Sophocles Antigone 272

πράξαιμεν. ἦν δ᾽ ὁ μῦθος ὡς ἀνοιστέον

Antigone. Sophocles. Leipzig. 1979.

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Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979) (OCR draft) (Greek) (Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979))

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Editions (11)
Greek (L. Benloew, 1858) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (L. Benloew, 1858)) — 272 focus
σοὶ τοὔργον εἴη τοῦτο, κοὐχὶ κρυπτέον.
Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 272 focus
πάρειμι δ᾽ ἄκων οὐχ ἑκοῦσιν, οἶδ᾽ ὅτι·
Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 272 focus
καὶ ταῦτ᾽ ἐνίκα, κᾀμὲ τὸν δυσδαίμονα
Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879)) — 272 focus
πράξαιμεν. ἦν δ᾽ ὁ μῦθος ὡς ἀνοιστέον
Greek (A. Colonna, 1978) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Colonna, 1978)) — 272 focus
πράξαιμεν. ἦν δ᾽ ὁ μῦθος ὡς ἀνοιστέον
Greek (A. Dain, 1955) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Dain, 1955)) — 272.mvp-line-272 focus
πράξαιμεν. ἦν δ’ ὁ μῦθος ὡς ἀνοιστέον
Greek (G. Hermann, 1830) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (G. Hermann, 1830)) — 272 focus
πράξαιμεν. ἦν δ᾽ ὁ μῦθος, ὡς ἀνοιστέον
Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906)) — 272 focus
πράξαιμεν. ἦν δ᾽ ὁ μῦθος ὡς ἀνοιστέον
Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924)) — 272.mvp-line-272 focus
πράξαιμεν. ἦν δ᾽ ὁ μῦθος ὡς ἀνοιστέον
Antigone (OCR draft) Experimental (Antigone) — 272 focus
πράξαιμεν. ἦν δʼ ὁ μῦθος ὡς ἀνοιστέον
Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949)) — 272 focus
πράξαιμεν. ἦν δ᾽ ὁ μῦθος ὡς ἀνοιστέον
Translations (8)
German (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 272 focus
KREON.
Str. 3.
Ach ach, ach ach!
1245
1306
Vor Angst schaudr' ich auf! Warum stöfst nicht wer
mir vorn durch die Brust ein zweischneidig Schwert?
Weh, weh mir Elendem!
In Elend und Leid versenkt komm' ich um.
Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921)) — 272 focus
CREONTE
Pero lo que deseo es lo que pido en mis súplicas.
Latin (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Latin (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 272 focus
Chorus
At nunc parce quidquam optare: nam fati nullum est mortalibus effugium.
German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review)) — 278 focus
Schon lang, o König, überlegt mein Inneres,
Ob eine Gottheit diese That nicht angeregt.
English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759)) — 272 focus
Hyllus
Son of Ilercvles.
Oeianira, Wife of Hercules.
Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889)) — 272 focus
CREONTE
1281 ¿Qué mayores desgracias puedo esperar aún que las que estoy sufriendo?
English (Sir Richard Jebb1, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb1, 1904)) — 272 focus
Creon
1339 Lead me away, I pray you; a rash, foolish 1340 man; who have slain thee, ah my son, unwittingly, and thee, too, my wife—unhappy that I am! I know not which way I should bend my gaze, or where I should seek support ; for all is amiss with that which is in my hands,—and yonder, again, a crushing fate hath leapt upon my head.
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.