¡Señor! gran cúmulo de males caen sobre tí: tienes ante tus ojos este espectáculo doloroso, y te esperan además otras desgracias en tu Palacio.
CREONTE
Antigone. Antonio G. Garbin. Madrid. 1889.
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Greek (L. Benloew, 1858) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (L. Benloew, 1858)) — 1278 focus
ὦ δέσποθ᾽, ὡς ἔχων τε καὶ κεκτημένος,
τὰ μὲν πρὸ χειρῶν τάδε
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φέρων, τὰ δ᾽ ἐν δόμοις
ἔοικας ἥκειν καὶ τάχ᾽ ὄψεσθαι κακά.
ὦ δέσποθ᾽, ὡς ἔχων τε καὶ κεκτημένος,
τὰ μὲν πρὸ χειρῶν τάδε
1
φέρων, τὰ δ᾽ ἐν δόμοις
ἔοικας ἥκειν καὶ τάχ᾽ ὄψεσθαι κακά.
Κρέων
Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 1278 focus
Ἐξάγγελος
ὦ δέσποθ᾽, ὡς ἔχων τε καὶ κεκτημένος,
τὰ μὲν πρὸ χειρῶν τάδε φέρων, τὰ δ᾽ ἐν δόμοις
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ἔοικας ἥκειν καὶ τάχ᾽ ὄψεσθαι κακά.
ὦ δέσποθ᾽, ὡς ἔχων τε καὶ κεκτημένος,
τὰ μὲν πρὸ χειρῶν τάδε φέρων, τὰ δ᾽ ἐν δόμοις
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ἔοικας ἥκειν καὶ τάχ᾽ ὄψεσθαι κακά.
Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 1278 focus
ὦ δέσποθ᾽, ὅσσ᾽ ἔχων τε καὶ κεκτημένος
ἔοικας ἥκων κ᾽ ἐνθάδ᾽ ὄψεσθαι κακά!
ὦ δέσποθ᾽, ὅσσ᾽ ἔχων τε καὶ κεκτημένος
ἔοικας ἥκων κ᾽ ἐνθάδ᾽ ὄψεσθαι κακά!
Κρέων
Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879)) — 1278 focus
ὦ δέσποθ', ὡς, ἔχων τε καὶ κεκτημένος,
τὰ μὲν πρὸ χειρῶν τάδε φέρων, τὰ δ᾽ ἐν δόμοις
ἔοικας ἥκειν καὶ τάχ᾿ ὄψεσθαι κακά.
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ὦ δέσποθ', ὡς, ἔχων τε καὶ κεκτημένος,
τὰ μὲν πρὸ χειρῶν τάδε φέρων, τὰ δ᾽ ἐν δόμοις
ἔοικας ἥκειν καὶ τάχ᾿ ὄψεσθαι κακά.
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Κρέων
Greek (A. Colonna, 1978) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Colonna, 1978)) — 1278 focus
ὦ δέσποθ᾽, ὡς ἔχων τε καὶ κεκτημένος,
τὰ μὲν πρὸ χειρῶν τάδε φέρων, τὰ δ᾽ ἐν δόμοις
ἔοικας ἥκειν καὶ τάχ᾽ ὄψεσθαι κακά.
1280
ὦ δέσποθ᾽, ὡς ἔχων τε καὶ κεκτημένος,
τὰ μὲν πρὸ χειρῶν τάδε φέρων, τὰ δ᾽ ἐν δόμοις
ἔοικας ἥκειν καὶ τάχ᾽ ὄψεσθαι κακά.
1280
Κρέων
Greek (A. Dain, 1955) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Dain, 1955)) — 1278 focus
ὦ δέσποθ’, ὡς ἔχων τε καὶ κεκτημένος,
τὰ μὲν πρὸ χειρῶν τάδε φέρων, τὰ δ’ ἐν δόμοις
ἔοικας ἥκειν καὶ τάχ’ ὄψεσθαι κακά.
1280
ὦ δέσποθ’, ὡς ἔχων τε καὶ κεκτημένος,
τὰ μὲν πρὸ χειρῶν τάδε φέρων, τὰ δ’ ἐν δόμοις
ἔοικας ἥκειν καὶ τάχ’ ὄψεσθαι κακά.
1280
Κρέων
Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979)) — 1278 focus
ὦ δέσποθ᾽, ὡς ἔχων τε καὶ κεκτημένος,
τὰ μὲν πρὸ χειρῶν τάδε φέρων, τὰ δ᾽ ἐν δόμοις
ἔοικας ἥκειν καὶ τάχ᾽ ὄψεσθαι κακά.
1280
ὦ δέσποθ᾽, ὡς ἔχων τε καὶ κεκτημένος,
τὰ μὲν πρὸ χειρῶν τάδε φέρων, τὰ δ᾽ ἐν δόμοις
ἔοικας ἥκειν καὶ τάχ᾽ ὄψεσθαι κακά.
1280
Κρέων
Greek (G. Hermann, 1830) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (G. Hermann, 1830)) — 1278 focus
ὦ δέσποθ᾽ , ὡς ἔχων τε καὶ κεκτημένος,
τὰ μὲν πρὸ χειρῶν τάδε φέρων, τὰ δ᾽ ἐν δόμοις
ἔοικας ἥκειν καὶ τάχ᾽ ὄψεσθαι κακά.
1265
ὦ δέσποθ᾽ , ὡς ἔχων τε καὶ κεκτημένος,
τὰ μὲν πρὸ χειρῶν τάδε φέρων, τὰ δ᾽ ἐν δόμοις
ἔοικας ἥκειν καὶ τάχ᾽ ὄψεσθαι κακά.
1265
Κρέων
Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906)) — 1278 focus
ὦ δέσποθ᾽, ὡς ἔχων τε καὶ κεκτημένος,
τὰ μὲν πρὸ χειρῶν τάδε φέρων,
τὰ δ᾽ ἐν δόμοις
ἔοικας ἥκειν καὶ τάχ᾽ ὄψεσθαι κακά.
1280
ὦ δέσποθ᾽, ὡς ἔχων τε καὶ κεκτημένος,
τὰ μὲν πρὸ χειρῶν τάδε φέρων,
τὰ δ᾽ ἐν δόμοις
ἔοικας ἥκειν καὶ τάχ᾽ ὄψεσθαι κακά.
1280
Κρέων
Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924)) — 1278 focus
ὦ δέσποθ᾽, ὡς ἔχων τε καὶ κεκτημένος,
τὰ μὲν πρὸ χειρῶν τάδε φέρειν, τὰ δ᾽ ἐν δόμοις
ἔοικας ἥκων καὶ τάχ᾽ ὄψεσθαι κακά.
1280
ὦ δέσποθ᾽, ὡς ἔχων τε καὶ κεκτημένος,
τὰ μὲν πρὸ χειρῶν τάδε φέρειν, τὰ δ᾽ ἐν δόμοις
ἔοικας ἥκων καὶ τάχ᾽ ὄψεσθαι κακά.
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Κρέων
Antigone (OCR draft) Experimental (Antigone) — 1278 focus
Ἐξάγγελος
ὦ δέσποθʼ, ὡς ἔχων τε καὶ κεκτημένος,
τὰ μὲν πρὸ χειρῶν τάδε φέρων, τὰ δʼ ἐν δόμοις
ἔοικας ἥκειν καὶ τάχʼ ὄψεσθαι κακά.
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ὦ δέσποθʼ, ὡς ἔχων τε καὶ κεκτημένος,
τὰ μὲν πρὸ χειρῶν τάδε φέρων, τὰ δʼ ἐν δόμοις
ἔοικας ἥκειν καὶ τάχʼ ὄψεσθαι κακά.
1280
Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949)) — 1278 focus
ὦ δέσποθ᾽, ὡς ἔχων τε καὶ κεκτημένος,
τὰ μὲν πρὸ χειρῶν τάδε φέρων, τὰ δ᾽ ἐν δόμοις
ἔοικας ἥκειν καὶ τάχ᾽ ὄψεσθαι κακά.
1280
ὦ δέσποθ᾽, ὡς ἔχων τε καὶ κεκτημένος,
τὰ μὲν πρὸ χειρῶν τάδε φέρων, τὰ δ᾽ ἐν δόμοις
ἔοικας ἥκειν καὶ τάχ᾽ ὄψεσθαι κακά.
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Κρέων
Translations (10)
German (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 1278 focus
HAUSDIENER.
(tritt auf)
O Herr, wie einer, der so recht im Erbbesitz
der Übel wäre, trägst du dieses hier im Arm,
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und kommst, im Hause gleich zu schaun das andere.
O Herr, wie einer, der so recht im Erbbesitz
der Übel wäre, trägst du dieses hier im Arm,
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und kommst, im Hause gleich zu schaun das andere.
Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921)) — 1278 focus
¡Ah, señor! ¡Cómo teniendo y sintiendo la desgracia que llevas en tus manos, tienes otra en casa, que pronto verás!
CREONTE
Latin (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Latin (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 1278 focus
O here, qualibus mactatum afflictumque malis, qualia etiam advenientem hic videre te oportet !
Creon
English (Lewis Campbell, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Lewis Campbell, 1906)) — 1278 focus
My lord and master. Thou art master here
Of nought but sorrows. One within thine arms
Thou bear’st with thee, and in thy palace hall
Thou hast possession of another grief,
Which soon thou shalt behold.
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My lord and master. Thou art master here
Of nought but sorrows. One within thine arms
Thou bear’st with thee, and in thy palace hall
Thou hast possession of another grief,
Which soon thou shalt behold.
1280
CR
German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review)) — 1278 focus
Als wärst du recht im Vollbesize jedes Leids,
Herr, trägst du dies im Arme: das im Hause weilt,
Das andre Leiden wirst du bald mit Augen sehn.
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Als wärst du recht im Vollbesize jedes Leids,
Herr, trägst du dies im Arme: das im Hause weilt,
Das andre Leiden wirst du bald mit Augen sehn.
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Kreon.
English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759)) — 1278 focus
Thus oppressed, my lord,
With bitterest misfortune, more aliliction
Awaits thee still, which thou Avilt find within.
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Thus oppressed, my lord,
With bitterest misfortune, more aliliction
Awaits thee still, which thou Avilt find within.
1280
Creon
German (F. Hölderlin, 1804) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (F. Hölderlin, 1804)) — 1278 focus
BOTE
O Herr! wie hast du schon und wie empfängst du.
Das in den Händen trägst du, das. Unddasim Haufs’
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Auch das Unglük znsehen musst du kommen.
O Herr! wie hast du schon und wie empfängst du.
Das in den Händen trägst du, das. Unddasim Haufs’
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Auch das Unglük znsehen musst du kommen.
English (Sir Richard Jebb1, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb1, 1904)) — 1278 focus
Sire, thou hast come, methinks, as one whose hands are not empty, but who hath store laid up besides; thou bearest yonder burden with thee; and thou
1280
art soon to look upon the woes within thy house.
English (Robert Potter, 1788) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Robert Potter, 1788)) — 1284 focus
These are my unblest counsels! Omy son,
My son! Untimely is thy fate, cut off
These are my unblest counsels! Omy son,
My son! Untimely is thy fate, cut off
English (Sir Richard Jebb2, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb2, 1904)) — 1261-1345 focus
Creon
Ah, the blunders of an unthinking mind, blunders of rigidity, yielding death! Oh, you witnesses of the killers and the killed, both of one family!
What misery arises from my reasonings! Haemon, you have died after a young life, youngest and last of my sons! O God! You have departed not by your foolishness, but by my own!
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Ah, the blunders of an unthinking mind, blunders of rigidity, yielding death! Oh, you witnesses of the killers and the killed, both of one family!
What misery arises from my reasonings! Haemon, you have died after a young life, youngest and last of my sons! O God! You have departed not by your foolishness, but by my own!
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Chorus
Ah, how late you seem to see the right!
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Ah, how late you seem to see the right!
1270
Creon
God, I have mastered the bitter lesson! But then, then, I think, some god struck me on my head with a crushing weight, and drove me into savage paths,
—ah!—and overthrew my joy to be trampled on! Ah, the labors men must toil through!
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Enter the Messenger from the house.
God, I have mastered the bitter lesson! But then, then, I think, some god struck me on my head with a crushing weight, and drove me into savage paths,
—ah!—and overthrew my joy to be trampled on! Ah, the labors men must toil through!
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Messenger
My master, you have come, I think, like one whose hands are not empty, but who has a ready store: first, you carry that burden visible in your arms;
second, you will soon look upon further sufferings inside your house.
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My master, you have come, I think, like one whose hands are not empty, but who has a ready store: first, you carry that burden visible in your arms;
second, you will soon look upon further sufferings inside your house.
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Creon
What worse suffering is still to follow upon these sufferings?
What worse suffering is still to follow upon these sufferings?
Messenger
Your wife is dead, true mother of that corpse, poor lady, by wounds newly cut.
Your wife is dead, true mother of that corpse, poor lady, by wounds newly cut.
Creon
O harbor of Hades, hard to purify!
Why, why do you ruin me? Herald of evil, of grief, what word do you say? Ah, you have done in a dead man anew! What are you saying, boy? What is this you report to me
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God no!—what new slaughter, my wife’s doom, is heaped upon this ruin?
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The doors of the palace are opened, and the corpse of Eurydice is disclosed.
O harbor of Hades, hard to purify!
Why, why do you ruin me? Herald of evil, of grief, what word do you say? Ah, you have done in a dead man anew! What are you saying, boy? What is this you report to me
1285
God no!—what new slaughter, my wife’s doom, is heaped upon this ruin?
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Chorus
The sight is at hand. It is no longer hidden inside.
The sight is at hand. It is no longer hidden inside.
Creon
Ah, misery!
There I see a new, a second evil! What destiny, ah, what, can still await me? I have just now taken my son in my arms, and now I see another corpse before me!
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Oh, tormented mother! Oh, my son!
1300
Ah, misery!
There I see a new, a second evil! What destiny, ah, what, can still await me? I have just now taken my son in my arms, and now I see another corpse before me!
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Oh, tormented mother! Oh, my son!
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Messenger
By the altar, with a sharp-whetted sword, she struck until her eyes went slack and dark. Before that she bewailed the noble fate of Megareus who died earlier, and then the fate of this boy, and also, with her last breath,
she called down evil fortune upon you, the slayer of her sons.
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By the altar, with a sharp-whetted sword, she struck until her eyes went slack and dark. Before that she bewailed the noble fate of Megareus who died earlier, and then the fate of this boy, and also, with her last breath,
she called down evil fortune upon you, the slayer of her sons.
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Creon
Ah, no! I tremble with fear. Why does no one strike me full on my chest with a two-edged sword?
I am miserable—ah—and bathed in miserable anguish!
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Ah, no! I tremble with fear. Why does no one strike me full on my chest with a two-edged sword?
I am miserable—ah—and bathed in miserable anguish!
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Messenger
Yes, because you were accused of responsibility for both this son’s death, and the other’s, by her whose corpse you see.
Yes, because you were accused of responsibility for both this son’s death, and the other’s, by her whose corpse you see.
Creon
What was the manner of the violent deed by which she departed?
What was the manner of the violent deed by which she departed?
Messenger
Her own hand struck her to the heart upon learning her son’s sharply-lamented fate.
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Her own hand struck her to the heart upon learning her son’s sharply-lamented fate.
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Creon
Ah this guilt can never be fastened onto any other mortal so as to remove my own! It was I, yes, I, who killed you, I the wretch.
I admit the truth. Lead me away, my servants, lead me from here with all haste, who am no more than a dead man!
1320
Ah this guilt can never be fastened onto any other mortal so as to remove my own! It was I, yes, I, who killed you, I the wretch.
I admit the truth. Lead me away, my servants, lead me from here with all haste, who am no more than a dead man!
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Chorus
The course you recommend is to your gain, if there can be gain amidst evil. What is briefest is best, when trouble lies at your feet.
1325
The course you recommend is to your gain, if there can be gain amidst evil. What is briefest is best, when trouble lies at your feet.
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Creon
Let it come, let it appear, that fairest of fates for me, that brings my final day,
the fate supreme! Oh, let it come, so that I may never see tomorrow’s light!
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1334
Let it come, let it appear, that fairest of fates for me, that brings my final day,
the fate supreme! Oh, let it come, so that I may never see tomorrow’s light!
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Chorus
These things are in the future. We must see to present affairs.
Fulfillment of these things rests in the hands where it should rest.
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These things are in the future. We must see to present affairs.
Fulfillment of these things rests in the hands where it should rest.
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Creon
All that I crave was summed in that prayer.
All that I crave was summed in that prayer.
Chorus
Then pray no more; for mortals have no release from destined misfortune.
Then pray no more; for mortals have no release from destined misfortune.
Creon
Lead me away, I beg you, a rash, useless man.
I have murdered you, son, unwittingly, and you, too, my wife—the misery! I do not know which way I should look, or where I should seek support. All is
1340
amiss that is in my hands, and, again, a crushing fate has leapt upon my head.
1345
Lead me away, I beg you, a rash, useless man.
I have murdered you, son, unwittingly, and you, too, my wife—the misery! I do not know which way I should look, or where I should seek support. All is
1340
amiss that is in my hands, and, again, a crushing fate has leapt upon my head.
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Commentary
Commentary (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) (Commentary (Lewis Campbell, 1879)) focus
223-330. mvp-comment-136-1 The half-comic or rustic character of the watchman in this play is an extension of the common character of the messenger, whose natural rudeness of speech and thought brings into greater prominence the horror or pathos of the events he describes. The grotesqueness disappears when he speaks of the action of Antigone in 407-440. The employment of this artifice by Sophocles arises from the same motive to which Shakespeare gave a far wider range in such creations as the gravediggers in Hamlet, and the rural fellow in Antony and Cleopatra. The Messenger in the Trachiniae, the Corinthian in the Oedipus Tyrannus, Menelaus in the Ajax, the pretended Shipmaster in the Philoctetes, afford the same sort of contrast to the more tragic personages: and the superstition of the Coloniatae may be compared with the cowardice of the Phrygian slave in the Orestes of Euripides.
223-330.
mvp-comment-136-2
The vulgarity of the common-place Athenian of the fifth century в.с. takes the form of misplaced subtlety of wit. Cp.
Shak. Hamlet, 5. 1
,
We must speak by the card, or equivocation will undo us. The age is grown so picked, that the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier, he galls his kibe.