Sophocles Antigone 274

καὶ ταῦτ᾽ ἐνίκα, κἀμὲ τὸν δυσδαίμονα

Antigone. Sophocles. Leipzig. 1979.

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

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Editions (11)
Greek (L. Benloew, 1858) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (L. Benloew, 1858)) — 274 focus
πάλος καθαιρεῖ 1 τοῦτο τἀγαθὸν λαβεῖν.
Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 274 focus
ἄναξ, ἐμοί τοι, μή τι καὶ θεήλατον
Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 274 focus
πάρειμι δ᾽ ἄκων οὐχ ἑκοῦσιν, οἶδ᾽ ὅτι·
Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879)) — 274 focus
καὶ ταῦτ᾽ ἐνίκα, κἀμὲ τὸν δυσδαίμονα
Greek (A. Colonna, 1978) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Colonna, 1978)) — 274 focus
καὶ ταῦτ᾽ ἐνίκα, κἀμὲ τὸν δυσδαίμονα
Greek (A. Dain, 1955) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Dain, 1955)) — 274.mvp-line-274 focus
καὶ ταῦτ’ ἐνίκα, κἀμὲ τὸν δυσδαίμονα
Greek (G. Hermann, 1830) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (G. Hermann, 1830)) — 274 focus
καὶ ταῦτ᾽ ἐνίκα, κἀμὲ τὸν δυσδαίμονα
Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906)) — 274 focus
καὶ ταῦτ᾽ ἐνίκα, κἀμὲ τὸν δυσδαίμονα
Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924)) — 274.mvp-line-274 focus
καὶ ταῦτ᾽ ἐνίκα, κἀμὲ τὸν δυσδαίμονα
Antigone (OCR draft) Experimental (Antigone) — 274 focus
καὶ ταῦτʼ ἐνίκα, κἀμὲ τὸν δυσδαίμονα
Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949)) — 274 focus
καὶ ταῦτ᾽ ἐνίκα, κἀμὲ τὸν δυσδαίμονα
Translations (7)
German (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 274 focus
KREON.
Und wie sich mordend schied sie denn vom Leben ab?
Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921)) — 274 focus
CREONTE
1339 Echad de aquí a un hombre inútil, que, ¡ay, hijo!, te maté sin querer; y a ésta también. ¡Pobre de mí! No sé hacia qué lado deba inclinarme, porque todo lo que tocan mis manos se vuelve contra mí; sobre mi cabeza descargó intolerable fatalidad.
Latin (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Latin (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 274 focus
Chorus
1347 At sane quidem, si quae urgent mala, quo breviora, eo sunt leviora. Sapere longe prima felicitatis pars est, omnibusque pietatis erga deos officiis fungi decet; at superbi, quum magnis plagis adflicti, magnorum dictorum poenas luerunt, sapere tandem docentur.
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)) — 274 focus
Chorus
1347
composed of Virgins
Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889)) — 274 focus
CREONTE
1284 ¡Inexorable Plutón! ¿por qué, por qué te obstinas en consumar mi perdición?... Y tú; mensajero fatídico de dolores, ¿qué es lo que has venido á contarme?... has venido ¡oh Dios! á concluir con mi vida... ¿qué es lo que has dicho?... ¿qué fatal nueva me has traido?... ¡Cielos! no era bastante con mi hijo, y la Muerte sangrienta me arrebata también mi querida esposa. —(Se descubre el interior de pa: lacio y se pone de manifiesto el cadáver de la Reina.)
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.

274-275. mvp-comment-166-1 κἀμὲ.. λαβεῖν And the lot devotes me, wretched man, to be the recipient of this piece of luck. καθαιρεῖ is used much as in ἡ καθαιροῦσα ψῆφος, not by an extension of the technical sense, but with the same general mean- ing of Fastening upon, Bringing down, Overtaking and subduing.