Sophocles Antigone 1339

mvp-comment-148-1 ἐμοί ¹ βουλεύει ² μή ³

mvp-comment-148-2 τι ⁴

mvp-comment-148-3 θεήλατον, ⁵

mvp-comment-148-4 ἡ ξύννοια ⁶

mvp-comment-148-5 πάλαι ⁷

mvp-comment-149-1 πρὶν ὀργῆς καί με μεστῶσαι ⁸ καί ⁹ πρίν ¹⁰ μεστῶσαι ¹¹ καί ¹² με ¹³

mvp-comment-149-2 κἀμέ ¹⁴

mvp-comment-149-3 μεστῶσαι ¹⁵

mvp-comment-150-1 πότερον ¹⁶ ἔκρυπτον ¹⁷

mvp-comment-150-2 ἀμφικίονας ναούς ¹⁸

mvp-comment-150-3 κἀναθήματα ¹⁹

mvp-comment-150-4 Her. 1.50 ; Thuc. 6.46 ; Isae. or. 7 § 41.) The wealth of Delphi in

is already proverbial in Il. 9.404 ; at Thebes the ( O. T. 21 ) also seems to have been rich in them. After the gen. denotes either (as more oft.), or, as here, the divine owner.

mvp-comment-150-5 γῆν ἐκείνων ²⁰ πυρώσων ²¹

mvp-comment-150-6 νόμους διασκεδῶν ²²

mvp-comment-150-7 διασκεδῶν ²³

mvp-comment-151-1 τοὺς κακοὺς τιμῶντας … θεούς; ²⁴

mvp-comment-152-1 ταῦτα ²⁵ μόλις φέροντες ²⁶ καὶ πάλαι ²⁷

mvp-comment-152-2 πόλεως ἄνδρες ²⁸

mvp-comment-152-3 ἐρρόθουν ²⁹

mvp-comment-152-4 ἐμοί ³⁰

mvp-comment-152-5 κάρα σείοντες ³¹

mvp-comment-152-6 ὑπὸ ζυγῷ ³²

mvp-comment-152-7 λόφον ³³

mvp-comment-152-8 δικαίως ³⁴

mvp-comment-152-9 equal poise’ ( New Crat. 371).—

( O. T. 84 ): στέργειν ³⁵

mvp-comment-153-1 τῶνδε ³⁶ ἐκ ³⁷

mvp-comment-153-2 τούτους, ³⁸

mvp-comment-153-3 εἰργάσθαι ³⁹ ἐξεπίσταμαι ⁴⁰ παρηγμένους ⁴¹

mvp-comment-154-1 νόμισμ’ ⁴²

mvp-comment-154-2 ἔβλαστε ⁴³

mvp-comment-154-3 πορθεῖ ⁴⁴

mvp-comment-154-4 τόδ’ ⁴⁵ ἄνδρας ⁴⁶

mvp-comment-155-1 τόδ’ ἐκδ. καὶ παραλλάσσει ⁴⁷ ἵστασθαι ⁴⁸ καὶ παραλλάσσει ⁴⁹

mvp-comment-155-2 ἵστασθαι πρός τι ⁵⁰

mvp-comment-156-1 πανουργίας … ἔχειν ⁵¹

mvp-comment-156-2 εἰδέναι ⁵² παντὸς ἔργου δυσσέβ. ⁵³ παντὸς ἔργ ⁵⁴ πανουργίας ⁵⁵

mvp-comment-157-1 ἤνυσαν ⁵⁶

mvp-comment-157-2 χρόνῳ ποτέ ⁵⁷ δοῦναι δίκην ⁵⁸

mvp-comment-157-3 ἐξέπραξαν ὡς ⁵⁹

mvp-comment-158-1 Ζεύς ⁶⁰

mvp-comment-158-2 ὅρκιος ⁶¹

mvp-comment-158-3 τὸν αὐτόχειρα ⁶² τάφου = ταφῆς ⁶³

mvp-comment-159-1 μοῦνος ⁶⁴ πρὶν ἂν . . δηλώσητε ⁶⁵ κρεμαστοί ⁶⁶ ζῶντες κρεμαστοί ⁶⁷

mvp-comment-159-2 δηλώσηθ’ ⁶⁸

mvp-comment-159-3 ὕβριν ⁶⁹

mvp-comment-160-1 ἵν’ … ἁρπάζητε ⁷⁰

mvp-comment-160-2 τὸ κέρδος ⁷¹ ἔνθεν οἰστέον ⁷²

mvp-comment-160-3 μάθηθ’ ⁷³

mvp-comment-160-4 ἐξ ἅπαντος ⁷⁴ τὸ κερδαίνειν ⁷⁵

mvp-comment-160-5

. In O. C. 807

ἑξ ἅπαντος εὖ λέγει

=speaks well on any theme (starting from anything).

mvp-comment-161-1 τι ⁷⁶

mvp-comment-161-2 δέ ⁷⁷ δώσεις ⁷⁸

mvp-comment-161-3 οὕτως ⁷⁹

mvp-comment-161-4 ἴω ⁸⁰

mvp-comment-161-5 καὶ νῦν ὡς ⁸¹ ἀνιαρῶς ⁸² ι— ⁸³

mvp-comment-162-1 ἐν ⁸⁴ ὠσίν ⁸⁵

mvp-comment-162-2 ἐπί ⁸⁶

mvp-comment-163-1 τί δὲ ⁸⁷ τί δαὶ ⁸⁸

mvp-comment-163-2 ῥυθμίζεις ⁸⁹ ὅπου ⁹⁰ ὅπου ⁹¹

mvp-comment-164-1 τὰς φρένας...τὰ δ’ ὦτ’ ⁹² σε ⁹³

mvp-comment-164-2 οἴμ’ ὡς ⁹⁴

mvp-comment-164-3 λάλημα ⁹⁵ ἄλημα ⁹⁶ ἄλημα ⁹⁷

mvp-comment-164-4 δῆλον, ⁹⁸

mvp-comment-165-1 ‘At any rate (

—babbler or not) I certainly have not done this deed.’ εἰμί ⁹⁹ οὔκουν … γε ¹⁰⁰

mvp-comment-166-1 ‘Yes, (you have done it,) and that, too, at the cost of betraying,’ etc. The particle γε ¹⁰¹ καὶ ταῦτα ¹⁰² προδούς ¹⁰³

mvp-comment-167-1 ἦ δεινόν ¹⁰⁴ καὶ ¹⁰⁵ γε ¹⁰⁶

mvp-comment-168-1 κόμψευε . . τὴν δόξαν ¹⁰⁷

mvp-comment-168-2 τὴν δόξαν ¹⁰⁸

mvp-comment-168-3

(the of which you speak), not merely, ‘the word .’ If the v. l. (see cr. n.) was intended to mean the latter, it should have been

mvp-comment-168-4 νυν ¹⁰⁹ νῦν ¹¹⁰ ταῦτα … τοὺς δρῶντας = τοὺς ταῦτα δρῶντας ¹¹¹

mvp-comment-169-1 δειλά ¹¹²

mvp-comment-169-2 δεινά ¹¹³ ν ¹¹⁴

mvp-comment-170-1 ἀλλ’ ¹¹⁵ εὑρεθείη ¹¹⁶ καὶ ¹¹⁷

mvp-comment-171-1 καὶ ¹¹⁸ γάρ ¹¹⁹

mvp-comment-171-2 γνώμης ¹²⁰

mvp-comment-173-1 πολλὰ … κοὐδέν ¹²¹

mvp-comment-173-2 καί ¹²²

mvp-comment-173-3 τὰ δεινά ¹²³

mvp-comment-174-1 τοῦτο ¹²⁴ πέραν ¹²⁵ πέρα ¹²⁶

mvp-comment-175-1 χειμερίῳ νότῳ ¹²⁷

mvp-comment-176-1 περιβρ … ὑπ’ οἴδμασιν ¹²⁸

mvp-comment-177-1 ὑπερτάταν ¹²⁹

mvp-comment-178-1 ἀκαμάταν ¹³⁰

mvp-comment-178-2 ἀποτρύεται ¹³¹

mvp-comment-179-1 ἰλλομένων ἀρότρων, ¹³² ἀρότων ¹³³

mvp-comment-179-2 ἔτος εἰς ἔτος ¹³⁴ εἰς ¹³⁵

mvp-comment-180-1 ἱππείῳ γένει ¹³⁶

mvp-comment-180-2 πολεύων ¹³⁷ τοῦτο ¹³⁸

mvp-comment-181-1 Man's conquests over the animal world are here taken in two groups. First, those of which the primary aim is to kill or to capture. Here the means is netting (

), in its threefold sporting use, as applied to fowling ( ), hunting ( ), and fishing ( ). Secondly, those conquests which aim at reducing wild animals to man's service. These are effected by (349),— arts of taming and training. And their result is aptly expressed by the word

mvp-comment-181-2

: here, man is not merely the slayer or captor; he becomes the master of docile toilers. The horse and the bull are types.

mvp-comment-181-3 Thus, in this ode, the scale of achievement ever ascends: man (1) conquers inanimate nature: (2) makes animals his captives: (3) trains them to be his servants: (4) develops his own social and intellectual life.

mvp-comment-181-4 κουφονόων ¹³⁹

mvp-comment-181-5 ἀμφιβαλὼν ¹⁴⁰

mvp-comment-182-1 πόντου … εἰναλίαν φύσιν ¹⁴¹

mvp-comment-183-1 περιφραδής ¹⁴²

mvp-comment-184-1 μηχαναῖς ¹⁴³ ἀγραύλου ¹⁴⁴ ὀρεσσιβάτα ¹⁴⁵

mvp-comment-185-1 λασιαύχενά θ’ ¹⁴⁶

mvp-comment-186-1 ὀχμάζεται ¹⁴⁷ ἀμφὶ λόφον ζυγῶν ¹⁴⁸

mvp-comment-186-2 Rhod. 1. 743

. The midd. voice does not occur elsewhere; but this cannot be regarded as an objection, when we remember how many rare middle forms occur in the dramatists. Thus in O. C. 244 is a solitary example of that verb in the midd., and if the license could be taken with so common a word, much more might it be allowed with a comparatively rare one. Blaydes writes : but the Ms. indicates that the verb, whatever it was, was of the midd. form. was published by G. Schöne in 1833, and by Franz in 1846: they appear to have made the conjecture independently. Donaldson (1848) printed , and seems to ascribe to Franz and Schöne; though Franz, at least, proposed has been revived (seemingly without knowledge of a predecessor) by H. Schütz (1886). Sophocles would write , and thus changes no letter. Aesch. used the fut. (fr. 110), and Soph. has the verbal ( El. 702 ). To it may be objected that, being clear, it was not likely to become - : but, when had once been written, (or ) would easily become . As to the schol. on ,—it cannot fairly be urged for (or for any partic.), since it may be merely a paraphrase of .—Schütz's ἐφέζεται ¹⁴⁹

mvp-comment-187-1 φθέγμα ¹⁵⁰

mvp-comment-187-2 beginnings of speech...Speech is the development, through imitation, of a capacity of man—the capacity of making a noise.’ This is quite compatible with

mvp-comment-187-3 ἀνεμόεν φρόνημα ¹⁵¹

mvp-comment-188-1 ἀστυνόμους ὀργάς ¹⁵²

mvp-comment-189-1 ἐδιδάξατο ¹⁵³

mvp-comment-190-1 πάγων ¹⁵⁴

mvp-comment-190-2 ἐναίθρεια ¹⁵⁵

mvp-comment-190-3 βέλη ¹⁵⁷

mvp-comment-191-1 παντοπόρος ¹⁵⁸

mvp-comment-191-2

( ), nothing that is to be (cp. the absolute ). So Plat. Lach. 197 A . This negative form is as correct as (though actually rarer than) the positive ( Plat. Rep. 381A ) for . Donaldson took adverbially: ‘in regard to the future, he comes to nothing without resources.’ Cp. 728 , , where is subst., not adv.

mvp-comment-192-1 μόνον ¹⁵⁹ μόνου ¹⁶⁰ φεῦξιν — ἐπάξεται ¹⁶¹

mvp-comment-193-1 ἀμηχάνων ¹⁶²

mvp-comment-193-2 φυγάς ¹⁶³

mvp-comment-193-3 ξυμπέφρασται ¹⁶⁴

mvp-comment-194-1 The ode closes with a more direct reference to the incident which suggested its theme. The daring ingenuity shown by the unknown breaker of Creon's edict is an instance of the subtlety which leads to ruin. The implied contrast with Creon—

by his care for the laws—is effective in view of the destined .

mvp-comment-194-2 σοφόν τι … ἔχων ¹⁶⁵

mvp-comment-194-3 τὸ μηχανόεν τ ¹⁶⁶

mvp-comment-195-1 τοτὲ μὲν … ἄλλοτ’ ¹⁶⁷

mvp-comment-195-2 ἐπ’ ¹⁶⁸

mvp-comment-196-1 γεραίρων ¹⁶⁹

mvp-comment-196-2 5. 67

. Ar. Th. 960 .

mvp-comment-197-1 θεῶν τ’ ἔνορκον δίκαν ¹⁷⁰

mvp-comment-198-1 ὑψίπολις ¹⁷¹

mvp-comment-198-2 ἄπολις ¹⁷²

mvp-comment-198-3 τὸ μὴ καλόν ¹⁷³ τόλμας χάριν ¹⁷⁴

mvp-comment-199-1 παρέστιος ¹⁷⁵

mvp-comment-199-2 ἴσον φρονῶν ¹⁷⁶

mvp-comment-200-1 ἔρδει ¹⁷⁷ ἔρδοι ¹⁷⁸

mvp-comment-202-1 The choral ode has closed with an allusion to the unknown man ( ὅς ¹⁷⁹ ἀμφινοῶ ¹⁸⁰ ἐς ¹⁸¹

mvp-comment-202-2 δαιμόνιον τέρας ¹⁸²

mvp-comment-203-1 πῶς εἰδὼς ¹⁸³

mvp-comment-203-2 ἀντιλογήσω ¹⁸⁴

mvp-comment-204-1 ὦ δύστηνος ¹⁸⁵

mvp-comment-204-2 δ. πατρός ¹⁸⁶

mvp-comment-204-3 Οἰδιπόδα— ¹⁸⁷

mvp-comment-205-1 τί ποτ’ ¹⁸⁸

mvp-comment-205-2 οὐ δή που ¹⁸⁹

mvp-comment-205-3 ἀπιστοῦσαν ¹⁹⁰

mvp-comment-205-4 ἄγουσι ¹⁹¹

mvp-comment-205-5 colloquialism, it would be nearly as bad as, ‘Have they taken you up?’

mvp-comment-205-6 καὶ ¹⁹² ἀπιστοῦσαν ¹⁹³ καθελόντες ¹⁹⁴

mvp-comment-206-1 Second

. Antigone, brought before Creon, avows and justifies her deed. Creon declares that she shall die. Ismene, when led in (531), associates herself with the act, but is not permitted by her sister to claim any part in it. Creon orders that both sisters shall be kept prisoners.

mvp-comment-206-2 ἐκείνη ¹⁹⁵

mvp-comment-206-3 τοὔργον ἡ ’ξειργ ¹⁹⁶

mvp-comment-207-1 ἐς δέον ¹⁹⁷

mvp-comment-208-1 ξύμμετρος ¹⁹⁸

mvp-comment-209-1 ἀπώμοτον ¹⁹⁹

mvp-comment-210-1 ψεύδει ²⁰⁰

mvp-comment-210-2 ἡ ’πίνοια ²⁰¹

mvp-comment-211-1 ἐξηύχουν ἄν ²⁰² σχολῇ ἥξειν ποτὲ δεῦρο ²⁰³

mvp-comment-211-2 σχολῇ ²⁰⁴

mvp-comment-212-1 ταῖς σαῖς ἀπειλαῖς ²⁰⁵

mvp-comment-212-2 ἐχειμάσθην ²⁰⁶

mvp-comment-213-1 ἡ...ἐκτὸς ²⁰⁷ ἐκτός ²⁰⁸

mvp-comment-214-1 οὐδὲν ἔοικε μῆκος ²⁰⁹ α+λλῃ ἡδονῇ ²¹⁰ οὐδέν ²¹¹ μῆκος ²¹² ἔοικε ²¹³

mvp-comment-215-1 δῑ ὅρκων … ἀπώμοτος ²¹⁴

mvp-comment-216-1 καθῃρέθη ²¹⁵

mvp-comment-216-2 τάφον κοσμοῦσα ²¹⁶

mvp-comment-216-3 ἐπάλλετο ²¹⁷ ἕρμαιον ²¹⁸

mvp-comment-217-1 κρῖνε ²¹⁹

mvp-comment-217-2 δίκαιός εἰμι ²²⁰

mvp-comment-217-3 ἀπηλλάχθαι ²²¹

mvp-comment-218-1 Observe the order of the words as marking his amazement. For the double interrog. cp. Il. 21.150

; Ph. 243

mvp-comment-218-2 πάντ’ ἐπίστασαι ²²²

mvp-comment-219-1 ἦ καὶ ²²³

mvp-comment-219-2 ὀρθῶς ²²⁴

mvp-comment-219-3 mean to say? (Not, merely, ‘truly,’ i.e. in accordance with the fact: cp. 99 n.)

mvp-comment-220-1 τὸν νεκρόν ²²⁵

mvp-comment-221-1 ἆρ’ ἔνδηλα ²²⁶

mvp-comment-222-1 ὁρᾶται...ᾑρέθη ²²⁷

mvp-comment-222-2 ἐπίληπτος ²²⁸

mvp-comment-223-1 ἥκομεν ²³⁰

mvp-comment-224-1 τὰ δείν’ ἐκεῖν’ ²³¹

mvp-comment-224-2 τὸν | νέκυν ²³²

mvp-comment-225-1 καθήμεθ’ ²³³

mvp-comment-225-2 ἄκρων ἐκ πάγων ²³⁴

mvp-comment-225-3

. Here, goes with : but , however much may have influenced it, at least cannot be disjoined from . (2) Eur. Phoen. 1009

ἀλλ’ εἶμι καὶ στὰς ἐξ ἐπάλξεων ἄκρων | σφάξας ἐμαυτὸν σηκὸν εἰς μελαμβαθῆ | δράκοντος, ἔνθ’ ὁ μάντις ἐξηγήσατο, | ἐλευθερώσω γαῖαν

. It is impossible to sever from , even if we partly explain by . (3) ib. 1224

Ἐτεοκλέης δ’ ὑπῆρξ’ ἀπ’ ὀρθίου σταθεὶς | πύργου κελεύσας σῖγα κηρῦξαι στρατῷ

. The position of forbids us to sever it from , even though or is used to explain . (4) Eur. Tro. 522

ἀνὰ δ’ ἐβόασεν λεὼς | Τρῳάδος ἀπὸ πέτρας σταθείς

. A similar case. In all these passages, a picture is presented, and we have to glance from a remoter to a nearer object. The mental eye is required to measure the space between Hera on the peak of Olympus, and Poseidon on the plain of Troy; between Megareus on the walls of Thebes, and the cavern into which his corpse is to fall. And, in each case, or denotes the quarter in which the remoter object is to be looked for. This, which might be called the ‘surveying’ use, is distinct from that in which the prep. has a pregnant force, as being directly suggestive of motion ( ); but it springs from the same mental tendency,—viz., to take a rapid glance over the dividing interval. Cp. (‘on his side’). So here: in the foreground of the picture is the corpse, which they have just laid bare. Now look to the hillocks behind it; in that quarter you will see the guards at their post.—I have not cited Od. 21.419

τόν ῥ’ ἐπὶ πήχει ἑλὼν ἕλκεν νευρὴν γλυφίδας τε | αὐτόθεν ἐκ δίφροιο καθήμενος

, because there goes with , not with (he drew the bow, just from the chair, where he sat).

mvp-comment-225-4 ὑπήνεμοι ²³⁵

mvp-comment-226-1 βάλῃ ²³⁶

mvp-comment-227-1 ἐγερτί ²³⁷

mvp-comment-227-2 κινῶν ²³⁸

mvp-comment-227-3 ἐπιρρόθοις κακοῖσιν ²³⁹

mvp-comment-227-4 the adj. expressing the loud, continuous noise of tongues. The

- does not mean ‘bandied to and fro’: see Tr. 263

πολλὰ μὲν λόγοις | ἐπερρόθησε

. In fr. 521 =‘open to reproach.’ Elsewhere (as with Aesch.) = ‘helper’ ( , to come with shouts to the rescue). Cp. 259 n., Aesch. 290.

mvp-comment-228-1 ἀκηδήσοι ²⁴⁰ ἀφειδήσοι ²⁴¹

mvp-comment-229-1 The incident of the storm was a dramatic necessity, to account for Antigone reaching the corpse unobserved. A powerful picture is compressed into seven lines. (Cp. O. C. 1315 ff. for a like instance of self-restraint in description.)

mvp-comment-230-1 κατέστη ²⁴²

mvp-comment-230-2 χθονὸς ²⁴³

mvp-comment-231-1 τυφώς ²⁴⁴ σκηπτός ²⁴⁵

mvp-comment-231-2 οὐράνιον ἄχος ²⁴⁶

mvp-comment-232-1 πίμπλησι ²⁴⁷ αἰκίζων ²⁴⁸

mvp-comment-232-2 ἐν δ’ ἐμεστ ²⁴⁹

mvp-comment-233-1 μύσαντες ²⁵⁰

mvp-comment-233-2 νόσον ²⁵¹

mvp-comment-233-3 ἐν χρ. μακρ ²⁵²

mvp-comment-234-1 πικρᾶς ²⁵³

mvp-comment-235-1 εὐνῆς...λέχος ²⁵⁴

mvp-comment-236-1 οὕτω δέ ²⁵⁵

mvp-comment-236-2 ψιλόν ²⁵⁶

mvp-comment-237-1 γόοισιν ἐξῴμωξεν ²⁵⁷

mvp-comment-237-2 ἐκ δ’ … ἠρᾶτο ²⁵⁸

mvp-comment-237-3 διψίαν ²⁵⁹

mvp-comment-238-1 φέρει κόνιν ²⁶⁰

mvp-comment-239-1 The πρόχους ²⁶¹

mvp-comment-239-2 εὐκρότητος ²⁶²

mvp-comment-239-3 ἄρδην ²⁶³

mvp-comment-240-1 χοαῖσι ²⁶⁴

mvp-comment-240-2 τρισπόνδ. ²⁶⁵ στέφει ²⁶⁶

mvp-comment-241-1 ἱέμεσθα ²⁶⁷

mvp-comment-241-2 σὺν δὲ … θηρώμεθ’ ²⁶⁸

mvp-comment-242-1 ἠλέγχομεν ²⁶⁹

mvp-comment-242-2 ἄπαρνος … οὐδενός ²⁷⁰

mvp-comment-242-3 καθίστατο ²⁷¹

mvp-comment-243-1 ἅμ’ ²⁷²

mvp-comment-244-1 φίλους ²⁷³

mvp-comment-245-1 πάντα ταῦθ’ ²⁷⁴ λαβεῖν ²⁷⁵

mvp-comment-246-1 σὲ δή, ²⁷⁶

mvp-comment-247-1 φὴς δεδρακέναι, ἢ καταρνεῖ μὴ δεδρ ²⁷⁷ καταρνεῖ ²⁷⁸

mvp-comment-248-1 καὶ......κοὐκ ²⁷⁹

mvp-comment-248-2 τὸ μή ²⁸⁰

mvp-comment-249-1 σὺ μέν ²⁸¹ κομίζοις ἂν ς ²⁸²

mvp-comment-249-2 ἔξω ²⁸³ β. αἰτίας ²⁸⁴ ἐλεύθερον ²⁸⁵

mvp-comment-250-1 μῆκος ²⁸⁶

mvp-comment-251-1 ᾔδησθα ²⁸⁷ ᾔδης τὰ ²⁸⁸ σθα ²⁸⁹

mvp-comment-251-2 κηρυχθέντα ²⁹⁰

mvp-comment-252-1 ᾔδη ²⁹¹

mvp-comment-252-2 τί δ’ οὐκ ἔμελλον ²⁹²

mvp-comment-252-3 ἐμφανῆ ²⁹³ ἐκφανῆ ²⁹⁴

mvp-comment-253-1 καὶ δῆτ’ ²⁹⁵

mvp-comment-254-1 Ζεύς ²⁹⁶

mvp-comment-255-1 τῶν κάτω θεῶν ²⁹⁷ ξύνοικος ²⁹⁸ τοιούσδ’ … ὥρισεν ²⁹⁹ οἳ τούσδ’ … ὥρισαν ³⁰⁰ τάδε ³⁰¹

mvp-comment-256-1 ἄγραπτα … νόμιμα ³⁰²

mvp-comment-256-2 quotes vv. 456 f.) Cp. O.T. 865 ff.

, with notes there. Thuc. 2.37 ( ) . When ‘the unwritten laws’ are thus called , the latter word is used figuratively. νόμιμα ³⁰³

mvp-comment-256-3 ἀσφαλῆ ³⁰⁴

mvp-comment-256-4 θνητὸν ὄντ’ ³⁰⁵

mvp-comment-256-5 ὑπερδραμεῖν ³⁰⁶

mvp-comment-257-1 νῦν γε κἀχθές ³⁰⁷

mvp-comment-257-2 ζῇ ³⁰⁸

mvp-comment-257-3 ’φάνη ³⁰⁹

mvp-comment-258-1 τούτων ³¹⁰ τὴν δίκην ³¹¹ τούτων ³¹²

mvp-comment-258-2 shows that, like

just before, it refers to the : we cannot, therefore, render, ‘the penalty of such an act’ ( sc. ).

mvp-comment-258-3 ἐν θεοῖσι ³¹³

mvp-comment-259-1 δώσειν ³¹⁴

mvp-comment-259-2 θανουμένη γάρ ³¹⁵

mvp-comment-259-3 τί δ’ οὔ ³¹⁶

mvp-comment-260-1 κεἰ μὴ σὺ προὐκήρυξας ³¹⁷

mvp-comment-260-2 τοῦ χρόνου ³¹⁸

mvp-comment-260-3 αὔτ’ ³¹⁹

mvp-comment-261-1 φέρει ³²⁰

mvp-comment-262-1 Kvičala and Wecklein reject these four verses, despairing of the difficulties found in vv. 466, 467, which have been variously amended; see Appendix. The alleged difficulties are, (1)

: (2) the mention of the mother only: (3) the position of , which might suggest the sense, ‘slain by my mother’: (4) (as L has it). Before dealing with these points, I would call attention to a trait which the impugners of these verses have overlooked, and which speaks strongly for the genuineness of the passage as a whole, corrupt though it be in certain words. That trait is the clause τοῖσδε δ’ οὐκ ἀλγύνομαι ³²¹

mvp-comment-263-1 ἄλγος ³²² παρ’ οὐδέν ³²³

mvp-comment-263-2 adv.: ‘is a pain in no appreciable degree,’ is a pain not worth a thought: as he might have said,

. The normal use of , ‘of no account,’ is either ( a) with the verb , as O. T. 982

ταῦθ’ ὅτῳ | παρ’ οὐδέν ἐστι

, or ( b) with a verb meaning ‘to esteem,’ as above, v. 34, . The only peculiarity here is that, instead of a word in the general sense, ‘ is esteemed’ ( ), we have a virtual equivalent, tinged with the special thought of the moment, viz., ‘ is a pain.’ Exactly so in El. 1327 we have , instead of . Thus the suspicions as to the genuineness of are illusory.

mvp-comment-263-3 ἀλλ’ ἄν ³²⁴

mvp-comment-264-1 ἄθαπτον ἠνσχόμην νέκυν ³²⁵ ηἰσχόμην ³²⁶ ἠνσχόμην ³²⁷

mvp-comment-264-2 In my first edition I placed in the text the emendation of Semitelos (1887) ᾔσχυναν κύνες ³²⁸

mvp-comment-264-3 Other emendations will be found in the Appendix. Most of them assume that we must have

(or ), and therefore alter the words and in various ways, —usu. omitting . The verses produced by these processes are wretched, while, from a palaeographical point of view, they are pure conjectures, which do not attempt to account for the tradition in L.—Two points remain. (1) τὸν ἐξ ἐμῆς | μητρός ³²⁹

mvp-comment-264-4 or

(Meineke). (2) τὸν ἐξ ἐμ. | μητρος θανόντ’ ³³⁰

mvp-comment-265-1 σχεδόν τι ³³¹

mvp-comment-265-2 μώρῳ μωρίαν ³³²

mvp-comment-265-3 ὀφλισκάνω ³³³

mvp-comment-266-1 These two verses give a moment of stillness before the storm breaks forth. So at O. T. 404 four verses of the chorus divide the angry speech of Oedipus from the retort of Teiresias.

mvp-comment-266-2 τὸ γέννημα τῆς παιδός ³³⁴ δηλοῖ ³³⁵ ὠμόν ³³⁶ ἐξ ὠμοῦ πατρός ³³⁷ γέννημα ³³⁸

mvp-comment-267-1 εἴκειν … κακοῖς ³³⁹

mvp-comment-268-1 ἀλλ’ ἴσθι τοι ³⁴⁰

mvp-comment-268-2 πίπτειν ³⁴¹

mvp-comment-269-1 ὀπτὸν … περισκελῆ ³⁴²

mvp-comment-269-2 περισκελής ³⁴³

mvp-comment-269-3 ἐκ πυρός ³⁴⁴

mvp-comment-270-1 θραυσθέντα καὶ ῥαγέντα ³⁴⁵

mvp-comment-271-1 χαλινῷ δ’ ³⁴⁶ σμικρῷ ³⁴⁷

mvp-comment-271-2 καταρτυθέντας ³⁴⁸

mvp-comment-272-1 Suspicion has fallen on ἐκπέλει ³⁴⁹

mvp-comment-272-2 ὅστις ³⁵⁰

mvp-comment-272-3 τῶν πέλας ³⁵¹

mvp-comment-273-1 αὕτη δ’ ³⁵² ὑβρίζειν μὲν … ὕβρις δ’ ³⁵³ ἐξηπίστατο ³⁵⁴ τότ’ ³⁵⁵

mvp-comment-273-2 τούτοις ³⁵⁶

mvp-comment-273-3 δεδρακυῖαν γελᾶν ³⁵⁷

mvp-comment-274-1 νῦν ³⁵⁸

mvp-comment-274-2 εἰ ταῦτα … κράτη ³⁵⁹ κράτη ³⁶⁰ κείσεται ³⁶¹ πείσεται ³⁶² ἀνατί ³⁶³ ταῦτα ³⁶⁴

mvp-comment-275-1 ἀδελφῆς ³⁶⁵

mvp-comment-275-2 εἴθ’ ὁμαιμονεστέρα ³⁶⁶

mvp-comment-275-3 Hyperbole is congenial to Creon's excitement; cp. 1040 . But the addition,

, ill suits this, while, on the other hand, it agrees well with the nom. . On the whole, then, I incline to prefer the nom.; but the point is a nice one, and the gen. is quite tenable.

mvp-comment-275-4 κυρεῖ ³⁶⁷

mvp-comment-276-1 τοῦ παντὸς Ζηνὸς ἑρκείου ³⁶⁸

mvp-comment-277-1 ἀλύξετον ³⁶⁹ μόρου ³⁷⁰

mvp-comment-278-1 καὶ γὰρ οὖν ³⁷¹

mvp-comment-278-2 ἐπαιτιῶμαι κείνην ³⁷² βουλεῦσαι ἴσον τοῦδε τάφου ³⁷³ ἴσον ³⁷⁴

mvp-comment-278-3 βουλεῦσαι ³⁷⁵

mvp-comment-279-1 καί νιν καλεῖτ’ ³⁷⁶

mvp-comment-280-1 λυσσῶσαν … οὐδ’ ἐπ ³⁷⁷

mvp-comment-280-2 ἐπήβολον ³⁷⁸

mvp-comment-281-1 ὁ θυμὸς τῶν … τεχνωμένων ³⁷⁹ φιλεῖ κλοπεὺς ᾑρῆσθαι ³⁸⁰ πρόσθεν ³⁸¹ κλοπεύς ³⁸² ᾑρῆσθαι κλοπεύς ³⁸³

mvp-comment-281-2 τεχνωμένων ³⁸⁴

mvp-comment-282-1 γε μέντοι ³⁸⁵

mvp-comment-282-2 Ismene's guilty terror is contrasted with Antigone's impudent hardihood,—as Creon deems it. μισῶ … ὅταν ³⁸⁶

mvp-comment-282-3 ἔπειτα ³⁸⁷

mvp-comment-282-4 καλλύνειν ³⁸⁸

mvp-comment-283-1 θέλεις τι μεῖζον ³⁸⁹

mvp-comment-283-2 ἑλών ³⁹⁰

mvp-comment-283-3 ἐγὼ μὲν οὐδέν ³⁹¹

mvp-comment-283-4 ἅπαντ’ ἔχω ³⁹²

mvp-comment-284-1 ἀρεστὸν οὐδέν ³⁹³

mvp-comment-284-2 μηδ’ ἀρεσθείη ³⁹⁴ ἀρεσθείην ³⁹⁵ ἀρέστ’ εἴη ³⁹⁶

mvp-comment-285-1 τἀμά ³⁹⁷

mvp-comment-285-2 ἔφυ ³⁹⁸

mvp-comment-286-1 καίτοι ³⁹⁹ κλέος … εὐκλεέστερον ⁴⁰⁰

mvp-comment-287-1 ἐν τάφῳ τιθεῖσα ⁴⁰¹ τούτοις πᾶσι λέγοιτο ἄν ⁴⁰² τοῦτο ἁνδάνειν ⁴⁰³ ἐγκλῄοι ⁴⁰⁴

mvp-comment-288-1 ἀλλ’ ἡ τυραννίς ⁴⁰⁵

mvp-comment-289-1 μούνη ⁴⁰⁶

mvp-comment-289-2 τοῦτο … ὁρᾷς ⁴⁰⁷

mvp-comment-289-3 ὑπίλλουσιν ⁴⁰⁸

mvp-comment-290-1 σὺ δ’ οὐκ ἐπαιδεῖ ⁴¹⁰

mvp-comment-291-1 ὅμαιμος ⁴¹¹

mvp-comment-291-2 ἐκ μιᾶς τε ⁴¹² τε ⁴¹³

mvp-comment-292-1 πῶς δῆτ’ ⁴¹⁴

mvp-comment-292-2 ἐκείνῳ ⁴¹⁵

mvp-comment-292-3 χάριν ⁴¹⁶ τιμᾷς ⁴¹⁷ ὁ κατθανὼν νέκυς ⁴¹⁸

mvp-comment-293-1 εἴ τοι ⁴¹⁹ σφε ⁴²⁰

mvp-comment-293-2 ἐξ ἴσου ⁴²¹

mvp-comment-294-1 οὐ γάρ τι δοῦλος ⁴²²

mvp-comment-294-2 cannot complain, for Polyneices was not his slave—his natural inferior—but his brother, and had the same claim on me that he had. Creon insists on the difference between the loyal man and the disloyal. Antigone dwells on the fact that both men had the same claim on her natural piety, and (519) on her sense of religious duty.

mvp-comment-295-1 πορθῶν δέ ⁴²³

mvp-comment-295-2 ὁ δ’ ⁴²⁴ ὕπερ ⁴²⁵

mvp-comment-296-1 τούτους ⁴²⁶ ἴσους ⁴²⁷ ἴσους ⁴²⁸ ὅμως ⁴²⁹ ἴσους ⁴³⁰ τούτους ⁴³¹ ἴσους ⁴³²

mvp-comment-297-1 The MS. λαχεῖν ἴσος ⁴³³ ἴσους ⁴³⁴

mvp-comment-298-1 κάτωθεν ⁴³⁵ κάτω ’στὶν ⁴³⁶

mvp-comment-298-2 εὐαγῆ ⁴³⁷

mvp-comment-299-1 οὔτοι συνέχθειν ⁴³⁸

mvp-comment-300-1 νυ^ν ⁴³⁹

mvp-comment-301-1 καὶ μὴν ⁴⁴⁰

mvp-comment-301-2 εἰβομένη ⁴⁴¹ κάτω ⁴⁴²

mvp-comment-301-3 with

, for Homer never says . Nothing is more natural than that should have become in the MSS., the latter word being much the commoner.

mvp-comment-301-4 κάτω ⁴⁴³

mvp-comment-302-1 νεφέλη δ’ ὀφρύων ὕπερ ⁴⁴⁴

mvp-comment-302-2 αἱματόεν ⁴⁴⁵

mvp-comment-302-3 ῥέθος ⁴⁴⁶

mvp-comment-302-4 αἰσχύνει ⁴⁴⁷

mvp-comment-303-1 σὺ δ’ ⁴⁴⁸ ὑφειμένη ⁴⁴⁹

mvp-comment-303-2 ἔχιδνα ⁴⁵⁰

mvp-comment-303-3

. (Cp. Shaksp. Per. 1. 1. 64

I am no viper, yet I feed On mother's flesh.

)

mvp-comment-304-1 λήθουσά μ’ ἐξέπινες ⁴⁵¹

mvp-comment-305-1 ἄτα κἀπαναστάσεις ⁴⁵²

mvp-comment-305-2 ἐπαναστάσεις ⁴⁵³ θρόνων ⁴⁵⁴

mvp-comment-306-1 τὸ μὴ ⁴⁵⁵

mvp-comment-307-1 ὁμορροθεῖ ⁴⁵⁶

mvp-comment-308-1 τῆς αἰτίας ⁴⁵⁷ ξυμμετίσχω ⁴⁵⁸ φέρω ⁴⁵⁹

mvp-comment-309-1 ἀλλ’ οὐκ ἐάσει σ’ ⁴⁶⁰

mvp-comment-309-2 ’κοινωσάμην ⁴⁶¹

mvp-comment-310-1 ξύμπλουν ⁴⁶²

mvp-comment-311-1 Cp. Ph. 1293

mvp-comment-311-2 λόγοις ⁴⁶³

mvp-comment-312-1 μή μ’ ἀτιμάσῃς ⁴⁶⁴ τὸ μὴ οὐ ⁴⁶⁵ ἁγνίσαι τὸν θ ⁴⁶⁶

mvp-comment-313-1 μή μοι ⁴⁶⁷ κοινά ⁴⁶⁸

mvp-comment-313-2 μηδ’ ἃ μὴ ’θιγες ⁴⁶⁹ ἅ ⁴⁷⁰ ἅ ⁴⁷¹

mvp-comment-314-1 ποιοῦ σεαυτῆς ⁴⁷²

mvp-comment-314-2 ἀρκέσω ⁴⁷⁴

mvp-comment-315-1 σοῦ λελειμμένῃ ⁴⁷⁵

mvp-comment-315-2 φίλος ⁴⁷⁶

mvp-comment-316-1 κηδεμών ⁴⁷⁷

mvp-comment-317-1 ἀλγοῦσα μὲν δῆτ’ ⁴⁷⁸ δῆτα ⁴⁷⁹

mvp-comment-317-2 ἐν σοί ⁴⁸⁰

mvp-comment-317-3 Heath's εἰ γελῶ γ’ ⁴⁸¹

mvp-comment-318-1 ἀλλὰ νῦν ⁴⁸²

mvp-comment-319-1 κἀμπλάκω ⁴⁸³

mvp-comment-319-2 fate? i.e. to be dissociated from it: delib. aor. subj., which can be used, not only in asking what one is to do, but also in expressions of despair as to what one must suffer ( Tr. 973

;). For cp. 910 , 1234.

mvp-comment-320-1 εἵλου ⁴⁸⁴

mvp-comment-320-2 ζῆν ⁴⁸⁵

mvp-comment-321-1 ἐπ’ ἀρρήτοις … τοῖς ἐμ. λ. ⁴⁸⁶

mvp-comment-322-1 σὺ μὲν τοῖς ⁴⁸⁷

mvp-comment-323-1 καὶ μήν ⁴⁸⁸

mvp-comment-324-1 θάρσει ⁴⁸⁹

mvp-comment-324-2 ἡ ἐμὴ ψυχή ⁴⁹⁰

mvp-comment-324-3 πάλαι ⁴⁹¹

mvp-comment-324-4 ὥστε τοῖς θ. ὠφελεῖν ⁴⁹²

mvp-comment-325-1 L gives τὼ παῖδε φημὶ ⁴⁹³

mvp-comment-325-2 τὼ παῖδε … τὴν μὲν … τὴν δέ ⁴⁹⁴

mvp-comment-325-3 ἀρτίως ⁴⁹⁵

mvp-comment-326-1 The apology is for her sister as well as for herself: even such prudence ( cp. 68

) as may have been inborn forsakes the unfortunate under the stress of their misfortunes.

mvp-comment-326-2 βλάστῃ ⁴⁹⁶

mvp-comment-326-3 τοῖς κ. πράσσουσιν ⁴⁹⁷

mvp-comment-326-4 ἐξίσταται ⁴⁹⁸

mvp-comment-327-1 σοὶ γοῦν ⁴⁹⁹

mvp-comment-327-2 κακοῖς ⁵⁰⁰

mvp-comment-328-1 τῆσδ’ ἄτερ ⁵⁰¹ μόνῃ ⁵⁰²

mvp-comment-328-2 βιώσιμον ⁵⁰³ τί ⁵⁰⁴

mvp-comment-329-1 ἀλλὰ … μέντοι ⁵⁰⁵

mvp-comment-329-2 ἥδε μὴ λέγε ⁵⁰⁶

mvp-comment-330-1 νυμφεῖα ⁵⁰⁷

mvp-comment-331-1 ἀρώσιμοι ⁵⁰⁸

mvp-comment-332-1 οὐχ ὥς γ’ ⁵⁰⁹ ἡρμοσμένα ἦν ⁵¹⁰

mvp-comment-333-1 υἱέσι ⁵¹¹ υἱάσιν ⁵¹²

mvp-comment-333-2

: cp. Monro Hom. Gr. § 107.—The dat. of interest goes with κακὰς γυναῖκας ⁵¹³ στυγῶ ⁵¹⁴

mvp-comment-334-1 It is not of much moment that L, like the later MSS., gives this verse to Ismene. Errors as to the persons occur not seldom in L (see, e.g., cr. n. to O. C. 837 , and cp. ib. 1737 ); and here a mistake would have been peculiarly easy, as the dialogue from v. 561 onwards has been between Creon and Ismene. To me it seems certain that the verse is Antigone's, and that one of the finest touches in the play is effaced by giving it to Ismene. The taunt,

, moves Antigone to break the silence which she has kept since v. 560: in all this scene she has not spoken to Creon, nor does she now address him: she is thinking of Haemon,—of the dishonour to him implied in the charge of having made such a choice, — . How little does his father know the heart which was in sympathy with her own. This solitary reference to her love heightens in a wonderful degree our sense of her unselfish devotion to a sacred duty. If Ismene speaks this verse, then in 573 must be, ‘the marriage of which you talk’ (like El. 1110

οὐκ οἶδα τὴν σὴν κλῄδον

'), which certainly is not its natural sense.

mvp-comment-334-2 Αἷμον ⁵¹⁵

mvp-comment-335-1 ἄγαν γε λυπεῖς ⁵¹⁶

mvp-comment-336-1 The MSS. give this verse to Ismene; but Boeckh is clearly right in giving it to the Chorus. Ismene asked this question in 568, and Creon answered: she rejoined to this answer (570), and Creon replied still more bitterly. She could not now ask her former question over again. But there is no unfitness in the question being repeated by a new intercessor, since to ask it thus is a form of mild remonstrance.

mvp-comment-337-1 ἐμοί ⁵¹⁷ ἔφυ ⁵¹⁸

mvp-comment-338-1 This verse clearly belongs to the Chorus, to whom L assigns it. The first words of the next verse show this. Hermann objected that in similar situations the Chorus usually has two verses. It is true that this is usually the case. But O. T. 1312 is enough to show that there was no rigid rule; why, indeed, should there be? And, here, surely,

mvp-comment-338-2 δεδογμένα ⁵¹⁹

mvp-comment-339-1 καὶ σοί γε κἀμοί ⁵²⁰

mvp-comment-339-2 μὴ τριβάς ⁵²¹

mvp-comment-339-3 νιν ⁵²²

mvp-comment-340-1 ἐκ δὲ τοῦδε ⁵²³ γυναικας ⁵²⁴ ἀνειμένας ⁵²⁵

mvp-comment-341-1 χοἱ θρασεῖς ⁵²⁶ πέλας ⁵²⁷ εἰσορῶσι ⁵²⁸

mvp-comment-343-1 κακῶν ἄγευστος ⁵²⁹

mvp-comment-344-1 σεισθῇ θεόθεν ⁵³⁰

mvp-comment-344-2 ἄτας οὐδὲν ἐλλείπει ⁵³¹ ἐλλείπει ⁵³²

mvp-comment-344-3 γενεᾶς ἐπὶ πλῆθος ⁵³³ γενεᾶς ⁵³⁴

mvp-comment-345-1 ὅμοιον ⁵³⁵

mvp-comment-345-2 ποντίαις ⁵³⁶ πνοαῖς ⁵³⁷ ὅταν οἶδμα ⁵³⁸ ποντίαις δυσπν. Θρ. πνοαῖς ⁵³⁹ ἐπιδράμῃ ἔρεβος ὕφαλον ⁵⁴⁰ Θρῄσσαισιν ⁵⁴¹

mvp-comment-346-1 κελαινὰν θῖνα ⁵⁴²

mvp-comment-346-2 δυσάνεμοι ⁵⁴³ δυσάνεμον ⁵⁴⁴

mvp-comment-346-3 στόνῳ βρ.· ⁵⁴⁵

mvp-comment-346-4 ἀντιπλῆγες ⁵⁴⁶ ἀκταί ⁵⁴⁷

mvp-comment-347-1 ἀρχαῖα ⁵⁴⁸

mvp-comment-347-2 ὁρῶμαι ⁵⁴⁹ οἴκων ⁵⁵⁰ φθι^τῶν ⁵⁵¹

mvp-comment-348-1 ἀπαλλάσσει ⁵⁵²

mvp-comment-348-2 γενεὰν γένος ⁵⁵³ ἔχει ⁵⁵⁴

mvp-comment-348-3 λύσιν ⁵⁵⁵

mvp-comment-349-1 νῦν γὰρ ἐσχάτας ⁵⁵⁶ ὃ τέτατο ⁵⁵⁷ ἐτέτατο ⁵⁵⁸ κατ’ αὖ ⁵⁵⁹ ὑπέρ ⁵⁶⁰ ὅπερ ⁵⁶¹ ὃ τέτατο ⁵⁶² νιν ⁵⁶³ φάος ⁵⁶⁴ ἐσχάτη ῥίζα ⁵⁶⁵ φάος ⁵⁶⁶ νιν ⁵⁶⁷ φάος ⁵⁶⁸ θάλος ⁵⁶⁹ τέτατο ⁵⁷⁰ ῥίζας ⁵⁷¹

mvp-comment-350-1 κατ’ αὖ … ἀμᾷ, ⁵⁷² κοπίς ⁵⁷³ κόνις ⁵⁷⁴ κόνις ⁵⁷⁵

mvp-comment-350-2 (1) If κόνις ⁵⁷⁶ καταμᾷ ⁵⁷⁷

mvp-comment-350-3 (2) If we read κοπίς ⁵⁷⁸

mvp-comment-350-4 It has further been urged against

that the word is too homely. This may be so; but we lack proof. seems to have been a large curved knife, known to the Greeks chiefly as ( a) a butcher's or cook's implement, ( b) an oriental military weapon. It does not follow, however, that the effect here would be like that of ‘chopper,’ or of ‘scimitar,’ in English. The dignity of a word may be protected by its simplicity; and is merely ‘that which cuts.’ Pindar was not afraid of homeliness when he described a chorus-master as a , or an inspiring thought as an (cp. O. C. 1052 n.). Nicander could say, of the scorpion, ( Ther. 780 ). If be right, the change to may have been caused, not by a misreading of letters, but by mere inadvertence,—the copyist having the word in his thoughts at the moment: it has already occurred frequently ( 247 , 256 , 409 , 429 ).—See Appendix.

mvp-comment-351-1 λόγου … ἄνοια ⁵⁷⁹ φρενῶν ἐρινύς ⁵⁸⁰

mvp-comment-352-1 τεάν ⁵⁸¹

mvp-comment-352-2 δύνα^σιν ⁵⁸²

mvp-comment-352-3 κατάσχοι ⁵⁸³

mvp-comment-353-1 The MS. παντογήρως ⁵⁸⁴ παντοθήρας ⁵⁸⁵ παντόθηρος ⁵⁸⁶ πάντ’ ἀγρεύων ⁵⁸⁷

mvp-comment-354-1 The MS. οὔτ’ ἀκάματοι θεῶν ⁵⁸⁸

mvp-comment-354-2

. Far the best emendation is οὔτε θεῶν ἄκματοι ⁵⁸⁹ θεῶν ⁵⁹⁰ θεῶν μῆνες ⁵⁹¹ θεῶν ⁵⁹² οὔτε ⁵⁹³

mvp-comment-354-3 ἄκματοι ⁵⁹⁴

mvp-comment-355-1 I doubt whether the dat. χρόνῳ ⁵⁹⁵

mvp-comment-355-2 μαρμαρόεσσαν ⁵⁹⁶

mvp-comment-356-1 τό τ’ ἔπειτα ⁵⁹⁷ τὸ μέλλον ⁵⁹⁸

mvp-comment-356-2 καὶ τὸ πρίν ⁶⁰² ἐπαρκέσει ⁶⁰³

mvp-comment-357-1 πάμπολύ γ’ ⁶⁰⁴

mvp-comment-357-2 ἕρπει ⁶⁰⁵ ἕρπειν ⁶⁰⁶ ἕρπει ⁶⁰⁷

mvp-comment-357-3 πάμπολις ⁶⁰⁸

mvp-comment-358-1 ἁ γὰρ δή ⁶⁰⁹ γάρ ⁶¹⁰ πολύπλαγκτος ⁶¹¹

mvp-comment-358-2 oft tossed up and down, ploughing a sea of vain deceits.’—

might also be act., ‘causing men to err greatly’; but this is less fitting here.

mvp-comment-359-1 πολλοῖς μὲν ὄνασις ⁶¹²

mvp-comment-360-1 ἀπάτα … ἐρώτων ⁶¹³

mvp-comment-360-2 κουφονόων ⁶¹⁴

mvp-comment-361-1 The

, or final frustration of his desires, ἕρπει ⁶¹⁵ οὐδὲν εἰδότι ⁶¹⁶

mvp-comment-362-1 πρὶν … προσαύσῃ ⁶¹⁷

mvp-comment-362-2 προσαύσῃ ⁶¹⁸

mvp-comment-362-3 πόδα ⁶¹⁹ προσαύσῃ ⁶²⁰

mvp-comment-363-1 σοφίᾳ ⁶²¹

mvp-comment-363-2 ἔκ του ⁶²²

mvp-comment-363-3 πεφάνται ⁶²³

mvp-comment-364-1 τὸ κακὸν δοκεῖν ποτ’ ⁶²⁴ ποτέ ⁶²⁵

mvp-comment-364-2 1676 Among them he a spirit of phrenzy sent, Who hurt their minds. Cp.

. Il. 19.137

ἀλλ’ ἐπεὶ ἀασάμην, καί μευ φρένας ἐξέλετο Ζεύς

. Theognis 403 . Lycurgus in Leocr. § 92 . The schol. on our verse quotes an unknown poet's lines, . (‘Quem Iuppiter vult perdere, dementat prius.’ See n. in Appendix.)— The epic ἔμμεν ⁶²⁶

mvp-comment-365-1 ὀλίγιστον ⁶²⁷ ὀλιγοστόν ⁶²⁸ πράσσει … ἐκτὸς ἄτας ⁶²⁹ ἄτας ⁶³⁰

mvp-comment-366-1 μήν ⁶³¹

mvp-comment-366-2 νέατον ⁶³²

mvp-comment-366-3 to a person,

could not be said of a sole survivor unless he was also the latest-born.

γέννημ’

: cp. 471 n.

mvp-comment-366-4 ἀχνύμενος ⁶³³ μόρον ⁶³⁴

mvp-comment-367-1 In the MS. reading (see cr. n.)

is a gloss on τάλιδος ⁶³⁵ τῆς μελλογάμου ⁶³⁶ τῆς μελλογάμου ⁶³⁷ τάλιδος ⁶³⁸

mvp-comment-368-1 ἀπάτας ⁶³⁹ λεχέων ⁶⁴⁰

mvp-comment-370-1 μάντεων ὑπέρτερον ⁶⁴¹

mvp-comment-371-1 τελείαν ⁶⁴²

mvp-comment-371-2 ψῆφο<*> ⁶⁴³

mvp-comment-371-3 ἆρα μή ⁶⁴⁴

mvp-comment-371-4 τῆς μελλονύμφου ⁶⁴⁵

mvp-comment-371-5 λυσσαίνων ⁶⁴⁶ σοὶ μέν ⁶⁴⁷ θυμαίνων ⁶⁴⁸

mvp-comment-372-1 σοὶ μέν ⁶⁴⁹

mvp-comment-372-2 πανταχῇ δρῶντες ⁶⁵⁰

mvp-comment-373-1 σός ⁶⁵¹

mvp-comment-373-2 γνώμας ἔχων χρηστάς ⁶⁵² ἀπορθοῖς ⁶⁵³ μοι ⁶⁵⁴

mvp-comment-374-1 ἀξιώσεται ⁶⁵⁶ ἀξ. μείζων φέρεσθαι ⁶⁵⁷ ἀξίως ἔσται ⁶⁵⁸

mvp-comment-374-2 σοῦ καλῶς ἡγουμ. ⁶⁵⁹ μείζων ⁶⁶⁰

mvp-comment-375-1 γάρ ⁶⁶¹

mvp-comment-375-2 διὰ στέρνων ἔχειν ⁶⁶² διά ⁶⁶³ ἔχειν ⁶⁶⁴ οὕτω ⁶⁶⁵ ἔχειν ⁶⁶⁶

mvp-comment-376-1 (One ought to think thus),—that is, ὄπισθεν ἑστάναι πατρ. γνώμης ⁶⁶⁷ πάντα ⁶⁶⁸ ἑστάναι ⁶⁶⁹

mvp-comment-377-1 ὡς ⁶⁷⁰

mvp-comment-377-2 ἀνταμύνωνται ⁶⁷¹ κακοῖς ⁶⁷²

mvp-comment-378-1 ἄλλο ⁶⁷³ φῦσαι ⁶⁷⁴ πλήν ⁶⁷⁵ ἄλλο ⁶⁷⁶ εἴποις ⁶⁷⁷

mvp-comment-378-2 πόνους ⁶⁷⁸

mvp-comment-378-3 γέλων ⁶⁷⁹

mvp-comment-379-1 τὰς φρένας γ’ ⁶⁸⁰ γε ⁶⁸¹ φρένας σύ γ’ ἡδονῇ ⁶⁸²

mvp-comment-379-2 φρένας … ἐκβάλῃς ⁶⁸³

mvp-comment-379-3 ὑφ’ ἡδονῆς ⁶⁸⁴

mvp-comment-380-1 ψυχρόν ⁶⁸⁵

mvp-comment-380-2 παραγκάλισμα ⁶⁸⁶

mvp-comment-381-1 δόμοις ⁶⁸⁷

mvp-comment-381-2 ἕλκος ⁶⁸⁸

mvp-comment-381-3 φίλος ⁶⁸⁹

mvp-comment-382-1 πτύσας ⁶⁹⁰

mvp-comment-382-2 ὠσεί τε δυσμενῆ ⁶⁹¹ τε ⁶⁹²

mvp-comment-383-1 νυμφεύειν ⁶⁹³

mvp-comment-384-1 ἀπιστήσασαν ⁶⁹⁴ ψευδῆ ⁶⁹⁵

mvp-comment-385-1 κτενῶ ⁶⁹⁶

mvp-comment-385-2 πρὸς ταῦτ ⁶⁹⁷

mvp-comment-385-3 ἐφυμνείτω ⁶⁹⁸

mvp-comment-385-4 Δία ξύναιμον ⁶⁹⁹

mvp-comment-386-1 τά γ’ ἐγγ. φύσει ⁷⁰⁰

mvp-comment-386-2 ἄκοσμα ⁷⁰¹

mvp-comment-386-3 θρέψω ⁷⁰²

mvp-comment-386-4 κάρτα τοὺς ἔξω γ. ⁷⁰³

mvp-comment-387-1 Seidler transposes vv. 663—667, placing them after 671. The object is to bring vv. 668—671 into immediate connection with 662. In this there is one slight grammatical gain; since, as the vv. stand in the MSS.,

(668) means, ‘the man who acts thus’ (viz., as described in vv. 666 f.). But the order given in the MSS. is right. The transposition obliterates one of the finest touches in the speech. Creon demands that the obedience of the citizens to the ruler shall be absolute (666 f.). And then he supplements this demand with a remark on the dignity of such obedience. The man who so obeys gives the best proof that he could also rule (668 ff.). Seidler destroys the point of vv. 668 ff. by placing them after 662.

mvp-comment-387-2 The connection of thought in the whole passage—which is slightly obscured by compression—may be most clearly shown by taking the verses in small consecutive groups. (1) 659 f. If I tolerate disloyalty

mvp-comment-387-3 in my own relatives, I shall encourage it in other citizens. (2) 661 f. For (

) only a man who is firm ( ) where his own relatives are concerned will be found to uphold justice in the State (i.e. will have the authority necessary for doing so). (3) 663 f. Now, I recognise disloyalty in any one who breaks the law and defies the government, as Antigone has done. (4) 666 f. Instead of so doing, the citizen is bound to obey the government in everything. (5) 668—671. There is nothing slavish in that; on the contrary, it shows that the citizen is not only a good subject, but would, if required, be a good ruler;—as he would also be a good soldier.—Then comes the general censure on unruliness (672—676). And then the conclusion:—I must vindicate my authority, and punish Antigone (677 —680).

mvp-comment-388-1 ὑπερβάς ⁷⁰⁴

mvp-comment-388-2 τοὐπιτάσσειν ⁷⁰⁵

mvp-comment-388-3 νοεῖ ⁷⁰⁶

mvp-comment-389-1 στήσειε ⁷⁰⁷

mvp-comment-389-2 καὶ τἀναντία ⁷⁰⁸

mvp-comment-390-1 τοῦτον … τὸν ἄνδρα ⁷⁰⁹

mvp-comment-390-2 καλῶς...εὖ ⁷¹⁰

mvp-comment-390-3 ἄν ⁷¹¹ ἄρχειν ⁷¹² θέλειν ⁷¹³

mvp-comment-391-1 δορὸς … χειμῶνι ⁷¹⁴

mvp-comment-391-2 προστεταγμένον ⁷¹⁵

mvp-comment-391-3 παραστάτην ⁷¹⁶

mvp-comment-392-1 πόλεις ὄλλυσιν, ἥδ’ ⁷¹⁷ πόλεις τ’ … ἥδ’ ⁷¹⁸

mvp-comment-393-1 συμμάχου ⁷¹⁹ συμμάχηι ⁷²⁰ σὺν μάχῃ ⁷²¹

mvp-comment-393-2 τροπὰς καταρρήγνυσι ⁷²²

mvp-comment-393-3 τῶν δ’ ὀρθουμένων ⁷²³ τὰ πολλὰ σώματα ⁷²⁴

mvp-comment-393-4 ἡ πειθαρχία ⁷²⁵

mvp-comment-394-1 ἀμυντέ’ ⁷²⁶

mvp-comment-394-2 τοῖς κοσμουμένοις ⁷²⁷ τοῖς κ. ⁷²⁹

mvp-comment-395-1 κοὔτοι … ἡσσητέα ⁷³⁰

mvp-comment-396-1 δεῖ ⁷³¹ ἐκπεσεῖν ⁷³²

mvp-comment-396-2 thrust out: oft. of dethronement (

, Aesch. ), or of exile ( , O. C. 766 ).

mvp-comment-396-3 κοὐκ ἂν...καλοίμεθ’ ἄν ⁷³³

mvp-comment-397-1 μέν ⁷³⁴

mvp-comment-397-2 τῷ χρόνῳ ⁷³⁵

mvp-comment-397-3 κεκλέμμεθα ⁷³⁶

mvp-comment-398-1 δοκεῖς λέγειν φρονούντως περὶ ⁷³⁷

mvp-comment-399-1 θεοί ⁷³⁸

mvp-comment-399-2 κτημάτων ⁷³⁹

mvp-comment-400-1 ἐγὼ δ’ ὅπως ⁷⁴⁰

mvp-comment-400-2 μὴ ⁷⁴¹ ὅπως ⁷⁴² μή ⁷⁴³ ὀρθῶς ⁷⁴⁴

mvp-comment-400-3 μήτ’ ἐπισταίμην ⁷⁴⁵

mvp-comment-401-1 καλῶς ἔχον ⁷⁴⁶ γένοιτο ἂν καὶ ἑτέρῳ ⁷⁴⁷

mvp-comment-402-1 σοῦ δ’ οὖν ⁷⁴⁸ σοῦ ⁷⁴⁹ σοί ⁷⁵⁰ σὺ δ’ οὐ πέφυκας ⁷⁵¹ τις ⁷⁵² μῆνίν τιν’ ἢ κότον τιν ⁷⁵³

mvp-comment-403-1 τὸ γὰρ σόν ⁷⁵⁴ ὄμμα ⁷⁵⁵

mvp-comment-403-2 δημότῃ ⁷⁵⁶

mvp-comment-404-1 λόγοις τοιούτοις ⁷⁵⁷ λόγοις τοιούτοις ⁷⁵⁸

mvp-comment-404-2 οἷς ⁷⁵⁹ τέρψει ⁷⁶⁰ κλύων ⁷⁶¹ μή ⁷⁶² τέρψῃ ⁷⁶³

mvp-comment-405-1 ὑπὸ σκότον ⁷⁶⁴ ἀκούειν ⁷⁶⁵ ὀδύρεται ⁷⁶⁶

mvp-comment-406-1 κάκιστ’ … εὐκλεεστάτων ⁷⁶⁷

mvp-comment-406-2 ἀπ’ ἔργων ⁷⁶⁸

mvp-comment-407-1 ἥτις ⁷⁶⁹ μήθ’ … μήθ’ ⁷⁷⁰ εἴασε ⁷⁷¹ ὀλέσθαι ⁷⁷²

mvp-comment-407-2 αὐτάδελφον ⁷⁷³

mvp-comment-407-3 ἐνφοναῖς ⁷⁷⁴

mvp-comment-408-1 χρυσῆς ⁷⁷⁵

mvp-comment-408-2 λαχεῖν ⁷⁷⁶ ἀξία ⁷⁷⁷

mvp-comment-409-1 ἐπέρχεται ⁷⁷⁸

mvp-comment-410-1 θάλλοντος ⁷⁷⁹

mvp-comment-410-2 μεῖζον εὐκλείας ⁷⁸⁰

mvp-comment-410-3 πρὸς παίδων ⁷⁸¹ εὐκλεία ⁷⁸²

mvp-comment-411-1 νυν ⁷⁸³

mvp-comment-411-2 φόρει ⁷⁸⁴

mvp-comment-411-3 ἦθος ⁷⁸⁵ ὡς φὴς σύ ⁷⁸⁶

mvp-comment-411-4 κοὐδέν ⁷⁸⁷

mvp-comment-411-5 τοῦτο ⁷⁸⁸

mvp-comment-412-1 μόνος ⁷⁸⁹ φρονεῖν ⁷⁹⁰ ψυχήν ⁷⁹¹

mvp-comment-412-2

(devices) . Isocr. or. 3 § 43 joins Theognis, Hesiod and Phocylides as . They were read in schools.

mvp-comment-413-1 οὗτοι ⁷⁹²

mvp-comment-413-2 διαπτυχθέντες ⁷⁹³

mvp-comment-413-3 κενοί ⁷⁹⁴

mvp-comment-414-1 ἄνδρα ⁷⁹⁵ μανθάνειν ⁷⁹⁶ τό ⁷⁹⁷

mvp-comment-414-2 κεἰ … ᾖ ⁷⁹⁸

mvp-comment-414-3 τείνειν ⁷⁹⁹

mvp-comment-414-4 παρὰ ῥείθρ. ⁸⁰⁰

mvp-comment-414-5 χειμάρροις ⁸⁰¹

mvp-comment-415-1 ὑπείκει ⁸⁰²

mvp-comment-415-2 αὐτόπρεμνα ⁸⁰³

mvp-comment-416-1 αὔτως ⁸⁰⁴

mvp-comment-416-2 ναός ⁸⁰⁵

mvp-comment-416-3 ἐγκρατῆ ⁸⁰⁶

mvp-comment-416-4 πόδα ⁸⁰⁷

mvp-comment-417-1 μηδέν ⁸⁰⁸

mvp-comment-417-2 κάτω στρέψας ⁸⁰⁹ τὸ πλοῖον ⁸¹⁰ τὸ λοιπόν ⁸¹¹

mvp-comment-417-3 σέλμασιν ⁸¹² ὑπτίοις ⁸¹³

mvp-comment-418-1 εἶκε θυμοῦ ⁸¹⁴

mvp-comment-418-2 καὶ μετάστασιν δίδου ⁸¹⁵

mvp-comment-418-3 δίδου ⁸¹⁶ εἶκε ⁸¹⁷ καί ⁸¹⁸ καί ⁸¹⁹

mvp-comment-419-1 εἴ τις γνώμη πρόσεστι καὶ ἀπ’ ἐμοῦ ν. ⁸²⁰ καί ⁸²¹

mvp-comment-419-2 πρεσβεύειν ⁸²²

mvp-comment-420-1 φῦναι ⁸²³

mvp-comment-420-2 πάντ’ ⁸²⁴

mvp-comment-421-1 εἰ δ’ οὖν ⁸²⁵ φιλεῖ γάρ ⁸²⁶

mvp-comment-421-2 τοῦτο … ταύτῃ ⁸²⁷ ταύτῃ ⁸²⁸

mvp-comment-421-3 ῥέπειν ⁸²⁹

mvp-comment-422-1 καὶ τὸ τῶν εὖ λεγόντων μανθάνειν καλόν ⁸³⁰

mvp-comment-423-1 σέ τ’ ⁸³¹ διπλᾶι ⁸³² διπλᾶ ⁸³³ διπλῇ ⁸³⁴ διπλᾶ ⁸³⁵

mvp-comment-423-2 On the other hand, διπλῇ ⁸³⁶

mvp-comment-424-1 καὶ ⁸³⁷ διδαξ. ⁸³⁸

mvp-comment-424-2 δή ⁸³⁹

mvp-comment-424-3 τὴν φύσιν ⁸⁴⁰

mvp-comment-425-1 μηδέν ⁸⁴¹ τὸ μὴ δίκ. ⁸⁴²

mvp-comment-425-2 τὸν χρόνον ⁸⁴³ τἄργα ⁸⁴⁴

mvp-comment-426-1 ἔργον ⁸⁴⁵

mvp-comment-426-2 τοὺς ἀκοσμοῦντας ⁸⁴⁶

mvp-comment-426-3 σέβειν ⁸⁴⁷

mvp-comment-427-1 οὐδ’ ⁸⁴⁸

mvp-comment-428-1 τοιᾷδε … νοσῳ ⁸⁴⁹

mvp-comment-428-2 ἐπείληπται ⁸⁵⁰

mvp-comment-429-1 Θήβης ⁸⁵¹ ὁμόπτολις ⁸⁵²

mvp-comment-430-1 ἡμῖν ⁸⁵³ ἐμέ ⁸⁵⁴

mvp-comment-431-1 ὡς ἄγαν νέος ⁸⁵⁵

mvp-comment-432-1 Dobree's με ⁸⁵⁶ γε ⁸⁵⁷ χρή ⁸⁵⁸ ἄλλῳ ἢ ’μοί ⁸⁵⁹ ἐμοί ⁸⁶⁰ χρή γε ⁸⁶¹

mvp-comment-433-1 πόλις γὰρ οὐκ ἔσθ’ ⁸⁶²

mvp-comment-433-2

is , Rep. 544 C. de Rep. 3. 31

mvp-comment-434-1 νομίζεται ⁸⁶³

mvp-comment-435-1 καλῶς ἐρήμης γ’ ⁸⁶⁴

mvp-comment-436-1 Though at least one late MS. (Paris E) has

, it is needless to assume here the same mixed constr. as Tr. 1238

ἁνὴρ δ’ ὅδ’, ὡς ἔοικεν, οὐ νεμεῖν ἐμοὶ | φθίνοντι μοῖραν

.

mvp-comment-437-1 οὖν ⁸⁶⁵ προκήδομαι ⁸⁶⁶

mvp-comment-438-1 ὦ παγκάκιστε ⁸⁶⁷

mvp-comment-438-2 διὰ δίκης ἰὼν πατρί ⁸⁶⁸

mvp-comment-439-1 ἀρχάς ⁸⁶⁹

mvp-comment-440-1 οὐ γὰρ σέβεις ⁸⁷⁰

mvp-comment-440-2 τιμάς ⁸⁷¹

mvp-comment-441-1 ὦ μιαρόν ⁸⁷² γυναικὸς ὕστερον ⁸⁷³

mvp-comment-442-1 ‘I may be inferior to a woman, but at least you will never find me yielding to base temptations.’ It would have been

if he had allowed fear or self-interest to deter him from pleading this cause. ( Cp. 509 .) Cp. Tr. 489

ἔρωτος...ἥσσων

: fr. 844

mvp-comment-442-2 οὔ τἄν ⁸⁷⁴

mvp-comment-442-3 γε ⁸⁷⁵

mvp-comment-443-1 γοῦν ⁸⁷⁶

mvp-comment-444-1 καὶ σοῦ γε ⁸⁷⁷

mvp-comment-445-1 Objections have been made to the traditional order of these verses, chiefly in two respects. (1) 755

is—it is argued—the strongest thing said by Haemon, and ought therefore to come immediately before Creon's final outburst, ; (758). How could it be followed by merely so mild a phrase as ?—We may reply:— Haemon says that, if Creon were not his father, he would have thought him mad. It is to this that refers, meaning, ‘Do not seek to deceive me by an affectation of filial deference.’ (2) 757 is too mild a remark—it is said—to form the climax of provocation to Creon's anger. We may reply:—It is in substance, if not in form, such a climax, —for a father who holds that unquestioning obedience (640) is a son's first duty. It asserts Haemon's right to maintain his own views against his father's,— , as Creon put it (742). The traditional order seems, therefore, to be right.

mvp-comment-445-2 Three modes of transposition have been proposed. (1) Enger puts 756 and 757 after 749. Then

(756) refers to Haemon's plea that he has his father's cause, and that of religion, at heart. We lose nothing by such a transposition; but neither do we gain.

mvp-comment-445-3 (2) Donner (in his transl., ed. 1863) simply transposed verses 755 and 757, leaving the rest as they stand. For this it may fairly be said that 757 comes very fitly after 754. On the other hand it seems to me that 756 does not aptly follow 757.

mvp-comment-445-4 (3) Pallis arranges thus:—749, 756, 755, 754, 757, 750—753. Thus

(753) becomes the last sting.— The fact is that, in a stormy altercation, we do not look for a closely logical texture and a delicately graduated crescendo. The MS. order is (to my mind) the best; but other arrangements are possible, and would be nearly as good.

mvp-comment-445-5 Creon, instead of replying to v. 749, abruptly repeats his resolve.

(fut.) , it cannot be that you shall ever wed her while she yet lives; i.e. she is to die at once, and can become your bride, if ever, only (654). Cp. 1240 .— ὡς ⁸⁷⁸ ποτέ ⁸⁷⁹ ταύτην ⁸⁸⁰

mvp-comment-446-1 ἥδ’ ⁸⁸¹ ὀλεῖ τινά ⁸⁸²

mvp-comment-447-1 ἦ ἐπεξέρχει και ἐπαπειλῶν ὧδε θρασύς; ⁸⁸³ καί ⁸⁸⁴

mvp-comment-448-1 κλαίων ⁸⁸⁵

mvp-comment-448-2 φρενώσεις ⁸⁸⁶

mvp-comment-449-1 οὐκ εὖ φρονεῖν ⁸⁸⁷

mvp-comment-450-1 δούλευμα ⁸⁸⁸

mvp-comment-450-2 μὴ κωτιλλέ με ⁸⁸⁹

mvp-comment-450-3 Cp. Theognis 363

(cajole)' : id. 851 .

mvp-comment-451-1 λέγειν … κλύειν; ⁸⁹⁰ λέγειν τι ⁸⁹¹

mvp-comment-452-1 ἄληθες; ⁸⁹²

mvp-comment-452-2 οὐ τόνδ’ Ὄλ. ⁸⁹³

mvp-comment-452-3 ἴσθ’ ὅτι ⁸⁹⁴

mvp-comment-453-1 χαίρων ⁸⁹⁵

mvp-comment-453-2 ἐπὶ ψόγοισι δεννάσεις ⁸⁹⁶ ἐπί ⁸⁹⁷ ἔτι ⁸⁹⁸

mvp-comment-454-1 ἄγετε ⁸⁹⁹ ἄγ’ ἄγε ⁹⁰⁰ ἄγαγε ⁹⁰¹

mvp-comment-454-2 τὸ μῖσος ⁹⁰²

mvp-comment-454-3 κατ’ ὄμματ’ ⁹⁰³

mvp-comment-454-4 παρόντι … πλησία ⁹⁰⁴

mvp-comment-455-1 ἔμοιγε ⁹⁰⁵ οὔτε ⁹⁰⁶ τε ⁹⁰⁷

mvp-comment-455-2 οὐδαμά ⁹⁰⁸

mvp-comment-455-3 ἐν ὀφθαλμοῖς ⁹⁰⁹

mvp-comment-456-1 ὡς ⁹¹⁰

mvp-comment-456-2 τοῖς θέλουσι ⁹¹¹

mvp-comment-457-1 ἐξ ὀργῆς ταχύς ⁹¹²

mvp-comment-457-2 βαρύς ⁹¹³

mvp-comment-458-1 μεῖζον ἢ κατ’ ἄνδρα ⁹¹⁴

mvp-comment-458-2 ἰών ⁹¹⁵

mvp-comment-458-3

: Ai. 304

ὅσην κατ’ αὐτῶν ὕβριν ἐκτίσαιτ’ ἰών

. So here it scornfully suggests some daring enterprise.

mvp-comment-459-1 For δ’ οὖν ⁹¹⁶

mvp-comment-459-2 τὼ … τώδε ⁹¹⁷

mvp-comment-459-3 καί ⁹¹⁸ κατακτ. νοεῖς ⁹¹⁹ κατακτ ⁹²⁰

mvp-comment-460-1 θιγοῦσαν ⁹²¹

mvp-comment-460-2 γὰρ οὖν ⁹²²

mvp-comment-461-1 καί ⁹²³ βουλεύει ⁹²⁴

mvp-comment-461-2 σφε ⁹²⁵

mvp-comment-462-1 ἔνθα ⁹²⁶

mvp-comment-463-1 πετρώδει … ἐν κατώρυχι ⁹²⁷

mvp-comment-464-1 ὡς ἄγος μόνον ⁹²⁸ ὡς ⁹²⁹ ὅσον ⁹³⁰

mvp-comment-464-2 ἄγος ⁹³¹

mvp-comment-464-3 Creon's edict had announced that the transgressor would be publicly stoned to death (36). It is to this that the anxious question of the Chorus alludes (772). Creon had already said that Antigone's doom was to be

(489). But now, at least, he feels that he cannot inflict such a death on the maiden, his kinswoman. She shall die, not by stoning, but by starvation. The choice is not prompted by cruelty, but simply by the desire to avoid physical violence.

mvp-comment-464-4 The danger of a

—to be avoided by a dole of food—has no relation to the special circumstances,—Antigone's royal birth, and the nature of her offence. In the ancient belief, that danger existed whenever a person was put to death by starvation. Two notions were probably blended; ( a) that, if a little food was given, the death was nature's work, not man's; ( b) that the claimed an indemnity for the usual . So the Greeks put Philoctetes ashore on desolate Lemnos, — ( Ph. 274 ). So, too, when a Vestal was to be buried alive, the small vault in the Campus Sceleratus was furnished with a couch, a burning lamp, and a small table, on which the dole was placed,—bread, olives, milk, and a jug of water ( Plut. Num. 10 ).

mvp-comment-465-1 πᾶσ’ ⁹³²

mvp-comment-466-1 ὃν μόνον σέβει ⁹³³

mvp-comment-466-2

(199). By honouring him, and Hades (519), she has dishonoured those other gods.

mvp-comment-467-1 τὸ μὴ θανεῖν ⁹³⁴ τεύξεται ⁹³⁵

mvp-comment-468-1 ἀλλὰ τηνικαῦτα ⁹³⁶ τἀν ⁹³⁷

mvp-comment-470-1 ἀνίκατε μάχαν ⁹³⁸

mvp-comment-471-1 ἐν κτήμασι πίπτεις, ⁹³⁹

mvp-comment-472-1 ἐν μαλακαῖς παρειαῖς ⁹⁴⁰

mvp-comment-472-2 ἐννυχεύεις ⁹⁴¹

mvp-comment-473-1 ὑπερπόντιος ⁹⁴²

mvp-comment-473-2 ἔν τ’ ἀγρ. αὐλαῖς ⁹⁴³

mvp-comment-474-1 οὔτ’ ἀθανάτων ⁹⁴⁴

mvp-comment-474-2 σὲ … φύξιμός ἐστι ⁹⁴⁵

mvp-comment-475-1 σέ γ’ ⁹⁴⁶

mvp-comment-475-2 ὁ δ’ ἔχων ⁹⁴⁷

mvp-comment-476-1 ἀδίκους ⁹⁴⁸ παρασπᾷς ⁹⁴⁹

mvp-comment-477-1 ξύναιμον ⁹⁵⁰

mvp-comment-477-2 ἔχεις ⁹⁵¹

mvp-comment-477-3 ταράξας ⁹⁵²

mvp-comment-478-1 ἐναργής ⁹⁵³

mvp-comment-478-2 βλεφάρωνἵμερος ⁹⁵⁴ εὐλέκτρου νύμφας ⁹⁵⁵

mvp-comment-478-3 εὐλέκτρου ⁹⁵⁶

mvp-comment-479-1 πάρεδρος ἐν ἀρχαῖς ⁹⁵⁷ πάρεδρος ⁹⁵⁸ ἐν ἀρχαῖς ⁹⁵⁹

mvp-comment-479-2 The words answer metrically to

(788). The first two syllables of therefore represent a resolved long syllable. Pindar affords some instances of such resolution (see Appendix), and there is a probable example below (970 , where see n.). But it is rare, and certainly unpleasing. As

mvp-comment-479-3 a whole, too, the phrase

is suspicious. A yet stronger objection is the strangeness of describing the power which is in conflict with the as their assessor, or peer, in sway; an expression which would seem appropriate only if that power was working in harmony with them; as when Eur. ( Eur. Med. 843 ) speaks of ,—‘the loves that sit with wisdom, co-workers of all excellence,’—those aspirations of the soul which assist intellectual effort.

mvp-comment-479-4 The best line of emendation yet suggested is that of Semitelos, who writes ὥστε πέρα δρᾶν ⁹⁶⁰

mvp-comment-480-1 ἐμπαίζει ⁹⁶¹ νικᾷ ⁹⁶²

mvp-comment-481-1 καὐτὸς θεσμῶν ἔξω ⁹⁶³

mvp-comment-481-2 φέρομαι ⁹⁶⁴

mvp-comment-481-3 ἴσχειν δ’ ⁹⁶⁵

mvp-comment-482-1 πηγάς ⁹⁶⁶

mvp-comment-483-1 παγκοίτην ⁹⁶⁷

mvp-comment-483-2 of Antigone are brought into finer relief by the different tone of the choral anapaests. Cp. 822 , and see Appendix on 110.—Cp. O. C. 1578 (Death)

. The word θάλαμον ⁹⁶⁸

mvp-comment-483-3 ἀνύτουσαν ⁹⁶⁹

mvp-comment-485-1 νεάταν … νέατον δέ ⁹⁷⁰

mvp-comment-485-2 νέατον ⁹⁷¹

mvp-comment-485-3 κοὔποτ’ αὖθις ⁹⁷²

mvp-comment-486-1 παγκοίτας ⁹⁷³ πάγκοινος ⁹⁷⁴

mvp-comment-487-1 ἄγει … ἀκτάν ⁹⁷⁵

mvp-comment-488-1 οὔθ’ ὑμεναίων … οὔτ’ ἐπινύμφειος … ὕμνος ⁹⁷⁶

mvp-comment-488-2 οὔτε … ἔγκληρον, … οὔτε … ὕμνησεν ⁹⁷⁸

mvp-comment-488-3 ἐπινύμφειος ⁹⁷⁹ ἐπινυμφίδιος ⁹⁸⁰ ἐπὶ νυμφείοις ⁹⁸¹ ἐπινυμφίδιος ⁹⁸²

mvp-comment-489-1 Ἀχέροντι νυμφεύσω ⁹⁸³

mvp-comment-490-1 ξιφέων ⁹⁸⁴ ἐπίχειρα ⁹⁸⁵

mvp-comment-491-1 αὐτόνομος ⁹⁸⁶

mvp-comment-491-2 δή ⁹⁸⁷ μόνη ⁹⁸⁸ Ἀΐδην ⁹⁸⁹ Ἅιδην ⁹⁹⁰

mvp-comment-492-1 ἤκουσα δή ⁹⁹¹

mvp-comment-492-2 λυγροτάταν ⁹⁹²

mvp-comment-492-3 ξέναν ⁹⁹³

mvp-comment-493-1 Ταντάλου ⁹⁹⁴

mvp-comment-493-2 Σιπύλῳ ⁹⁹⁵

mvp-comment-494-1 ἀτενής ⁹⁹⁶

mvp-comment-494-2 πετραία βλάστα δάμασεν ⁹⁹⁷ αι^ ⁹⁹⁸

mvp-comment-495-1 καί νιν ὄμρροι ⁹⁹⁹ τέγγει δ’ ¹⁰⁰⁰ ὄμβρῳ ¹⁰⁰¹ τακομέναν ¹⁰⁰² τέγγει … δειράδας ¹⁰⁰³ ὄμβροι ¹⁰⁰⁴ ὄμβρῳ ¹⁰⁰⁵

mvp-comment-495-2 χιών ¹⁰⁰⁶

mvp-comment-495-3 οὐδαμά ¹⁰⁰⁷

mvp-comment-496-1 τέγγει δ’ ὑπ’ ὀφρύσι … δειράδας ¹⁰⁰⁸

mvp-comment-496-2 The Niobe of Sipylus has usually been identified with a colossal rock-image on the N. side of the range. It is rudely carved in relief, within a rectangular niche on the face of a limestone cliff, and represents a woman seated on a throne. (See Stark, Niobe, pl. 1, Leips. 1863: cp. Baumeister, Denkm. p. 1029). Prof. W. M. Ramsay, however, holds that this image is the ‘very ancient’

of Cybele mentioned by Paus. 3.22.4 . In two respects it differs from the ancient accounts of the Niobe (quoted below): ( a) it does not ‘weep,’—for the rainwater drops from the front of the niche, clear of the figure; and ( b) the likeness to a human form grows, instead of vanishing, as one approaches. ( Journ. Hellen. Studies III. 61 ff., 1882.) This has been confirmed by another traveller, Herr Schweisthal (as reported in the Berl. Phil. Wochenschr., May 28, 1887, p. 704). He finds the true Niobe at no great distance from the Cybele, but nearer Magnesia, and in the vicinity of a stream (the Jarikkaia) which Humann, in his ‘Excursion into Sipylus’ (1881), had already identified with the Achelous of Il. 24.616 . It is a natural phenomenon,—the semblance—as seen from a distance—of a draped woman, seated high on the rocks; she looks towards the right, and lifts her right arm, as if in lament.

mvp-comment-496-3 The best ancient description is by a poet whose native place was in that neighbourhood,—Quintus Smyrnaeus (1. 293— 306):—‘Her streaming tears still fall from the heights of the rugged cliff; and in sympathy with her the sounding waters of the Hermus make lament, and the lofty peaks of Sipylus, over which the mist that shepherds dread floats evermore. A great marvel is she to passers by, because she is like a sorrowful woman, who mourns some cruel grief, and weeps without stint. Such verily seems the figure, when thou gazest at it from afar; but when thou drawest near, lo, 'tis but a sheer rock, a cliff of Sipylus’ (

).

mvp-comment-496-4 Nonnus was thinking of the effect from the road, when he wrote (2. 160),

. Pausanias, too, says that, at a certain distance from the cliff, , but that the illusion vanishes on a nearer approach (1. 21 § 3).

mvp-comment-497-1 ὁμοιοτάταν ¹⁰⁰⁹

mvp-comment-498-1 ἀλλὰ … θανοῦσαν ¹⁰¹⁰ καίτοι ¹⁰¹¹ ζῶσαν ¹⁰¹² θανοῦσαν ¹⁰¹³ οἴμοι γελῶμαι ¹⁰¹⁴

mvp-comment-498-2 θεός ¹⁰¹⁵

mvp-comment-498-3 θεογεννής ¹⁰¹⁶ θειογενής ¹⁰¹⁷

mvp-comment-499-1 καίτοι ¹⁰¹⁸ φθιμένῃ ¹⁰¹⁹

mvp-comment-499-2 κἀκοῦσαι ¹⁰²⁰ μέγ’ ἀκοῦσαι ¹⁰²¹

mvp-comment-500-1 τοῖς ἰσοθέοις σύγκληρα ¹⁰²² ἔγκληρα ¹⁰²³

mvp-comment-500-2 Hipp. 1011 : or (2) pass., included in one's

, as H. F. 468 (‘by inheritance’). Here, was perh. partly due to a reminiscence of in 814.—The change of τοῖς ἰσοθέοις ¹⁰²⁴ τοῖσι θεοῖσιν ¹⁰²⁵ ι— ¹⁰²⁶ α— ¹⁰²⁷ τοῖς ἰσοθέοις ἔγκληρα ¹⁰²⁸

mvp-comment-501-1 ζῶσαν … θανοῦσαν ¹⁰²⁹

mvp-comment-502-1 γελῶμαι ¹⁰³⁰

mvp-comment-503-1 πολυκτήμονες ¹⁰³¹

mvp-comment-504-1 κρῆναι ¹⁰³²

mvp-comment-504-2 εὐαρμάτου ¹⁰³³

mvp-comment-504-3 ἄλσος ¹⁰³⁴

mvp-comment-504-4 ἔμπας ¹⁰³⁵

mvp-comment-505-1 ὔμμ’ ¹⁰³⁶

mvp-comment-505-2 ἐπικτῶμαι ¹⁰³⁷ ἐπί ¹⁰³⁸

mvp-comment-506-1 οἵα ¹⁰³⁹

mvp-comment-506-2 φίλων ἄκλαυτος ¹⁰⁴⁰

mvp-comment-507-1 ἕργμα τυμβόχωστον ¹⁰⁴¹ ἕρμα ¹⁰⁴²

mvp-comment-508-1 ποταινίου ¹⁰⁴³

mvp-comment-509-1 Though every treatment of this verse must remain subject to doubt, far the most probable (to my mind) is Seyffert's modification of Boeckh's βροτοῖς οὔτ’ ἐν νεκροῖς κυροῦσα ¹⁰⁴⁴ οὔτε ¹⁰⁴⁵ κυροῦσα ¹⁰⁴⁶ νεκροῖς ¹⁰⁴⁷

mvp-comment-510-1 μέτοικος ¹⁰⁴⁸

mvp-comment-511-1 προβᾶσ’ … πολύ ¹⁰⁴⁹ προσέπεσες ¹⁰⁵⁰

mvp-comment-511-2 πολύ ¹⁰⁵¹ ἐσχάτου ¹⁰⁵² προσέπεσες ¹⁰⁵³

mvp-comment-512-1 πατρῷόν τινα … ἆθλον ¹⁰⁵⁴ τινά ¹⁰⁵⁵

mvp-comment-512-2 ἐκτίνεις ¹⁰⁵⁶

mvp-comment-513-1 μερίμνας ¹⁰⁵⁷ οἶκτον ¹⁰⁵⁸ πατρός ¹⁰⁵⁹ πότμου ¹⁰⁶⁰ οἶκτον ¹⁰⁶¹

mvp-comment-513-2 to taking

as acc. in apposition with is that this would imply ( ) : as Eur. Or. 1105

Ἑλένην κτάνωμεν, Μενέλεῳ λύπην πικράν

, implies, : Aesch. Ag. 224

ἔτλα δ’ οὖν | θυτὴρ γενέσθαι θυγατρός, γυναικοποίνων πολέμων ἀρωγάν

, implies, . Now, if we had, for instance, , it is conceivable that , as acc. in appos., should mean or . But when, as here, the subject of is distinct from the person who makes the lament, it seems impossible that should have this pregnant sense.

mvp-comment-513-3 ἀλγ. μερίμνας ¹⁰⁶² οἶτον ¹⁰⁶³

mvp-comment-513-4 τριπόλιστον ¹⁰⁶⁴

mvp-comment-513-5 κλεινοῖς Λαβδακίδαισιν ¹⁰⁶⁵ πότμου ¹⁰⁶⁶

mvp-comment-513-6 ἁμετέρου ¹⁰⁶⁷

mvp-comment-514-1 ματρῷαι λέκτρων ἆται ¹⁰⁶⁸ πατρῷαι ¹⁰⁶⁹

mvp-comment-514-2

; and ( b) with the explanation by , etc., would have been less needed.

mvp-comment-515-1 κοιμήματα . . αὐτογέννητα . . ματρός ¹⁰⁷⁰

mvp-comment-515-2 ἐμῷ πατρί ¹⁰⁷¹

mvp-comment-515-3 δυσμόρου ¹⁰⁷²

mvp-comment-516-1 οἵων ¹⁰⁷³ ποτέ ¹⁰⁷⁴ οἵων ¹⁰⁷⁵ ποτέ ¹⁰⁷⁶ οὕς ¹⁰⁷⁷ οἵων ¹⁰⁷⁸ ματρός.—ἀραῖος ¹⁰⁷⁹

mvp-comment-516-2 μέτοικος ¹⁰⁸⁰

mvp-comment-517-1 κασίγνητε ¹⁰⁸¹

mvp-comment-518-1 θανὼν ἔτ’ οὖσαν ¹⁰⁸²

mvp-comment-518-2 κατήναρες ¹⁰⁸³

mvp-comment-519-1 σέβειν ¹⁰⁸⁴

mvp-comment-519-2 sense,

’: i.e. though it is not complete —which the Chorus regard as including loyalty to the State's laws— yet, so far as it goes, it deserves praise of the same kind. Cp. 924 : by practising towards the dead, she had come to be thought, on the whole, —as a law-breaker. The Chorus is here the apologist of Creon, and this concession is meant to emphasise the next sentence. Hence the purposed vagueness of σέβειν ¹⁰⁸⁵

mvp-comment-520-1 κράτος δὲ ¹⁰⁸⁶ ὅτῳ ¹⁰⁸⁷

mvp-comment-520-2 οὐδαμᾷ ¹⁰⁸⁸ μέλει ¹⁰⁸⁹

mvp-comment-521-1 αὐτόγνωτος ¹⁰⁹⁰ αὐτὴ γιγνώσκουσα ¹⁰⁹¹

mvp-comment-521-2 ὀργά ¹⁰⁹²

mvp-comment-522-1 ἑτοίμαν ¹⁰⁹³

mvp-comment-523-1 τόδε λ. ἱρὸν ὄμμα ¹⁰⁹⁴

mvp-comment-524-1 ἀδάκρυτον ¹⁰⁹⁵

mvp-comment-524-2 (and so it remains) unwept. Soph. has several instances of the predicative adj. thus added to a subst. which has the art. and possessive pron.; as O. T. 671

(n.): El. 1143

τῆς ἐμῆς πάλαι τροφῆς | ἀνωφελήτου

. Cp. 791 .

mvp-comment-525-1 ἆρ’ ἴστε ¹⁰⁹⁶ λέγειν ¹⁰⁹⁷ ἀοιδὰς καὶ γόους ¹⁰⁹⁸ ἴστε ¹⁰⁹⁹

mvp-comment-525-2 οὐδ’ ἂν εἷς ¹¹⁰⁰

mvp-comment-526-1 οὐκ ἄξεθ’ ¹¹⁰¹ τάχιστα.—κατηρεφεῖ ¹¹⁰²

mvp-comment-527-1 περιπτύξαντες ¹¹⁰³

mvp-comment-528-1 χρῇ ¹¹⁰⁴ ζῶσα ¹¹⁰⁵ χρῇ ¹¹⁰⁶

mvp-comment-528-2

; but the MSS. are supported by the testimony of Suidas and Hesychius to as= . In the other four places where these forms are usu. read, they are not indispensable, being possible; but in two, at least, they are much better than , viz. El. 606

κήρυσσέ μ’ εἰς ἅπαντας, εἴτε χρῇς κακήν, | εἴτε στόμαργον, κ.τ.λ.

: and Ai. 1373

σοὶ δὲ δρᾶν ἔξεσθ’ ἃ χρῇς

. In the other two, might well stand: Eur. fr. 910 : Cratinus fr. 2 . Except in Ach. 778 , the MSS. everywhere give : and the variants in the next v. (see cr. n.) show that was strange to the copyists, though known to the Scholiast.

mvp-comment-529-1 ζῶσα τυμβεύειν ¹¹⁰⁷ νυμφεύειν ¹¹⁰⁸

mvp-comment-529-2 στέγῃ ¹¹⁰⁹

mvp-comment-530-1 ἁγνοί ¹¹¹⁰

mvp-comment-530-2 τοὐπὶ τήνδε ¹¹¹¹

mvp-comment-531-1 μετοικίας ¹¹¹²

mvp-comment-531-2 δ’ οὖν ¹¹¹³

mvp-comment-531-3 στερήσεται ¹¹¹⁴

mvp-comment-532-1 ὦ τύμβος ¹¹¹⁵

mvp-comment-532-2 νυμφεῖον ¹¹¹⁶

mvp-comment-532-3 κατασκαφής ¹¹¹⁷

mvp-comment-533-1 ἀριθμὸν … πλεϊστον ¹¹¹⁸

mvp-comment-533-2 ἐν νεκροῖς ¹¹¹⁹ δέδεκται ¹¹²⁰

mvp-comment-533-3

to Hades ( O. C. 1569 f.). So Oedipus is led by ( ib. 1548 ). As she is associated with Hades ( ib. 1556 ).

mvp-comment-533-4 Φερσέφασσα ¹¹²¹ Φ ¹¹²²

mvp-comment-534-1 κάκιστα ¹¹²³ δή ¹¹²⁴

mvp-comment-534-2 μοῖραν … βίου ¹¹²⁵ ἐξήκειν ¹¹²⁶

mvp-comment-535-1 ἐν ἐλπίσιν τρέφω ¹¹²⁷ φίλη μὲν … προσφιλὴς δέ ¹¹²⁸

mvp-comment-536-1 κασίγνητον κάρα ¹¹²⁹ νῦν δέ ¹¹³⁰

mvp-comment-537-1 ὑμᾶς ¹¹³¹

mvp-comment-537-2 ἔλουσα κἀκόσμησα ¹¹³²

mvp-comment-537-3 χοάς ¹¹³³

mvp-comment-537-4 περιστέλλουσα ¹¹³⁴

mvp-comment-537-5 δέμας ¹¹³⁵

mvp-comment-538-1 Few problems of Greek Tragedy have been more discussed than the question whether these vv., or some of them, are spurious. Arist. ( Arist. Rhet. 3. 16 § 9) quotes vv. 911, 912 , and certainly had the whole passage in his text of The Soph. interpolation, then, if such it be, must have been made soon after the poet's death; and has been imputed to his son Iophon (

), or some other sorry poet; or to the actors. I confess that, after long thought, I cannot bring myself to believe that Soph. wrote 905—912: with which 904 and 913—920 are in organic unity, and must now stand or fall. Some remarks will be found in the Appendix.

mvp-comment-538-2 The main points (to my mind) are briefly these. (1) The general validity of the divine law, as asserted in 450— 460, cannot be intelligibly reconciled with the limitation in vv. 905—907. (2) A still further limitation is involved in 911 f. She has buried her brother, not simply as such, but because, while he lived, he was an irreplaceable relative. Could she have hoped for the birth of another brother, she would not, then, have felt the duty to be so binding. (3) The composition of vv. 909—912 is unworthy of Sophocles.

mvp-comment-538-3 ’τίμησα ¹¹³⁶ εὖ ¹¹³⁷ τοῖς φρονοῦσιν ¹¹³⁸

mvp-comment-539-1 ἐτήκετο ¹¹³⁹

mvp-comment-540-1 βίᾳ πολιτῶν ¹¹⁴⁰

mvp-comment-541-1 πρὸς χάριν ¹¹⁴¹

mvp-comment-542-1 Cp. Her. 3.119 , which clearly supplied, not merely the thought, but the form, of these verses:—

(3.119.6) . Arist. Rhet. 3.16 § 9 (if you introduce a trait of character which will seem improbable, the reason ofit should be added): [this=vv. 909, 910]: (he then quotes 911 f., with ,—a mere slip of memory: see on 223

).

mvp-comment-542-2 Three points in these vv. are strange. (1) The gen. abs. κατθανόντος ¹¹⁴² πόσις ¹¹⁴³ ἀπ’ ἄλλου φωτός ¹¹⁴⁴

mvp-comment-543-1 ἐκπροτιμήσασ’ ¹¹⁴⁵

mvp-comment-544-1 διὰ χερῶν … λαβών ¹¹⁴⁶

mvp-comment-545-1 ἀνυμέναιον ¹¹⁴⁷

mvp-comment-546-1 ἀλλ’ ¹¹⁴⁸

mvp-comment-546-2 πρὸς φίλων ¹¹⁴⁹ ἔρημος ¹¹⁵⁰

mvp-comment-547-1 δαιμόνων δίκην ¹¹⁵¹

mvp-comment-548-1 If the gods allow her to suffer for obeying them, is it not vain for her to invoke them?

mvp-comment-548-2 βλέπειν ¹¹⁵²

mvp-comment-548-3 τίνα … ξυμμάχων ¹¹⁵³

mvp-comment-548-4 ἐπεί γε δή ¹¹⁵⁴

mvp-comment-548-5 τὴν δυσσέβειαν ¹¹⁵⁵

mvp-comment-549-1 The gods are allowing her to perish. But it does not follow that they approve of her doom: for they are sometimes slow in punishing wrong ( O. C. 1536 ). Hence the dilemma, introduced

mvp-comment-549-2 by ἀλλ’ οὖν ¹¹⁵⁶

mvp-comment-549-3 ἐν θεοῖς ¹¹⁵⁷

mvp-comment-549-4 ξυγγνοῖμεν ¹¹⁵⁸

mvp-comment-549-5 ἡμαρτηκότες ¹¹⁵⁹ παθόντες ¹¹⁶⁰

mvp-comment-550-1 οἵδε ¹¹⁶¹

mvp-comment-550-2 μὴ πλείω ¹¹⁶² μείω ¹¹⁶³

mvp-comment-551-1 ἀνέμων‐ῥιπαὶ ψυχῆς ¹¹⁶⁴

mvp-comment-552-1 τούτων ¹¹⁶⁵

mvp-comment-552-2 κλαύμαθ’ ¹¹⁶⁶

mvp-comment-552-3 ὕπερ ¹¹⁶⁷

mvp-comment-553-1 This threat (to the guards) ‘has come very near to death,’ i.e., ‘portends imminent death for me.’ The phrase is not fig., ‘is bitter as death to hear’ (being a prelude to death).

mvp-comment-554-1 Said by Creon, clearly—not by the Chorus. ‘I can give thee no encouragement ( οὐδέν ¹¹⁶⁸

mvp-comment-554-2 the doom is not to be ratified on this wise’ (i.e., by death). μὴ οὐ ¹¹⁶⁹

mvp-comment-554-3 κατακυροῦσθαι ¹¹⁷⁰

mvp-comment-554-4 ταύτῃ ¹¹⁷¹ τάδε ¹¹⁷²

mvp-comment-555-1 θεοὶ προγενεῖς ¹¹⁷³

mvp-comment-556-1 δή ¹¹⁷⁴

mvp-comment-556-2 κοὐκέτι μέλλω ¹¹⁷⁵

mvp-comment-557-1 οἱ κοιρανίδαι ¹¹⁷⁶

mvp-comment-558-1 βασιλειδᾶν ¹¹⁷⁷ βασιλίδα ¹¹⁷⁸

mvp-comment-558-2 μούνην ¹¹⁷⁹

mvp-comment-559-1 εὐσεβίαν ¹¹⁸⁰ ια ¹¹⁸¹ εια ¹¹⁸²

mvp-comment-559-2

. The motive was metrical convenience. Such forms are not Ionic, as Triclinius called them (cr. n.): thus Herod. used , not : though there are other cases in which Ionic substitutes for (as , etc.).— σεβίσασα ¹¹⁸³

mvp-comment-561-1 Acrisius, the father of Danaë, was king of Argos. The oracle at Delphi told him that he was to be slain by his daughter's son. He therefore immured the maiden in a chamber built for that purpose within the precincts of his house at Argos. Here Zeus visited her in the golden rain; she bore Perseus; and Acrisius sent mother and child adrift on the Aegean in a chest; but Zeus heard her prayer, and brought them safely to the island of Seriphus. Both Soph. and Eur. wrote a

: Soph. wrote also an .

mvp-comment-561-2 καὶ Δανάας δέμας ἔτλα ἀλλάξαι οὐράνιον φῶς ¹¹⁸⁴ ἔτλα καί ¹¹⁸⁵

mvp-comment-561-3 δέμας ¹¹⁸⁶

mvp-comment-561-4 χαλκοδέτοις αὐλαῖς ¹¹⁸⁷

mvp-comment-562-1 τυμβήρει ¹¹⁸⁸

mvp-comment-562-2 κατεζεύχθη ¹¹⁸⁹

mvp-comment-563-1 τίμιος ¹¹⁹⁰

mvp-comment-564-1 ταμιεύεσκε ¹¹⁹¹

mvp-comment-564-2 χρυσορύτους ¹¹⁹²

mvp-comment-565-1 ἁ μοιριδία τις ¹¹⁹³ τις ¹¹⁹⁴

mvp-comment-566-1 οὔτ’ … ὄλβος ¹¹⁹⁵

mvp-comment-566-2

mvp-comment-566-3 πύργος ¹¹⁹⁶

mvp-comment-566-4 οὔτ’ … οὔτ’ ¹¹⁹⁷ οὐ … οὐχ ¹¹⁹⁸

mvp-comment-567-1 ζεύχθη ¹¹⁹⁹

mvp-comment-567-2 ὀξύχολος ¹²⁰⁰

mvp-comment-567-3 The

, or ( Thuc. 2.99 ), occupied in historical times the part of Thrace E. of the Strymon and W. of the Nestus. In earlier times they had dwelt further west, but had been driven eastward by the Macedonian conquest of Mygdonia.

mvp-comment-567-4 Dionysus, when he came from Asia with his new rites, was opposed by Lycurgus in Thrace, as by Pentheus at Thebes. The

of Aeschylus is known from the schol. on Ar. Th. 135. This trilogy consisted of , with as satyric drama. In Il. 6.130 ff. Dionysus, pursued by Lycurgus, dives beneath the sea; Thetis receives him; and Zeus blinds Lycurgus.

mvp-comment-568-1 κερτομίοις ὀργαῖς ¹²⁰¹ ὀργαῖς ¹²⁰² κερτομίοις ¹²⁰³

mvp-comment-569-1 ἐκ Διονύσου ¹²⁰⁴

mvp-comment-569-2 πετρώδει … δεσμῷ ¹²⁰⁵

mvp-comment-569-3 κατάφαρκτος ¹²⁰⁶

mvp-comment-570-1 οὕτω ¹²⁰⁷

mvp-comment-570-2 ἀνθηρόν ¹²⁰⁸

mvp-comment-570-3 ἀποστάζει ¹²⁰⁹

mvp-comment-571-1 ἐπέγνω τὸν θεόν, μανίαις ψαύων ¹²¹⁰

mvp-comment-571-2 μανίαις ¹²¹¹

mvp-comment-571-3 ψαύων ¹²¹²

mvp-comment-571-4 ἐν ¹²¹³

mvp-comment-571-5 γλώσσαις ¹²¹⁴

mvp-comment-572-1 παύεσκε ¹²¹⁵

mvp-comment-572-2 ἐνθέους γυναῖκας ¹²¹⁶

mvp-comment-572-3 εὔιον … πῦρ ¹²¹⁷

mvp-comment-573-1 Μούσας ¹²¹⁸

mvp-comment-573-2 save the nymph by changing her into a vine; and behind him stand his followers. At the extreme left are three Muses—Urania, with globe; Clio, with roll; Euterpè, prob. with flutes. (Zoega seems clearly right in thus explaining the three women: others have made them Moirae.)—The close relation of Dionysus with the Muses is marked by one of his Attic titles,

( Paus. 1.2.5 ), as conversely Apollo had the title (id. 1. 31.4). Muses were sometimes said to have nursed him. (Cp. Welcker, Götterl. 2. 611.)

mvp-comment-573-3 The monuments relating to the myth of Lycurgus have been critically treated by Michaelis ( Annal. Inst. 1872, pp. 248— 270). The Italian vase-paintings follow a version different from that of Soph. , viz. that the frenzy of Lycurgus was wreaked on his own son and wife. A large Neapolitan vase gives two pictures: in one, we see his murderous rage; in the other, Dionysus sits on his throne in calm majesty, stroking his panther.

mvp-comment-574-1 Cleopatra is the third example. Her father was the wind-god, Boreas: her mother, the Athenian Oreithyia, whom he carried off to his wild home in Thrace. Cleopatra married Phineus, king of the Thracian Salmydessus, on the W. coast of the Euxine, not far from the entrance to the Bosporus. She bore him two sons. He afterwards put her away, and imprisoned her. Her imprisonment is not directly mentioned here: but cp. Diod. 4. 44 , who says of Heracles, when serving with the Argonauts,

. Phineus then married Eidothea, sister of Cadmus. Eidothea put out the eyes of Cleopatra's two sons, and caused them also to be imprisoned.

mvp-comment-574-2 It is the fate of Cleopatra herself which Soph. means to compare with Antigone's: this is plain from 986. The fate of the sons is made so prominent only because nothing else could give us so strong a sense of the savage hatred which pursued the mother.

mvp-comment-574-3 Soph. supposes the outline of the story to be familiar. Cleopatra has already been divorced and imprisoned. The poet chooses the moment at which Cleopatra's sons are being blinded by Eidothea, with the sharp shuttle in her blood-stained hands. Ares, the god of cruel bloodshed, beholds with joy a deed so worthy of his Thracian realm.

mvp-comment-574-4 The name of Cleopatra (like that of Capaneus, 133) is not mentioned. Two strophes are given to this theme, partly, perh., as having an Attic interest (982). Soph. wrote two plays called

. We know only that Cleopatra's sons were there called (? H. Weil) and : and that the subsequent blindness of Phineus was represented as a punishment of his cruelty (schol. Apoll. Rhod. 2. 178). Eidothea was mentioned by Soph. in his (schol. on 980),—a play which perh. concerned the Dionysiac worship, since the (kettle-drum) was used in his as well as in those of Cybelè. Another version called her Idaea, daughter of Dardanus.

mvp-comment-574-5 παρὰ δὲ Κυανεᾶν πελάγει δ. ἁλός ¹²¹⁹ πετρῶν ¹²²⁰

mvp-comment-574-6 of

into is also erroneous.

mvp-comment-574-7 L's accent, πελάγεων ¹²²¹ πελάγει ¹²²² παρά ¹²²³ πελάγει ¹²²⁴ Κυανεᾶν ¹²²⁵

mvp-comment-575-1 ἀκταὶ Βοσπόριαι ¹²²⁶ Θρῃκῶν ¹²²⁷ ἄξενος ¹²²⁸ κλῄζεται ¹²²⁹ ἠδ’ ¹²³⁰

mvp-comment-576-1 ἀγχίπολις Ἄρης ¹²³¹ ἀγχίπτολις ¹²³² Ἄρης ¹²³³ ἀρχαιογόνων ¹²³⁴

mvp-comment-577-1 Φινεΐδαις ¹²³⁵

mvp-comment-577-2 ἀρατόν ¹²³⁶

mvp-comment-577-3 ἕλκος τυφλωθέν ¹²³⁷

mvp-comment-577-4 ἐξ ¹²³⁸

mvp-comment-578-1 ἀλαὸν … κύκλοις ¹²³⁹

mvp-comment-578-2 ἀλαστόροισιν ¹²⁴⁰

mvp-comment-579-1 ἀραχθέντων ¹²⁴¹

mvp-comment-579-2 ὑπό ¹²⁴²

mvp-comment-580-1 κερκίδων ¹²⁴³

mvp-comment-580-2 at the loom, will I send the shuttle flying across the warp’).—Cp. Eur. Hec. 1170 , where the women blind Polymestor with their brooches (

); and O. T. 1269 n.

mvp-comment-581-1 κατά ¹²⁴⁴

mvp-comment-581-2 μέλεοι μελέαν ¹²⁴⁵

mvp-comment-582-1 ματρὸς ἔχοντες ἀν. γονάν ¹²⁴⁶ γονάν ¹²⁴⁷ ματρός ¹²⁴⁸ ἀνύμφ. ¹²⁴⁹ ματρός ¹²⁵⁰ πάθαν ¹²⁵¹ ματρὸς … γονάν ¹²⁵²

mvp-comment-583-1 σπέρμα ¹²⁵³

mvp-comment-583-2 ἀρχαιογ. ¹²⁵⁴

mvp-comment-583-3 ἄντασ’ Ἐρ. ¹²⁵⁵

mvp-comment-584-1 τηλεπόροις ¹²⁵⁶

mvp-comment-585-1 ἅμιππος ¹²⁵⁷

mvp-comment-585-2 ὀρθόποδος ¹²⁵⁸

mvp-comment-586-1 κἀπ’ ἐκείνᾳ … ἔσχον ¹²⁵⁹ μακραίωνες ¹²⁶⁰

mvp-comment-588-1 ἄνακτες ¹²⁶¹

mvp-comment-589-1 αὕτη κ. ¹²⁶² πέλει ¹²⁶³

mvp-comment-590-1 τί δ’ ἔστιν ¹²⁶⁴

mvp-comment-591-1 οὔκουν … γε ¹²⁶⁵

mvp-comment-591-2 δῑ ὀρθῆς ¹²⁶⁶

mvp-comment-591-3 ἐναυκλήρεις ¹²⁶⁷

mvp-comment-592-1 πεπονθὼς ὀνήσιμα, ἔχω μαρτυρεῖν ¹²⁶⁸

mvp-comment-593-1 φρόνει βεβώς ¹²⁶⁹

mvp-comment-593-2 τύχης ¹²⁷⁰

mvp-comment-594-1 ὡς ¹²⁷¹

mvp-comment-595-1 θᾶκον ¹²⁷²

mvp-comment-595-2 λιμήν ¹²⁷³

mvp-comment-596-1 κακῷ ¹²⁷⁴

mvp-comment-596-2 οἴστρῳ ¹²⁷⁵

mvp-comment-596-3 κλάζοντας ¹²⁷⁶

mvp-comment-596-4 βεβαρβαρωμένῳ ¹²⁷⁷

mvp-comment-597-1 ἐν χηλαῖσιν ¹²⁷⁸ φοναῖς ¹²⁷⁹

mvp-comment-598-1 The feuds and friendships of birds (

Aesch. PV 492 ) were among the signs noted by augurs. In this case there was a vague omen of bloodshed ( ), but no clear sign. The seer now sought further light by another mode of divination.

mvp-comment-598-2 ἐμπύρων ¹²⁸⁰

mvp-comment-598-3 ἐγευόμην ¹²⁸¹

mvp-comment-599-1 παμφλέκτοισι ¹²⁸² θυμάτων ¹²⁸³

mvp-comment-600-1 Ἥφαιστος ¹²⁸⁴

mvp-comment-600-2 a bad sign, if the fire was smothered in smoke, or played feebly around the flesh without consuming it. See Eur. Phoen. 1255

: the seers ‘were watching for points of flame, or for breaks in it,—such flickering as portends evil’; i.e., they were watching to see whether it would blaze up or die down. The is prob. the highest point of the fire, which, if towards the right side, meant victory; if towards the left, defeat. So Statius, Theb. 10. 599 , where Teiresias offers , and his daughter reports the signs to him (as the does here): (= ) (= ) | (‘as if creeping on its way without an aim, the fire played timidly around the offering’). In Seneca Oed. 307 Teiresias asks,

mvp-comment-601-1 The fat wrapped about the thigh-bones ought to have caught fire, when the flesh on the bones would have been burned, and the bones themselves calcined. But here there was no flame; the kindled fuel lay in smouldering embers (

). The heat caused a fatty moisture to exude from the covering of the thigh-bones. Trickling forth on the embers, this moisture emitted smoke, and sputtered as it threw particles of the fat upwards. The gall-bladder, too, which lay on the top of the thighbones, instead of catching fire, was gradually inflated by the heat, till it burst, scattering the gall into the air. And now the melting of the fat which covered the thigh-bones had gone so far that it was no longer a covering, but merely a liquid that was streaming off them, while they themselves were left naked and intact. So utterly had the gods refused the offering.

mvp-comment-601-2 μυδῶσα ¹²⁸⁵

mvp-comment-601-3 κηκὶς μηρίων ¹²⁸⁶

mvp-comment-601-4 ἐτήκετο ¹²⁸⁷ ἐπὶ σποδῷ ¹²⁸⁸

mvp-comment-601-5 ἀνέπτυε ¹²⁸⁹

mvp-comment-602-1 χολαί ¹²⁹⁰

mvp-comment-602-2 καταρρυεῖς ¹²⁹¹

mvp-comment-603-1 μηροί … μηρίων ¹²⁹²

mvp-comment-603-2 καλυπτῆς ¹²⁹³

mvp-comment-603-3 πιμελῆς ¹²⁹⁴ ἐξέκειντο ¹²⁹⁵

mvp-comment-604-1 τοιαῦτα ¹²⁹⁶

mvp-comment-604-2 ὀργίων μαντεύματα ¹²⁹⁷ φθίνοντα ¹²⁹⁸

mvp-comment-604-3 ἀσήμων ¹²⁹⁹

mvp-comment-605-1 ἡγεμών ¹³⁰⁰

mvp-comment-606-1 ἐκ ¹³⁰¹

mvp-comment-606-2 φρενός ¹³⁰²

mvp-comment-606-3 νοσεῖ ¹³⁰³

mvp-comment-607-1 βωμοί ¹³⁰⁴

mvp-comment-607-2 ἐσχάραι ¹³⁰⁵

mvp-comment-607-3 παντελεῖς ¹³⁰⁶

mvp-comment-608-1 πλήρεις ¹³⁰⁷ ὑπ’ οἰων. κ. κυνῶν ¹³⁰⁸ βορᾶς τοῦ...Οἰδ. γόνου ¹³⁰⁹ γόνου ¹³¹⁰ δυσμόρου ¹³¹¹ πεπτῶτος ¹³¹² τοῦ … γόνου ¹³¹³ βορᾶς ¹³¹⁴ τοῦ … γόνου ¹³¹⁵

mvp-comment-609-1 κᾆτ’ ¹³¹⁶

mvp-comment-609-2 θυστάδας ¹³¹⁷

mvp-comment-610-1 ὅρνι^ς ¹³¹⁸

mvp-comment-610-2 εὐσήμους ¹³¹⁹

mvp-comment-610-3 βεβρῶτες ¹³²⁰

mvp-comment-610-4 ἀνδροφθόρου ¹³²¹

mvp-comment-611-1 ἐπεί ¹³²²

mvp-comment-611-2 ἄνολβος ¹³²³

mvp-comment-612-1 ἀκεῖται ¹³²⁴

mvp-comment-612-2 ἀκίνητος ¹³²⁵

mvp-comment-613-1 αὐθαδία ¹³²⁶ ὀφλισκάνει ¹³²⁷

mvp-comment-614-1 εἶκε τῷ θανόντι ¹³²⁸

mvp-comment-614-2 κέντει ¹³²⁹

mvp-comment-615-1 ἐπικτανεῖν ¹³³⁰

mvp-comment-616-1 εὖ φρονήσας ¹³³¹

mvp-comment-616-2 μανθάνειν δ ¹³³²

mvp-comment-616-3 εἰ … λέγοι ¹³³³ ἥδιστον ¹³³⁴

mvp-comment-617-1 ὥστε ¹³³⁵ σκοποῦ ¹³³⁶

mvp-comment-618-1 κοὐδὲ μαντικῆς ¹³³⁷ ἄπρακτος ¹³³⁸ μαντικῆς ¹³³⁹ α ¹³⁴⁰ μαντικῇ ¹³⁴¹ ἄπρατος ¹³⁴²

mvp-comment-618-2 τῶν δ’ ὑπαὶ γένους ¹³⁴³ τῶν ¹³⁴⁴

mvp-comment-618-3 refer to ὑμῖν ¹³⁴⁵ μαντικῆς ¹³⁴⁶ μαντικοῖς ¹³⁴⁷

mvp-comment-618-4 ὑπαί ¹³⁴⁸

mvp-comment-618-5 γένους ¹³⁴⁹

mvp-comment-619-1 ἐξημπόλημαι ¹³⁵⁰ ἐμπεφόρτισμαι ¹³⁵¹ ἐκπεφόρτισμαι ¹³⁵²

mvp-comment-620-1 τἀπὸ Σάρδεων ἤλεκτρον ¹³⁵³

mvp-comment-620-2 τἀπὸ ¹³⁵⁴

mvp-comment-620-3 Ἰνδικὸν χρυσόν ¹³⁵⁵

mvp-comment-621-1 οἱ Ζηνὸς αἰετοί ¹³⁵⁶

mvp-comment-622-1 οὐδ’ ὥς ¹³⁵⁷

mvp-comment-623-1 θεοὺς μιαίνειν ¹³⁵⁸

mvp-comment-623-2 This view seems to do some injustice to the poet's dramatic psychology. I read the words quite differently. The most orthodox Greek piety held that ‘no mortal could pollute the gods.’ See, for example, H. F. 1232. Heracles, having recovered sanity after slaying his children, has covered his face, to hide it from the holy light of the sun. Theseus —who is a type of normal

— makes him uncover, saying,— . The sungod cannot be polluted by a mortal. The idea of religious was that a mortal had contracted some impurity which disqualified him for communion with the gods. The tainting of an altar cut off such communion by bringing uncleanness to the very place where men sought to be cleansed. Creon excitedly imagines a seemingly worse profanation, and then excuses his apparent impiety by a general maxim which all would admit:—‘no man can pollute the gods.’

mvp-comment-623-3 ‘The sky-throne of Zeus is still more sacred than his altar on earth: if defilement cannot reach him there, much less here.’ The sophism is of the kind with which an honest but stubborn and wrongheaded man might seek to quiet his conscience. Creon reveres Zeus (304): he feels for the majesty of the gods, and refuses to believe that they can honour the wicked (284 ff.). But his religious sense is temporarily confused by his anger.

mvp-comment-624-1 πολλά ¹³⁵⁹

mvp-comment-625-1 καλῶς ¹³⁶⁰

mvp-comment-626-1 ἆρ’ οἶδεν ¹³⁶¹

mvp-comment-627-1 τί χρῆμα ¹³⁶²

mvp-comment-627-2 πάγκοινον ¹³⁶³

mvp-comment-628-1 κτημάτων ¹³⁶⁴

mvp-comment-628-2 ὅσῳπερ ¹³⁶⁵ μὴ φρονεῖν ¹³⁶⁶

mvp-comment-629-1 νόσου ¹³⁶⁷ πλήρης ¹³⁶⁸

mvp-comment-630-1 In

qualifies the whole phrase: i.e., it means, ‘to revile in return,’ , as ( O. C. 1191 )= .

mvp-comment-631-1 καὶ μήν ¹³⁶⁹ λέγεις ¹³⁷⁰

mvp-comment-632-1 γένος ¹³⁷¹

mvp-comment-633-1 τὸ δ’ ἐκ τυράννων ¹³⁷² ἐκ ¹³⁷³

mvp-comment-633-2 αἰσχροκέρδειαν ¹³⁷⁴

mvp-comment-634-1 ἆρ’ οἶσθα ¹³⁷⁵ ἃ ἂν λέγῃς ¹³⁷⁶ ταγούς ¹³⁷⁷

mvp-comment-635-1 ἐξ ἐμοῦ ¹³⁷⁸

mvp-comment-635-2 ἔχεις σώσας ¹³⁷⁹

mvp-comment-636-1 τἀκίνητα διὰ φρενῶν ¹³⁸⁰

mvp-comment-637-1 κίνει ¹³⁸¹

mvp-comment-637-2 μόνον δέ ¹³⁸²

mvp-comment-637-3 ἐπὶ κέρδεσιν ¹³⁸³

mvp-comment-638-1 οὕτω γὰρ ἤδη ¹³⁸⁴ τὸ σὸν μέρος ¹³⁸⁵ καί ¹³⁸⁶

mvp-comment-639-1 ἴσθι ὡς μὴ ἐμπ. ¹³⁸⁷ ὡς ¹³⁸⁸

mvp-comment-639-2 φρένα ¹³⁸⁹

mvp-comment-640-1 ἀλλ’ εὺ= γέ τοι ¹³⁹⁰

mvp-comment-640-2 μη … τελῶν ¹³⁹¹ ἥλιον τελεῖν ¹³⁹² κάτισθι ¹³⁹³ τελῶν ¹³⁹⁴

mvp-comment-640-3 τρόχους ¹³⁹⁵ τροχους ¹³⁹⁶

mvp-comment-640-4 ἁμιλλητῆρας ¹³⁹⁷

mvp-comment-641-1 ἐν οἷσι ¹³⁹⁸

mvp-comment-641-2 τῶν σῶν … ἐκ σπλάγχνων ἕνα ¹³⁹⁹

mvp-comment-642-1 νέκυν νεκρῶν ¹⁴⁰⁰ ἀντιδοὺς ἔσει ¹⁴⁰¹

mvp-comment-643-1 ἀνθ’ ὧν ¹⁴⁰²

mvp-comment-643-2 ἔχεις βαλὼν κάτω τῶν ἄνω ¹⁴⁰³

mvp-comment-644-1 Bothe, omitting τε ¹⁴⁰⁴ ψυχήν ¹⁴⁰⁵ τῶν ἄνω ¹⁴⁰⁶ τῶν ἄνω ¹⁴⁰⁷ τῶν ἄνω … ψυχήν ¹⁴⁰⁸ ψυχήν τ’ … κατῴκισας ¹⁴⁰⁹ ἀνθ’ ὧν ¹⁴¹⁰ τῶν ἄνω ¹⁴¹¹

mvp-comment-644-2 ἀτίμως ¹⁴¹²

mvp-comment-645-1 ἔχεις δέ ¹⁴¹³ τῶν κάτωθεν θεῶν ¹⁴¹⁴ νέκυν ¹⁴¹⁵

mvp-comment-645-2 ἄμοιρον ¹⁴¹⁶

mvp-comment-645-3

with : ‘without a portion in the gods below,’ i.e., not admitted to communion with them. But the phrase is a strange one; and the leading thought here is that the are robbed of one who belongs to them.

mvp-comment-645-4 ἀκτέριστον ¹⁴¹⁷

mvp-comment-645-5 ἀνόσιον ¹⁴¹⁸

mvp-comment-646-1 ὧν ¹⁴¹⁹

mvp-comment-646-2 βιάζονται ¹⁴²⁰

mvp-comment-647-1 τούτων ¹⁴²¹

mvp-comment-647-2 λωβητῆρες ¹⁴²²

mvp-comment-647-3 ὑστεροφθόροι ¹⁴²³

mvp-comment-648-1 λοχῶσιν ¹⁴²⁴

mvp-comment-648-2 Ἅιδου καὶ θεῶν ¹⁴²⁵

mvp-comment-648-3 ληφθῆναι ¹⁴²⁶

mvp-comment-649-1 κατηργ. ¹⁴²⁷ οὐ μακρ. χρόν. τριβή ¹⁴²⁸ φανεῖ ¹⁴²⁹

mvp-comment-650-1 The πόλεις ¹⁴³⁰ συνταράσσονται ¹⁴³¹

mvp-comment-650-2 It has been objected that the play contains no hint of burial having been denied to any one except Polyneices. This is not exactly the case: the phrase

in v. 10 is such a hint. But it was unnecessary for the poet to state a fact which all his hearers would assume. Every one knew how Creon had refused burial to the Argives, and how Theseus had recovered their corpses by force of arms. In the Supplices of Eur. the Chorus consists of widows and mothers of the unburied warriors. No Athenian exploit was more famous ( Her. 9.27 ; Isocr. Paneg. § 52 , Encom. Helen. § 31, Panath. § 168; Plat. Menex. 244 ; [Lys. ] or. 2 §§ 4 ff. : [Dem. ] or. 60 §§ 7 ff. ). The war of the Epigoni, which was included in the epic Thebais ( Paus. 9. 9 § 5), was dramatised both by Aesch. and by Soph. ( ).

mvp-comment-650-3 Just as, in the O. C. (1410 n.), Soph. glances at the theme of his Antigone, so here he might naturally glance—however indirectly—at a later chapter of the Theban story,—whether his Epigoni already existed, or was still in the future. Dramatically, the reference is the more fitting, since the legend represented Teiresias as still living, and still zealous for Theban welfare, when the Epigoni came.—For other views of the passage, see Appendix.

mvp-comment-651-1 ὅσων ¹⁴³² ὅσων ¹⁴³³

mvp-comment-651-2 L's καθήγνισαν ¹⁴³⁴ καθήγισαν ¹⁴³⁵ καθήγνισαν ¹⁴³⁶ καθήγισαν ¹⁴³⁷

mvp-comment-651-3 of

here. The Schol. read the latter ( ). But the fact that L has must be set against these doubtful testimonies.—For the irony, cp. El. 1487

πρόθες | ταφεῦσιν, ὧν τόνδ’ εἰκός ἐστι τυγχάνειν

(as Gorgias called vultures , 3 § 2): Aesch. Th. 1020 : Ennius Ann. 142 Lucr. 5. 993

viva videns vivo sepeliri viscera busto.

mvp-comment-652-1 ἑστιοῦχον … πόλιν ¹⁴³⁸

mvp-comment-653-1 σου ¹⁴³⁹ ἀφῆκα ¹⁴⁴⁰

mvp-comment-653-2 θυμῷ ¹⁴⁴¹ καρδίας τοξεύματα ¹⁴⁴²

mvp-comment-654-1 ὦ παῖ ¹⁴⁴³

mvp-comment-655-1 τρέφειν ¹⁴⁴⁴

mvp-comment-655-2 ἡσυχωτέραν ¹⁴⁴⁵ ω ¹⁴⁴⁶ αι ¹⁴⁴⁷ αι ¹⁴⁴⁸ ω ¹⁴⁴⁹ ω ¹⁴⁵⁰ αι ¹⁴⁵¹ αι ¹⁴⁵²

mvp-comment-656-1 τὸν νοῦν … τῶν φρενῶν ἀμείνω ¹⁴⁵³

mvp-comment-656-2 φέρει ¹⁴⁵⁴ τῶν φρενῶν ¹⁴⁵⁵ ἀμείνω ¹⁴⁵⁶ ἢ ¹⁴⁵⁷ ὧν ¹⁴⁵⁸

mvp-comment-657-1 ἐξ ὅτου ¹⁴⁵⁹

mvp-comment-657-2 λευκὴν … ἐκ μελαίνης ¹⁴⁶⁰

mvp-comment-657-3 ἀμφιβάλλομαι ¹⁴⁶¹

mvp-comment-658-1 μὴ ¹⁴⁶²

mvp-comment-658-2 λακεῖν ¹⁴⁶³

mvp-comment-659-1 ἔγνωκα ¹⁴⁶⁴

mvp-comment-660-1 For τε … δέ ¹⁴⁶⁵ δέ ¹⁴⁶⁶ τ ¹⁴⁶⁷ τε … τε ¹⁴⁶⁸ τε … δέ ¹⁴⁶⁹ δέ ¹⁴⁷⁰

mvp-comment-661-1 ἄτῃ πατάξαι ¹⁴⁷¹ θυμὸν ¹⁴⁷² ἀντιστάντα ¹⁴⁷³

mvp-comment-661-2 ἐν δεινῷ πάρα ¹⁴⁷⁴ πάρα ¹⁴⁷⁵ ἓν δεινοῦ πέρα ¹⁴⁷⁶

mvp-comment-662-1 The question between L's λαβεῖν ¹⁴⁷⁷ Κρέον ¹⁴⁷⁸

mvp-comment-663-1 κατώρυχος ¹⁴⁷⁹

mvp-comment-664-1 I read the impers. δοκεῖ ¹⁴⁸⁰ δοκεῖς ¹⁴⁸¹ δοκεῖς ¹⁴⁸²

mvp-comment-664-2 παρεικαθεῖν ¹⁴⁸³

mvp-comment-665-1 συντέμνουσι … τοὺς κ. ¹⁴⁸⁴

mvp-comment-665-2 ποδώκεις ¹⁴⁸⁵

mvp-comment-665-3 βλάβαι ¹⁴⁸⁶

mvp-comment-665-4 κακόφρονας ¹⁴⁸⁷

mvp-comment-666-1 μόλις μέν ¹⁴⁸⁸

mvp-comment-666-2 ἐξίσταμαι καρδίας ¹⁴⁸⁹

mvp-comment-666-3 τὸ δρᾶν ¹⁴⁹⁰

mvp-comment-666-4 δυσμαχητέον ¹⁴⁹¹

mvp-comment-667-1 ἐπ’ ἄλλ’. τρέπε ¹⁴⁹²

mvp-comment-668-1 ὡς ἔχω ¹⁴⁹³

mvp-comment-668-2 στείχοιμ’ ἄν ¹⁴⁹⁴

mvp-comment-668-3 ἴτ’ ἴτ’ ¹⁴⁹⁵ εἶ’ ¹⁴⁹⁶

mvp-comment-669-1 οἵ τ’ ὄντες οἵ τ’ ἀπόντες ¹⁴⁹⁷

mvp-comment-669-2 ἀξίνας ¹⁴⁹⁸

mvp-comment-670-1 ἐπόψιον ¹⁴⁹⁹

mvp-comment-671-1 ἐγὼ δ’ ¹⁵⁰⁰ ἐπιστράφη ¹⁵⁰¹ τῇδ’ ¹⁵⁰²

mvp-comment-672-1 αὐτός τ’ ἔδησα ¹⁵⁰³

mvp-comment-673-1 δέδοικα μὴ … ᾖ ¹⁵⁰⁴ τοὺς καθεστ. νόμους ¹⁵⁰⁵

mvp-comment-673-2 σῴζοντα … τὸν βίον τελεῖν ¹⁵⁰⁶

mvp-comment-675-1 πολυώνυμε ¹⁵⁰⁷

mvp-comment-675-2 Καδμείας ¹⁵⁰⁹

mvp-comment-675-3 ἄγαλμα ¹⁵¹⁰

mvp-comment-675-4 νύμφας ¹⁵¹¹ βαρυβρεμέτα ¹⁵¹²

mvp-comment-676-1 The traditional reading, Ἰταλίαν ¹⁵¹³

mvp-comment-676-2 The only worthy rival of

is the conjecture Ἰκαρίαν ¹⁵¹⁴ Ἰταλίαν ¹⁵¹⁵

mvp-comment-677-1 παγκοίνοις ¹⁵¹⁶

mvp-comment-677-2

(Olympia).

mvp-comment-677-3 κόλποις ¹⁵¹⁷

mvp-comment-677-4 Ἐλευσι^νίας ¹⁵¹⁸ ι^ ¹⁵¹⁹

mvp-comment-678-1 Βακχεῦ ¹⁵²⁰ ὦ ¹⁵²¹ ὁ ¹⁵²² ματρόπολιν ¹⁵²³

mvp-comment-678-2 ματρόπολιν ¹⁵²⁴

mvp-comment-679-1 L has ὑγρὸν … ῥέεθρον ¹⁵²⁵ ὑγρῶν … ῥεέθρων ¹⁵²⁶ ῥεῖθρον ¹⁵²⁷ ὑγρόν ¹⁵²⁸ παρά ¹⁵²⁹ ῥεῖθρον ¹⁵³⁰ ὑγρόν ¹⁵³¹

mvp-comment-679-2 Ἰσμηνοῦ ¹⁵³²

mvp-comment-680-1 ἐπὶ σπορᾷ δρ. ¹⁵³³

mvp-comment-681-1 The general sense is: ‘and on the heights of Parnassus thou holdest thy revels by night amid the Corycian Nymphs, who brandish torches.’

mvp-comment-681-2 διλόφου πέτρας ¹⁵³⁴

mvp-comment-681-3 By ὑπὲρ διλόφου πέτρας ¹⁵³⁵

mvp-comment-681-4 λιγνύς ¹⁵³⁶ στέροψ ¹⁵³⁷

mvp-comment-681-5 ὄπωπε ¹⁵³⁸

mvp-comment-681-6 Κωρύκιαι … Νύμφαι ¹⁵³⁹

mvp-comment-681-7 The simple transposition, στείχουσι νύμφαι ¹⁵⁴⁰

mvp-comment-682-1 Κασταλίας τε νᾶμα ¹⁵⁴¹

mvp-comment-683-1 καί σε Νυσαίων ¹⁵⁴²

mvp-comment-684-1 κισσήρεις ὄχθαι ¹⁵⁴³

mvp-comment-684-2 for the fact was noticed in antiquity (schol. on Aratus Phaenom. 33). Thus Pind. P. 1. 64

: Eur. Suppl. 655

Ἰσμήνιον πρὸς ὄχθον

.—The was to Dionysus what the was to Apollo. The crowning with ivy ( ) was a regular incident of his festivals: he was called . Cp. Alciphron Epist. 2. 3 § 10 . F. 3. 767

mvp-comment-685-1 πολυστάφυλος ¹⁵⁴⁴

mvp-comment-685-2 πέμπει ¹⁵⁴⁵

mvp-comment-686-1 The words ἀμβρότων ἐπέων ¹⁵⁴⁶

mvp-comment-686-2 εὐαζόντων ¹⁵⁴⁷

mvp-comment-687-1 τὰν ἐκ πασᾶν ¹⁵⁴⁸ τάν ¹⁵⁴⁹ ἐκ ¹⁵⁵⁰ ὑπερτάταν ¹⁵⁵¹

mvp-comment-688-1 κεραυνίᾳ ¹⁵⁵²

mvp-comment-689-1 ἔχεται ἐπὶ βιαίας νόσου ¹⁵⁵³ ὑπό ¹⁵⁵⁴ ἔχεται ¹⁵⁵⁵ βιαι^ας ¹⁵⁵⁶ ἀμὰ ¹⁵⁵⁷ πόλις ¹⁵⁵⁸

mvp-comment-689-2 πάνδαμος ¹⁵⁵⁹

mvp-comment-690-1 μολεῖν ¹⁵⁶⁰

mvp-comment-690-2 καθαρσίῳ ¹⁵⁶¹

mvp-comment-690-3 κλιτύν ¹⁵⁶²

mvp-comment-690-4 πορθμόν ¹⁵⁶³

mvp-comment-690-5 στονόεντα ¹⁵⁶⁴

mvp-comment-691-1 πνειόντων ¹⁵⁶⁵ πνειόντων ¹⁵⁶⁶

mvp-comment-691-2 Other conjectures are: (1) ἰὼ πύρπνων ἄστρων χοραγὲ καὶ νυχίων ¹⁵⁶⁷ πῦρ πνεόντων χοραγὲ καὶ νυχίων ¹⁵⁶⁸ χοραγὲ ἄστρων ¹⁵⁶⁹

mvp-comment-691-3 originally preceded

. Neglect of elision is frequent in L: thus, to take one play only, the O. C. supplies these examples: 266 : 694 : 883 : 915 : 1026 : 1210 . The deletion of καί ¹⁵⁷⁰ νυχίων ¹⁵⁷¹

mvp-comment-691-4 χοράγ’ ἄστρων ¹⁵⁷²

mvp-comment-691-5 νυχίων φθεγμάτων ¹⁵⁷³

mvp-comment-692-1 παῖ Διὸς ¹⁵⁷⁴

mvp-comment-693-1 ὦναξ ¹⁵⁷⁵

mvp-comment-694-1 Θυίαισιν ¹⁵⁷⁶

mvp-comment-694-2 χορεύουσι ¹⁵⁷⁷

mvp-comment-695-1 ταμίαν ¹⁵⁷⁸

mvp-comment-695-2 Ἴακχον ¹⁵⁷⁹

mvp-comment-697-1 δόμων ¹⁵⁸⁰ Κάδμου ¹⁵⁸¹ πάροικοι ¹⁵⁸² δόμων ¹⁵⁸³

mvp-comment-698-1 οὐκ ἔστι ¹⁵⁸⁴ στάντα ¹⁵⁸⁵ στάντα ¹⁵⁸⁶

mvp-comment-698-2 βίον ¹⁵⁸⁷ ὁποίᾳ ¹⁵⁸⁸

mvp-comment-699-1 μάντις … τῶν καθεστώτων ¹⁵⁸⁹ ἐφεστώτων ¹⁵⁹⁰

mvp-comment-700-1 ὡς ἐμοί ¹⁵⁹¹

mvp-comment-701-1 σώσας … ἐχθρῶν ¹⁵⁹² δέ ¹⁵⁹³ τε ¹⁵⁹⁴ λαβών τε ¹⁵⁹⁵ ηὔθυνε ¹⁵⁹⁶ παντελῆ ¹⁵⁹⁷

mvp-comment-701-2 ηὔθυνε ¹⁵⁹⁸

mvp-comment-701-3 εὐγενεῖ ¹⁵⁹⁹

mvp-comment-702-1 ἀφεῖται πάντα ¹⁶⁰⁰

mvp-comment-703-1 προδῶσιν ¹⁶⁰¹ προδῶσιν ¹⁶⁰² ἀνδρὸς ¹⁶⁰³ προδῶσιν ¹⁶⁰⁴ ἄνδρες ¹⁶⁰⁵ ἀνδρός ¹⁶⁰⁶ τὰς γὰρ ἡδονάς ¹⁶⁰⁷

mvp-comment-703-2 οὐ τίθημι ¹⁶⁰⁸

mvp-comment-704-1 For

has been proposed: but the Epic and Ionic does not occur in

mvp-comment-704-2 τοῦτον ¹⁶⁰⁹

mvp-comment-704-3 ἔμψ. νεκρόν ¹⁶¹⁰

mvp-comment-705-1 πλούτει … ζῆ ¹⁶¹¹

mvp-comment-705-2 εἰ βούλει ¹⁶¹² ζῆ ¹⁶¹³ σχῆμα ¹⁶¹⁴

mvp-comment-706-1 τὸ χαίρειν ¹⁶¹⁵

mvp-comment-706-2 καπνοῦ σκιᾶς ¹⁶¹⁶

mvp-comment-707-1 πριαίμην ἀνδρί ¹⁶¹⁷

mvp-comment-707-2 πρὸς τὴν ἡδ. ¹⁶¹⁸

mvp-comment-708-1 βασιλέων ¹⁶¹⁹ αἴτιοι θανεῖν ¹⁶²⁰

mvp-comment-709-1 φονεύει ¹⁶²¹ ὁ κείμενος ¹⁶²²

mvp-comment-710-1 αὐτόχειρ ¹⁶²³

mvp-comment-711-1 φόνου ¹⁶²⁴

mvp-comment-711-2 ὀρθὸν ἤνυσας ¹⁶²⁵

mvp-comment-712-1 ὡς ¹⁶²⁶ πάρεστι βουλ. τὰ ἄλλα ¹⁶²⁷ βουλεύειν ¹⁶²⁸ τὰ ἄλλα ¹⁶²⁹

mvp-comment-712-2 ὧδ’ ἐχόντων ¹⁶³⁰

mvp-comment-713-1 καὶ μήν ¹⁶³¹

mvp-comment-713-2 Εὐρυδίκην ¹⁶³²

mvp-comment-714-1 κλύουσα παιδός ¹⁶³³

mvp-comment-715-1 ὦ πάντες ἀστοί ¹⁶³⁴

mvp-comment-716-1 Παλλάδος προσήγορος εὐγμάτων ¹⁶³⁵

mvp-comment-717-1 τυγχάνω τε … καὶ … βάλλει ¹⁶³⁶

mvp-comment-717-2 the sound ( cp. 1172 f. n.). For the temporal parataxis with τε … καί ¹⁶³⁷

mvp-comment-717-3 κλῇθρα χαλῶσα πύλης ἀνασπαστοῦ ¹⁶³⁸

mvp-comment-717-4 κλῇθρα ¹⁶³⁹

mvp-comment-717-5 ἀνασπαστοῦ ¹⁶⁴⁰

mvp-comment-717-6 φθόγγος ¹⁶⁴¹

mvp-comment-717-7 οἰκείου ¹⁶⁴²

mvp-comment-718-1 δῑ ὤτων ¹⁶⁴³

mvp-comment-718-2 πρὸς δμωαῖσι ¹⁶⁴⁴

mvp-comment-718-3 ἀποπλήσσομαι ¹⁶⁴⁵

mvp-comment-719-1 καὶ παρὼν ἐρῶ, κοὐδὲν παρήσω ¹⁶⁴⁶ παρὠν ¹⁶⁴⁷

mvp-comment-720-1 ὧν ¹⁶⁴⁸

mvp-comment-720-2 ὧν ¹⁶⁴⁹ ψεῦσται ¹⁶⁵⁰ φανούμεθ’ ¹⁶⁵¹

mvp-comment-720-3 ὀρθόν ¹⁶⁵²

mvp-comment-721-1 ποδαγός ¹⁶⁵³ ἑσπόμην ¹⁶⁵⁴

mvp-comment-722-1 πεδίον … ἄκρον ¹⁶⁵⁵

mvp-comment-722-2 νηλεές ¹⁶⁵⁶

mvp-comment-723-1 κυνοσπάρακτον ¹⁶⁵⁷

mvp-comment-724-1 τὸν μέν ¹⁶⁵⁸

mvp-comment-724-2 ἐνοδίαν θεόν ¹⁶⁵⁹

mvp-comment-724-3 θεόν ¹⁶⁶⁰

mvp-comment-724-4 εὐμενεῖς ¹⁶⁶¹

mvp-comment-724-5 κατασχεθεῖν ¹⁶⁶²

mvp-comment-725-1 λούσαντες ἁγν. λουτρόν ¹⁶⁶³

mvp-comment-725-2 ἐν ¹⁶⁶⁴ θαλλοῖς ¹⁶⁶⁵

mvp-comment-725-3 )λέλειπτο ¹⁶⁶⁶

mvp-comment-725-4 συγκατῄθομεν ¹⁶⁶⁷ εἰσεβαίνομεν ¹⁶⁶⁸

mvp-comment-726-1 τύμβον ¹⁶⁶⁹

mvp-comment-726-2 ὀρθόκρανον ¹⁶⁷⁰

mvp-comment-726-3 οἰκείας ¹⁶⁷¹

mvp-comment-727-1 αὖθις ¹⁶⁷²

mvp-comment-727-2 For

as=‘afterwards,’ cp. Ai. 1283 , Tr. 270 .

mvp-comment-727-3 λιθόστρωτον ¹⁶⁷³

mvp-comment-727-4 κόρης νυμφεῖον‐Ἅιδου ¹⁶⁷⁴

mvp-comment-728-1 κωκυμάτων ¹⁶⁷⁵

mvp-comment-729-1 ἀκτέριστον ἀμφὶ παστάδα ¹⁶⁷⁶

mvp-comment-730-1 ἀθλίας … ἄσημα βοῆς ¹⁶⁷⁷

mvp-comment-730-2 περιβαίνει ¹⁶⁷⁸

mvp-comment-731-1 μᾶλλον ἆσσον ¹⁶⁷⁹

mvp-comment-731-2 ἔπος ¹⁶⁸⁰ δυσθρήνητον ¹⁶⁸¹

mvp-comment-731-3 ὦ τάλας ¹⁶⁸²

mvp-comment-732-1 τῶν παρελθουσῶν ¹⁶⁸³

mvp-comment-732-2 σαίνει ¹⁶⁸⁴

mvp-comment-733-1 ὠκεῖς ¹⁶⁸⁵

mvp-comment-734-1 ἁρμὸν χώματος λιθοσπ. ¹⁶⁸⁶

mvp-comment-734-2 ἁρμόν ¹⁶⁸⁷ δύντες ¹⁶⁸⁸

mvp-comment-735-1 στόμιον ¹⁶⁸⁹

mvp-comment-735-2 The kind of tomb which the poet here imagines is perhaps best represented, in Greece, by the rock-tombs of Nauplia, and of Spata in Attica. These consist of chambers worked horizontally into the rock, and approached by a passage or

, answering to that which Creon's men have to traverse before they reach the of the tomb. The general type seems to have been determined by that of the more elaborate domed tombs, such as the so-called ‘Treasury of Atreus’ at Mycenae, which, like these ruder copies, were entered by a . Indeed, the Nauplia tombs indicate a rough attempt to reproduce the dome ( ). [See Helbig, Das Homer. Epos aus den Denkm. erläutert, p. 53, with the sources quoted there in nn. 5, 6.]

mvp-comment-735-3 The phrase

(1220) might suggest a recess within the principal chamber, like that in the ‘Treasury of Atreus’; but it is simpler to take it as merely ‘the furthest part of the tomb.’ We may observe that the words (774) and (891) are sufficiently explained if we suppose that the leading to the chamber sloped downwards from the entrance.

mvp-comment-736-1 θεοῖσι ¹⁶⁹⁰

mvp-comment-736-2 κλέπτομαι ¹⁶⁹¹

mvp-comment-737-1 The simple correction, κελευσμάτων ¹⁶⁹²

mvp-comment-737-2 With κελεύσμασιν ¹⁶⁹³

mvp-comment-737-3 (2) The alternative is to amend ἐξ ἀθύμου ¹⁶⁹⁴ ὀξυθύμου ¹⁶⁹⁵

mvp-comment-737-4 Dindorf writes κελεύμασιν ¹⁶⁹⁶

mvp-comment-738-1 αὐχένος ¹⁶⁹⁷

mvp-comment-739-1 μιτώδει ¹⁶⁹⁸

mvp-comment-740-1 Haemon has thrown his arms around her waist ( ἀμφὶ μέσσῃ περιπετῆ ¹⁶⁹⁹ προσκείμενον ¹⁷⁰⁰

mvp-comment-740-2 μέσσῃ ¹⁷⁰¹

mvp-comment-740-3 περιπετῆ ¹⁷⁰²

mvp-comment-741-1 εὐνῆς … τῆς κάτω ¹⁷⁰³

mvp-comment-741-2 πατρὸς ἔργα ¹⁷⁰⁴

mvp-comment-741-3 λέχος ¹⁷⁰⁵

mvp-comment-742-1 σφε ¹⁷⁰⁶

mvp-comment-742-2 στυγνόν ¹⁷⁰⁷

mvp-comment-743-1 οἷον ἔργον ¹⁷⁰⁸ τίνα νοῦν ἔσχες ¹⁷⁰⁹

mvp-comment-743-2 ἐν τῷ συμφορᾶς ¹⁷¹⁰

mvp-comment-743-3 διεφθάρης ¹⁷¹¹

mvp-comment-744-1 ἱκέσιος ¹⁷¹²

mvp-comment-744-2 ὄσσοισι ¹⁷¹³

mvp-comment-744-3 παπτήνας ¹⁷¹⁴

mvp-comment-745-1 πτύσας προσώπῳ ¹⁷¹⁵

mvp-comment-746-1 διπλοῦς κνώδοντας ξίφους ¹⁷¹⁶ διπλοῦς κνώδοντας ¹⁷¹⁷

mvp-comment-746-2 ἐκ δ’ ὁρμ. ¹⁷¹⁸

mvp-comment-746-3 φυγαῖσιν ¹⁷¹⁹

mvp-comment-746-4 Haemon, in his madness, meant to kill his father. He had harboured no such purpose before ( see on 752

); and his frantic impulse is instantly followed by violent remorse. Arist. ( Arist. Poet. 14 ) observes that it is not conducive to a properly tragic effect ( ) if a person contemplates a dreadful act, and then desists from it, in the light of sober thought or fuller knowledge: (such incidents in Tragedy are rare), . It need not be assumed that Arist. meant to censure Sophocles; it is more natural to suppose that he cited the exception as one justified by the circumstances. But it should further be noticed that Aristotle was not accurate in taking this incident as the exception which illustrated his rule. For Haemon did not abandon his dreadful purpose; he was simply foiled by his father's flight. And then, in swift remorse, he actually did .

mvp-comment-747-1 ὥσπερ εἶχ’ ¹⁷²⁰ ἐπενταθείς ¹⁷²¹

mvp-comment-747-2 πλευραῖς ¹⁷²²

mvp-comment-747-3 μέσσον ¹⁷²³

mvp-comment-747-4 ἔγχος ¹⁷²⁴

mvp-comment-747-5 ἐς δ’ ὑγρὸν ἀγκῶν’ ¹⁷²⁵

mvp-comment-748-1 φυσιῶν ¹⁷²⁶

mvp-comment-748-2 ῥοὴν ¹⁷²⁷

mvp-comment-749-1 τέλη ¹⁷²⁸

mvp-comment-749-2 ἔν γ’ Ἅιδου ¹⁷²⁹ ἔν γ ¹⁷³⁰ γε ¹⁷³¹ ἔν γε ¹⁷³²

mvp-comment-750-1 δείξας … τὴν ἀβουλίαν ¹⁷³³

mvp-comment-751-1 πρόσκειται ¹⁷³⁴

mvp-comment-752-1 τί τοῦτ’ ἂν εἰκάς. ¹⁷³⁵

mvp-comment-752-2 ἐσθλὸν ἢ κακόν ¹⁷³⁶

mvp-comment-753-1 τεθάμβηκ’ ¹⁷³⁷

mvp-comment-753-2 βόσκομαι ¹⁷³⁸

mvp-comment-754-1 γόους … ἀξιώσειν ¹⁷³⁹

mvp-comment-754-2 ὑπὸ στέγης ¹⁷⁴⁰

mvp-comment-755-1 προθήσειν ¹⁷⁴¹ στένειν ¹⁷⁴²

mvp-comment-755-2 them’ by making a lament, after which her handmaids, sitting around her, will wail in chorus. Il. 24.746 (Andromache has bewailed Hector,)

.

mvp-comment-756-1 γνώμης … οὐκ ἄπειρος ¹⁷⁴³

mvp-comment-757-1 δ’ οὖν ¹⁷⁴⁴ προσεῖναι ¹⁷⁴⁵

mvp-comment-758-1 εἰσόμεσθα, μή τι … καλύπτει ¹⁷⁴⁶

mvp-comment-758-2 καὶ ¹⁷⁴⁷ κατάσχετον … καλύπτει ¹⁷⁴⁸

mvp-comment-758-3 κατάσχετον ¹⁷⁴⁹

mvp-comment-759-1 δόμους παραστείχοντες ¹⁷⁵⁰

mvp-comment-760-1 καὶ μήν ¹⁷⁵¹

mvp-comment-760-2 ἐφήκει ¹⁷⁵²

mvp-comment-761-1 μνῆμ ¹⁷⁵³ ἐπίσημον ¹⁷⁵⁴

mvp-comment-761-2 διὰ χειρός ¹⁷⁵⁵

mvp-comment-762-1 εἰ θέμις εἰπεῖν ¹⁷⁵⁶ ἄτην ¹⁷⁵⁷ ἀλλοτρίαν ¹⁷⁵⁸

mvp-comment-762-2 ἁμαρτών ¹⁷⁵⁹

mvp-comment-763-1 This

is composed of four strophes and four antistrophes, which correspond as follows. (1) 1st strophe 1261—1269=1st antistr. 1284—1292. (2) 2nd str. 1271—1277 =2nd ant. 1294—1300. (3) 3rd str. 1306—1311=3rd ant. 1328—1333. (4) 4th str. 1317—1325=4th ant. 1339— 1347.

mvp-comment-763-2 The lyric strophes and antistrophes are divided from each other by iambic trimeters, spoken by the Chorus or by the Messenger.—See Metrical Analysis.

mvp-comment-763-3 φρενῶν δυσφρόνων ¹⁷⁶⁰

mvp-comment-763-4 στερεά ¹⁷⁶¹

mvp-comment-764-1 ὦ … βλέποντες ¹⁷⁶²

mvp-comment-764-2 κτανόντας ¹⁷⁶³ θανόντας ¹⁷⁶⁴

mvp-comment-764-3 ἐμφυλίους ¹⁷⁶⁵

mvp-comment-765-1 ἐμῶν ἄνολβα βουλευμάτων ¹⁷⁶⁶ ἄνολβα ¹⁷⁶⁷

mvp-comment-766-1 νέος νέῳ ξυν μόρῳ ¹⁷⁶⁸ νέῳ ¹⁷⁶⁹

mvp-comment-767-1 ἀπελύθης ¹⁷⁷⁰

mvp-comment-768-1 ἐμαῖς οὐδὲ σαῖσι ¹⁷⁷¹

mvp-comment-769-1 ἔχω μαθὼν ¹⁷⁷² με ¹⁷⁷³ μέγα βάρος ἔχων ¹⁷⁷⁴ ἐν δ’ ἐμῷ κάρᾳ ¹⁷⁷⁵ ἔπαισε ¹⁷⁷⁶ με ¹⁷⁷⁷ κάρᾳ ¹⁷⁷⁸

mvp-comment-769-2 ἐν δ’ ἔσεισεν ¹⁷⁷⁹

mvp-comment-769-3 ἀγρίαις ὁδοῖς ¹⁷⁸⁰

mvp-comment-770-1 λακπάτητον ¹⁷⁸¹ κ ¹⁷⁸² ξπ ¹⁷⁸³ κ ¹⁷⁸⁴

mvp-comment-770-2 ἀντρέπων ¹⁷⁸⁵

mvp-comment-771-1 φεῦ φεῦ, ὦ ¹⁷⁸⁶

mvp-comment-771-2 πόνοι .. δύσπονοι ¹⁷⁸⁷

mvp-comment-772-1 ὡς ἔχων τε καὶ κεκτημένος ¹⁷⁸⁸ ἔχων ¹⁷⁸⁹ κεκτημένος ¹⁷⁹⁰

mvp-comment-773-1 πρὸ χειρῶν ¹⁷⁹¹

mvp-comment-773-2 τάδε ¹⁷⁹²

mvp-comment-773-3 τὰ δ’ ἐν δόμοις ¹⁷⁹³ τὰ μὲν … φέρων ¹⁷⁹⁴ ἔοικας ἥκειν ¹⁷⁹⁵ καὶ τάχ’ ὄψεσθαι ¹⁷⁹⁶

mvp-comment-773-4 Since τὰ δ’ ἐν δόμοις ¹⁷⁹⁷ ἥκειν καὶ ¹⁷⁹⁸

mvp-comment-773-5 (

) . Others, indeed, take καὶ τάχα ¹⁷⁹⁹

mvp-comment-774-1 τί δ’ ἔστιν ¹⁸⁰⁰ ἦ ¹⁸⁰¹

mvp-comment-774-2 (2) Transposing αὖ ¹⁸⁰² ἤ ¹⁸⁰³ ἦ ¹⁸⁰⁴

mvp-comment-774-3 (3) Canter gave,

; The change of to would have been peculiarly easy before initial (KAKIONEKAKON for KAKIONEKKAKON). For ἐκ ¹⁸⁰⁵

mvp-comment-774-4 reading. The comparat. κάκιον ¹⁸⁰⁶

mvp-comment-775-1 παμμήτωρ ¹⁸⁰⁷

mvp-comment-775-2 νεοτόμ ¹⁸⁰⁸ ἄρτι ¹⁸⁰⁹

mvp-comment-776-1 δυσκάθαρτος Ἅιδου λιμήν ¹⁸¹⁰ λιμήν ¹⁸¹¹

mvp-comment-777-1 κακάγγελτα ¹⁸¹²

mvp-comment-777-2 προπέμψας ¹⁸¹³

mvp-comment-778-1 ἐπεξειργάσω ¹⁸¹⁴

mvp-comment-779-1 ὦ παῖ ¹⁸¹⁵

mvp-comment-779-2

(instead of ), has not much palaeographical probability. It gives, indeed, a closer correspondence with 1266. But the form of dochmiac which the MS. reading gives here is equally correct. (See Analysis. Met.) Seidler was certainly right in omitting (see cr. n.): and that remedy suffices.

mvp-comment-779-3 Construe: τίνα νέον σφάγιον γυναικεῖον μόρον λέγεις ἀμφικεῖσθαί μοι ἐπ’ ὀλέθρῳ ¹⁸¹⁶

mvp-comment-779-4 But another version is possible, if

is taken with : ‘besetting me,’ , for (my) ruin. Cp. 1285 ; For , cp. Thuc. 4.86

οὐκ ἐπὶ κακῷ, ἐπ’ ἐλευθερώσει δέ

. The difficulty is that cannot well be said of one sorrow (Eurydicè's death), and that, therefore, we have to evolve from the epithet the notion of a circle of woes of which this is one. Thus the image would be much more obscurely expressed than that in Ai. 351 , , (‘behold what a surge hath but now burst around me and hemmed me in, under stress of a deadly storm,’) where Ajax is sitting in the midst of the carnage which he has wrought. It is altogether improbable that alludes to Eurydicè's corpse having been brought (by the ) into such a position that Creon stood between it and Haemon's. See 1298, where Creon speaks of her as being .

mvp-comment-780-1 ὁρᾶν πάρεστιν ¹⁸¹⁷

mvp-comment-780-2 three or four persons; and was low enough to admit of an actor stepping off it with ease. It was pushed on through the central stage entrance, and was usually brought sufficiently far forward to allow of actors entering or making their exit behind it. Here, the corpse of Eurydicè is evidently in full view of the house ( cp. 1299 ). Soph. has used the

in two other plays: El. 1458 (the corpse of Clytaemnestra, with Orestes and Pylades beside it); and in Ai. 344 (Ajax in his tent among his victims). See Albert Müller, Gr. Bühnenalterthümer, pp. 142 ff. (1886).

mvp-comment-780-3 Recent explorations in the Dionysiac theatre at Athens have given rise to a theory that there was no permanent raised stage or proscenium before the Roman age. Even if this could be proved, it would still, however, remain certain that some such expedient as the

was used in the fifth century. This is proved by the texts of Aesch. , Soph. , and Eur. , as well as by the two scenes of Ar. where the tragic is parodied ( Ar. Ach. 408 —479; Thesm. 95—238). Ar. has the words and . Wecklein thinks that the was employed when a part of the interior of the house was to be disclosed, but the when merely a single object was to be shown; and that the was used here ( N. Jahrb. 1870, vol. 101, p. 572: Philol. 31. 451). The meaning of is, however, doubtful.

mvp-comment-781-1 χείρεσσιν ¹⁸¹⁸

mvp-comment-782-1 ἔναντα ¹⁸¹⁹

mvp-comment-783-1 ἥδ’ ¹⁸²⁰ βωμία ¹⁸²¹ βωμία ¹⁸²²

mvp-comment-783-2 ξίφει ¹⁸²³

mvp-comment-783-3 Next to Arndt's, the best conjecture seems that of Blaydes, ἥδ’ ὀξυθήκτῳ σφαγίδι βωμίᾳ πέρι ¹⁸²⁴

mvp-comment-784-1 λύει κελαινὰ βλέφαρα ¹⁸²⁵ μύει ¹⁸²⁶

mvp-comment-785-1 Μεγαρέως ¹⁸²⁷

mvp-comment-785-2 κλεινὸν λάχος ¹⁸²⁸ λάχος ¹⁸²⁹ λέχος ¹⁸³⁰

mvp-comment-786-1 κακὰς πράξεις ¹⁸³¹

mvp-comment-786-2 ἐφυμνής. ¹⁸³²

mvp-comment-787-1 ἀνέπταν ¹⁸³³ φόβῳ ¹⁸³⁴

mvp-comment-787-2 ἀνταίαν ¹⁸³⁵

mvp-comment-788-1 δείλαι^ος ¹⁸³⁶

mvp-comment-788-2

.—The following are a few among many instances of αι^ ¹⁸³⁷ ο ¹⁸³⁸

mvp-comment-788-3 συγκέκραμαι ¹⁸³⁹

mvp-comment-789-1 ὡς αἰτίαν … ἔχων ¹⁸⁴⁰

mvp-comment-789-2 τῶνδε … μόρων ¹⁸⁴¹ κἀκείνων ¹⁸⁴²

mvp-comment-789-3 ἐπεσκήπτου ¹⁸⁴³

mvp-comment-790-1 κἀπελύσατ’ ¹⁸⁴⁴ καί ¹⁸⁴⁵ ἐν φοναῖς ¹⁸⁴⁶

mvp-comment-791-1 ὑφ’ ἦπαρ ¹⁸⁴⁷

mvp-comment-791-2 ὀξυκώκυτον ¹⁸⁴⁸

mvp-comment-792-1 τάδ’ οὐκ ἐπ’ ἄλλον βροτῶν ¹⁸⁴⁹

mvp-comment-792-2 ἁρμόσει ποτέ ¹⁸⁵⁰ ἁρμόσει ¹⁸⁵¹ ἐκ ¹⁸⁵²

mvp-comment-793-1 μέλεος ¹⁸⁵³

mvp-comment-793-2 φάμ’ ἔτυμον ¹⁸⁵⁴

mvp-comment-794-1 ὅ τι τάχιστ’ ¹⁸⁵⁵

mvp-comment-795-1 τὸν οὐκ ὄντα μᾶλλον ἢ μηδένα ¹⁸⁵⁶

mvp-comment-796-1 κέρδη ¹⁸⁵⁷

mvp-comment-796-2 τὰ γὰρ ἐν ποσὶ κακὰ κράτιστά ¹⁸⁵⁸ βράχιστα ¹⁸⁵⁹

mvp-comment-796-3 τἀν ποσίν ¹⁸⁶⁰

mvp-comment-797-1 μόρων ὁ κάλλιστ’ ἔχων ¹⁸⁶¹

mvp-comment-797-2 Both these difficulties (which to me seem insuperable) are removed by reading

, the best of fates. That could have been changed to , either by conjecture or by accident, is shown by v. 575, where at the end of the verse L has the probably true , while other MSS. have . (If is right in 467, and in 1301, these, too, are instances of final words corrupted.) A question of punctuation remains. The comma might follow either or . I prefer the latter. Cp. Ai. 394

ἰὼ σκότος, ἐμὸν φάος, | ἔρεβος ὦ φαεννότατον, ὡς ἐμοί

.

mvp-comment-798-1 ὕπατος ¹⁸⁶²

mvp-comment-799-1 μέλλοντα ¹⁸⁶³

mvp-comment-799-2 τῶν προκειμένων ¹⁸⁶⁴

mvp-comment-799-3 For τι ¹⁸⁶⁵

mvp-comment-799-4 τῶνδ’ ¹⁸⁶⁶

mvp-comment-799-5 ὅτοισι χρὴ μέλειν ¹⁸⁶⁷

mvp-comment-800-1 ἐρῶ μέν ¹⁸⁶⁸

mvp-comment-800-2 συγκατηυξάμην ¹⁸⁶⁹ ἀλλ’ ὧν ἐρῶ, ταῦτα συγκατηυξάμην ¹⁸⁷⁰ ἐρῶ μὲν ¹⁸⁷¹ ἐρῶμεν ¹⁸⁷² ἐρῶ ¹⁸⁷³ μεν ¹⁸⁷⁴

mvp-comment-801-1 προσεύχου ¹⁸⁷⁵

mvp-comment-802-1 ἄγοιτ’ ἄν ¹⁸⁷⁶

mvp-comment-802-2 μάταιον ¹⁸⁷⁷

mvp-comment-803-1 κατέκανον ¹⁸⁷⁸

mvp-comment-803-2 σέ τ’ αὖ τάνδ’ ¹⁸⁷⁹

mvp-comment-804-1 πρὸς πότερον … πάντα γάρ ¹⁸⁸⁰

mvp-comment-804-2 (1) The MS. ὅπᾳ ¹⁸⁸¹ πᾷ ¹⁸⁸²

mvp-comment-804-3 (2) L has πάντα γάρ ¹⁸⁸³

mvp-comment-804-4 (3) κλιθῶ ¹⁸⁸⁴ καὶ θῶ ¹⁸⁸⁵

mvp-comment-804-5 πρὸς πότερον ¹⁸⁸⁶

mvp-comment-804-6 ἴδω ¹⁸⁸⁷

mvp-comment-804-7 πᾷ κλιθῶ ¹⁸⁸⁸ πᾷ ¹⁸⁸⁹

mvp-comment-805-1 λέχρια τἀν χεροῖν ¹⁸⁹⁰ λέχρια ¹⁸⁹¹

mvp-comment-805-2 τὰ δ’ ἐπὶ κρατί μοι ¹⁸⁹² τὰ ἐν χεροῖν ¹⁸⁹³

mvp-comment-805-3 εἰσήλατο ¹⁸⁹⁴