-189-1 ἐδιδάξατο ⁸²⁷

mvp-comment-190-1 πάγων ⁸²⁸

mvp-comment-190-2 ἐναίθρεια ⁸²⁹

mvp-comment-190-3 βέλη ⁸³¹

mvp-comment-191-1 παντοπόρος ⁸³²

mvp-comment-191-2

( ), nothing that is to be (cp. the absolute ). So Plat. Lach. 197 A . This negative form is as correct as (though actually rarer than) the positive ( Plat. Rep. 381A ) for . Donaldson took adverbially: ‘in regard to the future, he comes to nothing without resources.’ Cp. 728 , , where is subst., not adv.

mvp-comment-192-1 μόνον ⁸³³ μόνου ⁸³⁴ φεῦξιν — ἐπάξεται ⁸³⁵

mvp-comment-193-1 ἀμηχάνων ⁸³⁶

mvp-comment-193-2 φυγάς ⁸³⁷

mvp-comment-193-3 ξυμπέφρασται ⁸³⁸

mvp-comment-194-1 The ode closes with a more direct reference to the incident which suggested its theme. The daring ingenuity shown by the unknown breaker of Creon's edict is an instance of the subtlety which leads to ruin. The implied contrast with Creon—

by his care for the laws—is effective in view of the destined .

mvp-comment-194-2 σοφόν τι … ἔχων ⁸³⁹

mvp-comment-194-3 τὸ μηχανόεν τ ⁸⁴⁰

mvp-comment-195-1 τοτὲ μὲν … ἄλλοτ’ ⁸⁴¹

mvp-comment-195-2 ἐπ’ ⁸⁴²

mvp-comment-196-1 γεραίρων ⁸⁴³

mvp-comment-196-2 5. 67

. Ar. Th. 960 .

mvp-comment-197-1 θεῶν τ’ ἔνορκον δίκαν ⁸⁴⁴

mvp-comment-198-1 ὑψίπολις ⁸⁴⁵

mvp-comment-198-2 ἄπολις ⁸⁴⁶

mvp-comment-198-3 τὸ μὴ καλόν ⁸⁴⁷ τόλμας χάριν ⁸⁴⁸

mvp-comment-199-1 παρέστιος ⁸⁴⁹

mvp-comment-199-2 ἴσον φρονῶν ⁸⁵⁰

mvp-comment-200-1 ἔρδει ⁸⁵¹ ἔρδοι ⁸⁵²

mvp-comment-202-1 The choral ode has closed with an allusion to the unknown man ( ὅς ⁸⁵³ ἀμφινοῶ ⁸⁵⁴ ἐς ⁸⁵⁵

mvp-comment-202-2 δαιμόνιον τέρας ⁸⁵⁶

mvp-comment-203-1 πῶς εἰδὼς ⁸⁵⁷

mvp-comment-203-2 ἀντιλογήσω ⁸⁵⁸

mvp-comment-204-1 ὦ δύστηνος ⁸⁵⁹

mvp-comment-204-2 δ. πατρός ⁸⁶⁰

mvp-comment-204-3 Οἰδιπόδα— ⁸⁶¹

mvp-comment-205-1 τί ποτ’ ⁸⁶²

mvp-comment-205-2 οὐ δή που ⁸⁶³

mvp-comment-205-3 ἀπιστοῦσαν ⁸⁶⁴

mvp-comment-205-4 ἄγουσι ⁸⁶⁵

mvp-comment-205-5 colloquialism, it would be nearly as bad as, ‘Have they taken you up?’

mvp-comment-205-6 καὶ ⁸⁶⁶ ἀπιστοῦσαν ⁸⁶⁷ καθελόντες ⁸⁶⁸

mvp-comment-206-1 Second

. Antigone, brought before Creon, avows and justifies her deed. Creon declares that she shall die. Ismene, when led in (531), associates herself with the act, but is not permitted by her sister to claim any part in it. Creon orders that both sisters shall be kept prisoners.

mvp-comment-206-2 ἐκείνη ⁸⁶⁹

mvp-comment-206-3 τοὔργον ἡ ’ξειργ ⁸⁷⁰

mvp-comment-207-1 ἐς δέον ⁸⁷¹

mvp-comment-208-1 ξύμμετρος ⁸⁷²

mvp-comment-209-1 ἀπώμοτον ⁸⁷³

mvp-comment-210-1 ψεύδει ⁸⁷⁴

mvp-comment-210-2 ἡ ’πίνοια ⁸⁷⁵

mvp-comment-211-1 ἐξηύχουν ἄν ⁸⁷⁶ σχολῇ ἥξειν ποτὲ δεῦρο ⁸⁷⁷

mvp-comment-211-2 σχολῇ ⁸⁷⁸

mvp-comment-212-1 ταῖς σαῖς ἀπειλαῖς ⁸⁷⁹

mvp-comment-212-2 ἐχειμάσθην ⁸⁸⁰

mvp-comment-213-1 ἡ...ἐκτὸς ⁸⁸¹ ἐκτός ⁸⁸²

mvp-comment-214-1 οὐδὲν ἔοικε μῆκος ⁸⁸³ α+λλῃ ἡδονῇ ⁸⁸⁴ οὐδέν ⁸⁸⁵ μῆκος ⁸⁸⁶ ἔοικε ⁸⁸⁷

mvp-comment-215-1 δῑ ὅρκων … ἀπώμοτος ⁸⁸⁸

mvp-comment-216-1 καθῃρέθη ⁸⁸⁹

mvp-comment-216-2 τάφον κοσμοῦσα ⁸⁹⁰

mvp-comment-216-3 ἐπάλλετο ⁸⁹¹ ἕρμαιον ⁸⁹²

mvp-comment-217-1 κρῖνε ⁸⁹³

mvp-comment-217-2 δίκαιός εἰμι ⁸⁹⁴

mvp-comment-217-3 ἀπηλλάχθαι ⁸⁹⁵

mvp-comment-218-1 Observe the order of the words as marking his amazement. For the double interrog. cp. Il. 21.150

; Ph. 243

mvp-comment-218-2 πάντ’ ἐπίστασαι ⁸⁹⁶

mvp-comment-219-1 ἦ καὶ ⁸⁹⁷

mvp-comment-219-2 ὀρθῶς ⁸⁹⁸

mvp-comment-219-3 mean to say? (Not, merely, ‘truly,’ i.e. in accordance with the fact: cp. 99 n.)

mvp-comment-220-1 τὸν νεκρόν ⁸⁹⁹

mvp-comment-221-1 ἆρ’ ἔνδηλα ⁹⁰⁰

mvp-comment-222-1 ὁρᾶται...ᾑρέθη ⁹⁰¹

mvp-comment-222-2 ἐπίληπτος ⁹⁰²

mvp-comment-223-1 ἥκομεν ⁹⁰⁴

mvp-comment-224-1 τὰ δείν’ ἐκεῖν’ ⁹⁰⁵

mvp-comment-224-2 τὸν | νέκυν ⁹⁰⁶

mvp-comment-225-1 καθήμεθ’ ⁹⁰⁷

mvp-comment-225-2 ἄκρων ἐκ πάγων ⁹⁰⁸

mvp-comment-225-3

. Here, goes with : but , however much may have influenced it, at least cannot be disjoined from . (2) Eur. Phoen. 1009

ἀλλ’ εἶμι καὶ στὰς ἐξ ἐπάλξεων ἄκρων | σφάξας ἐμαυτὸν σηκὸν εἰς μελαμβαθῆ | δράκοντος, ἔνθ’ ὁ μάντις ἐξηγήσατο, | ἐλευθερώσω γαῖαν

. It is impossible to sever from , even if we partly explain by . (3) ib. 1224

Ἐτεοκλέης δ’ ὑπῆρξ’ ἀπ’ ὀρθίου σταθεὶς | πύργου κελεύσας σῖγα κηρῦξαι στρατῷ

. The position of forbids us to sever it from , even though or is used to explain . (4) Eur. Tro. 522

ἀνὰ δ’ ἐβόασεν λεὼς | Τρῳάδος ἀπὸ πέτρας σταθείς

. A similar case. In all these passages, a picture is presented, and we have to glance from a remoter to a nearer object. The mental eye is required to measure the space between Hera on the peak of Olympus, and Poseidon on the plain of Troy; between Megareus on the walls of Thebes, and the cavern into which his corpse is to fall. And, in each case, or denotes the quarter in which the remoter object is to be looked for. This, which might be called the ‘surveying’ use, is distinct from that in which the prep. has a pregnant force, as being directly suggestive of motion ( ); but it springs from the same mental tendency,—viz., to take a rapid glance over the dividing interval. Cp. (‘on his side’). So here: in the foreground of the picture is the corpse, which they have just laid bare. Now look to the hillocks behind it; in that quarter you will see the guards at their post.—I have not cited Od. 21.419

τόν ῥ’ ἐπὶ πήχει ἑλὼν ἕλκεν νευρὴν γλυφίδας τε | αὐτόθεν ἐκ δίφροιο καθήμενος

, because there goes with , not with (he drew the bow, just from the chair, where he sat).

mvp-comment-225-4 ὑπήνεμοι ⁹⁰⁹

mvp-comment-226-1 βάλῃ ⁹¹⁰

mvp-comment-227-1 ἐγερτί ⁹¹¹

mvp-comment-227-2 κινῶν ⁹¹²

mvp-comment-227-3 ἐπιρρόθοις κακοῖσιν ⁹¹³

mvp-comment-227-4 the adj. expressing the loud, continuous noise of tongues. The

- does not mean ‘bandied to and fro’: see Tr. 263

πολλὰ μὲν λόγοις | ἐπερρόθησε

. In fr. 521 =‘open to reproach.’ Elsewhere (as with Aesch.) = ‘helper’ ( , to come with shouts to the rescue). Cp. 259 n., Aesch. 290.

mvp-comment-228-1 ἀκηδήσοι ⁹¹⁴ ἀφειδήσοι ⁹¹⁵

mvp-comment-229-1 The incident of the storm was a dramatic necessity, to account for Antigone reaching the corpse unobserved. A powerful picture is compressed into seven lines. (Cp. O. C. 1315 ff. for a like instance of self-restraint in description.)

mvp-comment-230-1 κατέστη ⁹¹⁶

mvp-comment-230-2 χθονὸς ⁹¹⁷

mvp-comment-231-1 τυφώς ⁹¹⁸ σκηπτός ⁹¹⁹

mvp-comment-231-2 οὐράνιον ἄχος ⁹²⁰

mvp-comment-232-1 πίμπλησι ⁹²¹ αἰκίζων ⁹²²

mvp-comment-232-2 ἐν δ’ ἐμεστ ⁹²³

mvp-comment-233-1 μύσαντες ⁹²⁴

mvp-comment-233-2 νόσον ⁹²⁵

mvp-comment-233-3 ἐν χρ. μακρ ⁹²⁶

mvp-comment-234-1 πικρᾶς ⁹²⁷

mvp-comment-235-1 εὐνῆς...λέχος ⁹²⁸

mvp-comment-236-1 οὕτω δέ ⁹²⁹

mvp-comment-236-2 ψιλόν ⁹³⁰

mvp-comment-237-1 γόοισιν ἐξῴμωξεν ⁹³¹

mvp-comment-237-2 ἐκ δ’ … ἠρᾶτο ⁹³²

mvp-comment-237-3 διψίαν ⁹³³

mvp-comment-238-1 φέρει κόνιν ⁹³⁴

mvp-comment-239-1 The πρόχους ⁹³⁵

mvp-comment-239-2 εὐκρότητος ⁹³⁶

mvp-comment-239-3 ἄρδην ⁹³⁷

mvp-comment-240-1 χοαῖσι ⁹³⁸

mvp-comment-240-2 τρισπόνδ. ⁹³⁹ στέφει ⁹⁴⁰

mvp-comment-241-1 ἱέμεσθα ⁹⁴¹

mvp-comment-241-2 σὺν δὲ … θηρώμεθ’ ⁹⁴²

mvp-comment-242-1 ἠλέγχομεν ⁹⁴³

mvp-comment-242-2 ἄπαρνος … οὐδενός ⁹⁴⁴

mvp-comment-242-3 καθίστατο ⁹⁴⁵

mvp-comment-243-1 ἅμ’ ⁹⁴⁶

mvp-comment-244-1 φίλους ⁹⁴⁷

mvp-comment-245-1 πάντα ταῦθ’ ⁹⁴⁸ λαβεῖν ⁹⁴⁹

mvp-comment-246-1 σὲ δή, ⁹⁵⁰

mvp-comment-247-1 φὴς δεδρακέναι, ἢ καταρνεῖ μὴ δεδρ ⁹⁵¹ καταρνεῖ ⁹⁵²

mvp-comment-248-1 καὶ......κοὐκ ⁹⁵³

mvp-comment-248-2 τὸ μή ⁹⁵⁴

mvp-comment-249-1 σὺ μέν ⁹⁵⁵ κομίζοις ἂν ς ⁹⁵⁶

mvp-comment-249-2 ἔξω ⁹⁵⁷ β. αἰτίας ⁹⁵⁸ ἐλεύθερον ⁹⁵⁹

mvp-comment-250-1 μῆκος ⁹⁶⁰

mvp-comment-251-1 ᾔδησθα ⁹⁶¹ ᾔδης τὰ ⁹⁶² σθα ⁹⁶³

mvp-comment-251-2 κηρυχθέντα ⁹⁶⁴

mvp-comment-252-1 ᾔδη ⁹⁶⁵

mvp-comment-252-2 τί δ’ οὐκ ἔμελλον ⁹⁶⁶

mvp-comment-252-3 ἐμφανῆ ⁹⁶⁷ ἐκφανῆ ⁹⁶⁸

mvp-comment-253-1 καὶ δῆτ’ ⁹⁶⁹

mvp-comment-254-1 Ζεύς ⁹⁷⁰

mvp-comment-255-1 τῶν κάτω θεῶν ⁹⁷¹ ξύνοικος ⁹⁷² τοιούσδ’ … ὥρισεν ⁹⁷³ οἳ τούσδ’ … ὥρισαν ⁹⁷⁴ τάδε ⁹⁷⁵

mvp-comment-256-1 ἄγραπτα … νόμιμα ⁹⁷⁶

mvp-comment-256-2 quotes vv. 456 f.) Cp. O.T. 865 ff.

, with notes there. Thuc. 2.37 ( ) . When ‘the unwritten laws’ are thus called , the latter word is used figuratively. νόμιμα ⁹⁷⁷

mvp-comment-256-3 ἀσφαλῆ ⁹⁷⁸

mvp-comment-256-4 θνητὸν ὄντ’ ⁹⁷⁹

mvp-comment-256-5 ὑπερδραμεῖν ⁹⁸⁰

mvp-comment-257-1 νῦν γε κἀχθές ⁹⁸¹

mvp-comment-257-2 ζῇ ⁹⁸²

mvp-comment-257-3 ’φάνη ⁹⁸³

mvp-comment-258-1 τούτων ⁹⁸⁴ τὴν δίκην ⁹⁸⁵ τούτων ⁹⁸⁶

mvp-comment-258-2 shows that, like

just before, it refers to the : we cannot, therefore, render, ‘the penalty of such an act’ ( sc. ).

mvp-comment-258-3 ἐν θεοῖσι ⁹⁸⁷

mvp-comment-259-1 δώσειν ⁹⁸⁸

mvp-comment-259-2 θανουμένη γάρ ⁹⁸⁹

mvp-comment-259-3 τί δ’ οὔ ⁹⁹⁰

mvp-comment-260-1 κεἰ μὴ σὺ προὐκήρυξας ⁹⁹¹

mvp-comment-260-2 τοῦ χρόνου ⁹⁹²

mvp-comment-260-3 αὔτ’ ⁹⁹³

mvp-comment-261-1 φέρει ⁹⁹⁴

mvp-comment-262-1 Kvičala and Wecklein reject these four verses, despairing of the difficulties found in vv. 466, 467, which have been variously amended; see Appendix. The alleged difficulties are, (1)

: (2) the mention of the mother only: (3) the position of , which might suggest the sense, ‘slain by my mother’: (4) (as L has it). Before dealing with these points, I would call attention to a trait which the impugners of these verses have overlooked, and which speaks strongly for the genuineness of the passage as a whole, corrupt though it be in certain words. That trait is the clause τοῖσδε δ’ οὐκ ἀλγύνομαι ⁹⁹⁵

mvp-comment-263-1 ἄλγος ⁹⁹⁶ παρ’ οὐδέν ⁹⁹⁷

mvp-comment-263-2 adv.: ‘is a pain in no appreciable degree,’ is a pain not worth a thought: as he might have said,

. The normal use of , ‘of no account,’ is either ( a) with the verb , as O. T. 982

ταῦθ’ ὅτῳ | παρ’ οὐδέν ἐστι

, or ( b) with a verb meaning ‘to esteem,’ as above, v. 34, . The only peculiarity here is that, instead of a word in the general sense, ‘ is esteemed’ ( ), we have a virtual equivalent, tinged with the special thought of the moment, viz., ‘ is a pain.’ Exactly so in El. 1327 we have , instead of . Thus the suspicions as to the genuineness of are illusory.

mvp-comment-263-3 ἀλλ’ ἄν ⁹⁹⁸

mvp-comment-264-1 ἄθαπτον ἠνσχόμην νέκυν ⁹⁹⁹ ηἰσχόμην ¹⁰⁰⁰ ἠνσχόμην ¹⁰⁰¹

mvp-comment-264-2 In my first edition I placed in the text the emendation of Semitelos (1887) ᾔσχυναν κύνες ¹⁰⁰²

mvp-comment-264-3 Other emendations will be found in the Appendix. Most of them assume that we must have

(or ), and therefore alter the words and in various ways, —usu. omitting . The verses produced by these processes are wretched, while, from a palaeographical point of view, they are pure conjectures, which do not attempt to account for the tradition in L.—Two points remain. (1) τὸν ἐξ ἐμῆς | μητρός ¹⁰⁰³

mvp-comment-264-4 or

(Meineke). (2) τὸν ἐξ ἐμ. | μητρος θανόντ’ ¹⁰⁰⁴

mvp-comment-265-1 σχεδόν τι ¹⁰⁰⁵

mvp-comment-265-2 μώρῳ μωρίαν ¹⁰⁰⁶

mvp-comment-265-3 ὀφλισκάνω ¹⁰⁰⁷

mvp-comment-266-1 These two verses give a moment of stillness before the storm breaks forth. So at O. T. 404 four verses of the chorus divide the angry speech of Oedipus from the retort of Teiresias.

mvp-comment-266-2 τὸ γέννημα τῆς παιδός ¹⁰⁰⁸ δηλοῖ ¹⁰⁰⁹ ὠμόν ¹⁰¹⁰ ἐξ ὠμοῦ πατρός ¹⁰¹¹ γέννημα ¹⁰¹²

mvp-comment-267-1 εἴκειν … κακοῖς ¹⁰¹³

mvp-comment-268-1 ἀλλ’ ἴσθι τοι ¹⁰¹⁴

mvp-comment-268-2 πίπτειν ¹⁰¹⁵

mvp-comment-269-1 ὀπτὸν … περισκελῆ ¹⁰¹⁶

mvp-comment-269-2 περισκελής ¹⁰¹⁷

mvp-comment-269-3 ἐκ πυρός ¹⁰¹⁸

mvp-comment-270-1 θραυσθέντα καὶ ῥαγέντα ¹⁰¹⁹

mvp-comment-271-1 χαλινῷ δ’ ¹⁰²⁰ σμικρῷ ¹⁰²¹

mvp-comment-271-2 καταρτυθέντας ¹⁰²²

mvp-comment-272-1 Suspicion has fallen on ἐκπέλει ¹⁰²³

mvp-comment-272-2 ὅστις ¹⁰²⁴

mvp-comment-272-3 τῶν πέλας ¹⁰²⁵

mvp-comment-273-1 αὕτη δ’ ¹⁰²⁶ ὑβρίζειν μὲν … ὕβρις δ’ ¹⁰²⁷ ἐξηπίστατο ¹⁰²⁸ τότ’ ¹⁰²⁹

mvp-comment-273-2 τούτοις ¹⁰³⁰

mvp-comment-273-3 δεδρακυῖαν γελᾶν ¹⁰³¹

mvp-comment-274-1 νῦν ¹⁰³²

mvp-comment-274-2 εἰ ταῦτα … κράτη ¹⁰³³ κράτη ¹⁰³⁴ κείσεται ¹⁰³⁵ πείσεται ¹⁰³⁶ ἀνατί ¹⁰³⁷ ταῦτα ¹⁰³⁸

mvp-comment-275-1 ἀδελφῆς ¹⁰³⁹

mvp-comment-275-2 εἴθ’ ὁμαιμονεστέρα ¹⁰⁴⁰

mvp-comment-275-3 Hyperbole is congenial to Creon's excitement; cp. 1040 . But the addition,

, ill suits this, while, on the other hand, it agrees well with the nom. . On the whole, then, I incline to prefer the nom.; but the point is a nice one, and the gen. is quite tenable.

mvp-comment-275-4 κυρεῖ ¹⁰⁴¹

mvp-comment-276-1 τοῦ παντὸς Ζηνὸς ἑρκείου ¹⁰⁴²

mvp-comment-277-1 ἀλύξετον ¹⁰⁴³ μόρου ¹⁰⁴⁴

mvp-comment-278-1 καὶ γὰρ οὖν ¹⁰⁴⁵

mvp-comment-278-2 ἐπαιτιῶμαι κείνην ¹⁰⁴⁶ βουλεῦσαι ἴσον τοῦδε τάφου ¹⁰⁴⁷ ἴσον ¹⁰⁴⁸

mvp-comment-278-3 βουλεῦσαι ¹⁰⁴⁹

mvp-comment-279-1 καί νιν καλεῖτ’ ¹⁰⁵⁰

mvp-comment-280-1 λυσσῶσαν … οὐδ’ ἐπ ¹⁰⁵¹

mvp-comment-280-2 ἐπήβολον ¹⁰⁵²

mvp-comment-281-1 ὁ θυμὸς τῶν … τεχνωμένων ¹⁰⁵³ φιλεῖ κλοπεὺς ᾑρῆσθαι ¹⁰⁵⁴ πρόσθεν ¹⁰⁵⁵ κλοπεύς ¹⁰⁵⁶ ᾑρῆσθαι κλοπεύς ¹⁰⁵⁷

mvp-comment-281-2 τεχνωμένων ¹⁰⁵⁸

mvp-comment-282-1 γε μέντοι ¹⁰⁵⁹

mvp-comment-282-2 Ismene's guilty terror is contrasted with Antigone's impudent hardihood,—as Creon deems it. μισῶ … ὅταν ¹⁰⁶⁰

mvp-comment-282-3 ἔπειτα ¹⁰⁶¹

mvp-comment-282-4 καλλύνειν ¹⁰⁶²

mvp-comment-283-1 θέλεις τι μεῖζον ¹⁰⁶³

mvp-comment-283-2 ἑλών ¹⁰⁶⁴

mvp-comment-283-3 ἐγὼ μὲν οὐδέν ¹⁰⁶⁵

mvp-comment-283-4 ἅπαντ’ ἔχω ¹⁰⁶⁶

mvp-comment-284-1 ἀρεστὸν οὐδέν ¹⁰⁶⁷

mvp-comment-284-2 μηδ’ ἀρεσθείη ¹⁰⁶⁸ ἀρεσθείην ¹⁰⁶⁹ ἀρέστ’ εἴη ¹⁰⁷⁰

mvp-comment-285-1 τἀμά ¹⁰⁷¹

mvp-comment-285-2 ἔφυ ¹⁰⁷²

mvp-comment-286-1 καίτοι ¹⁰⁷³ κλέος … εὐκλεέστερον ¹⁰⁷⁴

mvp-comment-287-1 ἐν τάφῳ τιθεῖσα ¹⁰⁷⁵ τούτοις πᾶσι λέγοιτο ἄν ¹⁰⁷⁶ τοῦτο ἁνδάνειν ¹⁰⁷⁷ ἐγκλῄοι ¹⁰⁷⁸

mvp-comment-288-1 ἀλλ’ ἡ τυραννίς ¹⁰⁷⁹

mvp-comment-289-1 μούνη ¹⁰⁸⁰

mvp-comment-289-2 τοῦτο … ὁρᾷς ¹⁰⁸¹

mvp-comment-289-3 ὑπίλλουσιν ¹⁰⁸²

mvp-comment-290-1 σὺ δ’ οὐκ ἐπαιδεῖ ¹⁰⁸⁴

mvp-comment-291-1 ὅμαιμος ¹⁰⁸⁵

mvp-comment-291-2 ἐκ μιᾶς τε ¹⁰⁸⁶ τε ¹⁰⁸⁷

mvp-comment-292-1 πῶς δῆτ’ ¹⁰⁸⁸

mvp-comment-292-2 ἐκείνῳ ¹⁰⁸⁹

mvp-comment-292-3 χάριν ¹⁰⁹⁰ τιμᾷς ¹⁰⁹¹ ὁ κατθανὼν νέκυς ¹⁰⁹²

mvp-comment-293-1 εἴ τοι ¹⁰⁹³ σφε ¹⁰⁹⁴

mvp-comment-293-2 ἐξ ἴσου ¹⁰⁹⁵

mvp-comment-294-1 οὐ γάρ τι δοῦλος ¹⁰⁹⁶

mvp-comment-294-2 cannot complain, for Polyneices was not his slave—his natural inferior—but his brother, and had the same claim on me that he had. Creon insists on the difference between the loyal man and the disloyal. Antigone dwells on the fact that both men had the same claim on her natural piety, and (519) on her sense of religious duty.

mvp-comment-295-1 πορθῶν δέ ¹⁰⁹⁷

mvp-comment-295-2 ὁ δ’ ¹⁰⁹⁸ ὕπερ ¹⁰⁹⁹

mvp-comment-296-1 τούτους ¹¹⁰⁰ ἴσους ¹¹⁰¹ ἴσους ¹¹⁰² ὅμως ¹¹⁰³ ἴσους ¹¹⁰⁴ τούτους ¹¹⁰⁵ ἴσους ¹¹⁰⁶

mvp-comment-297-1 The MS. λαχεῖν ἴσος ¹¹⁰⁷ ἴσους ¹¹⁰⁸

mvp-comment-298-1 κάτωθεν ¹¹⁰⁹ κάτω ’στὶν ¹¹¹⁰

mvp-comment-298-2 εὐαγῆ ¹¹¹¹

mvp-comment-299-1 οὔτοι συνέχθειν ¹¹¹²

mvp-comment-300-1 νυ^ν ¹¹¹³

mvp-comment-301-1 καὶ μὴν ¹¹¹⁴

mvp-comment-301-2 εἰβομένη ¹¹¹⁵ κάτω ¹¹¹⁶

mvp-comment-301-3 with

, for Homer never says . Nothing is more natural than that should have become in the MSS., the latter word being much the commoner.

mvp-comment-301-4 κάτω ¹¹¹⁷

mvp-comment-302-1 νεφέλη δ’ ὀφρύων ὕπερ ¹¹¹⁸

mvp-comment-302-2 αἱματόεν ¹¹¹⁹

mvp-comment-302-3 ῥέθος ¹¹²⁰

mvp-comment-302-4 αἰσχύνει ¹¹²¹

mvp-comment-303-1 σὺ δ’ ¹¹²² ὑφειμένη ¹¹²³

mvp-comment-303-2 ἔχιδνα ¹¹²⁴

mvp-comment-303-3

. (Cp. Shaksp. Per. 1. 1. 64

I am no viper, yet I feed On mother's flesh.

)

mvp-comment-304-1 λήθουσά μ’ ἐξέπινες ¹¹²⁵

mvp-comment-305-1 ἄτα κἀπαναστάσεις ¹¹²⁶

mvp-comment-305-2 ἐπαναστάσεις ¹¹²⁷ θρόνων ¹¹²⁸

mvp-comment-306-1 τὸ μὴ ¹¹²⁹

mvp-comment-307-1 ὁμορροθεῖ ¹¹³⁰

mvp-comment-308-1 τῆς αἰτίας ¹¹³¹ ξυμμετίσχω ¹¹³² φέρω ¹¹³³

mvp-comment-309-1 ἀλλ’ οὐκ ἐάσει σ’ ¹¹³⁴

mvp-comment-309-2 ’κοινωσάμην ¹¹³⁵

mvp-comment-310-1 ξύμπλουν ¹¹³⁶

mvp-comment-311-1 Cp. Ph. 1293

mvp-comment-311-2 λόγοις ¹¹³⁷

mvp-comment-312-1 μή μ’ ἀτιμάσῃς ¹¹³⁸ τὸ μὴ οὐ ¹¹³⁹ ἁγνίσαι τὸν θ ¹¹⁴⁰

mvp-comment-313-1 μή μοι ¹¹⁴¹ κοινά ¹¹⁴²

mvp-comment-313-2 μηδ’ ἃ μὴ ’θιγες ¹¹⁴³ ἅ ¹¹⁴⁴ ἅ ¹¹⁴⁵

mvp-comment-314-1 ποιοῦ σεαυτῆς ¹¹⁴⁶

mvp-comment-314-2 ἀρκέσω ¹¹⁴⁸

mvp-comment-315-1 σοῦ λελειμμένῃ ¹¹⁴⁹

mvp-comment-315-2 φίλος ¹¹⁵⁰

mvp-comment-316-1 κηδεμών ¹¹⁵¹

mvp-comment-317-1 ἀλγοῦσα μὲν δῆτ’ ¹¹⁵² δῆτα ¹¹⁵³

mvp-comment-317-2 ἐν σοί ¹¹⁵⁴

mvp-comment-317-3 Heath's εἰ γελῶ γ’ ¹¹⁵⁵

mvp-comment-318-1 ἀλλὰ νῦν ¹¹⁵⁶

mvp-comment-319-1 κἀμπλάκω ¹¹⁵⁷

mvp-comment-319-2 fate? i.e. to be dissociated from it: delib. aor. subj., which can be used, not only in asking what one is to do, but also in expressions of despair as to what one must suffer ( Tr. 973

;). For cp. 910 , 1234.

mvp-comment-320-1 εἵλου ¹¹⁵⁸

mvp-comment-320-2 ζῆν ¹¹⁵⁹

mvp-comment-321-1 ἐπ’ ἀρρήτοις … τοῖς ἐμ. λ. ¹¹⁶⁰

mvp-comment-322-1 σὺ μὲν τοῖς ¹¹⁶¹

mvp-comment-323-1 καὶ μήν ¹¹⁶²

mvp-comment-324-1 θάρσει ¹¹⁶³

mvp-comment-324-2 ἡ ἐμὴ ψυχή ¹¹⁶⁴

mvp-comment-324-3 πάλαι ¹¹⁶⁵

mvp-comment-324-4 ὥστε τοῖς θ. ὠφελεῖν ¹¹⁶⁶

mvp-comment-325-1 L gives τὼ παῖδε φημὶ ¹¹⁶⁷

mvp-comment-325-2 τὼ παῖδε … τὴν μὲν … τὴν δέ ¹¹⁶⁸

mvp-comment-325-3 ἀρτίως ¹¹⁶⁹

mvp-comment-326-1 The apology is for her sister as well as for herself: even such prudence ( cp. 68

) as may have been inborn forsakes the unfortunate under the stress of their misfortunes.

mvp-comment-326-2 βλάστῃ ¹¹⁷⁰

mvp-comment-326-3 τοῖς κ. πράσσουσιν ¹¹⁷¹

mvp-comment-326-4 ἐξίσταται ¹¹⁷²

mvp-comment-327-1 σοὶ γοῦν ¹¹⁷³

mvp-comment-327-2 κακοῖς ¹¹⁷⁴

mvp-comment-328-1 τῆσδ’ ἄτερ ¹¹⁷⁵ μόνῃ ¹¹⁷⁶

mvp-comment-328-2 βιώσιμον ¹¹⁷⁷ τί ¹¹⁷⁸

mvp-comment-329-1 ἀλλὰ … μέντοι ¹¹⁷⁹

mvp-comment-329-2 ἥδε μὴ λέγε ¹¹⁸⁰

mvp-comment-330-1 νυμφεῖα ¹¹⁸¹

mvp-comment-331-1 ἀρώσιμοι ¹¹⁸²

mvp-comment-332-1 οὐχ ὥς γ’ ¹¹⁸³ ἡρμοσμένα ἦν ¹¹⁸⁴

mvp-comment-333-1 υἱέσι ¹¹⁸⁵ υἱάσιν ¹¹⁸⁶

mvp-comment-333-2

: cp. Monro Hom. Gr. § 107.—The dat. of interest goes with κακὰς γυναῖκας ¹¹⁸⁷ στυγῶ ¹¹⁸⁸

mvp-comment-334-1 It is not of much moment that L, like the later MSS., gives this verse to Ismene. Errors as to the persons occur not seldom in L (see, e.g., cr. n. to O. C. 837 , and cp. ib. 1737 ); and here a mistake would have been peculiarly easy, as the dialogue from v. 561 onwards has been between Creon and Ismene. To me it seems certain that the verse is Antigone's, and that one of the finest touches in the play is effaced by giving it to Ismene. The taunt,

, moves Antigone to break the silence which she has kept since v. 560: in all this scene she has not spoken to Creon, nor does she now address him: she is thinking of Haemon,—of the dishonour to him implied in the charge of having made such a choice, — . How little does his father know the heart which was in sympathy with her own. This solitary reference to her love heightens in a wonderful degree our sense of her unselfish devotion to a sacred duty. If Ismene speaks this verse, then in 573 must be, ‘the marriage of which you talk’ (like El. 1110

οὐκ οἶδα τὴν σὴν κλῄδον

'), which certainly is not its natural sense.

mvp-comment-334-2 Αἷμον ¹¹⁸⁹

mvp-comment-335-1 ἄγαν γε λυπεῖς ¹¹⁹⁰

mvp-comment-336-1 The MSS. give this verse to Ismene; but Boeckh is clearly right in giving it to the Chorus. Ismene asked this question in 568, and Creon answered: she rejoined to this answer (570), and Creon replied still more bitterly. She could not now ask her former question over again. But there is no unfitness in the question being repeated by a new intercessor, since to ask it thus is a form of mild remonstrance.

mvp-comment-337-1 ἐμοί ¹¹⁹¹ ἔφυ ¹¹⁹²

mvp-comment-338-1 This verse clearly belongs to the Chorus, to whom L assigns it. The first words of the next verse show this. Hermann objected that in similar situations the Chorus usually has two verses. It is true that this is usually the case. But O. T. 1312 is enough to show that there was no rigid rule; why, indeed, should there be? And, here, surely,

mvp-comment-338-2 δεδογμένα ¹¹⁹³

mvp-comment-339-1 καὶ σοί γε κἀμοί ¹¹⁹⁴

mvp-comment-339-2 μὴ τριβάς ¹¹⁹⁵

mvp-comment-339-3 νιν ¹¹⁹⁶

mvp-comment-340-1 ἐκ δὲ τοῦδε ¹¹⁹⁷ γυναικας ¹¹⁹⁸ ἀνειμένας ¹¹⁹⁹

mvp-comment-341-1 χοἱ θρασεῖς ¹²⁰⁰ πέλας ¹²⁰¹ εἰσορῶσι ¹²⁰²

mvp-comment-343-1 κακῶν ἄγευστος ¹²⁰³

mvp-comment-344-1 σεισθῇ θεόθεν ¹²⁰⁴

mvp-comment-344-2 ἄτας οὐδὲν ἐλλείπει ¹²⁰⁵ ἐλλείπει ¹²⁰⁶

mvp-comment-344-3 γενεᾶς ἐπὶ πλῆθος ¹²⁰⁷ γενεᾶς ¹²⁰⁸

mvp-comment-345-1 ὅμοιον ¹²⁰⁹

mvp-comment-345-2 ποντίαις ¹²¹⁰ πνοαῖς ¹²¹¹ ὅταν οἶδμα ¹²¹² ποντίαις δυσπν. Θρ. πνοαῖς ¹²¹³ ἐπιδράμῃ ἔρεβος ὕφαλον ¹²¹⁴ Θρῄσσαισιν ¹²¹⁵

mvp-comment-346-1 κελαινὰν θῖνα ¹²¹⁶

mvp-comment-346-2 δυσάνεμοι ¹²¹⁷ δυσάνεμον ¹²¹⁸

mvp-comment-346-3 στόνῳ βρ.· ¹²¹⁹

mvp-comment-346-4 ἀντιπλῆγες ¹²²⁰ ἀκταί ¹²²¹

mvp-comment-347-1 ἀρχαῖα ¹²²²

mvp-comment-347-2 ὁρῶμαι ¹²²³ οἴκων ¹²²⁴ φθι^τῶν ¹²²⁵

mvp-comment-348-1 ἀπαλλάσσει ¹²²⁶

mvp-comment-348-2 γενεὰν γένος ¹²²⁷ ἔχει ¹²²⁸

mvp-comment-348-3 λύσιν ¹²²⁹

mvp-comment-349-1 νῦν γὰρ ἐσχάτας ¹²³⁰ ὃ τέτατο ¹²³¹ ἐτέτατο ¹²³² κατ’ αὖ ¹²³³ ὑπέρ ¹²³⁴ ὅπερ ¹²³⁵ ὃ τέτατο ¹²³⁶ νιν ¹²³⁷ φάος ¹²³⁸ ἐσχάτη ῥίζα ¹²³⁹ φάος ¹²⁴⁰ νιν ¹²⁴¹ φάος ¹²⁴² θάλος ¹²⁴³ τέτατο ¹²⁴⁴ ῥίζας ¹²⁴⁵

mvp-comment-350-1 κατ’ αὖ … ἀμᾷ, ¹²⁴⁶ κοπίς ¹²⁴⁷ κόνις ¹²⁴⁸ κόνις ¹²⁴⁹

mvp-comment-350-2 (1) If κόνις ¹²⁵⁰ καταμᾷ ¹²⁵¹

mvp-comment-350-3 (2) If we read κοπίς ¹²⁵²

mvp-comment-350-4 It has further been urged against

that the word is too homely. This may be so; but we lack proof. seems to have been a large curved knife, known to the Greeks chiefly as ( a) a butcher's or cook's implement, ( b) an oriental military weapon. It does not follow, however, that the effect here would be like that of ‘chopper,’ or of ‘scimitar,’ in English. The dignity of a word may be protected by its simplicity; and is merely ‘that which cuts.’ Pindar was not afraid of homeliness when he described a chorus-master as a , or an inspiring thought as an (cp. O. C. 1052 n.). Nicander could say, of the scorpion, ( Ther. 780 ). If be right, the change to may have been caused, not by a misreading of letters, but by mere inadvertence,—the copyist having the word in his thoughts at the moment: it has already occurred frequently ( 247 , 256 , 409 , 429 ).—See Appendix.

mvp-comment-351-1 λόγου … ἄνοια ¹²⁵³ φρενῶν ἐρινύς ¹²⁵⁴

mvp-comment-352-1 τεάν ¹²⁵⁵

mvp-comment-352-2 δύνα^σιν ¹²⁵⁶

mvp-comment-352-3 κατάσχοι ¹²⁵⁷

mvp-comment-353-1 The MS. παντογήρως ¹²⁵⁸ παντοθήρας ¹²⁵⁹ παντόθηρος ¹²⁶⁰ πάντ’ ἀγρεύων ¹²⁶¹

mvp-comment-354-1 The MS. οὔτ’ ἀκάματοι θεῶν ¹²⁶²

mvp-comment-354-2

. Far the best emendation is οὔτε θεῶν ἄκματοι ¹²⁶³ θεῶν ¹²⁶⁴ θεῶν μῆνες ¹²⁶⁵ θεῶν ¹²⁶⁶ οὔτε ¹²⁶⁷

mvp-comment-354-3 ἄκματοι ¹²⁶⁸

mvp-comment-355-1 I doubt whether the dat. χρόνῳ ¹²⁶⁹

mvp-comment-355-2 μαρμαρόεσσαν ¹²⁷⁰

mvp-comment-356-1 τό τ’ ἔπειτα ¹²⁷¹ τὸ μέλλον ¹²⁷²

mvp-comment-356-2 καὶ τὸ πρίν ¹²⁷⁶ ἐπαρκέσει ¹²⁷⁷

mvp-comment-357-1 πάμπολύ γ’ ¹²⁷⁸

mvp-comment-357-2 ἕρπει ¹²⁷⁹ ἕρπειν ¹²⁸⁰ ἕρπει ¹²⁸¹

mvp-comment-357-3 πάμπολις ¹²⁸²

mvp-comment-358-1 ἁ γὰρ δή ¹²⁸³ γάρ ¹²⁸⁴ πολύπλαγκτος ¹²⁸⁵

mvp-comment-358-2 oft tossed up and down, ploughing a sea of vain deceits.’—

might also be act., ‘causing men to err greatly’; but this is less fitting here.

mvp-comment-359-1 πολλοῖς μὲν ὄνασις ¹²⁸⁶

mvp-comment-360-1 ἀπάτα … ἐρώτων ¹²⁸⁷

mvp-comment-360-2 κουφονόων ¹²⁸⁸

mvp-comment-361-1 The

, or final frustration of his desires, ἕρπει ¹²⁸⁹ οὐδὲν εἰδότι ¹²⁹⁰

mvp-comment-362-1 πρὶν … προσαύσῃ ¹²⁹¹

mvp-comment-362-2 προσαύσῃ ¹²⁹²

mvp-comment-362-3 πόδα ¹²⁹³ προσαύσῃ ¹²⁹⁴

mvp-comment-363-1 σοφίᾳ ¹²⁹⁵

mvp-comment-363-2 ἔκ του ¹²⁹⁶

mvp-comment-363-3 πεφάνται ¹²⁹⁷

mvp-comment-364-1 τὸ κακὸν δοκεῖν ποτ’ ¹²⁹⁸ ποτέ ¹²⁹⁹

mvp-comment-364-2 1676 Among them he a spirit of phrenzy sent, Who hurt their minds. Cp.

. Il. 19.137

ἀλλ’ ἐπεὶ ἀασάμην, καί μευ φρένας ἐξέλετο Ζεύς

. Theognis 403 . Lycurgus in Leocr. § 92 . The schol. on our verse quotes an unknown poet's lines, . (‘Quem Iuppiter vult perdere, dementat prius.’ See n. in Appendix.)— The epic ἔμμεν ¹³⁰⁰

mvp-comment-365-1 ὀλίγιστον ¹³⁰¹ ὀλιγοστόν ¹³⁰² πράσσει … ἐκτὸς ἄτας ¹³⁰³ ἄτας ¹³⁰⁴

mvp-comment-366-1 μήν ¹³⁰⁵

mvp-comment-366-2 νέατον ¹³⁰⁶

mvp-comment-366-3 to a person,

could not be said of a sole survivor unless he was also the latest-born.

γέννημ’

: cp. 471 n.

mvp-comment-366-4 ἀχνύμενος ¹³⁰⁷ μόρον ¹³⁰⁸

mvp-comment-367-1 In the MS. reading (see cr. n.)

is a gloss on τάλιδος ¹³⁰⁹ τῆς μελλογάμου ¹³¹⁰ τῆς μελλογάμου ¹³¹¹ τάλιδος ¹³¹²

mvp-comment-368-1 ἀπάτας ¹³¹³ λεχέων ¹³¹⁴

mvp-comment-370-1 μάντεων ὑπέρτερον ¹³¹⁵

mvp-comment-371-1 τελείαν ¹³¹⁶

mvp-comment-371-2 ψῆφο<*> ¹³¹⁷

mvp-comment-371-3 ἆρα μή ¹³¹⁸

mvp-comment-371-4 τῆς μελλονύμφου ¹³¹⁹

mvp-comment-371-5 λυσσαίνων ¹³²⁰ σοὶ μέν ¹³²¹ θυμαίνων ¹³²²

mvp-comment-372-1 σοὶ μέν ¹³²³

mvp-comment-372-2 πανταχῇ δρῶντες ¹³²⁴

mvp-comment-373-1 σός ¹³²⁵

mvp-comment-373-2 γνώμας ἔχων χρηστάς ¹³²⁶ ἀπορθοῖς ¹³²⁷ μοι ¹³²⁸

mvp-comment-374-1 ἀξιώσεται ¹³³⁰ ἀξ. μείζων φέρεσθαι ¹³³¹ ἀξίως ἔσται ¹³³²

mvp-comment-374-2 σοῦ καλῶς ἡγουμ. ¹³³³ μείζων ¹³³⁴

mvp-comment-375-1 γάρ ¹³³⁵

mvp-comment-375-2 διὰ στέρνων ἔχειν ¹³³⁶ διά ¹³³⁷ ἔχειν ¹³³⁸ οὕτω ¹³³⁹ ἔχειν ¹³⁴⁰

mvp-comment-376-1 (One ought to think thus),—that is, ὄπισθεν ἑστάναι πατρ. γνώμης ¹³⁴¹ πάντα ¹³⁴² ἑστάναι ¹³⁴³

mvp-comment-377-1 ὡς ¹³⁴⁴

mvp-comment-377-2 ἀνταμύνωνται ¹³⁴⁵ κακοῖς ¹³⁴⁶

mvp-comment-378-1 ἄλλο ¹³⁴⁷ φῦσαι ¹³⁴⁸ πλήν ¹³⁴⁹ ἄλλο ¹³⁵⁰ εἴποις ¹³⁵¹

mvp-comment-378-2 πόνους ¹³⁵²

mvp-comment-378-3 γέλων ¹³⁵³

mvp-comment-379-1 τὰς φρένας γ’ ¹³⁵⁴ γε ¹³⁵⁵ φρένας σύ γ’ ἡδονῇ ¹³⁵⁶

mvp-comment-379-2 φρένας … ἐκβάλῃς ¹³⁵⁷

mvp-comment-379-3 ὑφ’ ἡδονῆς ¹³⁵⁸

mvp-comment-380-1 ψυχρόν ¹³⁵⁹

mvp-comment-380-2 παραγκάλισμα ¹³⁶⁰

mvp-comment-381-1 δόμοις ¹³⁶¹

mvp-comment-381-2 ἕλκος ¹³⁶²

mvp-comment-381-3 φίλος ¹³⁶³

mvp-comment-382-1 πτύσας ¹³⁶⁴

mvp-comment-382-2 ὠσεί τε δυσμενῆ ¹³⁶⁵ τε ¹³⁶⁶

mvp-comment-383-1 νυμφεύειν ¹³⁶⁷

mvp-comment-384-1 ἀπιστήσασαν ¹³⁶⁸ ψευδῆ ¹³⁶⁹

mvp-comment-385-1 κτενῶ ¹³⁷⁰

mvp-comment-385-2 πρὸς ταῦτ ¹³⁷¹

mvp-comment-385-3 ἐφυμνείτω ¹³⁷²

mvp-comment-385-4 Δία ξύναιμον ¹³⁷³

mvp-comment-386-1 τά γ’ ἐγγ. φύσει ¹³⁷⁴

mvp-comment-386-2 ἄκοσμα ¹³⁷⁵

mvp-comment-386-3 θρέψω ¹³⁷⁶

mvp-comment-386-4 κάρτα τοὺς ἔξω γ. ¹³⁷⁷

mvp-comment-387-1 Seidler transposes vv. 663—667, placing them after 671. The object is to bring vv. 668—671 into immediate connection with 662. In this there is one slight grammatical gain; since, as the vv. stand in the MSS.,

(668) means, ‘the man who acts thus’ (viz., as described in vv. 666 f.). But the order given in the MSS. is right. The transposition obliterates one of the finest touches in the speech. Creon demands that the obedience of the citizens to the ruler shall be absolute (666 f.). And then he supplements this demand with a remark on the dignity of such obedience. The man who so obeys gives the best proof that he could also rule (668 ff.). Seidler destroys the point of vv. 668 ff. by placing them after 662.

mvp-comment-387-2 The connection of thought in the whole passage—which is slightly obscured by compression—may be most clearly shown by taking the verses in small consecutive groups. (1) 659 f. If I tolerate disloyalty

mvp-comment-387-3 in my own relatives, I shall encourage it in other citizens. (2) 661 f. For (

) only a man who is firm ( ) where his own relatives are concerned will be found to uphold justice in the State (i.e. will have the authority necessary for doing so). (3) 663 f. Now, I recognise disloyalty in any one who breaks the law and defies the government, as Antigone has done. (4) 666 f. Instead of so doing, the citizen is bound to obey the government in everything. (5) 668—671. There is nothing slavish in that; on the contrary, it shows that the citizen is not only a good subject, but would, if required, be a good ruler;—as he would also be a good soldier.—Then comes the general censure on unruliness (672—676). And then the conclusion:—I must vindicate my authority, and punish Antigone (677 —680).

mvp-comment-388-1 ὑπερβάς ¹³⁷⁸

mvp-comment-388-2 τοὐπιτάσσειν ¹³⁷⁹

mvp-comment-388-3 νοεῖ ¹³⁸⁰

mvp-comment-389-1 στήσειε ¹³⁸¹

mvp-comment-389-2 καὶ τἀναντία ¹³⁸²

mvp-comment-390-1 τοῦτον … τὸν ἄνδρα ¹³⁸³

mvp-comment-390-2 καλῶς...εὖ ¹³⁸⁴

mvp-comment-390-3 ἄν ¹³⁸⁵ ἄρχειν ¹³⁸⁶ θέλειν ¹³⁸⁷

mvp-comment-391-1 δορὸς … χειμῶνι ¹³⁸⁸

mvp-comment-391-2 προστεταγμένον ¹³⁸⁹

mvp-comment-391-3 παραστάτην ¹³⁹⁰

mvp-comment-392-1 πόλεις ὄλλυσιν, ἥδ’ ¹³⁹¹ πόλεις τ’ … ἥδ’ ¹³⁹²

mvp-comment-393-1 συμμάχου ¹³⁹³ συμμάχηι ¹³⁹⁴ σὺν μάχῃ ¹³⁹⁵

mvp-comment-393-2 τροπὰς καταρρήγνυσι ¹³⁹⁶

mvp-comment-393-3 τῶν δ’ ὀρθουμένων ¹³⁹⁷ τὰ πολλὰ σώματα ¹³⁹⁸

mvp-comment-393-4 ἡ πειθαρχία ¹³⁹⁹

mvp-comment-394-1 ἀμυντέ’ ¹⁴⁰⁰

mvp-comment-394-2 τοῖς κοσμουμένοις ¹⁴⁰¹ τοῖς κ. ¹⁴⁰³

mvp-comment-395-1 κοὔτοι … ἡσσητέα ¹⁴⁰⁴

mvp-comment-396-1 δεῖ ¹⁴⁰⁵ ἐκπεσεῖν ¹⁴⁰⁶

mvp-comment-396-2 thrust out: oft. of dethronement (

, Aesch. ), or of exile ( , O. C. 766 ).

mvp-comment-396-3 κοὐκ ἂν...καλοίμεθ’ ἄν ¹⁴⁰⁷

mvp-comment-397-1 μέν ¹⁴⁰⁸

mvp-comment-397-2 τῷ χρόνῳ ¹⁴⁰⁹

mvp-comment-397-3 κεκλέμμεθα ¹⁴¹⁰

mvp-comment-398-1 δοκεῖς λέγειν φρονούντως περὶ ¹⁴¹¹

mvp-comment-399-1 θεοί ¹⁴¹²

mvp-comment-399-2 κτημάτων ¹⁴¹³

mvp-comment-400-1 ἐγὼ δ’ ὅπως ¹⁴¹⁴

mvp-comment-400-2 μὴ ¹⁴¹⁵ ὅπως ¹⁴¹⁶ μή ¹⁴¹⁷ ὀρθῶς ¹⁴¹⁸

mvp-comment-400-3 μήτ’ ἐπισταίμην ¹⁴¹⁹

mvp-comment-401-1 καλῶς ἔχον ¹⁴²⁰ γένοιτο ἂν καὶ ἑτέρῳ ¹⁴²¹

mvp-comment-402-1 σοῦ δ’ οὖν ¹⁴²² σοῦ ¹⁴²³ σοί ¹⁴²⁴ σὺ δ’ οὐ πέφυκας ¹⁴²⁵ τις ¹⁴²⁶ μῆνίν τιν’ ἢ κότον τιν ¹⁴²⁷

mvp-comment-403-1 τὸ γὰρ σόν ¹⁴²⁸ ὄμμα ¹⁴²⁹

mvp-comment-403-2 δημότῃ ¹⁴³⁰

mvp-comment-404-1 λόγοις τοιούτοις ¹⁴³¹ λόγοις τοιούτοις ¹⁴³²

mvp-comment-404-2 οἷς ¹⁴³³ τέρψει ¹⁴³⁴ κλύων ¹⁴³⁵ μή ¹⁴³⁶ τέρψῃ ¹⁴³⁷

mvp-comment-405-1 ὑπὸ σκότον ¹⁴³⁸ ἀκούειν ¹⁴³⁹ ὀδύρεται ¹⁴⁴⁰

mvp-comment-406-1 κάκιστ’ … εὐκλεεστάτων ¹⁴⁴¹

mvp-comment-406-2 ἀπ’ ἔργων ¹⁴⁴²

mvp-comment-407-1 ἥτις ¹⁴⁴³ μήθ’ … μήθ’ ¹⁴⁴⁴ εἴασε ¹⁴⁴⁵ ὀλέσθαι ¹⁴⁴⁶

mvp-comment-407-2 αὐτάδελφον ¹⁴⁴⁷

mvp-comment-407-3 ἐνφοναῖς ¹⁴⁴⁸

mvp-comment-408-1 χρυσῆς ¹⁴⁴⁹

mvp-comment-408-2 λαχεῖν ¹⁴⁵⁰ ἀξία ¹⁴⁵¹

mvp-comment-409-1 ἐπέρχεται ¹⁴⁵²

mvp-comment-410-1 θάλλοντος ¹⁴⁵³

mvp-comment-410-2 μεῖζον εὐκλείας ¹⁴⁵⁴

mvp-comment-410-3 πρὸς παίδων ¹⁴⁵⁵ εὐκλεία ¹⁴⁵⁶

mvp-comment-411-1 νυν ¹⁴⁵⁷

mvp-comment-411-2 φόρει ¹⁴⁵⁸

mvp-comment-411-3 ἦθος ¹⁴⁵⁹ ὡς φὴς σύ ¹⁴⁶⁰

mvp-comment-411-4 κοὐδέν ¹⁴⁶¹

mvp-comment-411-5 τοῦτο ¹⁴⁶²

mvp-comment-412-1 μόνος ¹⁴⁶³ φρονεῖν ¹⁴⁶⁴ ψυχήν ¹⁴⁶⁵

mvp-comment-412-2

(devices) . Isocr. or. 3 § 43 joins Theognis, Hesiod and Phocylides as . They were read in schools.

mvp-comment-413-1 οὗτοι ¹⁴⁶⁶

mvp-comment-413-2 διαπτυχθέντες ¹⁴⁶⁷

mvp-comment-413-3 κενοί ¹⁴⁶⁸

mvp-comment-414-1 ἄνδρα ¹⁴⁶⁹ μανθάνειν ¹⁴⁷⁰ τό ¹⁴⁷¹

mvp-comment-414-2 κεἰ … ᾖ ¹⁴⁷²

mvp-comment-414-3 τείνειν ¹⁴⁷³

mvp-comment-414-4 παρὰ ῥείθρ. ¹⁴⁷⁴

mvp-comment-414-5 χειμάρροις ¹⁴⁷⁵

mvp-comment-415-1 ὑπείκει ¹⁴⁷⁶

mvp-comment-415-2 αὐτόπρεμνα ¹⁴⁷⁷

mvp-comment-416-1 αὔτως ¹⁴⁷⁸

mvp-comment-416-2 ναός ¹⁴⁷⁹

mvp-comment-416-3 ἐγκρατῆ ¹⁴⁸⁰

mvp-comment-416-4 πόδα ¹⁴⁸¹

mvp-comment-417-1 μηδέν ¹⁴⁸²

mvp-comment-417-2 κάτω στρέψας ¹⁴⁸³ τὸ πλοῖον ¹⁴⁸⁴ τὸ λοιπόν ¹⁴⁸⁵

mvp-comment-417-3 σέλμασιν ¹⁴⁸⁶ ὑπτίοις ¹⁴⁸⁷

mvp-comment-418-1 εἶκε θυμοῦ ¹⁴⁸⁸

mvp-comment-418-2 καὶ μετάστασιν δίδου ¹⁴⁸⁹

mvp-comment-418-3 δίδου ¹⁴⁹⁰ εἶκε ¹⁴⁹¹ καί ¹⁴⁹² καί ¹⁴⁹³

mvp-comment-419-1 εἴ τις γνώμη πρόσεστι καὶ ἀπ’ ἐμοῦ ν. ¹⁴⁹⁴ καί ¹⁴⁹⁵

mvp-comment-419-2 πρεσβεύειν ¹⁴⁹⁶

mvp-comment-420-1 φῦναι ¹⁴⁹⁷

mvp-comment-420-2 πάντ’ ¹⁴⁹⁸

mvp-comment-421-1 εἰ δ’ οὖν ¹⁴⁹⁹ φιλεῖ γάρ ¹⁵⁰⁰

mvp-comment-421-2 τοῦτο … ταύτῃ ¹⁵⁰¹ ταύτῃ ¹⁵⁰²

mvp-comment-421-3 ῥέπειν ¹⁵⁰³

mvp-comment-422-1 καὶ τὸ τῶν εὖ λεγόντων μανθάνειν καλόν ¹⁵⁰⁴

mvp-comment-423-1 σέ τ’ ¹⁵⁰⁵ διπλᾶι ¹⁵⁰⁶ διπλᾶ ¹⁵⁰⁷ διπλῇ ¹⁵⁰⁸ διπλᾶ ¹⁵⁰⁹

mvp-comment-423-2 On the other hand, διπλῇ ¹⁵¹⁰

mvp-comment-424-1 καὶ ¹⁵¹¹ διδαξ. ¹⁵¹²

mvp-comment-424-2 δή ¹⁵¹³

mvp-comment-424-3 τὴν φύσιν ¹⁵¹⁴

mvp-comment-425-1 μηδέν ¹⁵¹⁵ τὸ μὴ δίκ. ¹⁵¹⁶

mvp-comment-425-2 τὸν χρόνον ¹⁵¹⁷ τἄργα ¹⁵¹⁸

mvp-comment-426-1 ἔργον ¹⁵¹⁹

mvp-comment-426-2 τοὺς ἀκοσμοῦντας ¹⁵²⁰

mvp-comment-426-3 σέβειν ¹⁵²¹

mvp-comment-427-1 οὐδ’ ¹⁵²²

mvp-comment-428-1 τοιᾷδε … νοσῳ ¹⁵²³

mvp-comment-428-2 ἐπείληπται ¹⁵²⁴

mvp-comment-429-1 Θήβης ¹⁵²⁵ ὁμόπτολις ¹⁵²⁶

mvp-comment-430-1 ἡμῖν ¹⁵²⁷ ἐμέ ¹⁵²⁸

mvp-comment-431-1 ὡς ἄγαν νέος ¹⁵²⁹

mvp-comment-432-1 Dobree's με ¹⁵³⁰ γε ¹⁵³¹ χρή ¹⁵³² ἄλλῳ ἢ ’μοί ¹⁵³³ ἐμοί ¹⁵³⁴ χρή γε ¹⁵³⁵

mvp-comment-433-1 πόλις γὰρ οὐκ ἔσθ’ ¹⁵³⁶

mvp-comment-433-2

is , Rep. 544 C. de Rep. 3. 31

mvp-comment-434-1 νομίζεται ¹⁵³⁷

mvp-comment-435-1 καλῶς ἐρήμης γ’ ¹⁵³⁸

mvp-comment-436-1 Though at least one late MS. (Paris E) has

, it is needless to assume here the same mixed constr. as Tr. 1238

ἁνὴρ δ’ ὅδ’, ὡς ἔοικεν, οὐ νεμεῖν ἐμοὶ | φθίνοντι μοῖραν

.

mvp-comment-437-1 οὖν ¹⁵³⁹ προκήδομαι ¹⁵⁴⁰

mvp-comment-438-1 ὦ παγκάκιστε ¹⁵⁴¹

mvp-comment-438-2 διὰ δίκης ἰὼν πατρί ¹⁵⁴²

mvp-comment-439-1 ἀρχάς ¹⁵⁴³

mvp-comment-440-1 οὐ γὰρ σέβεις ¹⁵⁴⁴

mvp-comment-440-2 τιμάς ¹⁵⁴⁵

mvp-comment-441-1 ὦ μιαρόν ¹⁵⁴⁶ γυναικὸς ὕστερον ¹⁵⁴⁷

mvp-comment-442-1 ‘I may be inferior to a woman, but at least you will never find me yielding to base temptations.’ It would have been

if he had allowed fear or self-interest to deter him from pleading this cause. ( Cp. 509 .) Cp. Tr. 489

ἔρωτος...ἥσσων

: fr. 844

mvp-comment-442-2 οὔ τἄν ¹⁵⁴⁸

mvp-comment-442-3 γε ¹⁵⁴⁹

mvp-comment-443-1 γοῦν ¹⁵⁵⁰

mvp-comment-444-1 καὶ σοῦ γε ¹⁵⁵¹

mvp-comment-445-1 Objections have been made to the traditional order of these verses, chiefly in two respects. (1) 755

is—it is argued—the strongest thing said by Haemon, and ought therefore to come immediately before Creon's final outburst, ; (758). How could it be followed by merely so mild a phrase as ?—We may reply:— Haemon says that, if Creon were not his father, he would have thought him mad. It is to this that refers, meaning, ‘Do not seek to deceive me by an affectation of filial deference.’ (2) 757 is too mild a remark—it is said—to form the climax of provocation to Creon's anger. We may reply:—It is in substance, if not in form, such a climax, —for a father who holds that unquestioning obedience (640) is a son's first duty. It asserts Haemon's right to maintain his own views against his father's,— , as Creon put it (742). The traditional order seems, therefore, to be right.

mvp-comment-445-2 Three modes of transposition have been proposed. (1) Enger puts 756 and 757 after 749. Then

(756) refers to Haemon's plea that he has his father's cause, and that of religion, at heart. We lose nothing by such a transposition; but neither do we gain.

mvp-comment-445-3 (2) Donner (in his transl., ed. 1863) simply transposed verses 755 and 757, leaving the rest as they stand. For this it may fairly be said that 757 comes very fitly after 754. On the other hand it seems to me that 756 does not aptly follow 757.

mvp-comment-445-4 (3) Pallis arranges thus:—749, 756, 755, 754, 757, 750—753. Thus

(753) becomes the last sting.— The fact is that, in a stormy altercation, we do not look for a closely logical texture and a delicately graduated crescendo. The MS. order is (to my mind) the best; but other arrangements are possible, and would be nearly as good.

mvp-comment-445-5 Creon, instead of replying to v. 749, abruptly repeats his resolve.

(fut.) , it cannot be that you shall ever wed her while she yet lives; i.e. she is to die at once, and can become your bride, if ever, only (654). Cp. 1240 .— ὡς ¹⁵⁵² ποτέ ¹⁵⁵³ ταύτην ¹⁵⁵⁴

mvp-comment-446-1 ἥδ’ ¹⁵⁵⁵ ὀλεῖ τινά ¹⁵⁵⁶

mvp-comment-447-1 ἦ ἐπεξέρχει και ἐπαπειλῶν ὧδε θρασύς; ¹⁵⁵⁷ καί ¹⁵⁵⁸

mvp-comment-448-1 κλαίων ¹⁵⁵⁹

mvp-comment-448-2 φρενώσεις ¹⁵⁶⁰

mvp-comment-449-1 οὐκ εὖ φρονεῖν ¹⁵⁶¹

mvp-comment-450-1 δούλευμα ¹⁵⁶²

mvp-comment-450-2 μὴ κωτιλλέ με ¹⁵⁶³

mvp-comment-450-3 Cp. Theognis 363

(cajole)' : id. 851 .

mvp-comment-451-1 λέγειν … κλύειν; ¹⁵⁶⁴ λέγειν τι ¹⁵⁶⁵

mvp-comment-452-1 ἄληθες; ¹⁵⁶⁶

mvp-comment-452-2 οὐ τόνδ’ Ὄλ. ¹⁵⁶⁷

mvp-comment-452-3 ἴσθ’ ὅτι ¹⁵⁶⁸

mvp-comment-453-1 χαίρων ¹⁵⁶⁹

mvp-comment-453-2 ἐπὶ ψόγοισι δεννάσεις ¹⁵⁷⁰ ἐπί ¹⁵⁷¹ ἔτι ¹⁵⁷²

mvp-comment-454-1 ἄγετε ¹⁵⁷³ ἄγ’ ἄγε ¹⁵⁷⁴ ἄγαγε ¹⁵⁷⁵

mvp-comment-454-2 τὸ μῖσος ¹⁵⁷⁶

mvp-comment-454-3 κατ’ ὄμματ’ ¹⁵⁷⁷

mvp-comment-454-4 παρόντι … πλησία ¹⁵⁷⁸

mvp-comment-455-1 ἔμοιγε ¹⁵⁷⁹ οὔτε ¹⁵⁸⁰ τε ¹⁵⁸¹

mvp-comment-455-2 οὐδαμά ¹⁵⁸²

mvp-comment-455-3 ἐν ὀφθαλμοῖς ¹⁵⁸³

mvp-comment-456-1 ὡς ¹⁵⁸⁴

mvp-comment-456-2 τοῖς θέλουσι ¹⁵⁸⁵

mvp-comment-457-1 ἐξ ὀργῆς ταχύς ¹⁵⁸⁶

mvp-comment-457-2 βαρύς ¹⁵⁸⁷

mvp-comment-458-1 μεῖζον ἢ κατ’ ἄνδρα ¹⁵⁸⁸

mvp-comment-458-2 ἰών ¹⁵⁸⁹

mvp-comment-458-3

: Ai. 304

ὅσην κατ’ αὐτῶν ὕβριν ἐκτίσαιτ’ ἰών

. So here it scornfully suggests some daring enterprise.

mvp-comment-459-1 For δ’ οὖν ¹⁵⁹⁰

mvp-comment-459-2 τὼ … τώδε ¹⁵⁹¹

mvp-comment-459-3 καί ¹⁵⁹² κατακτ. νοεῖς ¹⁵⁹³ κατακτ ¹⁵⁹⁴

mvp-comment-460-1 θιγοῦσαν ¹⁵⁹⁵

mvp-comment-460-2 γὰρ οὖν ¹⁵⁹⁶

mvp-comment-461-1 καί ¹⁵⁹⁷ βουλεύει ¹⁵⁹⁸

mvp-comment-461-2 σφε ¹⁵⁹⁹

mvp-comment-462-1 ἔνθα ¹⁶⁰⁰

mvp-comment-463-1 πετρώδει … ἐν κατώρυχι ¹⁶⁰¹

mvp-comment-464-1 ὡς ἄγος μόνον ¹⁶⁰² ὡς ¹⁶⁰³ ὅσον ¹⁶⁰⁴

mvp-comment-464-2 ἄγος ¹⁶⁰⁵

mvp-comment-464-3 Creon's edict had announced that the transgressor would be publicly stoned to death (36). It is to this that the anxious question of the Chorus alludes (772). Creon had already said that Antigone's doom was to be

(489). But now, at least, he feels that he cannot inflict such a death on the maiden, his kinswoman. She shall die, not by stoning, but by starvation. The choice is not prompted by cruelty, but simply by the desire to avoid physical violence.

mvp-comment-464-4 The danger of a

—to be avoided by a dole of food—has no relation to the special circumstances,—Antigone's royal birth, and the nature of her offence. In the ancient belief, that danger existed whenever a person was put to death by starvation. Two notions were probably blended; ( a) that, if a little food was given, the death was nature's work, not man's; ( b) that the claimed an indemnity for the usual . So the Greeks put Philoctetes ashore on desolate Lemnos, — ( Ph. 274 ). So, too, when a Vestal was to be buried alive, the small vault in the Campus Sceleratus was furnished with a couch, a burning lamp, and a small table, on which the dole was placed,—bread, olives, milk, and a jug of water ( Plut. Num. 10 ).

mvp-comment-465-1 πᾶσ’ ¹⁶⁰⁶

mvp-comment-466-1 ὃν μόνον σέβει ¹⁶⁰⁷

mvp-comment-466-2

(199). By honouring him, and Hades (519), she has dishonoured those other gods.

mvp-comment-467-1 τὸ μὴ θανεῖν ¹⁶⁰⁸ τεύξεται ¹⁶⁰⁹

mvp-comment-468-1 ἀλλὰ τηνικαῦτα ¹⁶¹⁰ τἀν ¹⁶¹¹

mvp-comment-470-1 ἀνίκατε μάχαν ¹⁶¹²

mvp-comment-471-1 ἐν κτήμασι πίπτεις, ¹⁶¹³

mvp-comment-472-1 ἐν μαλακαῖς παρειαῖς ¹⁶¹⁴

mvp-comment-472-2 ἐννυχεύεις ¹⁶¹⁵

mvp-comment-473-1 ὑπερπόντιος ¹⁶¹⁶

mvp-comment-473-2 ἔν τ’ ἀγρ. αὐλαῖς ¹⁶¹⁷

mvp-comment-474-1 οὔτ’ ἀθανάτων ¹⁶¹⁸

mvp-comment-474-2 σὲ … φύξιμός ἐστι ¹⁶¹⁹

mvp-comment-475-1 σέ γ’ ¹⁶²⁰

mvp-comment-475-2 ὁ δ’ ἔχων ¹⁶²¹

mvp-comment-476-1 ἀδίκους ¹⁶²² παρασπᾷς ¹⁶²³

mvp-comment-477-1 ξύναιμον ¹⁶²⁴

mvp-comment-477-2 ἔχεις ¹⁶²⁵

mvp-comment-477-3 ταράξας ¹⁶²⁶

mvp-comment-478-1 ἐναργής ¹⁶²⁷

mvp-comment-478-2 βλεφάρωνἵμερος ¹⁶²⁸ εὐλέκτρου νύμφας ¹⁶²⁹

mvp-comment-478-3 εὐλέκτρου ¹⁶³⁰

mvp-comment-479-1 πάρεδρος ἐν ἀρχαῖς ¹⁶³¹ πάρεδρος ¹⁶³² ἐν ἀρχαῖς ¹⁶³³

mvp-comment-479-2 The words answer metrically to

(788). The first two syllables of therefore represent a resolved long syllable. Pindar affords some instances of such resolution (see Appendix), and there is a probable example below (970 , where see n.). But it is rare, and certainly unpleasing. As

mvp-comment-479-3 a whole, too, the phrase

is suspicious. A yet stronger objection is the strangeness of describing the power which is in conflict with the as their assessor, or peer, in sway; an expression which would seem appropriate only if that power was working in harmony with them; as when Eur. ( Eur. Med. 843 ) speaks of ,—‘the loves that sit with wisdom, co-workers of all excellence,’—those aspirations of the soul which assist intellectual effort.

mvp-comment-479-4 The best line of emendation yet suggested is that of Semitelos, who writes ὥστε πέρα δρᾶν ¹⁶³⁴

mvp-comment-480-1 ἐμπαίζει ¹⁶³⁵ νικᾷ ¹⁶³⁶

mvp-comment-481-1 καὐτὸς θεσμῶν ἔξω ¹⁶³⁷

mvp-comment-481-2 φέρομαι ¹⁶³⁸

mvp-comment-481-3 ἴσχειν δ’ ¹⁶³⁹

mvp-comment-482-1 πηγάς ¹⁶⁴⁰

mvp-comment-483-1 παγκοίτην ¹⁶⁴¹

mvp-comment-483-2 of Antigone are brought into finer relief by the different tone of the choral anapaests. Cp. 822 , and see Appendix on 110.—Cp. O. C. 1578 (Death)

. The word θάλαμον ¹⁶⁴²

mvp-comment-483-3 ἀνύτουσαν ¹⁶⁴³

mvp-comment-485-1 νεάταν … νέατον δέ ¹⁶⁴⁴

mvp-comment-485-2 νέατον ¹⁶⁴⁵

mvp-comment-485-3 κοὔποτ’ αὖθις ¹⁶⁴⁶

mvp-comment-486-1 παγκοίτας ¹⁶⁴⁷ πάγκοινος ¹⁶⁴⁸

mvp-comment-487-1 ἄγει … ἀκτάν ¹⁶⁴⁹

mvp-comment-488-1 οὔθ’ ὑμεναίων … οὔτ’ ἐπινύμφειος … ὕμνος ¹⁶⁵⁰

mvp-comment-488-2 οὔτε … ἔγκληρον, … οὔτε … ὕμνησεν ¹⁶⁵²

mvp-comment-488-3 ἐπινύμφειος ¹⁶⁵³ ἐπινυμφίδιος ¹⁶⁵⁴ ἐπὶ νυμφείοις ¹⁶⁵⁵ ἐπινυμφίδιος ¹⁶⁵⁶

mvp-comment-489-1 Ἀχέροντι νυμφεύσω ¹⁶⁵⁷

mvp-comment-490-1 ξιφέων ¹⁶⁵⁸ ἐπίχειρα ¹⁶⁵⁹

mvp-comment-491-1 αὐτόνομος ¹⁶⁶⁰

mvp-comment-491-2 δή ¹⁶⁶¹ μόνη ¹⁶⁶² Ἀΐδην ¹⁶⁶³ Ἅιδην ¹⁶⁶⁴

mvp-comment-492-1 ἤκουσα δή ¹⁶⁶⁵

mvp-comment-492-2 λυγροτάταν ¹⁶⁶⁶

mvp-comment-492-3 ξέναν ¹⁶⁶⁷

mvp-comment-493-1 Ταντάλου ¹⁶⁶⁸

mvp-comment-493-2 Σιπύλῳ ¹⁶⁶⁹

mvp-comment-494-1 ἀτενής ¹⁶⁷⁰

mvp-comment-494-2 πετραία βλάστα δάμασεν ¹⁶⁷¹ αι^ ¹⁶⁷²

mvp-comment-495-1 καί νιν ὄμρροι ¹⁶⁷³ τέγγει δ’ ¹⁶⁷⁴ ὄμβρῳ ¹⁶⁷⁵ τακομέναν ¹⁶⁷⁶ τέγγει … δειράδας ¹⁶⁷⁷ ὄμβροι ¹⁶⁷⁸ ὄμβρῳ ¹⁶⁷⁹

mvp-comment-495-2 χιών ¹⁶⁸⁰

mvp-comment-495-3 οὐδαμά ¹⁶⁸¹

mvp-comment-496-1 τέγγει δ’ ὑπ’ ὀφρύσι … δειράδας ¹⁶⁸²

mvp-comment-496-2 The Niobe of Sipylus has usually been identified with a colossal rock-image on the N. side of the range. It is rudely carved in relief, within a rectangular niche on the face of a limestone cliff, and represents a woman seated on a throne. (See Stark, Niobe, pl. 1, Leips. 1863: cp. Baumeister, Denkm. p. 1029). Prof. W. M. Ramsay, however, holds that this image is the ‘very ancient’

of Cybele mentioned by Paus. 3.22.4 . In two respects it differs from the ancient accounts of the Niobe (quoted below): ( a) it does not ‘weep,’—for the rainwater drops from the front of the niche, clear of the figure; and ( b) the likeness to a human form grows, instead of vanishing, as one approaches. ( Journ. Hellen. Studies III. 61 ff., 1882.) This has been confirmed by another traveller, Herr Schweisthal (as reported in the Berl. Phil. Wochenschr., May 28, 1887, p. 704). He finds the true Niobe at no great distance from the Cybele, but nearer Magnesia, and in the vicinity of a stream (the Jarikkaia) which Humann, in his ‘Excursion into Sipylus’ (1881), had already identified with the Achelous of Il. 24.616 . It is a natural phenomenon,—the semblance—as seen from a distance—of a draped woman, seated high on the rocks; she looks towards the right, and lifts her right arm, as if in lament.

mvp-comment-496-3 The best ancient description is by a poet whose native place was in that neighbourhood,—Quintus Smyrnaeus (1. 293— 306):—‘Her streaming tears still fall from the heights of the rugged cliff; and in sympathy with her the sounding waters of the Hermus make lament, and the lofty peaks of Sipylus, over which the mist that shepherds dread floats evermore. A great marvel is she to passers by, because she is like a sorrowful woman, who mourns some cruel grief, and weeps without stint. Such verily seems the figure, when thou gazest at it from afar; but when thou drawest near, lo, 'tis but a sheer rock, a cliff of Sipylus’ (

).

mvp-comment-496-4 Nonnus was thinking of the effect from the road, when he wrote (2. 160),

. Pausanias, too, says that, at a certain distance from the cliff, , but that the illusion vanishes on a nearer approach (1. 21 § 3).

mvp-comment-497-1 ὁμοιοτάταν ¹⁶⁸³

mvp-comment-498-1 ἀλλὰ … θανοῦσαν ¹⁶⁸⁴ καίτοι ¹⁶⁸⁵ ζῶσαν ¹⁶⁸⁶ θανοῦσαν ¹⁶⁸⁷ οἴμοι γελῶμαι ¹⁶⁸⁸

mvp-comment-498-2 θεός ¹⁶⁸⁹

mvp-comment-498-3 θεογεννής ¹⁶⁹⁰ θειογενής ¹⁶⁹¹

mvp-comment-499-1 καίτοι ¹⁶⁹² φθιμένῃ ¹⁶⁹³

mvp-comment-499-2 κἀκοῦσαι ¹⁶⁹⁴ μέγ’ ἀκοῦσαι ¹⁶⁹⁵

mvp-comment-500-1 τοῖς ἰσοθέοις σύγκληρα ¹⁶⁹⁶ ἔγκληρα ¹⁶⁹⁷

mvp-comment-500-2 Hipp. 1011 : or (2) pass., included in one's

, as H. F. 468 (‘by inheritance’). Here, was perh. partly due to a reminiscence of in 814.—The change of τοῖς ἰσοθέοις ¹⁶⁹⁸ τοῖσι θεοῖσιν ¹⁶⁹⁹ ι— ¹⁷⁰⁰ α— ¹⁷⁰¹ τοῖς ἰσοθέοις ἔγκληρα ¹⁷⁰²

mvp-comment-501-1 ζῶσαν … θανοῦσαν ¹⁷⁰³

mvp-comment-502-1 γελῶμαι ¹⁷⁰⁴

mvp-comment-503-1 πολυκτήμονες ¹⁷⁰⁵

mvp-comment-504-1 κρῆναι ¹⁷⁰⁶

mvp-comment-504-2 εὐαρμάτου ¹⁷⁰⁷

mvp-comment-504-3 ἄλσος ¹⁷⁰⁸

mvp-comment-504-4 ἔμπας ¹⁷⁰⁹

mvp-comment-505-1 ὔμμ’ ¹⁷¹⁰

mvp-comment-505-2 ἐπικτῶμαι ¹⁷¹¹ ἐπί ¹⁷¹²

mvp-comment-506-1 οἵα ¹⁷¹³

mvp-comment-506-2 φίλων ἄκλαυτος ¹⁷¹⁴

mvp-comment-507-1 ἕργμα τυμβόχωστον ¹⁷¹⁵ ἕρμα ¹⁷¹⁶

mvp-comment-508-1 ποταινίου ¹⁷¹⁷

mvp-comment-509-1 Though every treatment of this verse must remain subject to doubt, far the most probable (to my mind) is Seyffert's modification of Boeckh's βροτοῖς οὔτ’ ἐν νεκροῖς κυροῦσα ¹⁷¹⁸ οὔτε ¹⁷¹⁹ κυροῦσα ¹⁷²⁰ νεκροῖς ¹⁷²¹

mvp-comment-510-1 μέτοικος ¹⁷²²

mvp-comment-511-1 προβᾶσ’ … πολύ ¹⁷²³ προσέπεσες ¹⁷²⁴

mvp-comment-511-2 πολύ ¹⁷²⁵ ἐσχάτου ¹⁷²⁶ προσέπεσες ¹⁷²⁷

mvp-comment-512-1 πατρῷόν τινα … ἆθλον ¹⁷²⁸ τινά ¹⁷²⁹

mvp-comment-512-2 ἐκτίνεις ¹⁷³⁰

mvp-comment-513-1 μερίμνας ¹⁷³¹ οἶκτον ¹⁷³² πατρός ¹⁷³³ πότμου ¹⁷³⁴ οἶκτον ¹⁷³⁵

mvp-comment-513-2 to taking

as acc. in apposition with is that this would imply ( ) : as Eur. Or. 1105

Ἑλένην κτάνωμεν, Μενέλεῳ λύπην πικράν

, implies, : Aesch. Ag. 224

ἔτλα δ’ οὖν | θυτὴρ γενέσθαι θυγατρός, γυναικοποίνων πολέμων ἀρωγάν

, implies, . Now, if we had, for instance, , it is conceivable that , as acc. in appos., should mean or . But when, as here, the subject of is distinct from the person who makes the lament, it seems impossible that should have this pregnant sense.

mvp-comment-513-3 ἀλγ. μερίμνας ¹⁷³⁶ οἶτον ¹⁷³⁷

mvp-comment-513-4 τριπόλιστον ¹⁷³⁸

mvp-comment-513-5 κλεινοῖς Λαβδακίδαισιν ¹⁷³⁹ πότμου ¹⁷⁴⁰

mvp-comment-513-6 ἁμετέρου ¹⁷⁴¹

mvp-comment-514-1 ματρῷαι λέκτρων ἆται ¹⁷⁴² πατρῷαι ¹⁷⁴³

mvp-comment-514-2

; and ( b) with the explanation by , etc., would have been less needed.

mvp-comment-515-1 κοιμήματα . . αὐτογέννητα . . ματρός ¹⁷⁴⁴

mvp-comment-515-2 ἐμῷ πατρί ¹⁷⁴⁵

mvp-comment-515-3 δυσμόρου ¹⁷⁴⁶

mvp-comment-516-1 οἵων ¹⁷⁴⁷ ποτέ ¹⁷⁴⁸ οἵων ¹⁷⁴⁹ ποτέ ¹⁷⁵⁰ οὕς ¹⁷⁵¹ οἵων ¹⁷⁵² ματρός.—ἀραῖος ¹⁷⁵³

mvp-comment-516-2 μέτοικος ¹⁷⁵⁴

mvp-comment-517-1 κασίγνητε ¹⁷⁵⁵

mvp-comment-518-1 θανὼν ἔτ’ οὖσαν ¹⁷⁵⁶

mvp-comment-518-2 κατήναρες ¹⁷⁵⁷

mvp-comment-519-1 σέβειν ¹⁷⁵⁸

mvp-comment-519-2 sense,

’: i.e. though it is not complete —which the Chorus regard as including loyalty to the State's laws— yet, so far as it goes, it deserves praise of the same kind. Cp. 924 : by practising towards the dead, she had come to be thought, on the whole, —as a law-breaker. The Chorus is here the apologist of Creon, and this concession is meant to emphasise the next sentence. Hence the purposed vagueness of σέβειν ¹⁷⁵⁹

mvp-comment-520-1 κράτος δὲ ¹⁷⁶⁰ ὅτῳ ¹⁷⁶¹

mvp-comment-520-2 οὐδαμᾷ ¹⁷⁶² μέλει ¹⁷⁶³

mvp-comment-521-1 αὐτόγνωτος ¹⁷⁶⁴ αὐτὴ γιγνώσκουσα ¹⁷⁶⁵

mvp-comment-521-2 ὀργά ¹⁷⁶⁶

mvp-comment-522-1 ἑτοίμαν ¹⁷⁶⁷

mvp-comment-523-1 τόδε λ. ἱρὸν ὄμμα ¹⁷⁶⁸

mvp-comment-524-1 ἀδάκρυτον ¹⁷⁶⁹

mvp-comment-524-2 (and so it remains) unwept. Soph. has several instances of the predicative adj. thus added to a subst. which has the art. and possessive pron.; as O. T. 671

(n.): El. 1143

τῆς ἐμῆς πάλαι τροφῆς | ἀνωφελήτου

. Cp. 791 .

mvp-comment-525-1 ἆρ’ ἴστε ¹⁷⁷⁰ λέγειν ¹⁷⁷¹ ἀοιδὰς καὶ γόους ¹⁷⁷² ἴστε ¹⁷⁷³

mvp-comment-525-2 οὐδ’ ἂν εἷς ¹⁷⁷⁴

mvp-comment-526-1 οὐκ ἄξεθ’ ¹⁷⁷⁵ τάχιστα.—κατηρεφεῖ ¹⁷⁷⁶

mvp-comment-527-1 περιπτύξαντες ¹⁷⁷⁷

mvp-comment-528-1 χρῇ ¹⁷⁷⁸ ζῶσα ¹⁷⁷⁹ χρῇ ¹⁷⁸⁰

mvp-comment-528-2

; but the MSS. are supported by the testimony of Suidas and Hesychius to as= . In the other four places where these forms are usu. read, they are not indispensable, being possible; but in two, at least, they are much better than , viz. El. 606

κήρυσσέ μ’ εἰς ἅπαντας, εἴτε χρῇς κακήν, | εἴτε στόμαργον, κ.τ.λ.

: and Ai. 1373

σοὶ δὲ δρᾶν ἔξεσθ’ ἃ χρῇς

. In the other two, might well stand: Eur. fr. 910 : Cratinus fr. 2 . Except in Ach. 778 , the MSS. everywhere give : and the variants in the next v. (see cr. n.) show that was strange to the copyists, though known to the Scholiast.

mvp-comment-529-1 ζῶσα τυμβεύειν ¹⁷⁸¹ νυμφεύειν ¹⁷⁸²

mvp-comment-529-2 στέγῃ ¹⁷⁸³

mvp-comment-530-1 ἁγνοί ¹⁷⁸⁴

mvp-comment-530-2 τοὐπὶ τήνδε ¹⁷⁸⁵

mvp-comment-531-1 μετοικίας ¹⁷⁸⁶

mvp-comment-531-2 δ’ οὖν ¹⁷⁸⁷

mvp-comment-531-3 στερήσεται ¹⁷⁸⁸

mvp-comment-532-1 ὦ τύμβος ¹⁷⁸⁹

mvp-comment-532-2 νυμφεῖον ¹⁷⁹⁰

mvp-comment-532-3 κατασκαφής ¹⁷⁹¹

mvp-comment-533-1 ἀριθμὸν … πλεϊστον ¹⁷⁹²

mvp-comment-533-2 ἐν νεκροῖς ¹⁷⁹³ δέδεκται ¹⁷⁹⁴

mvp-comment-533-3

to Hades ( O. C. 1569 f.). So Oedipus is led by ( ib. 1548 ). As she is associated with Hades ( ib. 1556 ).

mvp-comment-533-4 Φερσέφασσα ¹⁷⁹⁵ Φ ¹⁷⁹⁶

mvp-comment-534-1 κάκιστα ¹⁷⁹⁷ δή ¹⁷⁹⁸

mvp-comment-534-2 μοῖραν … βίου ¹⁷⁹⁹ ἐξήκειν ¹⁸⁰⁰

mvp-comment-535-1 ἐν ἐλπίσιν τρέφω ¹⁸⁰¹ φίλη μὲν … προσφιλὴς δέ ¹⁸⁰²

mvp-comment-536-1 κασίγνητον κάρα ¹⁸⁰³ νῦν δέ ¹⁸⁰⁴

mvp-comment-537-1 ὑμᾶς ¹⁸⁰⁵

mvp-comment-537-2 ἔλουσα κἀκόσμησα ¹⁸⁰⁶

mvp-comment-537-3 χοάς ¹⁸⁰⁷

mvp-comment-537-4 περιστέλλουσα ¹⁸⁰⁸

mvp-comment-537-5 δέμας ¹⁸⁰⁹

mvp-comment-538-1 Few problems of Greek Tragedy have been more discussed than the question whether these vv., or some of them, are spurious. Arist. ( Arist. Rhet. 3. 16 § 9) quotes vv. 911, 912 , and certainly had the whole passage in his text of The Soph. interpolation, then, if such it be, must have been made soon after the poet's death; and has been imputed to his son Iophon (

), or some other sorry poet; or to the actors. I confess that, after long thought, I cannot bring myself to believe that Soph. wrote 905—912: with which 904 and 913—920 are in organic unity, and must now stand or fall. Some remarks will be found in the Appendix.

mvp-comment-538-2 The main points (to my mind) are briefly these. (1) The general validity of the divine law, as asserted in 450— 460, cannot be intelligibly reconciled with the limitation in vv. 905—907. (2) A still further limitation is involved in 911 f. She has buried her brother, not simply as such, but because, while he lived, he was an irreplaceable relative. Could she have hoped for the birth of another brother, she would not, then, have felt the duty to be so binding. (3) The composition of vv. 909—912 is unworthy of Sophocles.

mvp-comment-538-3 ’τίμησα ¹⁸¹⁰ εὖ ¹⁸¹¹ τοῖς φρονοῦσιν ¹⁸¹²

mvp-comment-539-1 ἐτήκετο ¹⁸¹³

mvp-comment-540-1 βίᾳ πολιτῶν ¹⁸¹⁴

mvp-comment-541-1 πρὸς χάριν ¹⁸¹⁵

mvp-comment-542-1 Cp. Her. 3.119 , which clearly supplied, not merely the thought, but the form, of these verses:—

(3.119.6) . Arist. Rhet. 3.16 § 9 (if you introduce a trait of character which will seem improbable, the reason ofit should be added): [this=vv. 909, 910]: (he then quotes 911 f., with ,—a mere slip of memory: see on 223

).

mvp-comment-542-2 Three points in these vv. are strange. (1) The gen. abs. κατθανόντος ¹⁸¹⁶ πόσις ¹⁸¹⁷ ἀπ’ ἄλλου φωτός ¹⁸¹⁸

mvp-comment-543-1 ἐκπροτιμήσασ’ ¹⁸¹⁹

mvp-comment-544-1 διὰ χερῶν … λαβών ¹⁸²⁰

mvp-comment-545-1 ἀνυμέναιον ¹⁸²¹

mvp-comment-546-1 ἀλλ’ ¹⁸²²

mvp-comment-546-2 πρὸς φίλων ¹⁸²³ ἔρημος ¹⁸²⁴

mvp-comment-547-1 δαιμόνων δίκην ¹⁸²⁵

mvp-comment-548-1 If the gods allow her to suffer for obeying them, is it not vain for her to invoke them?

mvp-comment-548-2 βλέπειν ¹⁸²⁶

mvp-comment-548-3 τίνα … ξυμμάχων ¹⁸²⁷

mvp-comment-548-4 ἐπεί γε δή ¹⁸²⁸

mvp-comment-548-5 τὴν δυσσέβειαν ¹⁸²⁹

mvp-comment-549-1 The gods are allowing her to perish. But it does not follow that they approve of her doom: for they are sometimes slow in punishing wrong ( O. C. 1536 ). Hence the dilemma, introduced

mvp-comment-549-2 by ἀλλ’ οὖν ¹⁸³⁰

mvp-comment-549-3 ἐν θεοῖς ¹⁸³¹

mvp-comment-549-4 ξυγγνοῖμεν ¹⁸³²

mvp-comment-549-5 ἡμαρτηκότες ¹⁸³³ παθόντες ¹⁸³⁴

mvp-comment-550-1 οἵδε ¹⁸³⁵

mvp-comment-550-2 μὴ πλείω ¹⁸³⁶ μείω ¹⁸³⁷

mvp-comment-551-1 ἀνέμων‐ῥιπαὶ ψυχῆς ¹⁸³⁸

mvp-comment-552-1 τούτων ¹⁸³⁹

mvp-comment-552-2 κλαύμαθ’ ¹⁸⁴⁰

mvp-comment-552-3 ὕπερ ¹⁸⁴¹

mvp-comment-553-1 This threat (to the guards) ‘has come very near to death,’ i.e., ‘portends imminent death for me.’ The phrase is not fig., ‘is bitter as death to hear’ (being a prelude to death).

mvp-comment-554-1 Said by Creon, clearly—not by the Chorus. ‘I can give thee no encouragement ( οὐδέν ¹⁸⁴²

mvp-comment-554-2 the doom is not to be ratified on this wise’ (i.e., by death). μὴ οὐ ¹⁸⁴³

mvp-comment-554-3 κατακυροῦσθαι ¹⁸⁴⁴

mvp-comment-554-4 ταύτῃ ¹⁸⁴⁵ τάδε ¹⁸⁴⁶

mvp-comment-555-1 θεοὶ προγενεῖς ¹⁸⁴⁷

mvp-comment-556-1 δή ¹⁸⁴⁸

mvp-comment-556-2 κοὐκέτι μέλλω ¹⁸⁴⁹

mvp-comment-557-1 οἱ κοιρανίδαι ¹⁸⁵⁰

mvp-comment-558-1 βασιλειδᾶν ¹⁸⁵¹ βασιλίδα ¹⁸⁵²

mvp-comment-558-2 μούνην ¹⁸⁵³

mvp-comment-559-1 εὐσεβίαν ¹⁸⁵⁴ ια ¹⁸⁵⁵ εια ¹⁸⁵⁶

mvp-comment-559-2

. The motive was metrical convenience. Such forms are not Ionic, as Triclinius called them (cr. n.): thus Herod. used , not : though there are other cases in which Ionic substitutes for (as , etc.).— σεβίσασα ¹⁸⁵⁷

mvp-comment-561-1 Acrisius, the father of Danaë, was king of Argos. The oracle at Delphi told him that he was to be slain by his daughter's son. He therefore immured the maiden in a chamber built for that purpose within the precincts of his house at Argos. Here Zeus visited her in the golden rain; she bore Perseus; and Acrisius sent mother and child adrift on the Aegean in a chest; but Zeus heard her prayer, and brought them safely to the island of Seriphus. Both Soph. and Eur. wrote a

: Soph. wrote also an .

mvp-comment-561-2 καὶ Δανάας δέμας ἔτλα ἀλλάξαι οὐράνιον φῶς ¹⁸⁵⁸ ἔτλα καί ¹⁸⁵⁹

mvp-comment-561-3 δέμας ¹⁸⁶⁰

mvp-comment-561-4 χαλκοδέτοις αὐλαῖς ¹⁸⁶¹

mvp-comment-562-1 τυμβήρει ¹⁸⁶²

mvp-comment-562-2 κατεζεύχθη ¹⁸⁶³

mvp-comment-563-1 τίμιος ¹⁸⁶⁴

mvp-comment-564-1 ταμιεύεσκε ¹⁸⁶⁵

mvp-comment-564-2 χρυσορύτους ¹⁸⁶⁶

mvp-comment-565-1 ἁ μοιριδία τις ¹⁸⁶⁷ τις ¹⁸⁶⁸

mvp-comment-566-1 οὔτ’ … ὄλβος ¹⁸⁶⁹

mvp-comment-566-2

mvp-comment-566-3 πύργος ¹⁸⁷⁰

mvp-comment-566-4 οὔτ’ … οὔτ’ ¹⁸⁷¹ οὐ … οὐχ ¹⁸⁷²

mvp-comment-567-1 ζεύχθη ¹⁸⁷³

mvp-comment-567-2 ὀξύχολος ¹⁸⁷⁴

mvp-comment-567-3 The

, or ( Thuc. 2.99 ), occupied in historical times the part of Thrace E. of the Strymon and W. of the Nestus. In earlier times they had dwelt further west, but had been driven eastward by the Macedonian conquest of Mygdonia.

mvp-comment-567-4 Dionysus, when he came from Asia with his new rites, was opposed by Lycurgus in Thrace, as by Pentheus at Thebes. The

of Aeschylus is known from the schol. on Ar. Th. 135. This trilogy consisted of , with as satyric drama. In Il. 6.130 ff. Dionysus, pursued by Lycurgus, dives beneath the sea; Thetis receives him; and Zeus blinds Lycurgus.

mvp-comment-568-1 κερτομίοις ὀργαῖς ¹⁸⁷⁵ ὀργαῖς ¹⁸⁷⁶ κερτομίοις ¹⁸⁷⁷

mvp-comment-569-1 ἐκ Διονύσου ¹⁸⁷⁸

mvp-comment-569-2 πετρώδει … δεσμῷ ¹⁸⁷⁹

mvp-comment-569-3 κατάφαρκτος ¹⁸⁸⁰

mvp-comment-570-1 οὕτω ¹⁸⁸¹

mvp-comment-570-2 ἀνθηρόν ¹⁸⁸²

mvp-comment-570-3 ἀποστάζει ¹⁸⁸³

mvp-comment-571-1 ἐπέγνω τὸν θεόν, μανίαις ψαύων ¹⁸⁸⁴

mvp-comment-571-2 μανίαις ¹⁸⁸⁵

mvp-comment-571-3 ψαύων ¹⁸⁸⁶

mvp-comment-571-4 ἐν ¹⁸⁸⁷

mvp-comment-571-5 γλώσσαις ¹⁸⁸⁸

mvp-comment-572-1 παύεσκε ¹⁸⁸⁹

mvp-comment-572-2 ἐνθέους γυναῖκας ¹⁸⁹⁰

mvp-comment-572-3 εὔιον … πῦρ ¹⁸⁹¹

mvp-comment-573-1 Μούσας ¹⁸⁹²

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,

( Paus. 1.2.5 ), as conversely Apollo had the title (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.

mvp-comment-574-1 Cleopatra is the third example. Her father was the wind-god, Boreas: her mother, the Athenian Oreithyia, whom he carried off to his wild home in Thrace. Cleopatra married Phineus, king of the Thracian Salmydessus, on the W. coast of the Euxine, not far from the entrance to the Bosporus. She bore him two sons. He afterwards put her away, and imprisoned her. Her imprisonment is not directly mentioned here: but cp. Diod. 4. 44 , who says of Heracles, when serving with the Argonauts,

. Phineus then married Eidothea, sister of Cadmus. Eidothea put out the eyes of Cleopatra's two sons, and caused them also to be imprisoned.

mvp-comment-574-2 It is the fate of Cleopatra herself which Soph. means to compare with Antigone's: this is plain from 986. The fate of the sons is made so prominent only because nothing else could give us so strong a sense of the savage hatred which pursued the mother.

mvp-comment-574-3 Soph. supposes the outline of the story to be familiar. Cleopatra has already been divorced and imprisoned. The poet chooses the moment at which Cleopatra's sons are being blinded by Eidothea, with the sharp shuttle in her blood-stained hands. Ares, the god of cruel bloodshed, beholds with joy a deed so worthy of his Thracian realm.

mvp-comment-574-4 The name of Cleopatra (like that of Capaneus, 133) is not mentioned. Two strophes are given to this theme, partly, perh., as having an Attic interest (982). Soph. wrote two plays called

. We know only that Cleopatra's sons were there called (? H. Weil) and : and that the subsequent blindness of Phineus was represented as a punishment of his cruelty (schol. Apoll. Rhod. 2. 178). Eidothea was mentioned by Soph. in his (schol. on 980),—a play which perh. concerned the Dionysiac worship, since the (kettle-drum) was used in his as well as in those of Cybelè. Another version called her Idaea, daughter of Dardanus.

mvp-comment-574-5 παρὰ δὲ Κυανεᾶν πελάγει δ. ἁλός ¹⁸⁹³ πετρῶν ¹⁸⁹⁴

mvp-comment-574-6 of

into is also erroneous.

mvp-comment-574-7 L's accent, πελάγεων ¹⁸⁹⁵ πελάγει ¹⁸⁹⁶ παρά ¹⁸⁹⁷ πελάγει ¹⁸⁹⁸ Κυανεᾶν ¹⁸⁹⁹

mvp-comment-575-1 ἀκταὶ Βοσπόριαι ¹⁹⁰⁰ Θρῃκῶν ¹⁹⁰¹ ἄξενος ¹⁹⁰² κλῄζεται ¹⁹⁰³ ἠδ’ ¹⁹⁰⁴

mvp-comment-576-1 ἀγχίπολις Ἄρης ¹⁹⁰⁵ ἀγχίπτολις ¹⁹⁰⁶ Ἄρης ¹⁹⁰⁷ ἀρχαιογόνων ¹⁹⁰⁸

mvp-comment-577-1 Φινεΐδαις ¹⁹⁰⁹

mvp-comment-577-2 ἀρατόν ¹⁹¹⁰

mvp-comment-577-3 ἕλκος τυφλωθέν ¹⁹¹¹

mvp-comment-577-4 ἐξ ¹⁹¹²

mvp-comment-578-1 ἀλαὸν … κύκλοις ¹⁹¹³

mvp-comment-578-2 ἀλαστόροισιν ¹⁹¹⁴

mvp-comment-579-1 ἀραχθέντων ¹⁹¹⁵

mvp-comment-579-2 ὑπό ¹⁹¹⁶

mvp-comment-580-1 κερκίδων ¹⁹¹⁷

mvp-comment-580-2 at the loom, will I send the shuttle flying across the warp’).—Cp. Eur. Hec. 1170 , where the women blind Polymestor with their brooches (

); and O. T. 1269 n.

mvp-comment-581-1 κατά ¹⁹¹⁸

mvp-comment-581-2 μέλεοι μελέαν ¹⁹¹⁹

mvp-comment-582-1 ματρὸς ἔχοντες ἀν. γονάν ¹⁹²⁰ γονάν ¹⁹²¹ ματρός ¹⁹²² ἀνύμφ. ¹⁹²³ ματρός ¹⁹²⁴ πάθαν ¹⁹²⁵ ματρὸς … γονάν ¹⁹²⁶

mvp-comment-583-1 σπέρμα ¹⁹²⁷

mvp-comment-583-2 ἀρχαιογ. ¹⁹²⁸

mvp-comment-583-3 ἄντασ’ Ἐρ. ¹⁹²⁹

mvp-comment-584-1 τηλεπόροις ¹⁹³⁰

mvp-comment-585-1 ἅμιππος ¹⁹³¹

mvp-comment-585-2 ὀρθόποδος ¹⁹³²

mvp-comment-586-1 κἀπ’ ἐκείνᾳ … ἔσχον ¹⁹³³ μακραίωνες ¹⁹³⁴

mvp-comment-588-1 ἄνακτες ¹⁹³⁵

mvp-comment-589-1 αὕτη κ. ¹⁹³⁶ πέλει ¹⁹³⁷

mvp-comment-590-1 τί δ’ ἔστιν ¹⁹³⁸

mvp-comment-591-1 οὔκουν … γε ¹⁹³⁹

mvp-comment-591-2 δῑ ὀρθῆς ¹⁹⁴⁰

mvp-comment-591-3 ἐναυκλήρεις ¹⁹⁴¹

mvp-comment-592-1 πεπονθὼς ὀνήσιμα, ἔχω μαρτυρεῖν ¹⁹⁴²

mvp-comment-593-1 φρόνει βεβώς ¹⁹⁴³

mvp-comment-593-2 τύχης ¹⁹⁴⁴

mvp-comment-594-1 ὡς ¹⁹⁴⁵

mvp-comment-595-1 θᾶκον ¹⁹⁴⁶

mvp-comment-595-2 λιμήν ¹⁹⁴⁷

mvp-comment-596-1 κακῷ ¹⁹⁴⁸

mvp-comment-596-2 οἴστρῳ ¹⁹⁴⁹

mvp-comment-596-3 κλάζοντας ¹⁹⁵⁰

mvp-comment-596-4 βεβαρβαρωμένῳ ¹⁹⁵¹

mvp-comment-597-1 ἐν χηλαῖσιν ¹⁹⁵² φοναῖς ¹⁹⁵³

mvp-comment-598-1 The feuds and friendships of birds (

Aesch. PV 492 ) were among the signs noted by augurs. In this case there was a vague omen of bloodshed ( ), but no clear sign. The seer now sought further light by another mode of divination.

mvp-comment-598-2 ἐμπύρων ¹⁹⁵⁴

mvp-comment-598-3 ἐγευόμην ¹⁹⁵⁵

mvp-comment-599-1 παμφλέκτοισι ¹⁹⁵⁶ θυμάτων ¹⁹⁵⁷

mvp-comment-600-1 Ἥφαιστος ¹⁹⁵⁸

mvp-comment-600-2 a bad sign, if the fire was smothered in smoke, or played feebly around the flesh without consuming it. See Eur. Phoen. 1255

: the seers ‘were watching for points of flame, or for breaks in it,—such flickering as portends evil’; i.e., they were watching to see whether it would blaze up or die down. The is prob. the highest point of the fire, which, if towards the right side, meant victory; if towards the left, defeat. So Statius, Theb. 10. 599 , where Teiresias offers , and his daughter reports the signs to him (as the does here): (= ) (= ) | (‘as if creeping on its way without an aim, the fire played timidly around the offering’). In Seneca Oed. 307 Teiresias asks,

mvp-comment-601-1 The fat wrapped about the thigh-bones ought to have caught fire, when the flesh on the bones would have been burned, and the bones themselves calcined. But here there was no flame; the kindled fuel lay in smouldering embers (

). The heat caused a fatty moisture to exude from the covering of the thigh-bones. Trickling forth on the embers, this moisture emitted smoke, and sputtered as it threw particles of the fat upwards. The gall-bladder, too, which lay on the top of the thighbones, instead of catching fire, was gradually inflated by the heat, till it burst, scattering the gall into the air. And now the melting of the fat which covered the thigh-bones had gone so far that it was no longer a covering, but merely a liquid that was streaming off them, while they themselves were left naked and intact. So utterly had the gods refused the offering.

mvp-comment-601-2 μυδῶσα ¹⁹⁵⁹

mvp-comment-601-3 κηκὶς μηρίων ¹⁹⁶⁰

mvp-comment-601-4 ἐτήκετο ¹⁹⁶¹ ἐπὶ σποδῷ ¹⁹⁶²

mvp-comment-601-5 ἀνέπτυε ¹⁹⁶³

mvp-comment-602-1 χολαί ¹⁹⁶⁴

mvp-comment-602-2 καταρρυεῖς ¹⁹⁶⁵

mvp-comment-603-1 μηροί … μηρίων ¹⁹⁶⁶

mvp-comment-603-2 καλυπτῆς ¹⁹⁶⁷

mvp-comment-603-3 πιμελῆς ¹⁹⁶⁸ ἐξέκειντο ¹⁹⁶⁹

mvp-comment-604-1 τοιαῦτα ¹⁹⁷⁰

mvp-comment-604-2 ὀργίων μαντεύματα ¹⁹⁷¹ φθίνοντα ¹⁹⁷²

mvp-comment-604-3 ἀσήμων ¹⁹⁷³

mvp-comment-605-1 ἡγεμών ¹⁹⁷⁴

mvp-comment-606-1 ἐκ ¹⁹⁷⁵

mvp-comment-606-2 φρενός ¹⁹⁷⁶

mvp-comment-606-3 νοσεῖ ¹⁹⁷⁷

mvp-comment-607-1 βωμοί ¹⁹⁷⁸

mvp-comment-607-2 ἐσχάραι ¹⁹⁷⁹

mvp-comment-607-3 παντελεῖς ¹⁹⁸⁰

mvp-comment-608-1 πλήρεις ¹⁹⁸¹ ὑπ’ οἰων. κ. κυνῶν ¹⁹⁸² βορᾶς τοῦ...Οἰδ. γόνου ¹⁹⁸³ γόνου ¹⁹⁸⁴ δυσμόρου ¹⁹⁸⁵ πεπτῶτος ¹⁹⁸⁶ τοῦ … γόνου ¹⁹⁸⁷ βορᾶς ¹⁹⁸⁸ τοῦ … γόνου ¹⁹⁸⁹

mvp-comment-609-1 κᾆτ’ ¹⁹⁹⁰

mvp-comment-609-2 θυστάδας ¹⁹⁹¹

mvp-comment-610-1 ὅρνι^ς ¹⁹⁹²

mvp-comment-610-2 εὐσήμους ¹⁹⁹³

mvp-comment-610-3 βεβρῶτες ¹⁹⁹⁴

mvp-comment-610-4 ἀνδροφθόρου ¹⁹⁹⁵

mvp-comment-611-1 ἐπεί ¹⁹⁹⁶

mvp-comment-611-2 ἄνολβος ¹⁹⁹⁷

mvp-comment-612-1 ἀκεῖται ¹⁹⁹⁸

mvp-comment-612-2 ἀκίνητος ¹⁹⁹⁹

mvp-comment-613-1 αὐθαδία ²⁰⁰⁰ ὀφλισκάνει ²⁰⁰¹

mvp-comment-614-1 εἶκε τῷ θανόντι ²⁰⁰²

mvp-comment-614-2 κέντει ²⁰⁰³

mvp-comment-615-1 ἐπικτανεῖν ²⁰⁰⁴

mvp-comment-616-1 εὖ φρονήσας ²⁰⁰⁵

mvp-comment-616-2 μανθάνειν δ ²⁰⁰⁶

mvp-comment-616-3 εἰ … λέγοι ²⁰⁰⁷ ἥδιστον ²⁰⁰⁸

mvp-comment-617-1 ὥστε ²⁰⁰⁹ σκοποῦ ²⁰¹⁰

mvp-comment-618-1 κοὐδὲ μαντικῆς ²⁰¹¹ ἄπρακτος ²⁰¹² μαντικῆς ²⁰¹³ α ²⁰¹⁴ μαντικῇ ²⁰¹⁵ ἄπρατος ²⁰¹⁶

mvp-comment-618-2 τῶν δ’ ὑπαὶ γένους ²⁰¹⁷ τῶν ²⁰¹⁸

mvp-comment-618-3 refer to ὑμῖν ²⁰¹⁹ μαντικῆς ²⁰²⁰ μαντικοῖς ²⁰²¹

mvp-comment-618-4 ὑπαί ²⁰²²

mvp-comment-618-5 γένους ²⁰²³

mvp-comment-619-1 ἐξημπόλημαι ²⁰²⁴ ἐμπεφόρτισμαι ²⁰²⁵ ἐκπεφόρτισμαι ²⁰²⁶

mvp-comment-620-1 τἀπὸ Σάρδεων ἤλεκτρον ²⁰²⁷

mvp-comment-620-2 τἀπὸ ²⁰²⁸

mvp-comment-620-3 Ἰνδικὸν χρυσόν ²⁰²⁹

mvp-comment-621-1 οἱ Ζηνὸς αἰετοί ²⁰³⁰

mvp-comment-622-1 οὐδ’ ὥς ²⁰³¹

mvp-comment-623-1 θεοὺς μιαίνειν ²⁰³²

mvp-comment-623-2 This view seems to do some injustice to the poet's dramatic psychology. I read the words quite differently. The most orthodox Greek piety held that ‘no mortal could pollute the gods.’ See, for example, H. F. 1232. Heracles, having recovered sanity after slaying his children, has covered his face, to hide it from the holy light of the sun. Theseus —who is a type of normal

— makes him uncover, saying,— . The sungod cannot be polluted by a mortal. The idea of religious was that a mortal had contracted some impurity which disqualified him for communion with the gods. The tainting of an altar cut off such communion by bringing uncleanness to the very place where men sought to be cleansed. Creon excitedly imagines a seemingly worse profanation, and then excuses his apparent impiety by a general maxim which all would admit:—‘no man can pollute the gods.’

mvp-comment-623-3 ‘The sky-throne of Zeus is still more sacred than his altar on earth: if defilement cannot reach him there, much less here.’ The sophism is of the kind with which an honest but stubborn and wrongheaded man might seek to quiet his conscience. Creon reveres Zeus (304): he feels for the majesty of the gods, and refuses to believe that they can honour the wicked (284 ff.). But his religious sense is temporarily confused by his anger.

mvp-comment-624-1 πολλά ²⁰³³

mvp-comment-625-1 καλῶς ²⁰³⁴

mvp-comment-626-1 ἆρ’ οἶδεν ²⁰³⁵

mvp-comment-627-1 τί χρῆμα ²⁰³⁶

mvp-comment-627-2 πάγκοινον ²⁰³⁷

mvp-comment-628-1 κτημάτων ²⁰³⁸

mvp-comment-628-2 ὅσῳπερ ²⁰³⁹ μὴ φρονεῖν ²⁰⁴⁰

mvp-comment-629-1 νόσου ²⁰⁴¹ πλήρης ²⁰⁴²

mvp-comment-630-1 In

qualifies the whole phrase: i.e., it means, ‘to revile in return,’ , as ( O. C. 1191 )= .

mvp-comment-631-1 καὶ μήν ²⁰⁴³ λέγεις ²⁰⁴⁴

mvp-comment-632-1 γένος ²⁰⁴⁵

mvp-comment-633-1 τὸ δ’ ἐκ τυράννων ²⁰⁴⁶ ἐκ ²⁰⁴⁷

mvp-comment-633-2 αἰσχροκέρδειαν ²⁰⁴⁸

mvp-comment-634-1 ἆρ’ οἶσθα ²⁰⁴⁹ ἃ ἂν λέγῃς ²⁰⁵⁰ ταγούς ²⁰⁵¹

mvp-comment-635-1 ἐξ ἐμοῦ ²⁰⁵²

mvp-comment-635-2 ἔχεις σώσας ²⁰⁵³

mvp-comment-636-1 τἀκίνητα διὰ φρενῶν ²⁰⁵⁴

mvp-comment-637-1 κίνει ²⁰⁵⁵

mvp-comment-637-2 μόνον δέ ²⁰⁵⁶

mvp-comment-637-3 ἐπὶ κέρδεσιν ²⁰⁵⁷

mvp-comment-638-1 οὕτω γὰρ ἤδη ²⁰⁵⁸ τὸ σὸν μέρος ²⁰⁵⁹ καί ²⁰⁶⁰

mvp-comment-639-1 ἴσθι ὡς μὴ ἐμπ. ²⁰⁶¹ ὡς ²⁰⁶²

mvp-comment-639-2 φρένα ²⁰⁶³

mvp-comment-640-1 ἀλλ’ εὺ= γέ τοι ²⁰⁶⁴

mvp-comment-640-2 μη … τελῶν ²⁰⁶⁵ ἥλιον τελεῖν ²⁰⁶⁶ κάτισθι ²⁰⁶⁷ τελῶν ²⁰⁶⁸

mvp-comment-640-3 τρόχους ²⁰⁶⁹ τροχους ²⁰⁷⁰

mvp-comment-640-4 ἁμιλλητῆρας ²⁰⁷¹

mvp-comment-641-1 ἐν οἷσι ²⁰⁷²

mvp-comment-641-2 τῶν σῶν … ἐκ σπλάγχνων ἕνα ²⁰⁷³

mvp-comment-642-1 νέκυν νεκρῶν ²⁰⁷⁴ ἀντιδοὺς ἔσει ²⁰⁷⁵

mvp-comment-643-1 ἀνθ’ ὧν ²⁰⁷⁶

mvp-comment-643-2 ἔχεις βαλὼν κάτω τῶν ἄνω ²⁰⁷⁷

mvp-comment-644-1 Bothe, omitting τε ²⁰⁷⁸ ψυχήν ²⁰⁷⁹ τῶν ἄνω ²⁰⁸⁰ τῶν ἄνω ²⁰⁸¹ τῶν ἄνω … ψυχήν ²⁰⁸² ψυχήν τ’ … κατῴκισας ²⁰⁸³ ἀνθ’ ὧν ²⁰⁸⁴ τῶν ἄνω ²⁰⁸⁵

mvp-comment-644-2 ἀτίμως ²⁰⁸⁶

mvp-comment-645-1 ἔχεις δέ ²⁰⁸⁷ τῶν κάτωθεν θεῶν ²⁰⁸⁸ νέκυν ²⁰⁸⁹

mvp-comment-645-2 ἄμοιρον ²⁰⁹⁰

mvp-comment-645-3

with : ‘without a portion in the gods below,’ i.e., not admitted to communion with them. But the phrase is a strange one; and the leading thought here is that the are robbed of one who belongs to them.

mvp-comment-645-4 ἀκτέριστον ²⁰⁹¹

mvp-comment-645-5 ἀνόσιον ²⁰⁹²

mvp-comment-646-1 ὧν ²⁰⁹³

mvp-comment-646-2 βιάζονται ²⁰⁹⁴

mvp-comment-647-1 τούτων ²⁰⁹⁵

mvp-comment-647-2 λωβητῆρες ²⁰⁹⁶

mvp-comment-647-3 ὑστεροφθόροι ²⁰⁹⁷

mvp-comment-648-1 λοχῶσιν ²⁰⁹⁸

mvp-comment-648-2 Ἅιδου καὶ θεῶν ²⁰⁹⁹

mvp-comment-648-3 ληφθῆναι ²¹⁰⁰

mvp-comment-649-1 κατηργ. ²¹⁰¹ οὐ μακρ. χρόν. τριβή ²¹⁰² φανεῖ ²¹⁰³

mvp-comment-650-1 The πόλεις ²¹⁰⁴ συνταράσσονται ²¹⁰⁵

mvp-comment-650-2 It has been objected that the play contains no hint of burial having been denied to any one except Polyneices. This is not exactly the case: the phrase

in v. 10 is such a hint. But it was unnecessary for the poet to state a fact which all his hearers would assume. Every one knew how Creon had refused burial to the Argives, and how Theseus had recovered their corpses by force of arms. In the Supplices of Eur. the Chorus consists of widows and mothers of the unburied warriors. No Athenian exploit was more famous ( Her. 9.27 ; Isocr. Paneg. § 52 , Encom. Helen. § 31, Panath. § 168; Plat. Menex. 244 ; [Lys. ] or. 2 §§ 4 ff. : [Dem. ] or. 60 §§ 7 ff. ). The war of the Epigoni, which was included in the epic Thebais ( Paus. 9. 9 § 5), was dramatised both by Aesch. and by Soph. ( ).

mvp-comment-650-3 Just as, in the O. C. (1410 n.), Soph. glances at the theme of his Antigone, so here he might naturally glance—however indirectly—at a later chapter of the Theban story,—whether his Epigoni already existed, or was still in the future. Dramatically, the reference is the more fitting, since the legend represented Teiresias as still living, and still zealous for Theban welfare, when the Epigoni came.—For other views of the passage, see Appendix.

mvp-comment-651-1 ὅσων ²¹⁰⁶ ὅσων ²¹⁰⁷

mvp-comment-651-2 L's καθήγνισαν ²¹⁰⁸ καθήγισαν ²¹⁰⁹ καθήγνισαν ²¹¹⁰ καθήγισαν ²¹¹¹

mvp-comment-651-3 of

here. The Schol. read the latter ( ). But the fact that L has must be set against these doubtful testimonies.—For the irony, cp. El. 1487

πρόθες | ταφεῦσιν, ὧν τόνδ’ εἰκός ἐστι τυγχάνειν

(as Gorgias called vultures , 3 § 2): Aesch. Th. 1020 : Ennius Ann. 142 Lucr. 5. 993

viva videns vivo sepeliri viscera busto.

mvp-comment-652-1 ἑστιοῦχον … πόλιν ²¹¹²

mvp-comment-653-1 σου ²¹¹³ ἀφῆκα ²¹¹⁴

mvp-comment-653-2 θυμῷ ²¹¹⁵ καρδίας τοξεύματα ²¹¹⁶

mvp-comment-654-1 ὦ παῖ ²¹¹⁷

mvp-comment-655-1 τρέφειν ²¹¹⁸

mvp-comment-655-2 ἡσυχωτέραν ²¹¹⁹ ω ²¹²⁰ αι ²¹²¹ αι ²¹²² ω ²¹²³ ω ²¹²⁴ αι ²¹²⁵ αι ²¹²⁶

mvp-comment-656-1 τὸν νοῦν … τῶν φρενῶν ἀμείνω ²¹²⁷

mvp-comment-656-2 φέρει ²¹²⁸ τῶν φρενῶν ²¹²⁹ ἀμείνω ²¹³⁰ ἢ ²¹³¹ ὧν ²¹³²

mvp-comment-657-1 ἐξ ὅτου ²¹³³

mvp-comment-657-2 λευκὴν … ἐκ μελαίνης ²¹³⁴

mvp-comment-657-3 ἀμφιβάλλομαι ²¹³⁵

mvp-comment-658-1 μὴ ²¹³⁶

mvp-comment-658-2 λακεῖν ²¹³⁷

mvp-comment-659-1 ἔγνωκα ²¹³⁸

mvp-comment-660-1 For τε … δέ ²¹³⁹ δέ ²¹⁴⁰ τ ²¹⁴¹ τε … τε ²¹⁴² τε … δέ ²¹⁴³ δέ ²¹⁴⁴

mvp-comment-661-1 ἄτῃ πατάξαι ²¹⁴⁵ θυμὸν ²¹⁴⁶ ἀντιστάντα ²¹⁴⁷

mvp-comment-661-2 ἐν δεινῷ πάρα ²¹⁴⁸ πάρα ²¹⁴⁹ ἓν δεινοῦ πέρα ²¹⁵⁰

mvp-comment-662-1 The question between L's λαβεῖν ²¹⁵¹ Κρέον ²¹⁵²

mvp-comment-663-1 κατώρυχος ²¹⁵³

mvp-comment-664-1 I read the impers. δοκεῖ ²¹⁵⁴ δοκεῖς ²¹⁵⁵ δοκεῖς ²¹⁵⁶

mvp-comment-664-2 παρεικαθεῖν ²¹⁵⁷

mvp-comment-665-1 συντέμνουσι … τοὺς κ. ²¹⁵⁸

mvp-comment-665-2 ποδώκεις ²¹⁵⁹

mvp-comment-665-3 βλάβαι ²¹⁶⁰

mvp-comment-665-4 κακόφρονας ²¹⁶¹

mvp-comment-666-1 μόλις μέν ²¹⁶²

mvp-comment-666-2 ἐξίσταμαι καρδίας ²¹⁶³

mvp-comment-666-3 τὸ δρᾶν ²¹⁶⁴

mvp-comment-666-4 δυσμαχητέον ²¹⁶⁵

mvp-comment-667-1 ἐπ’ ἄλλ’. τρέπε ²¹⁶⁶

mvp-comment-668-1 ὡς ἔχω ²¹⁶⁷

mvp-comment-668-2 στείχοιμ’ ἄν ²¹⁶⁸

mvp-comment-668-3 ἴτ’ ἴτ’ ²¹⁶⁹ εἶ’ ²¹⁷⁰

mvp-comment-669-1 οἵ τ’ ὄντες οἵ τ’ ἀπόντες ²¹⁷¹

mvp-comment-669-2 ἀξίνας ²¹⁷²

mvp-comment-670-1 ἐπόψιον ²¹⁷³

mvp-comment-671-1 ἐγὼ δ’ ²¹⁷⁴ ἐπιστράφη ²¹⁷⁵ τῇδ’ ²¹⁷⁶

mvp-comment-672-1 αὐτός τ’ ἔδησα ²¹⁷⁷

mvp-comment-673-1 δέδοικα μὴ … ᾖ ²¹⁷⁸ τοὺς καθεστ. νόμους ²¹⁷⁹

mvp-comment-673-2 σῴζοντα … τὸν βίον τελεῖν ²¹⁸⁰

mvp-comment-675-1 πολυώνυμε ²¹⁸¹

mvp-comment-675-2 Καδμείας ²¹⁸³

mvp-comment-675-3 ἄγαλμα ²¹⁸⁴

mvp-comment-675-4 νύμφας ²¹⁸⁵ βαρυβρεμέτα ²¹⁸⁶

mvp-comment-676-1 The traditional reading, Ἰταλίαν ²¹⁸⁷

mvp-comment-676-2 The only worthy rival of

is the conjecture Ἰκαρίαν ²¹⁸⁸ Ἰταλίαν ²¹⁸⁹

mvp-comment-677-1 παγκοίνοις ²¹⁹⁰

mvp-comment-677-2

(Olympia).

mvp-comment-677-3 κόλποις ²¹⁹¹

mvp-comment-677-4 Ἐλευσι^νίας ²¹⁹² ι^ ²¹⁹³

mvp-comment-678-1 Βακχεῦ ²¹⁹⁴ ὦ ²¹⁹⁵ ὁ ²¹⁹⁶ ματρόπολιν ²¹⁹⁷

mvp-comment-678-2 ματρόπολιν ²¹⁹⁸

mvp-comment-679-1 L has ὑγρὸν … ῥέεθρον ²¹⁹⁹ ὑγρῶν … ῥεέθρων ²²⁰⁰ ῥεῖθρον ²²⁰¹ ὑγρόν ²²⁰² παρά ²²⁰³ ῥεῖθρον ²²⁰⁴ ὑγρόν ²²⁰⁵

mvp-comment-679-2 Ἰσμηνοῦ ²²⁰⁶

mvp-comment-680-1 ἐπὶ σπορᾷ δρ. ²²⁰⁷

mvp-comment-681-1 The general sense is: ‘and on the heights of Parnassus thou holdest thy revels by night amid the Corycian Nymphs, who brandish torches.’

mvp-comment-681-2 διλόφου πέτρας ²²⁰⁸

mvp-comment-681-3 By ὑπὲρ διλόφου πέτρας ²²⁰⁹

mvp-comment-681-4 λιγνύς ²²¹⁰ στέροψ ²²¹¹

mvp-comment-681-5 ὄπωπε ²²¹²

mvp-comment-681-6 Κωρύκιαι … Νύμφαι ²²¹³

mvp-comment-681-7 The simple transposition, στείχουσι νύμφαι ²²¹⁴

mvp-comment-682-1 Κασταλίας τε νᾶμα ²²¹⁵

mvp-comment-683-1 καί σε Νυσαίων ²²¹⁶

mvp-comment-684-1 κισσήρεις ὄχθαι ²²¹⁷

mvp-comment-684-2 for the fact was noticed in antiquity (schol. on Aratus Phaenom. 33). Thus Pind. P. 1. 64

: Eur. Suppl. 655

Ἰσμήνιον πρὸς ὄχθον

.—The was to Dionysus what the was to Apollo. The crowning with ivy ( ) was a regular incident of his festivals: he was called . Cp. Alciphron Epist. 2. 3 § 10 . F. 3. 767

mvp-comment-685-1 πολυστάφυλος ²²¹⁸

mvp-comment-685-2 πέμπει ²²¹⁹

mvp-comment-686-1 The words ἀμβρότων ἐπέων ²²²⁰

mvp-comment-686-2 εὐαζόντων ²²²¹

mvp-comment-687-1 τὰν ἐκ πασᾶν ²²²² τάν ²²²³ ἐκ ²²²⁴ ὑπερτάταν ²²²⁵

mvp-comment-688-1 κεραυνίᾳ ²²²⁶

mvp-comment-689-1 ἔχεται ἐπὶ βιαίας νόσου ²²²⁷ ὑπό ²²²⁸ ἔχεται ²²²⁹ βιαι^ας ²²³⁰ ἀμὰ ²²³¹ πόλις ²²³²

mvp-comment-689-2 πάνδαμος ²²³³

mvp-comment-690-1 μολεῖν ²²³⁴

mvp-comment-690-2 καθαρσίῳ ²²³⁵

mvp-comment-690-3 κλιτύν ²²³⁶

mvp-comment-690-4 πορθμόν ²²³⁷

mvp-comment-690-5 στονόεντα ²²³⁸

mvp-comment-691-1 πνειόντων ²²³⁹ πνειόντων ²²⁴⁰

mvp-comment-691-2 Other conjectures are: (1) ἰὼ πύρπνων ἄστρων χοραγὲ καὶ νυχίων ²²⁴¹ πῦρ πνεόντων χοραγὲ καὶ νυχίων ²²⁴² χοραγὲ ἄστρων ²²⁴³

mvp-comment-691-3 originally preceded

. Neglect of elision is frequent in L: thus, to take one play only, the O. C. supplies these examples: 266 : 694 : 883 : 915 : 1026 : 1210 . The deletion of καί ²²⁴⁴ νυχίων ²²⁴⁵

mvp-comment-691-4 χοράγ’ ἄστρων ²²⁴⁶

mvp-comment-691-5 νυχίων φθεγμάτων ²²⁴⁷

mvp-comment-692-1 παῖ Διὸς ²²⁴⁸

mvp-comment-693-1 ὦναξ ²²⁴⁹

mvp-comment-694-1 Θυίαισιν ²²⁵⁰

mvp-comment-694-2 χορεύουσι ²²⁵¹

mvp-comment-695-1 ταμίαν ²²⁵²

mvp-comment-695-2 Ἴακχον ²²⁵³

mvp-comment-697-1 δόμων ²²⁵⁴ Κάδμου ²²⁵⁵ πάροικοι ²²⁵⁶ δόμων ²²⁵⁷

mvp-comment-698-1 οὐκ ἔστι ²²⁵⁸ στάντα ²²⁵⁹ στάντα ²²⁶⁰

mvp-comment-698-2 βίον ²²⁶¹ ὁποίᾳ ²²⁶²

mvp-comment-699-1 μάντις … τῶν καθεστώτων ²²⁶³ ἐφεστώτων ²²⁶⁴

mvp-comment-700-1 ὡς ἐμοί ²²⁶⁵

mvp-comment-701-1 σώσας … ἐχθρῶν ²²⁶⁶ δέ ²²⁶⁷ τε ²²⁶⁸ λαβών τε ²²⁶⁹ ηὔθυνε ²²⁷⁰ παντελῆ ²²⁷¹

mvp-comment-701-2 ηὔθυνε ²²⁷²

mvp-comment-701-3 εὐγενεῖ ²²⁷³

mvp-comment-702-1 ἀφεῖται πάντα ²²⁷⁴

mvp-comment-703-1 προδῶσιν ²²⁷⁵ προδῶσιν ²²⁷⁶ ἀνδρὸς ²²⁷⁷ προδῶσιν ²²⁷⁸ ἄνδρες ²²⁷⁹ ἀνδρός ²²⁸⁰ τὰς γὰρ ἡδονάς ²²⁸¹

mvp-comment-703-2 οὐ τίθημι ²²⁸²

mvp-comment-704-1 For

has been proposed: but the Epic and Ionic does not occur in

mvp-comment-704-2 τοῦτον ²²⁸³

mvp-comment-704-3 ἔμψ. νεκρόν ²²⁸⁴

mvp-comment-705-1 πλούτει … ζῆ ²²⁸⁵

mvp-comment-705-2 εἰ βούλει ²²⁸⁶ ζῆ ²²⁸⁷ σχῆμα ²²⁸⁸

mvp-comment-706-1 τὸ χαίρειν ²²⁸⁹

mvp-comment-706-2 καπνοῦ σκιᾶς ²²⁹⁰

mvp-comment-707-1 πριαίμην ἀνδρί ²²⁹¹

mvp-comment-707-2 πρὸς τὴν ἡδ. ²²⁹²

mvp-comment-708-1 βασιλέων ²²⁹³ αἴτιοι θανεῖν ²²⁹⁴

mvp-comment-709-1 φονεύει ²²⁹⁵ ὁ κείμενος ²²⁹⁶

mvp-comment-710-1 αὐτόχειρ ²²⁹⁷

mvp-comment-711-1 φόνου ²²⁹⁸

mvp-comment-711-2 ὀρθὸν ἤνυσας ²²⁹⁹

mvp-comment-712-1 ὡς ²³⁰⁰ πάρεστι βουλ. τὰ ἄλλα ²³⁰¹ βουλεύειν ²³⁰² τὰ ἄλλα ²³⁰³

mvp-comment-712-2 ὧδ’ ἐχόντων ²³⁰⁴

mvp-comment-713-1 καὶ μήν ²³⁰⁵

mvp-comment-713-2 Εὐρυδίκην ²³⁰⁶

mvp-comment-714-1 κλύουσα παιδός ²³⁰⁷

mvp-comment-715-1 ὦ πάντες ἀστοί ²³⁰⁸

mvp-comment-716-1 Παλλάδος προσήγορος εὐγμάτων ²³⁰⁹

mvp-comment-717-1 τυγχάνω τε … καὶ … βάλλει ²³¹⁰

mvp-comment-717-2 the sound ( cp. 1172 f. n.). For the temporal parataxis with τε … καί ²³¹¹

mvp-comment-717-3 κλῇθρα χαλῶσα πύλης ἀνασπαστοῦ ²³¹²

mvp-comment-717-4 κλῇθρα ²³¹³

mvp-comment-717-5 ἀνασπαστοῦ ²³¹⁴

mvp-comment-717-6 φθόγγος ²³¹⁵

mvp-comment-717-7 οἰκείου ²³¹⁶

mvp-comment-718-1 δῑ ὤτων ²³¹⁷

mvp-comment-718-2 πρὸς δμωαῖσι ²³¹⁸

mvp-comment-718-3 ἀποπλήσσομαι ²³¹⁹

mvp-comment-719-1 καὶ παρὼν ἐρῶ, κοὐδὲν παρήσω ²³²⁰ παρὠν ²³²¹

mvp-comment-720-1 ὧν ²³²²

mvp-comment-720-2 ὧν ²³²³ ψεῦσται ²³²⁴ φανούμεθ’ ²³²⁵

mvp-comment-720-3 ὀρθόν ²³²⁶

mvp-comment-721-1 ποδαγός ²³²⁷ ἑσπόμην ²³²⁸

mvp-comment-722-1 πεδίον … ἄκρον ²³²⁹

mvp-comment-722-2 νηλεές ²³³⁰

mvp-comment-723-1 κυνοσπάρακτον ²³³¹

mvp-comment-724-1 τὸν μέν ²³³²

mvp-comment-724-2 ἐνοδίαν θεόν ²³³³

mvp-comment-724-3 θεόν ²³³⁴

mvp-comment-724-4 εὐμενεῖς ²³³⁵

mvp-comment-724-5 κατασχεθεῖν ²³³⁶

mvp-comment-725-1 λούσαντες ἁγν. λουτρόν ²³³⁷

mvp-comment-725-2 ἐν ²³³⁸ θαλλοῖς ²³³⁹

mvp-comment-725-3 )λέλειπτο ²³⁴⁰

mvp-comment-725-4 συγκατῄθομεν ²³⁴¹ εἰσεβαίνομεν ²³⁴²

mvp-comment-726-1 τύμβον ²³⁴³

mvp-comment-726-2 ὀρθόκρανον ²³⁴⁴

mvp-comment-726-3 οἰκείας ²³⁴⁵

mvp-comment-727-1 αὖθις ²³⁴⁶

mvp-comment-727-2 For

as=‘afterwards,’ cp. Ai. 1283 , Tr. 270 .

mvp-comment-727-3 λιθόστρωτον ²³⁴⁷

mvp-comment-727-4 κόρης νυμφεῖον‐Ἅιδου ²³⁴⁸

mvp-comment-728-1 κωκυμάτων ²³⁴⁹

mvp-comment-729-1 ἀκτέριστον ἀμφὶ παστάδα ²³⁵⁰

mvp-comment-730-1 ἀθλίας … ἄσημα βοῆς ²³⁵¹

mvp-comment-730-2 περιβαίνει ²³⁵²

mvp-comment-731-1 μᾶλλον ἆσσον ²³⁵³

mvp-comment-731-2 ἔπος ²³⁵⁴ δυσθρήνητον ²³⁵⁵

mvp-comment-731-3 ὦ τάλας ²³⁵⁶

mvp-comment-732-1 τῶν παρελθουσῶν ²³⁵⁷

mvp-comment-732-2 σαίνει ²³⁵⁸

mvp-comment-733-1 ὠκεῖς ²³⁵⁹

mvp-comment-734-1 ἁρμὸν χώματος λιθοσπ. ²³⁶⁰

mvp-comment-734-2 ἁρμόν ²³⁶¹ δύντες ²³⁶²

mvp-comment-735-1 στόμιον ²³⁶³

mvp-comment-735-2 The kind of tomb which the poet here imagines is perhaps best represented, in Greece, by the rock-tombs of Nauplia, and of Spata in Attica. These consist of chambers worked horizontally into the rock, and approached by a passage or

, answering to that which Creon's men have to traverse before they reach the of the tomb. The general type seems to have been determined by that of the more elaborate domed tombs, such as the so-called ‘Treasury of Atreus’ at Mycenae, which, like these ruder copies, were entered by a . Indeed, the Nauplia tombs indicate a rough attempt to reproduce the dome ( ). [See Helbig, Das Homer. Epos aus den Denkm. erläutert, p. 53, with the sources quoted there in nn. 5, 6.]

mvp-comment-735-3 The phrase

(1220) might suggest a recess within the principal chamber, like that in the ‘Treasury of Atreus’; but it is simpler to take it as merely ‘the furthest part of the tomb.’ We may observe that the words (774) and (891) are sufficiently explained if we suppose that the leading to the chamber sloped downwards from the entrance.

mvp-comment-736-1 θεοῖσι ²³⁶⁴

mvp-comment-736-2 κλέπτομαι ²³⁶⁵

mvp-comment-737-1 The simple correction, κελευσμάτων ²³⁶⁶

mvp-comment-737-2 With κελεύσμασιν ²³⁶⁷

mvp-comment-737-3 (2) The alternative is to amend ἐξ ἀθύμου ²³⁶⁸ ὀξυθύμου ²³⁶⁹

mvp-comment-737-4 Dindorf writes κελεύμασιν ²³⁷⁰

mvp-comment-738-1 αὐχένος ²³⁷¹

mvp-comment-739-1 μιτώδει ²³⁷²

mvp-comment-740-1 Haemon has thrown his arms around her waist ( ἀμφὶ μέσσῃ περιπετῆ ²³⁷³ προσκείμενον ²³⁷⁴

mvp-comment-740-2 μέσσῃ ²³⁷⁵

mvp-comment-740-3 περιπετῆ ²³⁷⁶

mvp-comment-741-1 εὐνῆς … τῆς κάτω ²³⁷⁷

mvp-comment-741-2 πατρὸς ἔργα ²³⁷⁸

mvp-comment-741-3 λέχος ²³⁷⁹

mvp-comment-742-1 σφε ²³⁸⁰

mvp-comment-742-2 στυγνόν ²³⁸¹

mvp-comment-743-1 οἷον ἔργον ²³⁸² τίνα νοῦν ἔσχες ²³⁸³

mvp-comment-743-2 ἐν τῷ συμφορᾶς ²³⁸⁴

mvp-comment-743-3 διεφθάρης ²³⁸⁵

mvp-comment-744-1 ἱκέσιος ²³⁸⁶

mvp-comment-744-2 ὄσσοισι ²³⁸⁷

mvp-comment-744-3 παπτήνας ²³⁸⁸

mvp-comment-745-1 πτύσας προσώπῳ ²³⁸⁹

mvp-comment-746-1 διπλοῦς κνώδοντας ξίφους ²³⁹⁰ διπλοῦς κνώδοντας ²³⁹¹

mvp-comment-746-2 ἐκ δ’ ὁρμ. ²³⁹²

mvp-comment-746-3 φυγαῖσιν ²³⁹³

mvp-comment-746-4 Haemon, in his madness, meant to kill his father. He had harboured no such purpose before ( see on 752

); and his frantic impulse is instantly followed by violent remorse. Arist. ( Arist. Poet. 14 ) observes that it is not conducive to a properly tragic effect ( ) if a person contemplates a dreadful act, and then desists from it, in the light of sober thought or fuller knowledge: (such incidents in Tragedy are rare), . It need not be assumed that Arist. meant to censure Sophocles; it is more natural to suppose that he cited the exception as one justified by the circumstances. But it should further be noticed that Aristotle was not accurate in taking this incident as the exception which illustrated his rule. For Haemon did not abandon his dreadful purpose; he was simply foiled by his father's flight. And then, in swift remorse, he actually did .

mvp-comment-747-1 ὥσπερ εἶχ’ ²³⁹⁴ ἐπενταθείς ²³⁹⁵

mvp-comment-747-2 πλευραῖς ²³⁹⁶

mvp-comment-747-3 μέσσον ²³⁹⁷

mvp-comment-747-4 ἔγχος ²³⁹⁸

mvp-comment-747-5 ἐς δ’ ὑγρὸν ἀγκῶν’ ²³⁹⁹

mvp-comment-748-1 φυσιῶν ²⁴⁰⁰

mvp-comment-748-2 ῥοὴν ²⁴⁰¹

mvp-comment-749-1 τέλη ²⁴⁰²

mvp-comment-749-2 ἔν γ’ Ἅιδου ²⁴⁰³ ἔν γ ²⁴⁰⁴ γε ²⁴⁰⁵ ἔν γε ²⁴⁰⁶

mvp-comment-750-1 δείξας … τὴν ἀβουλίαν ²⁴⁰⁷

mvp-comment-751-1 πρόσκειται ²⁴⁰⁸

mvp-comment-752-1 τί τοῦτ’ ἂν εἰκάς. ²⁴⁰⁹

mvp-comment-752-2 ἐσθλὸν ἢ κακόν ²⁴¹⁰

mvp-comment-753-1 τεθάμβηκ’ ²⁴¹¹

mvp-comment-753-2 βόσκομαι ²⁴¹²

mvp-comment-754-1 γόους … ἀξιώσειν ²⁴¹³

mvp-comment-754-2 ὑπὸ στέγης ²⁴¹⁴

mvp-comment-755-1 προθήσειν ²⁴¹⁵ στένειν ²⁴¹⁶

mvp-comment-755-2 them’ by making a lament, after which her handmaids, sitting around her, will wail in chorus. Il. 24.746 (Andromache has bewailed Hector,)

.

mvp-comment-756-1 γνώμης … οὐκ ἄπειρος ²⁴¹⁷

mvp-comment-757-1 δ’ οὖν ²⁴¹⁸ προσεῖναι ²⁴¹⁹

mvp-comment-758-1 εἰσόμεσθα, μή τι … καλύπτει ²⁴²⁰

mvp-comment-758-2 καὶ ²⁴²¹ κατάσχετον … καλύπτει ²⁴²²

mvp-comment-758-3 κατάσχετον ²⁴²³

mvp-comment-759-1 δόμους παραστείχοντες ²⁴²⁴

mvp-comment-760-1 καὶ μήν ²⁴²⁵

mvp-comment-760-2 ἐφήκει ²⁴²⁶

mvp-comment-761-1 μνῆμ ²⁴²⁷ ἐπίσημον ²⁴²⁸

mvp-comment-761-2 διὰ χειρός ²⁴²⁹

mvp-comment-762-1 εἰ θέμις εἰπεῖν ²⁴³⁰ ἄτην ²⁴³¹ ἀλλοτρίαν ²⁴³²

mvp-comment-762-2 ἁμαρτών ²⁴³³

mvp-comment-763-1 This

is composed of four strophes and four antistrophes, which correspond as follows. (1) 1st strophe 1261—1269=1st antistr. 1284—1292. (2) 2nd str. 1271—1277 =2nd ant. 1294—1300. (3) 3rd str. 1306—1311=3rd ant. 1328—1333. (4) 4th str. 1317—1325=4th ant. 1339— 1347.

mvp-comment-763-2 The lyric strophes and antistrophes are divided from each other by iambic trimeters, spoken by the Chorus or by the Messenger.—See Metrical Analysis.

mvp-comment-763-3 φρενῶν δυσφρόνων ²⁴³⁴

mvp-comment-763-4 στερεά ²⁴³⁵

mvp-comment-764-1 ὦ … βλέποντες ²⁴³⁶

mvp-comment-764-2 κτανόντας ²⁴³⁷ θανόντας ²⁴³⁸

mvp-comment-764-3 ἐμφυλίους ²⁴³⁹

mvp-comment-765-1 ἐμῶν ἄνολβα βουλευμάτων ²⁴⁴⁰ ἄνολβα ²⁴⁴¹

mvp-comment-766-1 νέος νέῳ ξυν μόρῳ ²⁴⁴² νέῳ ²⁴⁴³

mvp-comment-767-1 ἀπελύθης ²⁴⁴⁴

mvp-comment-768-1 ἐμαῖς οὐδὲ σαῖσι ²⁴⁴⁵

mvp-comment-769-1 ἔχω μαθὼν ²⁴⁴⁶ με ²⁴⁴⁷ μέγα βάρος ἔχων ²⁴⁴⁸ ἐν δ’ ἐμῷ κάρᾳ ²⁴⁴⁹ ἔπαισε ²⁴⁵⁰ με ²⁴⁵¹ κάρᾳ ²⁴⁵²

mvp-comment-769-2 ἐν δ’ ἔσεισεν ²⁴⁵³

mvp-comment-769-3 ἀγρίαις ὁδοῖς ²⁴⁵⁴

mvp-comment-770-1 λακπάτητον ²⁴⁵⁵ κ ²⁴⁵⁶ ξπ ²⁴⁵⁷ κ ²⁴⁵⁸

mvp-comment-770-2 ἀντρέπων ²⁴⁵⁹

mvp-comment-771-1 φεῦ φεῦ, ὦ ²⁴⁶⁰

mvp-comment-771-2 πόνοι .. δύσπονοι ²⁴⁶¹

mvp-comment-772-1 ὡς ἔχων τε καὶ κεκτημένος ²⁴⁶² ἔχων ²⁴⁶³ κεκτημένος ²⁴⁶⁴

mvp-comment-773-1 πρὸ χειρῶν ²⁴⁶⁵

mvp-comment-773-2 τάδε ²⁴⁶⁶

mvp-comment-773-3 τὰ δ’ ἐν δόμοις ²⁴⁶⁷ τὰ μὲν … φέρων ²⁴⁶⁸ ἔοικας ἥκειν ²⁴⁶⁹ καὶ τάχ’ ὄψεσθαι ²⁴⁷⁰

mvp-comment-773-4 Since τὰ δ’ ἐν δόμοις ²⁴⁷¹ ἥκειν καὶ ²⁴⁷²

mvp-comment-773-5 (

) . Others, indeed, take καὶ τάχα ²⁴⁷³

mvp-comment-774-1 τί δ’ ἔστιν ²⁴⁷⁴ ἦ ²⁴⁷⁵

mvp-comment-774-2 (2) Transposing αὖ ²⁴⁷⁶ ἤ ²⁴⁷⁷ ἦ ²⁴⁷⁸

mvp-comment-774-3 (3) Canter gave,

; The change of to would have been peculiarly easy before initial (KAKIONEKAKON for KAKIONEKKAKON). For ἐκ ²⁴⁷⁹

mvp-comment-774-4 reading. The comparat. κάκιον ²⁴⁸⁰

mvp-comment-775-1 παμμήτωρ ²⁴⁸¹

mvp-comment-775-2 νεοτόμ ²⁴⁸² ἄρτι ²⁴⁸³

mvp-comment-776-1 δυσκάθαρτος Ἅιδου λιμήν ²⁴⁸⁴ λιμήν ²⁴⁸⁵

mvp-comment-777-1 κακάγγελτα ²⁴⁸⁶

mvp-comment-777-2 προπέμψας ²⁴⁸⁷

mvp-comment-778-1 ἐπεξειργάσω ²⁴⁸⁸

mvp-comment-779-1 ὦ παῖ ²⁴⁸⁹

mvp-comment-779-2

(instead of ), has not much palaeographical probability. It gives, indeed, a closer correspondence with 1266. But the form of dochmiac which the MS. reading gives here is equally correct. (See Analysis. Met.) Seidler was certainly right in omitting (see cr. n.): and that remedy suffices.

mvp-comment-779-3 Construe: τίνα νέον σφάγιον γυναικεῖον μόρον λέγεις ἀμφικεῖσθαί μοι ἐπ’ ὀλέθρῳ ²⁴⁹⁰

mvp-comment-779-4 But another version is possible, if

is taken with : ‘besetting me,’ , for (my) ruin. Cp. 1285 ; For , cp. Thuc. 4.86

οὐκ ἐπὶ κακῷ, ἐπ’ ἐλευθερώσει δέ

. The difficulty is that cannot well be said of one sorrow (Eurydicè's death), and that, therefore, we have to evolve from the epithet the notion of a circle of woes of which this is one. Thus the image would be much more obscurely expressed than that in Ai. 351 , , (‘behold what a surge hath but now burst around me and hemmed me in, under stress of a deadly storm,’) where Ajax is sitting in the midst of the carnage which he has wrought. It is altogether improbable that alludes to Eurydicè's corpse having been brought (by the ) into such a position that Creon stood between it and Haemon's. See 1298, where Creon speaks of her as being .