Messenger
Scene V.
Creon, Chorus.
Antigone. Sophocles. Thomas Francklin (Translator). London. 1758–1759.
Antigone. Sophocles. Thomas Francklin (Translator). London. 1758–1759.
English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759) (OCR draft) (English) (English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759))
Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.
mvp-comment-769-1 ἔχω μαθὼν 1 με 2 μέγα βάρος ἔχων 3 ἐν δ’ ἐμῷ κάρᾳ 4 ἔπαισε 5 με 6 κάρᾳ 7
mvp-comment-769-2 ἐν δ’ ἔσεισεν 8
mvp-comment-769-3 ἀγρίαις ὁδοῖς 9
mvp-comment-770-1 λακπάτητον 10 κ 11 ξπ 12 κ 13
mvp-comment-770-2 ἀντρέπων 14
mvp-comment-771-1 φεῦ φεῦ, ὦ 15
mvp-comment-771-2 πόνοι .. δύσπονοι 16
1273. mvp-comment-713-1 θεὸς .. ἔπαισεν A God held and smote me with mighty force. ἔχων is almost pleonastic, and μέγα βάρος adverbial. But there is some difficulty in the construction of ἐν ἐμῷ κάρᾳ with ἔπαισεν. Qy. μέγα βάρος πεσών? As the words stand, the whole expression μέγα .. ἔπαισεν must be taken as = ἐνήλατο.
1274. mvp-comment-714-1 ἐν δ᾽ ἔσεισεν This use of language (implying 'furious driving') recurs in Plut. Phoc. 23, ἐνσείειν τὴν πόλιν εἰς πόλεμον. A similar expression occurs in El. 737. See also Eur. Or. 255.
1275. mvp-comment-715-1 λακπάτητον is proleptic. Overturning and trampling upon.' 1277. ὡς is to be construed with ἔοικας ἥκειν, which is postponed to the participle, as in Phil. 971, πρὸς κακῶν δ᾽ ἀνδρῶν μαθὼν ἔοικας ἥκειν αἰσχρά: and the meaning is, O master, how truly thou wouldst seem, having at τέθνηκε Α. once in hand and also in possession, to have come hither bearing one load of evil in thine arms, while there is another burden which thou wilt quickly behold within the palace. The address, ὦ δέσποτα, suggests the words ἔχων τε καὶ κεκτημένος (Creon is lord 'of dire mischance'), in which there is the distinction afterwards adopted in philosophy between ἕξις and κτῆσις.