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Antigone. Antonio G. Garbin. Madrid. 1889.

Current edition Experimental

Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889) (OCR draft) (Spanish) (Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889))

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Editions (12)
Greek (L. Benloew, 1858) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (L. Benloew, 1858)) — 499 focus
τί δῆτα μέλλεις; ὡς ἐμοὶ τῶν σῶν λόγων
ἀρεστὸν οὐδὲν, μηδ᾽ ἀρεσθείη ποτέ 1 .
οὕτω δὲ καὶ σοὶ τἄμ’ ἀφανδάνοντ᾽ ἔφυ.
καίτοι πόθεν κλέος γ᾽ ἂν εὐκλεέστερον
κατέσχον, ἢ τὸν αὐτάδελφον ἐν τάφῳ
500
τιθεῖσα; τούτοις τοῦτο πᾶσιν ἁνδάνειν
λέγοιτ᾽ ἂν, εἰ μὴ γλῶσσαν ἐγκλείσοι φόβος.
ἀλλ᾽ ἡ τυραννὶς πολλά τ᾽ ἄλλ᾽ εὐδαιμονεῖ,
κἄξεστιν αὐτῇ δρᾷν λέγειν θ᾽ ἃ βούλεται.
Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 499 focus
Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 499 focus
τί δῆτα μέλλεις; ὡς ἐμοὶ τῶν σῶν λόγων
ἀρεστὸν οὐδὲν, μηδ᾽ ἀρεσθείη ποτέ·
οὕτω δὲ καί σοι τἄμ᾽ ἀφανδάνοντ᾽ ἔφυ.
καί τοι πόθεν κλέος γ᾽ ἂν εὐκλεέστερον
495
κατέσχον, ἢ τὸν αὐτάδελφον ἐν τάφῳ
τιθεῖσα; τοῖσδε τοῦτο πᾶσιν ἁνδάνειν
λέγοιτ᾽ ἂν, εἰ μὴ γλῶσσαν ἐγκλείσοι φόβος·
ἀλλ᾽ ἡ τυραννὶς πολλά τ᾽ ἄλλ᾽ εὐδαιμονεῖ,
κἄξεστιν αὐτῇ δρᾷν λέγειν θ᾽, ἃ βούλεται.
500
Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879)) — 499 focus
τί δῆτα μέλλεις; ὡς ἐμοὶ τῶν σῶν λόγων
ἀρεστὸν οὐδέν, μηδ' ἀρεσθείη ποτέ,
500
οὕτω δὲ καὶ σοὶ τἄμ᾽ ἀφανδάνοντ᾽ ἔφυ.
καίτοι πόθεν κλέος γ᾽ ἂν εὐκλεέστερον
κατέσχον ἢ τὸν αὐτάδελφον ἐν τάφῳ
τιθεῖσα; τούτοις τοῦτο πᾶσιν ἁνδάνειν
λέγοιτ᾿ ἄν, εἰ μὴ γλῶσσαν *ἐγκλείσαι φόβος.
505
ἀλλ᾽ ἡ τυραννὶς πολλά τ᾿ ἄλλ᾽ εὐδαιμονεῖ
κἄξεστιν αὐτῇ δρᾶν λέγειν θ᾽ ἃ βούλεται.
Greek (A. Colonna, 1978) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Colonna, 1978)) — 499 focus
τί δῆτα μέλλεις; ὡς ἐμοὶ τῶν σῶν λόγων
ἀρεστὸν οὐδέν, μηδ᾽ ἀρεσθείην ποτέ·
500
οὕτω δὲ καὶ σοὶ τἄμ᾽ ἀφανδάνοντ᾽ ἔφυ.
καίτοι πόθεν κλέος γ᾽ ἂν εὐκλεέστερον
κατέσχον ἢ τὸν αὐτάδελφον ἐν τάφῳ
τιθεῖσα; τούτοις τοῦτο πᾶσιν ἁνδάνειν
λέγοιτ᾽ ἄν, εἰ μὴ γλῶσσαν ἐγκλῄσοι φόβος.
505
ἀλλ᾽ ἡ τυραννὶς πολλά τ᾽ ἄλλ᾽ εὐδαιμονεῖ
κἄξεστιν αὐτῇ δρᾶν λέγειν θ’ ἃ βούλεται.
Greek (A. Dain, 1955) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Dain, 1955)) — 499 focus
τί δῆτα μέλλεις; ὡς ἐμοὶ τῶν σῶν λόγων
ἀρεστὸν οὐδέν, μηδ’ ἀρεσθείη ποτέ·
500
οὕτω δὲ καὶ σοὶ τἄμ’ ἀφανδάνοντ’ ἔφυ.
καίτοι πόθεν κλέος γ’ ἂν εὐκλεέστερον
κατέσχον ἢ τὸν αὐτάδελφον ἐν τάφῳ
τιθεῖσα; τούτοις τοῦτο πᾶσιν ἁνδάνειν
λέγοιτ’ ἄν, εἰ μὴ γλῶσσαν ἐγκλῄσοι φόβος.
505
ἀλλ’ ἡ τυραννὶς πολλά τ’ ἄλλ’ εὐδαιμονεῖ
κἄξεστιν αὐτῇ δρᾶν λέγειν θ’ ἃ βούλεται.
Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979)) — 499 focus
τί δῆτα μέλλεις; ὡς ἐμοὶ τῶν σῶν λόγων
ἀρεστὸν οὐδέν, μηδ᾽ ἀρεσθείη ποτέ·
500
οὕτω δὲ καὶ σοὶ τἄμ᾽ ἀφανδάνοντ᾽ ἔφυ.
καίτοι πόθεν κλέος γ᾽ ἂν εὐκλεέστερον
κατέσχον ἢ τὸν αὐτάδελφον ἐν τάφωι
τιθεῖσα; τούτοις τοῦτο πᾶσιν ἁνδάνειν
λέγοιτ᾽ ἄν, εἰ μὴ γλῶσσαν ἐγκλήιοι φόβος.
505
ἀλλ᾽ ἡ τυραννὶς πολλά τ᾽ ἄλλ᾽ εὐδαιμονεῖ
κἄξεστιν αὐτῆι δρᾶν λέγειν θ᾽ ἃ βούλεται.
Greek (G. Hermann, 1830) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (G. Hermann, 1830)) — 499 focus
τί δῆτα μέλλεις; ὡς ἐμοὶ τῶν σῶν λόγων
495
ἀρεστὸν οὐδέν, μηδ᾽ ἀρεσθείην ποτέ·
οὕτω δὲ καὶ σοὶ τἄμ᾽ ἀφανδάνοντ᾽ ἔφυ.
καί τοι πόθεν κλέος γ᾽ ἂν εὐκλεέστερον
κατέσχον, ἢ τὸν αὐτάδελφον ἐν τάφῳ
τιθεῖσα; τούτοις τοῦτο πᾶσιν ἁνδάνειν
500
λέγοιτ᾽ ἄν, εἰ μὴ γλῶσσαν ἐγκλείσοι φόβος.
ἀλλ᾽ ἡ τυραννὶς πολλά τ᾽ ἄλλ᾽ εὐδαιμονεῖ,
κἄξεστιν αὐτῇ δρᾶν λέγειν θ᾽, ἃ βούλεται.
Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906)) — 499 focus
τί δῆτα μέλλεις; ὡς ἐμοὶ τῶν· σῶν λόγων
ἀρεστὸν οὐδέν, μηδ᾽ ἀρεσθείη ποτέ·
500
οὕτω δὲ καὶ σοὶ τἄμ᾽ ἀφανδάνοντ᾽ ἔφυ.
καίτοι πόθεν κλέος γ᾽ ἂν εὐκλεέστερον
κατέσχον ἢ τὸν αὐτάδελφον ἐν τάφῳ
τιθεῖσα; τούτοις τοῦτο πᾶσιν ἁνδάνειν
λέγοιτ᾽ ἄν, εἰ μὴ γλῶσσαν ἐγκλῄοι φόβος.
505
ἀλλ᾽ ἡ τυραννὶς πολλά τ᾽ ἄλλ᾽ εὐδαιμονεῖ,
κἄξεστιν αὐτῇ δρᾶν λέγειν θ᾽ ἃ βούλεται.
Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924)) — 499 focus
τί δῆτα μέλλεις; ὡς ἐμοὶ τῶν σῶν λόγων
ἀρεστὸν οὐδέν, μηδ᾽ ἀρεσθείη ποτέ,
500
οὕτω δὲ καὶ σοὶ τἄμ᾽ ἀφανδάνοντ᾽ ἔφυ.
καίτοι πόθεν κλέος γ᾽ ἂν εὐκλεέστερον
κατέσχον ἢ τὸν αὐτάδελφον ἐν τάφῳ
τιθεῖσα; τούτοις τοῦτο πᾶσιν ἁνδάνειν
λέγοιτ᾽ ἄν, εἰ μὴ γλῶσσαν ἐγκλῄοι φόβος.
505
ἀλλ᾽ ἡ τυραννὶς πολλά τ᾽ ἄλλ᾽ εὐδαιμονεῖ
κἄξεστιν αὐτῇ δρᾶν λέγειν θ᾽ ἃ βούλεται.
Antigone (OCR draft) Experimental (Antigone) — 499 focus
Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949)) — 499 focus
τί δῆτα μέλλεις; ὡς ἐμοὶ τῶν σῶν λόγων
ἀρεστὸν οὐδέν, μηδ᾽ ἀρεσθείη ποτέ·
500
οὕτω δὲ καὶ σοὶ τἄμ᾽ ἀφανδάνοντ᾽ ἔφυ.
καίτοι πόθεν κλέος γ᾽ ἂν εὐκλεέστερον
κατέσχον ἢ τὸν αὐτάδελφον ἐν τάφωι
τιθεῖσα; τούτοις τοῦτο πᾶσιν ἁνδάνειν
λέγοιτ᾽ ἄν, εἰ μὴ γλῶσσαν ἐγκλήιοι φόβος.
505
ἀλλ᾽ ἡ τυραννὶς πολλά τ᾽ ἄλλ᾽ εὐδαιμονεῖ,
κἄξεστιν αὐτῆι δρᾶν λέγειν θ᾽ ἃ βούλεται.
Translations (10)
German (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 499 focus
Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921)) — 499 focus
¿Pues qué esperas ya? A mi, tus razonamientos ni me gustan ni me podrán gustar; y lo mismo a ti, los mios nunca te han agradado. Y a la verdad, ¿cómo hubiera yo podido alcanzar gloria más célebre que dando sepultura a mi propio hermano? Todos éstos dirían que lo que he hecho es de su agrado, si el miedo no les trabase la lengua. Pero los tiranos tienen ésta y muchas otras ventajas, y les es permitido hacer y decir cuanto quieran.
Latin (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Latin (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 499 focus
Quid igitur moraris?
nam mihi tuis ex sermonibus nihil placet; neque placiturum sit umquam: parique modo mea tibi non probantur. Atqui undenam celebriorem gloriam consequi possem, quam, quod germanum humo cendidi? his quoque omnibus, qui adsunt, idem placere diceretur, si non linguam praecluderet metus: at cum alia ob multa felix est qui regnat, tum quia licet ei facere dicereque, quae lubet.
English (Lewis Campbell, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Lewis Campbell, 1906)) — 499 focus
Why then delay? No talk of thine can charm me,
Forbid it Heaven! And my discourse no less
500
Must evermore sound noisome to thine ear.
Yet where could I have found a fairer fame
Than giving burial to my own true brother?
All here would tell thee they approve my deed,
Were they not tongue-tied to authority.
505
But kingship hath much profit; this in chief,
That it may do and say whate’er it will.
German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review)) — 499 focus
Was also säumst du? Wie von deinen Worten mir
Gefällig keins ist und gefalle mir es nie!
So müssen auch die meinen dir mißfällig sein.
Und doch, wodurch wohl konnt' ich ehrenvollern Ruhm
500
Erringen, als indem ich meines Bruders Grab
Bestellte? Diese würden all' es wohlgethan
Erklären, fesselt' ihnen Furcht die Zunge nicht.
Doch wie dem Herrscher andres Glück in Menge ward,
So darf er reden, darf er thun, was ihm beliebt.
505
English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759)) — 499 focus
Why this delay then, when thou knowst my
To thee as hateful are as thine to me? \ [words
500
Therefore dispatch ; I cannot live to do
A deed more glorious ; and so these would all
Confess, were not their tongues restrained by fear ;
It is the tyrant's privilege, we know.
505
To speak and act whate'er he please, uncensured.
German (F. Hölderlin, 1804) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (F. Hölderlin, 1804)) — 499 focus
English (Sir Richard Jebb1, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb1, 1904)) — 499 focus
Why then dost thou delay? In thy discourse 500 there is nought that pleases me,—never may there be and so my words must needs be unpleasing to thee. And yet, for glory—whence could I have won a nobler, than by giving burial to mine own brother? All here would own that they thought it well, were not their lips sealed by fear. But royalty, blest in so much besides, hath the power to do and say what it will.
English (Robert Potter, 1788) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Robert Potter, 1788)) — 499 focus
Why then delay, since nothing in thy words
To me is pleasing, or will ever please ;
500
Nor will my words be pleasing to thy ear?
A brighter glory whence could I obtain
Than from this deed, a brother’s honour’d corse
Entombing? All here present would aloud
Applaud the deed, but fear hath chain’d their tongues.
505
Amidst their envied greatness kings enjoy
This. pow’r, to do and speak whate’er they please.
English (Sir Richard Jebb2, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb2, 1904)) — 499 focus

Commentary

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

mvp-comment-58-1 θερμὴν ἐπὶ ψυχροῖσι 1 ἐπί 2 θερμήν 3

mvp-comment-59-1 ἁδεῖν 4

mvp-comment-60-1 εἰ καὶ δυνήσει γ’ 5 καὶ 6 δυνήσει 7 εἰ καί 8

mvp-comment-61-1 Since οὐκοῦν 9 δὴ 10 ὅταν 11

mvp-comment-61-2 πεπαύσομαι 12

mvp-comment-62-1 ἀρχήν 13

mvp-comment-63-1 ἐχθαρεῖ 14

mvp-comment-63-2 ἐξ ἐμοῦ 15

mvp-comment-64-1 ἐχθρὰ...τῷ θανόντι προσκείσει δίκῃ 16 προσκείσει 17 ἐχθρά 18

mvp-comment-64-2 Lehrs proposed

Δίκῃ
, i.e. ‘you will fall under the chastisement of justice.’ Donaldson, following Emper, reads
ἐχθρᾷ... δίκῃ
, as iure inimicorum apud mortuum eris: i.e. on the part of the dead you will be deemed to have only the rights of a foe. This is impossible. The ordinary reading is sound.

mvp-comment-65-1 ἔα 19

mvp-comment-65-2 τὴν ἐξ ἐμοῦ δυσββουλίαν 20

mvp-comment-65-3 τὸ δεινὸν τοῦτο 21

mvp-comment-65-4 πείσομαι γὰρ οὐ 23

mvp-comment-65-5 μὴ οὐ 24

mvp-comment-66-1 τοῖς φίλοις δ’ ὀρθῶς φίλη 25 ἴσθι 26

mvp-comment-68-1 ἀελίου 27

mvp-comment-68-2 τὸ κάλλιστον ...φάος 28

mvp-comment-68-3 ἑπταπύλῳ 29

mvp-comment-68-4 τῶν προτέρων 30

mvp-comment-69-1 ἐφάνθης 31

mvp-comment-69-2 χρυσέας 32

mvp-comment-69-3 βλέφαρον 33

mvp-comment-69-4 Διρκαίων 34

mvp-comment-70-1 τὸν λεύκασπιν...φῶτα 35

mvp-comment-70-2 The words

τὸν λεύκασπιν Ἀργόθεν
answer metrically to 123
πευκάενθ’ Ἥφαιστον ἑλεῖν
. Instead of
Ἀργόθεν
(¯˘¯) we therefore require ¯˘˘¯. The short final of
λεύκασπιν
is legitimate, the metre being Glyconic (see Analysis Metr.). In the antistrophic verse, the H of
Ἥφαιστον
is ‘irrational,’ i.e. is a long syllable doing duty for a short: and Nauck is incorrect in saying that the metre ‘requires’ (though it admits) a choriambus beginning with a consonant. The simplest remedy is to read Ἀργόθεν ἐκ | βάντα φῶτα 36 Ἰναχόθεν 37

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

88. mvp-comment-57-1 θερμὴν .. ἔχεις Your courage is hot upon a cold enterprize.

88. mvp-comment-57-2 ψυχροῖσι] Chilling, i.e. Causing a cold thrill of horror. Cp. Aesch. Prom. 691-693, οὐδ᾽ ὧδε δυσθέατα καὶ δυσοιστὰ ... ψύχειν ψυχὰν ἐμάν. Also with an association from the meaning fruitless; cp. Hdt. 9. 49, ἐπαρθεὶς ψυχρῇ νίκῃ.

91. mvp-comment-58-1 Cp. 1. 926, παθόντες ἂν ξυγγνοῖμεν ἡμαρτηκότες.

94. mvp-comment-59-1 ἐχθρὰ .. δίκῃ And our dead brother will justly hold you as an enemy: ἐχθράν σε προσθήσεται: ср. Eur. Τr. 185, τῷ πρόσκειμαι δούλα; Who has me for his slave.

95. mvp-comment-60-1 τὴν ἐξ ἐμοῦ That proceeds from me; i. e. For which I alone am responsible. See Essay on Language § 19. p. 28. 1

96. mvp-comment-61-1 πείσομαι γὰρ οὐ The reading οὐ, for which some critics would substitute οὖν, is confirmed (1) by the tendency to a vehement accumulation of negatives in the speeches of Antigone in this scene: (2) by the similar emphatic inversions noticed in the Essay on Language § 41. p. 78.

99. mvp-comment-62-1 τοῖς φίλοις δ᾽ ὀρθῶς φίλη But unfailing in kindness to thy friends; i. e. A faithful sister to thine own brother. Cp. Eur. Or. 424, ἀληθὴς δ᾽ ἐς φίλους ἔφυν φίλος. Antigone goes to perform the sepulture, and Ismene returns into the palace. The stage is left vacant. As in the Ajax, there is a distinct break after the prologue, which has laid the ground of the action so far as Antigone is concerned. The first episodion, ll. 163 ff., is in one sense a fresh beginning, as setting forth the motives of Creon, and still only preparing for the collision. The parados, ll. 100 ff., introduces us to the public feeling of Thebes, and to the wider sphere of which the action forms the central point. 100 ff. Instead of a long series of anapaests, followed by lyrical strophes and antistrophes, as in the Ajax (with which cp. Aesch. Agamemnon), we have here two strophes and antistrophes alternating with anapaestic systems of about seven lines each: making a form of parodos intermediate between that of the Ajax and that of the O. T., in which there are no anapaests. The α' (100-109=117-133). chorus on its first appearance chants ll. 100-109, then advances while the coryphaeus recites 110-116, then the antistrophe is chanted, then another advance is made during the recitative of 11. 127-133, then strophe B' is chanted, the chorus by this time standing near the stage; then they make a final advance, and, during the second antistrophe, are standing full in front of the stage. Lastly, as Creon is seen approaching, the coryphaeus chants ll. 155-162, which thus form at once the conclusion of the parodos and the introit or prelude of the first episodium.

99. mvp-comment-62-2 The total effect is that of a stately and solemn triumph, in which the bright influence of the glyconic opening is tempered with slow movements (---), as in ll. 106, 122, 137, 151, and interrupted rhythms, as in ll. 103, 120, 138, 152; the notes of triumph and solemnity being combined in the choriambi, which bring the lyrical part to a close. Thus we have- β΄ (134-140=148-154). CI IICCー​しー CLトくト​CCI 51--10CICIC ト 1001010110010||| ――ト​し​て​トー luclcclcULCII) C- 「SƆIDII7 5トレト​しし LCCLLCCLLCCLLCCLI トリトー The culmination of feeling is marked by the dactylic opening of β'. The rhythms of a' 3. 4, 6, and β' 3, 4, show the correlation of the two movements. The adaptation of sound to sense is specially obvious in the resolved trochees of a' 7, while the concluding lines, a' 8, β' 7, serve to harmonize the logaoedic with the anapaestic measures. Cp. O. C. 135-137, 167-169.

99. mvp-comment-62-3 'Never did morning rise so fair as this which thou didst bring at length to waiting Thebè, O eye of golden day! For thy first beams, shooting over Dircè's rills, stirred into quicker flight the Argive warrior, who for Polynices' quarrel swooped upon our land on snow-white wing, with many a shield and many a plumèd helm.

99. mvp-comment-62-4 Threatening our halls in towering pride he stood, and gaped with bristling spears around our gates, thirsting for our blood: but he is gone, or ever his desire was slaked, or ever the fire-god caught our coronal of towers. Such fight displayed the serpent writhing in his gripe, not easily subdued. Such din of war assailed him as he turned to flee. For Zeus abhors the boaster and contemns the clank of gold. And when he saw them moving in a full proud stream, he smote with lightning from on high the daring climber who had gained the pinnacle and was eagerly preparing to shout victory. And swung to earth he fell with a rebound, the firebearer, who with mad rush was breathing his blast of enmity against the wall. And various was the fortune of the day. But terrible was the War-god as he plunged amidst our enemies, a mighty helper for us.

99. mvp-comment-62-5 'For at all our gates their captains, seven against seven, left their panoplies as trophies to our cause. All, save the horrid pair, who fell together with the guilt of mutual fratricide.

99. mvp-comment-62-6 But forget we the griefs of war. For victory came with smiles of joy to greet our smiling town. So visit we the temples of the gods with dances all night long: and let Theban Bacchus be the master of our revelry.

103. mvp-comment-63-1 χρυσέας χρυσέας, as in O. T. 158-187.

106. mvp-comment-64-1 The rivulet of Dircè was to the west of Thebes. The sun had risen just as the retreat of the Argives became a rout, and the army returning from pursuit would see the morning light reflected in the stream, which they would cross on their way back to the city. Cp. Eur. Phoen. 730. The ode is not chanted at sunrise, but celebrates the glorious morning which had seen the discomfiture of the enemy. The chorus of elders imagine themselves in the position of the victorious army.

106. mvp-comment-64-2 λεύκασπιν Cp. Aesch. S. c. Т. 96, λευκοπρεπή λέων: Eur. Phoen. 1099, λεύκασπιν εἰσορῶμεν Ἀργείων στράτον.

106. mvp-comment-64-3 Αργόθεν The correspondence of a dactyl in the antistrophe to the trochee Αργό- in this line justly leads to suspicion of the text, and Hermann conjectured Ἀργόθεν ἐκ. Qy. Ἀργόλεων ? or Ἀργογενή ?