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His turbid waves where Salmydessus rolled,

And proud Oyaneji-'s rocks divide the flood,

There from thy temple. Mars, didst thou behold
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The sons of Phineus weltering in their blood ;

A mother did the cruel deed,

A mother bade her children bleed ;

Both by her impious hand, deprived of light,

In vain lamented long their ravished sight,

And closed their eyes in never-ending night,
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Long time they wept a better mother's fate,

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

Current edition Experimental

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

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Editions (12)

Greek (L. Benloew, 1858) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (L. Benloew, 1858)) — 966 focus

παρὰ δὲ ¹ Κυανέων πελαγέων διδύμας ἁλὸς

ἀκταὶ Βοσπόριαι,

ἰδ᾽ ὁ Θρῃκῶν Σαλμυδησσὸς ²,

ἵν᾽ ³ ἀγχίπολις Ἄρης

δισσοῖσι Φινείδαις ⁴
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εἶδεν ἀρατὸν ἕλκος,

τυφλωθὲν ἐξ ἀγρίας δάμαρτος ⁵,

ἀλαὸν ἀλαστόροισιν ὀμμάτων κύκλοις

χάραγμ᾽ ⁶ ἐγχέων, ὑφ᾽ αἱματηραῖς

χείρεσσι καὶ κερκίδων ἀκμαῖσιν·
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b

Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 966 focus

παρὰ δὲ Κυανέων πελαγέων διδύμας ἁλὸς

ἀκταὶ Βοσπόριαι ἰδ᾽ ὁ Θρῃκῶν ἄξενος

Σαλμυδησσός, ἵν᾽ ἀγχίπολις Ἄρης δισσοῖσι Φινεΐδαις

εἶδεν ἀρατὸν ἕλκος

τυφλωθὲν ἐξ ἀγρίας δάμαρτος,
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ἀλαὸν ἀλαστόροισιν ὀμμάτων κύκλοις

ἀραχθέντων ὑφ᾽ αἱματηραῖς

χείρεσσι καὶ κερκίδων ἀκμαῖσιν.

2

Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 966 focus

παρὰ δὲ Κυανέων

πελαγέων διδύμας ἁλὸς

ἀκταὶ Βοσπόριαι,

ἰδ᾽ ὁ Θρᾳκῶν Σαλμυδησὸς,
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ἵν᾽ ἀγχίπολις Ἄρης

δισσοῖσι Φινείδαις

εἶδεν ἀρατὸν ἕλκος

τυφλωθὲν ἐξ ἀγρίας δάμαρτος,

ἀλαὸν, ἀλαστόροισιν ὀμμάτων κύκλοις,
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ῥαγὲν δ᾽ οὐκ ἐγχέων, αἱματηρᾶς

χειρὸς δὲ καὶ κερκίδων, ἀκμαῖσι.

2

Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879)) — 966 focus

παρὰ δὲ Κυανεᾶν *σπιλάδων διδύμας ἁλὸς

ἀκταὶ Βοσπόριαι ἰδ᾽ ὁ Θρῃκῶν – u -

Σαλμυδησός, ἵν᾿ ἀγχίπτολις Ἄρης
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δισσοῖσι Φινεΐδαις

εἶδεν ἀρατὸν ἕλκος

τυφλωθὲν ἐξ ἀγρίας δάμαρτος

ἀλαὸν ἀλαστόροισιν ὀμμάτων κύκλοις

ἀραχθέντων ὑφ᾽ αἱματηραῖς
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χείρεσσι καὶ κερκίδων ἀκμαῖσιν.

β

Greek (A. Colonna, 1978) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Colonna, 1978)) — 966 focus

παρὰ δὲ Κυανέων πελάγει διδύμας ἁλὸς

ἀκταὶ Βοσπόριαι ἰδ’ ὁ Θρῃκῶν ἄξενος

Σαλμυδησσός, ἵν᾽ ἀγχίπολις Ἄρης
970

δισσοῖσι Φινείδαις

εἶδεν ἀρατὸν ἕλκος

τυφλωθὲν ἐξ ἀγρίας δάμαρτος

ἀλαὸν ἀλαστόροισιν ὀμμάτων κύκλοις,

ἀραχθέντων, ὑφ᾽ αἱματηραῖς
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χείρεσσι καὶ κερκίδων ἀκμαῖσιν.

2

Greek (A. Dain, 1955) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Dain, 1955)) — 966 focus

παρὰ δὲ Κυανέων πελάγει διδύμας ἁλὸς

ἀκταὶ Βοσπόριαι ἰδ’ ὁ Θρῃκῶν ἠιὼν

Σαλμυδησσός, ἵν’ ἀγχίπολις Ἄρης
970

δισσοῖσι Φινείδαις

εἶδεν ἀρατὸν ἕλκος

τυφλωθὲν ἐξ ἀγρίας δάμαρτος

ἀλαὸν ἀλαστόροισιν ὀμμάτων κύκλοις

ἄτερθ’ ἐγχέων, ὑφ’ αἱματηραῖς
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χείρεσσι καὶ κερκίδων ἀκμαῖσιν.

2

Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979)) — 966 focus

παρὰ δὲ κυανέων †πελαγέων πετρῶν† διδύμας

ἁλὸς

ἀκταὶ Βοσπόριαι, †ἦδ᾽ ὁ Θρηικῶν †

Σαλμυδησσός, ἵν᾽ ἀγχίπολις Ἄρης
970

δισσοῖσι Φινείδαις

εἶδεν ἀρατὸν ἕλκος

τυφλωθὲν ἐξ ἀγρίας δάμαρτος,

ἀλαὸν ἀλαστόροισιν ὀμμάτων κύκλοις

†ἀραχθὲν ἐγχέων † ὑφ᾽ αἱματηραῖς
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χείρεσσι καὶ κερκίδων ἀκμαῖσιν.

2

Greek (G. Hermann, 1830) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (G. Hermann, 1830)) — 966 focus

παρὰ δὲ Κυανέων πελαγέων διδύμας ἁλός,
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ἀκταὶ Βοσπόριαι, ἰδ᾽ ὁ Θρῃκῶν Σαλμυδησσός,

ἵν᾽ ἀγχίπολις Ἄρης

δισσοῖσι Φινείδαις

εἶδεν ἀρατὸν ἕλκος
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τυφλωθὲν ἐξ ἀγρίας δάμαρτος,

ἀλαὸν ἀλαστόροισιν ὀμμάτων κύκλοις

ἄτερθ᾽ ἐγχέων, ὑφ᾽ αἱματηραῖς

χείρεσσι καὶ κερκίδων ἀκμαῖσιν·

2

Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906)) — 966 focus

παρὰ δὲ Κυανεᾶν πελάγει διδύμας ἁλὸς 1

ἀκταὶ Βοσπόριαι ἠδ᾽ ὁ Θρῃκῶν 2

Σαλμυδησσός, ἵν᾿ ἀγχίπολις Ἄρης 3
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δισσοῖσι Φινεΐδαις 4

εἶδεν ἀρατὸν ἕλκος 5

τυφλωθὲν ἐξ ἀγρίας δάμαρτος, 6

ἀλαὸν ἀλαστόροισιν ὀμμάτων κύκλοις, 7

ἀραχθέντων ὑφ᾽ αἱματηραῖς 8
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χείρεσσι καὶ κερκίδων ἀκμαῖσιν. 9

2

Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924)) — 966 focus

παρὰ δὲ κυανέαιν σπιλάδοιν διδύμας ἁλὸς

ἀκταὶ Βοσπόριαι ἰδ᾽ ὁ Θρῃκῶν ἠιὼν

Σαλμυδησσός, ἵν᾽ ἀγχίπολις Ἄρης
970

δισσοῖσι Φινεΐδαις

εἶδεν ἀρατὸν ἕλκος

τυφλωθὲν ἐξ ἀγρίας δάμαρτος

ἀλαὸν ἀλαστόροισιν ὀμμάτων κύκλοις

ἀραχθέντων ὑφ᾽ αἱματηραῖς
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χείρεσσι καὶ κερκίδων ἀκμαῖσιν.

Antigone (OCR draft) Experimental (Antigone) — 966 focus

Χορός

παρὰ δὲ Κυανεᾶν πελάγει διδύμας ἁλὸς

ἀκταὶ Βοσπόριαι ἠδʼ ὁ Θρῃκῶν ἄξενος

Σαλμυδησσός, ἵνʼ ἀγχίπτολις Ἄρης
970

δισσοῖσι Φινεΐδαις

εἶδεν ἀρατὸν ἕλκος

τυφλωθὲν ἐξ ἀγρίας δάμαρτος

ἀλαὸν ἀλαστόροισιν ὀμμάτων κύκλοις

ἀραχθέντων, ὑφʼ αἱματηραῖς
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χείρεσσι καὶ κερκίδων ἀκμαῖσιν.

Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949)) — 966 focus

παρὰ δὲ Κυανέων †πελαγέων πετρῶν† διδύμας
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ἁλὸς

ἀκταὶ Βοσπόριαι ἠδ᾽ ὁ Θρηικῶν

Σαλμυδησσός, ἵν᾽ ἀγχίπτολις Ἄρης
970

δισσοῖσι Φινεΐδαις

εἶδεν ἀραῖον ἕλκος

τυφλωθὲν ἐξ ἀγρίας δάμαρτος

ἀλαὸν ἀλαστόροισιν ὀμμάτων κύκλοις

†ἀραχθὲν ἐγχέων ὑφ᾽ αἱματηραῖς
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χείρεσσι καὶ κερκίδων ἀκμαῖσιν.

Translations (10)

German (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 966 focus

An den Kyanischen Wassern des flutenden Doppelmeers,

dort ist Bosporos' Strand und der Thraker schrecklicher

Salmydessos, wo einst Ares, der Stadt Gott, sah die Wunden, des Fluchs

volle, womit dem Phineus

der Söhne Paar wilder Gattin Ingrimm
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geblendet, die der Augen Sterne gräuelvoll

mit blutumflofsnen Mörderhänden

und ihrer Webschiffe Zacken ausrifs.

Gegenstr. 2.

Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921)) — 966 focus

Y junto a las negras rocas de los dos mares¹ están las orillas del Bósforo y la inhospitalaria Salmideso de los tracios, en donde Marte, el protector de la ciudad, vió vio la execrable herida que a los dos hijos de Fineo infirió la fiera madrastra, que les arrancó los ojos de las órbitas, cruelmente doloridas, sin valerse de espada, sino con sangrientas manos y aguda punta de lanzadera;

Latin (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Latin (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 966 focus

Iuxta Cyanea aequora gemini maris, litora sunt Bosporia et Thracius Salmydesus, ubi vicinas urbes colens Mars geminos Phinei filios a fera noverca vidit lumine orbatos execrabili vulnere, inficto non lancearum, sed cruentae manus et pectinum cuspidibus.

English (Lewis Campbell, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Lewis Campbell, 1906)) — 966 focus

Chilling the Maenad breast

Kindled with Bacchic fire, and with annoy

Angering the Muse that in the flute hath joy.

And near twin rocks that guard the Colchian sea,
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Bosporian cliffs ’fore Salmydessus rise,

Where neighbouring Ares from his shrine beheld

Phineus’ two sons by female fury quelled.

With cursèd wounding of their sight-reft eyes,

That cried to Heaven to ’venge the iniquity.
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The shuttle’s sharpness in a cruel hand

German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review)) — 966 focus

An der kyanischen Flut des verschwisterten Meeres hin¹

Dehnt sich Bosporos' Strand und der Thrakier Salmydessos,
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Wo Ares, im Land waltend als Gott,

An Phineus' zwei Söhnen

Schaute die grause Wunde,

Nachdem die ruchlose Gattin blendend

Der Augen Sterne beiden nicht mit dem Speere, nein,
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Ergrimmt ausstach mit blut'gen Händen,

Mit ihrer Webschiffe scharfen Spizen.

Zweite Gegenstrophe.

Und es vergingen die Armen im Leid und beweinten ihr

Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889)) — 966 focus

No lejos de las aguas Cyancas, que corren entre ambos mares, junto á las playas del Bósforo y del hospitalario Salsmydesso de Tracia, el dios Marte, adorado en aquellos lugares, vió á los hijos de Fineo execrablemente vulnerados por su cruel madrastra con los ojos fuera de sus órbitas, pidiendo venganza, arrancados no con la lanza, sino por sangrientas manos con la aguda punta de la lanzadera.

Antistrofa 2.a

CORO

German (F. Hölderlin, 1804) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (F. Hölderlin, 1804)) — 966 focus

Bei himmelblauen Felsen aber, wo

An beiden Enden Meerist,
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Dort sind des Bosphoros Ufer

Und der Busen Salmidessos,

Der Thraziern gehöret; daselbst sah, nahe

Der Stadt, der Schlachtgeist zu, ‚als beiden

Phineiden ward die Wunde der Blindheit
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Vom wilden Weibe gestofsen ,

Und finster wars in den muthwillgen Augenzirkeln.

Veni Speeren Stiche. Unter

Blutigen Händen und Nadelspizen.

English (Sir Richard Jebb1, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb1, 1904)) — 966 focus

Pining in their misery, they bewailed their cruel 980 doom, those sons of a mother hapless in her marriage ; but she traced her descent from the ancient line of the Erechtheidae; and in far-distant caves she was nursed amid her father’s storms, that child of Boreas, swift as a steed over the steep hills, a daughter of gods; yet upon her also the gray Fates bore hard, my daughter. Enter TEIRESIAS, led by a Boy, on the spectators’ right.

Teiresias

English (Robert Potter, 1788) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Robert Potter, 1788)) — 966 focus

With tears their slow obedience to repent.

Tiresias

English (Sir Richard Jebb2, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb2, 1904)) — 944-985 focus

Chorus

So too endured Danae in her beauty to change

the light of the sky for brass-bound walls, and in that chamber, both burial and bridal, she was held in strict confinement. And yet was she of esteemed lineage, my daughter,
945

and guarded a deposit of the seed of Zeus that had fallen in a golden rain. But dreadful is the mysterious power of fate—there is no deliverance from it by wealth or by war, by towered city, or dark, sea-beaten ships.
950

955

Chorus

And Dryas’s son, the Edonian king swift to rage, was tamed in recompense for his frenzied insults, when, by the will of Dionysus, he was shut in a rocky prison. There the fierce and swelling force of his madness trickled away.
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That man came to know the god whom in his frenzy he had provoked with mockeries. For he had sought to quell the god-inspired women and the Bacchanalian fire,
960

and he angered the Muses who love the flute.
965

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Chorus

And by the waters of the Dark Rocks, the waters of the twofold sea, are the shores of Bosporus and the Thracian city Salmydessus,

where Ares, neighbor of that city, saw the accursed, blinding wound inflicted on the two sons of Phineus by his savage wife. It was a wound that brought darkness to the hollows, making them crave vengeance
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for the eyes she crushed with her bloody hands and with her shuttle for a dagger.
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977

Chorus

Wasting away in their misery, they bewailed their miserable suffering

and their birth from their mother stripped of her marriage. But she traced her descent from the ancient line of the Erechtheids, and in far-distant caves she was raised amidst her father’s gusts. She was the child of Boreas,
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running swift as horses over the steep hills, a daughter of gods. Yet she, too, was assailed by the long-lived Fates, my child.
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Commentary

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

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,

τὴν Κλεοπάτραν ἐκ τῆς φυλακῆς προαγαγεῖν

. 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

Φινεύς

. We know only that Cleopatra's sons were there called

Ὄαρθος

Παρθένιος

H. Weil) and

Κράμβος

: 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

Τυμπανισταί

(schol. on 980),—a play which perh. concerned the Dionysiac worship, since the

τύμπανον

(kettle-drum) was used in his

ὄργια

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 ¹ πετρῶν ²

mvp-comment-574-6 of

πελαγέων

into

σπιλάδων

is also erroneous.

mvp-comment-574-7 L's accent, πελάγεων ³ πελάγει ⁴ παρά ⁵ πελάγει ⁶ Κυανεᾶν ⁷

mvp-comment-575-1 ἀκταὶ Βοσπόριαι ⁸ Θρῃκῶν ⁹ ἄξενος ¹⁰ κλῄζεται ¹¹ ἠδ’ ¹²

mvp-comment-576-1 ἀγχίπολις Ἄρης ¹³ ἀγχίπτολις ¹⁴ Ἄρης ¹⁵ ἀρχαιογόνων ¹⁶

mvp-comment-577-1 Φινεΐδαις ¹⁷

mvp-comment-577-2 ἀρατόν ¹⁸

mvp-comment-577-3 ἕλκος τυφλωθέν ¹⁹

mvp-comment-577-4 ἐξ ²⁰

mvp-comment-578-1 ἀλαὸν … κύκλοις ²¹

mvp-comment-578-2 ἀλαστόροισιν ²²

mvp-comment-579-1 ἀραχθέντων ²³

mvp-comment-579-2 ὑπό ²⁴

mvp-comment-580-1 κερκίδων ²⁵

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 (

πόρπαι = περόναι

); and O. T. 1269 n.

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

944-987. mvp-comment-537-1 The chorus, in the manner of Pindar, moralise on the fate of Antigone through examples drawn from the circle of mythology and legend; and thus suggest the same cold comfort as in their mention of Niobe. The effect of this ode is to repress the excitement and solemnize the thoughts of the spectator. 'Danaë, though of royal lineage, and entrusted with the golden shower, was bound by all-constraining destiny in her brazen cell. 'Bound, too, in a prison of rock, was Lycurgus, who provoked the God. He knew his madness when it was too late. And on the Thracian promontory Phineus sons, blinded by their father's wife (Idothea), bewailed their rejected mother Cleopatra's hapless lot, who, descended from an ancient line, and endowed with swiftness by her divine sire, was notwithstanding overtaken by the long-lived fates.' Danae and Cleopatra were, like Antigone, of royal birth, and, like Antigone, were bound in a living tomb. So also was the son of Dryas, himself a king: and this, in his case, was the penalty of an impetuous and defiant spirit. Sophocles seems to have followed one version of the obscure and variable legend of Phineus, according to which Cleopatra did not die, but was rejected by Phineus for Idothea, and imprisoned in a cave, from which she was afterwards released by Heracles. The sons were blinded by their step-mother. The first strophe and antistrophe are choriambic with an iambic close; the second, logaoedic. The choriambi here were probably chanted slowly, so as to have a weighty, solemn effect. The scheme is as follows: a'. First strophe and antistrophe. IILUCI LUCILー LUCILIITUCICートに IICClluclトー IIICCILUCIトに ICICICI KLCICICI CトートUICIK β'. Second strophe and antistrophe. UCCTCCICCI IICCICCII!یں ILU TUCI くいくいトCICIK Cトートしーーー ―トビトCICIK CÚCCICICICC

966-968. mvp-comment-555-1 And hard by Cyanean rocks that divide the seas, are the cliffs of the Bosphorus and the Thracian promontory of Salmydessus, where,' etc. The genitive gives indefiniteness to the notion of place, and παρά implies neighbouring extent.

966. mvp-comment-556-1 πελαγέων, see v. rr., although metrically allowable (πελᾶγεων), is condemned by the vagueness of the meaning and the tautology in πελαγέων .. ἁλός. The ingenious conjecture of Wieseler is therefore adopted. It is confirmed by the gloss πετρῶν. The 1st syllable of Ἄρης is long in arsi supr. 139.

969. mvp-comment-557-1 The lost cretic has been differently supplied: ἄξevos Boeckh, ήτων Meineke. A verb is more wanted, e. g.

969. mvp-comment-557-2 ἵσταται, κλήζεται.

970. mvp-comment-558-1 ἀγχίπτολις Ἄρης This can only mean The War-god whose temple is near the city (of Salmydessus). Cp. Aesch. S. c. T. 501. The details of the legend as accepted by Sophocles are unknown to us, and hence we can hardly judge of the appropriateness of the epithet. The Thracian worship of Ares is well known.

971. mvp-comment-559-1 δισσοῖσι Φινεΐδαις Dative of direct reference depending on τυφλωθέν. Essay on Language § 12. p. 18.

972. mvp-comment-560-1 ἀρατόν Accursed; i.e. Bringing a curse on Phineus and Idothea.

972. mvp-comment-560-2 ἕλκος τυφλωθέν. The blinding wound inflicted.' The 'cognate verb᾽ τυφλωθέν is substituted for ποιηθέν or the like. Essay on Language § 17. p. 25, c.

973. mvp-comment-561-1 ἐξ ἀγρίας δάμαρτος For the preposition, see Essay on Language $ 19. p. 28, 2.

973. mvp-comment-561-2 δάμαρτος Idothea, who had been made the wife of Phineus through the repudiation of Cleopatra. 974- ἀλαὸν ἀλαστόροισιν ὀμμάτων κύκλοις] Sightless (i. e. producing blindness) on the vengeful orbits of their eyes. For the causative use of ἀλαόν, see Essay on Language §. 53. p. 98.

973. mvp-comment-561-3 ἀλαστόροισιν Bringing vengeance,' i. e. Pleading successfully though silently for retribution. The dative is partly dative of place and partly of direct reference. Causing blindness in or to the eyes.

975. mvp-comment-562-1 *ἀραχθέντων Lachmann's conjecture for ἀραχθὲν ἐγχέων. When they were smitten. Another is ἄτερθ' ἐγχέων.

976. mvp-comment-563-1 κερκίδων ἀκμαῖσιν A woman's weapon. The shuttle was sharpened at the point, so as to be inserted between the threads, in order to regulate the density of the web. This process was called κερκίζειν, and the art is named by Plato κερκιστική. Plat. Polit. 282 B, C: Sophist. 226 B: Crat. 388 A.

Sophocles Antigone 966

Thomas Francklin (Translator)