Sophocles Antigone 273

Thomas Francklin (Translator)

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Lichas
1339

a Herald.

Attenda>t on Deianira.

Old Man.

Antigone. Sophocles. Thomas Francklin (Translator). London. 1758–1759.

Current edition Experimental

English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759) (OCR draft) (English) (English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759))

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Editions (12)

Greek (L. Benloew, 1858) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (L. Benloew, 1858)) — 273 focus

καὶ ταῦτ᾽ ἐνίκα, κἀμὲ τὸν δυσδαίμονα

Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 273 focus

στέργει γὰρ οὐδεὶς ἄγγελον κακῶν ἐπῶν.

Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 273 focus

πάλος καθαιρεῖ τοῦτο τἀγαθὸν λαβεῖν.

Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879)) — 273 focus

σοὶ τοὔργον εἴη τοῦτο κοὐχὶ κρυπτέον.

Greek (A. Colonna, 1978) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Colonna, 1978)) — 273 focus

σοὶ τοὔργον εἴη τοῦτο κοὐχὶ κρυπτέον.

Greek (A. Dain, 1955) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Dain, 1955)) — 273.mvp-line-273 focus

σοὶ τοὔργον εἴη τοῦτο κοὐχὶ κρυπτέον.

Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979)) — 273 focus

σοὶ τοὖργον εἴη τοῦτο κοὐχὶ κρυπτέον.

Greek (G. Hermann, 1830) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (G. Hermann, 1830)) — 273 focus

σοὶ τοὔργον εἴη τοῦτο, κοὐχὶ κρυπτέον.

Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906)) — 273 focus

σοὶ τοὔργον εἴη τοῦτο κοὐχὶ κρυπτέον.

Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924)) — 273.mvp-line-273 focus

σοὶ τοὔργον εἴη τοῦτο κοὐχὶ κρυπτέον.

Antigone (OCR draft) Experimental (Antigone) — 273 focus

σοὶ τοὔργον εἴη τοῦτο κοὐχὶ κρυπτέον.

Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949)) — 273 focus

σοὶ τοὔργον εἴη τοῦτο κοὐχὶ κρυπτέον.

Translations (7)

German (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 273 focus

HAUSDIENER.

Die Schuld von diesem und von jenem Tode lud
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im Sterben noch anklagend sie dir auf das Haupt.

Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921)) — 273 focus

CORO

Pues no pidas nada; que de la suerte que el destino tenga asignada a los mortales, no hay quien pueda evadirse.

Latin (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Latin (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 273 focus

Creon

1339 Abducite procul hominem miserum, qui te, o fili, imprudens occidi, quique te etiam, uxor (heu me miserum!), neque scio, quo ad quem respiciam. Omne sub terra; omnia enim perversa, quae manibus teneo, quaeque capiti meo impendent, intolerabile fatum invexit.

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.

Kreon.

Schweig', eh mich deine Rede gar mit Zorn erfüllt,
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Daß du, der Alte, nicht zugleich als Thor erscheinst.

Denn unerträglich ist es, daß du sagen magst,

Die Götter trügen Sorge für den Todten dort.

Sie hätten, wie zu schöner That Verherrlichung,

Den Mann begraben, der mit Brand zu tilgen kam
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Die säulumringten Tempel und der Gaben Schmuck,

Und ihre Fluren, ihr Gesez zu stürzen sann?

Wann sahst du Frevler je geehrt durch Götterhuld?

Nie wahrlich, nie! Doch lange murrten schon darum,

Ungern gehorsam, wider mich die Bürger hier,
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Geheim die Häupter schüttelnd; ja, sie hielten nicht

Pflichttreu den Nacken unter'm Joch, wie's mir genügt.

Von ihnen wurden jene, sicher weiß ich das,

Durch Lohn verleitet und verübten diese That.

Denn wahrlich, nichts von Allem, was bei Menschen gilt,
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Ist, wie das Geld, verderblich: dies mag Städte selbst

Zerstören, dies treibt Männer aus von Hof und Herd;

Dies unterweiset und verkehrt den edlen Sinn

Rechtschaff'ner Männer, nachzugeh'n ruchloser That,

Zeigt an die Wege böser List den Sterblichen,
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Und bildet sie zu jedem gottverhaßten Werk.

Doch die für Lohn gedungen diese That vollbracht,

Erwirkten sich's nun endlich, daß sie Strafe trifft.

Ia, wenn noch irgend Ehre Zeus von mir empfängt,

So sei versichert, und mein Schwur betheur' es dir:
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Wofern ihr nicht den Frevler, der den Todten dort

Bestattet, aufspürt und mir hier vor Augen stellt,

Genügt es nicht an eurem Tode nur, ihr sollt

Am Kreuze hängen, bis ihr offenbart die Schmach,

Auf daß ihr, wissend, wo Gewinn zu suchen sei,
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Ihn künftig dort erhaschet und begreifen lernt,

Daß nicht in Allem nach Gewinn zu spähen frommt.

Denn mit dem Preis des Schlechten wirst du Mehrere

Unglücklich enden, als das Glück gewinnen seh'n.

Der Wächter.

Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889)) — 273 focus

EL MENSAJERO

Tu esposa, la madre de ese hijo que lloras, ha muerto. ¡Infortunadal herida mortalmente, acaba de espirar.

English (Sir Richard Jebb1, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb1, 1904)) — 273 focus

Chorus

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness; and reverence towards the gods must be inviolate. Great 1350 words of prideful men are ever punished with great blows, and, in old age, teach the chastened to be wise.

English (Sir Richard Jebb2, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb2, 1904)) — 332-380 focus

Chorus

Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than man.

This power spans the sea, even when it surges white before the gales of the south-wind, and makes a path under swells that threaten to engulf him. Earth, too, the eldest of the gods, the immortal, the unwearied,
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he wears away to his own ends, turning the soil with the offspring of horses as the plows weave to and fro year after year.
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Chorus

The light-hearted tribe of birds

and the clans of wild beasts and the sea-brood of the deep he snares in the meshes of his twisted nets, and he leads them captive, very-skilled man. He masters by his arts
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the beast who dwells in the wilds and roams the hills. He tames the shaggy-maned horse, putting the yoke upon its neck, and tames the tireless mountain bull.
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Chorus

Speech and thought fast as the wind and the moods that give order to a city he has taught himself, and how to flee the arrows of the inhospitable frost under clear skies and the arrows of the storming rain.

He has resource for everything. Lacking resource in nothing he strides towards what must come. From Death alone he shall procure no escape, but from baffling diseases he has devised flights.
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Chorus

Possessing resourceful skill, a subtlety beyond expectation he moves now to evil, now to good. When he honors the laws of the land and the justice of the gods to which he is bound by oath,
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his city prospers. But banned from his city is he who, thanks to his rashness, couples with disgrace. Never may he share my home,
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never think my thoughts, who does these things!
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Enter the Guard, on the spectators’ left, leading in Antigone.

Chorus

What marvel sent by the gods is this?—I am bewildered! I know her. How can I deny that this girl is Antigone? O unhappy child

of your unhappy father, of Oedipus! What can this mean? What! Surely they are not bringing you captive for disobeying the King’s laws and being caught in lunacy?
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Commentary

Commentary (R. C. Jebb) (OCR draft) (Commentary (R. C. Jebb))

mvp-comment-802-1 ἄγοιτ’ ἄν ¹

mvp-comment-802-2 μάταιον ²

mvp-comment-803-1 κατέκανον ³

mvp-comment-803-2 σέ τ’ αὖ τάνδ’ ⁴

mvp-comment-804-1 πρὸς πότερον … πάντα γάρ ⁵

mvp-comment-804-2 (1) The MS. ὅπᾳ ⁶ πᾷ ⁷

mvp-comment-804-3 (2) L has πάντα γάρ ⁸

mvp-comment-804-4 (3) κλιθῶ ⁹ καὶ θῶ ¹⁰

mvp-comment-804-5 πρὸς πότερον ¹¹

mvp-comment-804-6 ἴδω ¹²

mvp-comment-804-7 πᾷ κλιθῶ ¹³ πᾷ ¹⁴

mvp-comment-805-1 λέχρια τἀν χεροῖν ¹⁵ λέχρια ¹⁶

mvp-comment-805-2 τὰ δ’ ἐπὶ κρατί μοι ¹⁷ τὰ ἐν χεροῖν ¹⁸

mvp-comment-805-3 εἰσήλατο ¹⁹

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

1341. mvp-comment-741-1 σε τ᾿ αὐτάν It is unnecessary to change αὐτάν, which has a natural and pathetic emphasis. He has been the death even of the mother as well as of the son, αὐτήν τε κατέκτεινε καὶ τὸν παῖδα.

1342. mvp-comment-742-1 πρὸς πότερον ἴδω i. e. Whether at Haemon or Eurydice. The words that follow are suggested by the general notion of distraction which is here expressed. The words in L etc.

1342. mvp-comment-742-2 παῖ καὶ θῶ (= 'Which way also I shall order them'), are clearly a corruption of πᾷ κλιθῶ, which, however, was probably a gloss. For if πάντα γάρ is dropped instead, the asyndeton of λέχρια, κ.τ.λ., is very harsh.

1344-1346. mvp-comment-743-1 * πάντα γὰρ.. εἰσήλατο For all that I am engaged with is ready to fall, while from above a destiny hard to be borne has leapt upon my head. The opposition is not between Haemon and Eurydice (Dindorf), nor between present and future (Seyffert), but between the visible circumstances and the invisible hand of fate. λέχριος is used metaphorically. (See Essay on Language p. 105.) Creon cannot bear the misery that surrounds him, and he cannot look up because of the heavy weight of destiny impending over him.