Sophocles Antigone 55

Thomas Francklin (Translator)

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Creon
Thou hast sold
Thy life for gain.

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)) — 55 focus
τρίτον δ᾽, ἀδελφὼ δύο μίαν καθ᾽ ἡμέραν
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Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 55 focus
τρίτον δ᾽ ἀδελφὼ δύο μίαν καθ’ ἡμέραν
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Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 55 focus
τρίτον δ᾽ ἀδελφὼ δύο μίαν καθ᾿ ἡμέραν
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Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879)) — 55 focus
τρίτον δ᾽ ἀδελφὼ δύο μίαν καθ' ἡμέραν
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Greek (A. Colonna, 1978) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Colonna, 1978)) — 55 focus
τρίτον δ᾽ ἀδελφὼ δύο μίαν καθ᾽ ἡμέραν
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Greek (A. Dain, 1955) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Dain, 1955)) — 55.mvp-line-55 focus
τρίτον δ’ ἀδελφὼ δύο μίαν καθ’ ἡμέραν
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Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979)) — 55 focus
τρίτον δ᾽ ἀδελφὼ δύο μίαν καθ' ἡμέραν
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Greek (G. Hermann, 1830) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (G. Hermann, 1830)) — 55 focus
τρίτον δ᾽ ἀδελφὼ δύο μίαν καθ' ἡμέραν
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Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906)) — 55 focus
τρίτον δ᾽ ἀδελφὼ δύο μίαν καθ᾽ ἡμέραν
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Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924)) — 55.mvp-line-55 focus
τρίτον δ᾽ ἀδελφὼ δύο μίαν καθ᾽ ἡμέραν
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Antigone (OCR draft) Experimental (Antigone) — 55 focus
τρίτον δʼ ἀδελφὼ δύο μίαν καθʼ ἡμέραν
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Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949)) — 55 focus
τρίτον δ᾽ ἀδελφὼ δύο μίαν καθ᾽ ἡμέραν
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Translations (10)
German (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 55 focus
KREON
Erkennst du noch nicht, wie du mir unleidlich sprichst?
Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921)) — 55 focus
Creonte
¡Ay, qué charlatán manifiestas ser!
Latin (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Latin (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 55 focus
Creon
At vafer certe deprehenderis. . . .
English (Lewis Campbell, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Lewis Campbell, 1906)) — 55 focus
CR
Out on thee! thou art nothing but a tongue.
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German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review)) — 69 focus
Nicht mehr verlang' ich's, möchte dich zur Helferin
Nicht mehr, erklärtest du dich auch bereit dazu.
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Nein, wähle deinem Sinne nach: ihn werd' ich selbst
Bestatten; ruhmvoll ist der Tod für diese That.
Bei ihm, dem Lieben, werd' ich ruh'n, die Liebende,
Die frommen Frevel übte; muß ich länger doch
Den Todten dort gefallen, als den Lebenden.
75
Denn dort ja ruh' ich ewig; du, wenn dir's gefällt,
Entehre, was in Ehre selbst bei Göttern steht.
Ich acht' es auch der Ehre werth; indeß der Stadt
Zum Troz zu handeln, fühl ich mich nicht stark genug.
Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889)) — 55 focus
EL CENTINELA
¿Pero qué te atormentan: los oídos ó el corazón?
German (F. Hölderlin, 1804) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (F. Hölderlin, 1804)) — 55 focus
KREON
O mir! welch furchtbarer Sprechart bist du geboren?
English (Sir Richard Jebb1, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb1, 1904)) — 55 focus
Creon
Ah, thou art a born babbler, ’tis well scen.
English (Robert Potter, 1788) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Robert Potter, 1788)) — 55 focus
Antigone
It is no shame
To reverence a brother,
English (Sir Richard Jebb2, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb2, 1904)) — 100-160 focus

Commentary

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

mvp-comment-166-1 ‘Yes, (you have done it,) and that, too, at the cost of betraying,’ etc. The particle γε 1 καὶ ταῦτα 2 προδούς 3

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.