Sophocles Antigone 291

κρυφῆι κάρα σείοντες, οὐδ᾽ ὑπὸ ζυγῶι

Antigone. Sophocles. Leipzig. 1979.

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Current edition Experimental

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)) — 291 focus
λόφον δικαίως εἶχον, ὡς στέργειν ἐμέ.
Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 291 focus
οὐδὲν γὰρ ἀνθρώποισιν οἷον ἄργυρος
Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 291 focus
ἐκ τῶνδε τούτους ἐξεπίσταμαι καλῶς
Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879)) — 291 focus
κρυφῆ κάρα σείοντες, οὐδ᾽ ὑπὸ ζυγῷ
Greek (A. Colonna, 1978) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Colonna, 1978)) — 291 focus
κρυφῇ κάρα σείοντες, οὐδ᾽ ὑπὸ ζυγῷ
Greek (A. Dain, 1955) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Dain, 1955)) — 291.mvp-line-291 focus
κρυφῇ κάρα σείοντες, οὐδ’ ὑπὸ ζυγῷ
Greek (G. Hermann, 1830) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (G. Hermann, 1830)) — 291 focus
κρυφῇ κάρα σείοντες· οὐδ᾽ ὑπὸ ζυγῷ
Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906)) — 291 focus
κρυφῇ κάρα σείοντες, οὐδ᾽ ὑπὸ ζυγῷ
Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924)) — 291.mvp-line-291 focus
κρυφῇ, κάρα σείοντες, οὐδ᾽ ὑπὸ ζυγῷ
Antigone (OCR draft) Experimental (Antigone) — 291 focus
κρυφῇ κάρα σείοντες, οὐδʼ ὑπὸ ζυγῷ
Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949)) — 291 focus
κρυφῆι κάρα σείοντες, οὐδ᾽ ὑπὸ ζυγῶι
Translations (2)
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 (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.

291. mvp-comment-171-1 'Covertly shaking the head,' like an animal preparing to throw off the yoke.