Sophocles Antigone 249

οὐκ οἶδ᾽. ἐκεῖ γὰρ οὔτε του γενῆιδος ἦν

Antigone. Sophocles. Leipzig. 1979.

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Editions (11)
Greek (L. Benloew, 1858) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (L. Benloew, 1858)) — 249 focus
πλῆγμ’, οὐ δικέλλης ἐκβολή· στύφλος δὲ γῆ,
Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 249 focus
ὅπως δ᾽ ὁ πρῶτος ἦμιν ἡμεροσκόπος
Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 249 focus
καὶ χέρσος ἀῤῥὼξ, οὐδ᾽ ἐπημαξευμένη
Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879)) — 249 focus
οὐκ οἶδ᾽· ἐκεῖ γὰρ οὔτε του γενῇδος ἦν
Greek (A. Colonna, 1978) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Colonna, 1978)) — 249 focus
οὐκ οἶδ᾽ ἐκεῖ γὰρ οὔτε του γενῇδος ἦν
Greek (A. Dain, 1955) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Dain, 1955)) — 249.mvp-line-249 focus
οὐκ οἶδ’· ἐκεῖ γὰρ οὔτε του γενῇδος ἦν
Greek (G. Hermann, 1830) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (G. Hermann, 1830)) — 249 focus
οὐκ οἶδ᾽. ἐκεῖ γὰρ οὔτε τοὺ γενῇδος ἦν
Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906)) — 249 focus
οὐκ οἶδ᾽· ἐκεῖ γὰρ οὔτε του γενῇδος ἦν
Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924)) — 249.mvp-line-249 focus
οὐκ οἶδ᾽. ἐκεῖ γὰρ οὔτε του γενῇδος ἦν
Antigone (OCR draft) Experimental (Antigone) — 249 focus
οὐκ οἶδʼ· ἐκεῖ γὰρ οὔτε του γενῇδος ἦν
Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949)) — 249 focus
οὐκ οἶδ᾽· ἐκεῖ γὰρ οὔτε του γενῆιδος ἦν
Translations (10)
German (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 249 focus
BOTE.
Hämon ist nicht mehr, blutend durch nicht fremde Hand.
Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921)) — 249 focus
CORO
1244 ¿Qué conjeturas ahora? Esa mujer ha desaparecido sin proferir buena ni mala palabra.
Latin (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Latin (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 249 focus
Nuntius
Et ipse stupeo; attamen spe mulceor, illam, audita filii nece, urbem non incensuram questibus, sed interiorem domo famulis edicturam, ut privatim lessum lamentando faciant: consilii enim non ita expers est, ut quidquam hac in re peccet.
English (Lewis Campbell, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Lewis Campbell, 1906)) — 249 focus
CH
1257
Ah! look where sadly comes our lord the King,
Bearing upon his arm a monument—
If we may speak it—of no foreign woe,
But of his own infirmity the fruit.
1260
German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review)) — 237 focus
Was ist's, warum befiel dich solche Bangigkeit?
English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759)) — 249 focus
Chorus
\Exit Messengek. 1257
But lo ! the king himself : and in his arms
See his dead son, the monument accursed
Of his sad fate, which, may we say unblamed,
Sprang not from others' guilt, but from his own.
1260
Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889)) — 249 focus
CORO
1137 La ciudad honrada con su predilección entre todas, del propio modo que lo fué por tu madre herida por el rayo. ln estos momentos en que una plaga terrible amenaza á todos estos ciudadanos, ven á nosotros, salva con rápido pie la cumbre del Parnaso ó las olas mugidoras del Estrecho.
German (F. Hölderlin, 1804) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (F. Hölderlin, 1804)) — 249 focus
CHOR
O mir, wie mufstest du so spät erst seh’n das Rechte.
English (Sir Richard Jebb1, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb1, 1904)) — 249 focus
Chorus
I know not; but to me, at least, a strained silence seems to portend peril, no less than vain abundance of lament.
English (Sir Richard Jebb2, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb2, 1904)) — 332-380 focus

Commentary

Commentary (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) (Commentary (Lewis Campbell, 1879)) focus

223-330. mvp-comment-136-1 The half-comic or rustic character of the watchman in this play is an extension of the common character of the messenger, whose natural rudeness of speech and thought brings into greater prominence the horror or pathos of the events he describes. The grotesqueness disappears when he speaks of the action of Antigone in 407-440. The employment of this artifice by Sophocles arises from the same motive to which Shakespeare gave a far wider range in such creations as the gravediggers in Hamlet, and the rural fellow in Antony and Cleopatra. The Messenger in the Trachiniae, the Corinthian in the Oedipus Tyrannus, Menelaus in the Ajax, the pretended Shipmaster in the Philoctetes, afford the same sort of contrast to the more tragic personages: and the superstition of the Coloniatae may be compared with the cowardice of the Phrygian slave in the Orestes of Euripides.

223-330. mvp-comment-136-2 The vulgarity of the common-place Athenian of the fifth century в.с. takes the form of misplaced subtlety of wit. Cp. Shak. Hamlet, 5. 1 ,

We must speak by the card, or equivocation will undo us. The age is grown so picked, that the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier, he galls his kibe.

249. mvp-comment-153-1 οὔτε .. ἐκβολή No dint of pick-axe, nor earth turned up with hoe.'