Creon
Scene V.
384cont2
Antigone, Guard, 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))
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mvp-comment-206-1
Second
mvp-comment-206-2 ἐκείνη 1
mvp-comment-206-3 τοὔργον ἡ ’ξειργ 2
mvp-comment-207-1 ἐς δέον 3
mvp-comment-208-1 ξύμμετρος 4
mvp-comment-209-1 ἀπώμοτον 5
mvp-comment-210-1 ψεύδει 6
mvp-comment-210-2 ἡ ’πίνοια 7
mvp-comment-211-1 ἐξηύχουν ἄν 8 σχολῇ ἥξειν ποτὲ δεῦρο 9
mvp-comment-211-2 σχολῇ 10
mvp-comment-212-1 ταῖς σαῖς ἀπειλαῖς 11
mvp-comment-212-2 ἐχειμάσθην 12
mvp-comment-213-1 ἡ...ἐκτὸς 13 ἐκτός 14
mvp-comment-214-1 οὐδὲν ἔοικε μῆκος 15 α+λλῃ ἡδονῇ 16 οὐδέν 17 μῆκος 18 ἔοικε 19
mvp-comment-215-1 δῑ ὅρκων … ἀπώμοτος 20
mvp-comment-216-1 καθῃρέθη 21
mvp-comment-216-2 τάφον κοσμοῦσα 22
mvp-comment-216-3 ἐπάλλετο 23 ἕρμαιον 24
mvp-comment-217-1 κρῖνε 25
mvp-comment-217-2 δίκαιός εἰμι 26
mvp-comment-217-3 ἀπηλλάχθαι 27
385. mvp-comment-218-1 εἵλομεν The v. r. εἴδομεν is supported by infr. 404, 406, 423, and εἴλομεν, the reading of L, etc., may have been occasioned by καθελόντες in the nearer context. But see v. rr. on 655.
386. mvp-comment-219-1 ἐς δέον Cp. Ο. Τ. 1416, εἰς δέον πάρεστι. εἰς μέσον, which Seyffert has restored from L, although having the authority of the chief MS, is more like a MS. conjecture than eἰς δέον. The same may be said of ἐξέβην, as compared with προὔβην. Seyffert reads ξύμμετρ᾽ ἐξέβην τύχῃ.
388. mvp-comment-220-1 οὐδέν ἐστ᾿ ἀπώμοτον This γνώμη first occurs in the fragment of Archilochus about the eclipse (76 Bergk), χρημάτων ἄελπτον οὐδέν ἐστιν οὐδ᾽ ἀπώμοτον. Cp. Pind. Ol. 13. 83, παρ' ὅρκον καὶ παρ' ἐλπίδα κούφαν.
389. mvp-comment-221-1 ψεύδει .. γνώμην 'For second thoughts bely one's resolutions.' ου 390. ἄv belongs grammatically to the verb ἐξηύχουν, but in meaning rather modifies the infinitive.
391. mvp-comment-222-1 ταῖς .. τότε When my soul was shaken with the tempest of your former threatenings.᾿ ἀπειλαῖς is dative of the occasion or accompaniment, assisted by attraction. Essay on Language § 11. p. 18, с. Ср. 1. 691.
392. mvp-comment-223-1 ἐκτὸς καὶ παρ᾿ ἐλπίδας i. e.
392. mvp-comment-223-2 ἐκτὸς ἐλπίδος (supr. 1. 330) καὶ παρ᾿ ἐλπίδας.
393. mvp-comment-224-1 ἔοικεν.. μήκος οὐδέν Sc. οὐδὲν ἔοικε μήκος, i. e. εἰς τὸ μέγεθος, as the Scholiast says.
395. mvp-comment-225-1 καθευρέθη is not to be rejected because of the rarity of the compound. See Essay on Language p. 90. But the conjecture of Nauck, καθῃρέθη, is favoured by καθελόντες in l. 383.
398. mvp-comment-226-1 ὡς θέλεις In arresting Antigone the watchman has done not his own will but Creon's. Infr. 438. 399,
400. mvp-comment-227-1 ἐγὼ δ'. κακῶν But I have a full right to be "away and clear" from this bad business.