Antonio G. Garbin Antigone 39

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)) — 39 focus
τί δ᾽, ὦ ταλαίφρων, εἰ τάδ᾽ ἐν τούτοις, ἐγὼ
λύουσ᾽ ἂν ἢ ᾽φάπτουσα προσθείμην πλέον 1 ;
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Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 39 focus
Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 39 focus
τί δ᾽, ὦ ταλαίφρων, εἰ τάδ᾽ ἐν τούτοις, ἐγὼ
λύουσ᾽ ἂν ἢ ᾿φάπτουσα προσθείμην πλέον;
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Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879)) — 39 focus
τί δ᾽, ὦ ταλαῖφρον, εἰ τάδ' ἐν τούτοις, ἐγὼ
λύουσ᾽ ἂν ἢ ᾿φάπτουσα προσθείμην πλέον;
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Greek (A. Colonna, 1978) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Colonna, 1978)) — 39 focus
τί δ᾽, ὦ ταλαῖφρον, εἰ τάδ᾽ ἐν τούτοις, ἐγὼ
λύουσ᾽ ἂν εἴθ᾽ ἅπτουσα προσθείμην πλέον;
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Greek (A. Dain, 1955) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Dain, 1955)) — 39 focus
τί δ’, ὦ ταλαῖφρον, εἰ τάδ’ ἐν τούτοις, ἐγὼ
λύουσ’ ἂν εἴθ’ ἅπτουσα προσθείμην πλέον;
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Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979)) — 39 focus
τί δ᾽, ὦ ταλαῖφρον, εἰ τάδ᾽ ἐν τούτοις, ἐγὼ
λύουσ᾽ ἂν εἴθ᾽ ἅπτουσα προσθείμην πλέον;
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Greek (G. Hermann, 1830) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (G. Hermann, 1830)) — 39 focus
τί δ᾽, ὦ ταλαῖφρον, εἰ τάδ᾽ ἐν τούτοις, ἐγὼ
λύουσ᾽ ἂν ἢ θάπτουσα προσθείμην πλέον;
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Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906)) — 39 focus
τί δ᾽, ὦ ταλαῖφρον, εἰ τάδ᾽ ἐν τούτοις, ἐγὼ
λύουσ᾽ ἂν ἢ ᾽φάπτουσα προσθείμην πλέον;
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Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924)) — 39 focus
τί δ᾽, ὦ ταλαῖφρον, εἰ τάδ᾽ ἐν τούτοις, ἐγὼ
λύουσ᾽ ἂν εἴθ᾽ ἅπτουσα προσθείμην πλέον;
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Antigone (OCR draft) Experimental (Antigone) — 39 focus
Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949)) — 39 focus
τί δ᾽, ὦ ταλαῖφρον, εἰ τάδ᾽ ἐν τούτοις, ἐγὼ
λύουσ᾽ ἂν ἢ ᾽φάπτουσα προσθείμην πλέον;
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Translations (10)
German (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 39 focus
Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921)) — 39 focus
¿Y qué, ¡oh desdichada!, si las cosas están así, podré remediar yo, tanto si desobedezco como si acato esas órdenes?
Latin (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Latin (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 39 focus
Nam quid, o misera, quum res in eo loco sit, facitis meis ego vel solvens vel adstringens, prodesse possim?
English (Lewis Campbell, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Lewis Campbell, 1906)) — 39 focus
Unhappy one! But what can I herein
Avail to do or undo?
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German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review)) — 39 focus
Was kann ich, wenn dies also steht, Unselige, 1
Hier, lösend oder bindend, uns zum Frommen thun?
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English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759)) — 39 focus
What wouldst thou have me do ? — defy his
power?
Contemn the laws ?
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German (F. Hölderlin, 1804) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (F. Hölderlin, 1804)) — 39 focus
English (Sir Richard Jebb1, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb1, 1904)) — 39 focus
Poor sister,—and if things stand thus, what 40 could I help to do or undo?
English (Robert Potter, 1788) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Robert Potter, 1788)) — 39 focus
That sinks the soul with anguish, deep distress,
Shame, and disgrace, but in thy ills and mine
I see it all. E'en now what new decree
Is rumour'd by the Chief as late proclaim'd
Through all the city? Know'st thou? Hast thou heard?
Or art thou unacquainted with the ills
Which from our foes advance against our friends?
To me no tidings of our friends are come,
Pleasing or mournful, since the fatal hour
At once deprived us of our brothers, slain
Each by the other's hand; and this last night
To those who know it not; no trivial charge,
Nor to be slighted; for whoe'er performs.
English (Sir Richard Jebb2, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb2, 1904)) — 1-98 focus

Commentary

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

mvp-comment-7-1 αὖ 1

mvp-comment-7-2 πανδήμῳ πόλει 2

mvp-comment-8-1 θεῖναι 3

mvp-comment-8-2 τὸν στρατηγόν 4

mvp-comment-9-1 ἔχεις 5

mvp-comment-9-2 κεἰσήκουσας 6

mvp-comment-10-1 τῶν ἐχθρῶν κακά 7

mvp-comment-11-1 μέν 8 ἐμοί 9

mvp-comment-11-2 Ἀντιγόνη 10

mvp-comment-11-3 φίλων 11 μῦθος 12

mvp-comment-11-4 ἐξ ὅτου 13

mvp-comment-12-1 δυοῖν … δύο 14 δύο 15

mvp-comment-13-1 θανόντοιν 16

mvp-comment-13-2 διπλῇ χερί 17

mvp-comment-14-1 ἐπεί 18

mvp-comment-14-2 ἐν νυκτὶ τῇ νῦν 19

mvp-comment-14-3 ὑπέρτερον 20

mvp-comment-14-4 As

οἶδ’ εὐτυχοῦσα = οἶδ’ ὅτι εὐτυχῶ
, so the participles εὐτυχοῦσα 21 ἀτωμένη 22

mvp-comment-15-1 ᾔδη 23 καλῶς 24

mvp-comment-15-2 αὐλείων πυλῶν 25

mvp-comment-15-3 ἐξέπεμπον 26

mvp-comment-16-1 τί δ’ ἔστι 27 δηλοῖς 28

mvp-comment-16-2 καλχαίνουσ’ ἔπος τι 29

mvp-comment-16-3 is figuratively used like the Homeric

πορφύρω
. In
πορφύρω
the idea of trouble precedes that of colour: in
καλχαίνω
, vice versa.

mvp-comment-17-1 οὐ γάρ 30

mvp-comment-17-2 τὼ κασιγνήτω … τὸν μὲν … τὸν δέ 31

mvp-comment-17-3 The place of τάφου 32 προτίσας 33 τάφου 34 ἀτιμάσας 35

mvp-comment-17-4 ἀτιμάσας ἔχει 36

mvp-comment-18-1 σὺν δίκῃ | χρησθεὶς δικαίᾳ καὶ νόμῳ 37 χρησθεὶς 38 σὺν δίκης | χρήσει δικαίᾳ καὶ νόμου 40 δίκης 41 σύν 42 δίκῃ 43 χρήσει 44 χρησθείς 45 χρῆσθαι δικαιῶν 46

mvp-comment-18-2 νόμου 47

mvp-comment-19-1 τοῖς ἔνερθεν ἔντιμον νεκροῖς 48 πᾶσι κλεινός 49

mvp-comment-20-1 θανόντα … Πολυνείκους νέκυν 50

mvp-comment-21-1 ἐκκεκηρῦχθαι 51

mvp-comment-21-2 τὸ μὴ … καλύψαι 52

mvp-comment-22-1 ἐᾶν δ’ 53 ἄταφον ἄκλαυτον 54

mvp-comment-23-1 θησαυρόν 55

mvp-comment-23-2 εἰσορῶσι 56 εἰσορμῶσι 57

mvp-comment-23-3 Take πρὸς χάριν βορᾶς 58

mvp-comment-23-4 πρὸς χάριν 59

mvp-comment-24-1 σοί 60 κἀμοί 61 κηρύξαντ’ ἔχειν 62

mvp-comment-24-2 τὸν ἀγαθόν 63

mvp-comment-24-3 λέγω γὰρ κἀμέ 64

mvp-comment-24-4 Two other explanations may be noticed. Both make σοι 65 σοι 66 τοιαῦτα 67 κἀμοί 68 σοι 69 σοι 70 ἀγαθόν 71

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

1-17. mvp-comment-1-1 The opening speeches reveal the contrast between the sisters, while the affectionate address of Antigone in l. 1 gives greater emphasis to her violent outbreak in l. 69. Cp. О. Т. 85, and note.

6. mvp-comment-6-1 τῶν.. κακῶν, partitive genitive, as supplementary predicate. See Essay on Language § 10. p. 15.

7-8. mvp-comment-7-1 πανδήμῳ.. στρατηγόν The Thebans had gone forth πανδημεί under Creon's generalship, and he had made the proclamation as στρατηγός, before assuming the civil power. Cp. Thuc. 5. 60, § 5, τὰς ἀπὸ στρατείας δίκας πρὶν ἐσιέναι κρίνουσιν. The publicity of the edict makes it more painful. Antigone knows what she is doing. Infr. 44, 907.

9. mvp-comment-8-1 τι is adverbial.

10. mvp-comment-9-1 τῶν ἐχθρῶν When evils devised by enemies are threatening those we love. In the vehemence of her resentment she already speaks of Creon as an enemy. Cp. infr. 62. τὰ ἀπὸ τῶν ἐχθρῶν κακά, Schol. According to others τῶν ἐχθρῶν is abl. gen. passing from enemies, i.e. no longer directed towards them, or descriptive, evils which belong to enemies, i. e. which should be confined to them.

11. mvp-comment-10-1 οὐδεὶς μῦθος.. φίλων Νo word concerning any of our friends. Essay on Language § 9. p. 13.

12. mvp-comment-11-1 ἐξ ὅτου Sophocles has not been careful to mark the exact sequence of the events preceding the action of the Play. (See Introduction.) But the death of the brothers is supposed to have taken place some little time before the rout of the Argive host. Infr. 144-148.

14. mvp-comment-12-1 μιᾷ.. διπλῇ Essay on Language p. 69.

17. mvp-comment-13-1 μᾶλλον is redundant, the whole expression being epexegetic of οὐδὲν ὑπέρτερον, and in construction with οἶδα.

18-19. mvp-comment-14-1 καί σ'.. ἐξέπεμπον And it is for this that I have been leading thee forth. Thus a probable reason is given for the appearance of the two maidens before the gate. Their usual seclusion has been somewhat relaxed during the absence of Creon and Eteocles with the army. Infr. 578-579. Cp. El. 517.

20. mvp-comment-15-1 δηλοῖς γάρ τι καλχαίνουσ᾽ ἔπος It is plain that your thoughts are darkening with some troublous word.

20. mvp-comment-15-2 καλχαίνω is formed on a fancied analogy to πορφύρω, as this is used in Homer of the agitation of the sea, and, metaphorically, of the mind. According to others the first notion of καλχαίνω is to stir from the depths, as in dredging for the murex (κάλχη).

21. mvp-comment-16-1 τάφου is genitive of respect with both participles, but chiefly privative genitive ve ἀτιμάσας. See Essay on Language p. 66, 1, 68. She implies that both brothers had been dishonoured by the decree. Cp. infr. 515-517, οὐ μαρτυρήσει ταῦθ᾽ ὁ κατθανὼν νέκυς.. οὐ γάρ τι δοῦλος, ἀλλ᾽ ἀδελφὸς ὤλετο.

23. mvp-comment-17-1 ὡς λέγουσι, resumed in φασιν l. 27, φασι l. 31, points to the fact that the maidens in their seclusion could only know of the edict from hearsay.

23. mvp-comment-17-2 σὺν δίκῃ | †χρησθεὶς δικαίᾳ καὶ νόμῳ χρησθείς has been generally condemned, and ἐχρήσθην only occurs elsewhere in a strictly passive sense. Yet, as Shilleto observes (Journ. of Phil. No. 13, p. 149), ᾐδεσάμην and ᾐδέσθην, the former in lyric verse, the latter in senarii, are found within a few lines of each other in O. T. 647, 651; and χρησάμενος does not occur in Sophocles.

23. mvp-comment-17-3 Ἐτεοκλέα ἔκρυψε, χρησθεὶς (αὐτῷ) σὺν δίκῃ, is not impossible in point of syntax. On the other hand neither χρησθεὶς δίκαια, nor χρηστοῖς δικαίᾳ, nor προσθεὶς δίκαια, can be approved. In 1871 I suggested προθείς. After laying him out in state, with the righteous meed of honour and all customary observance, he has covered him in earth. Cp. Hdt. 1.112-115. 8, τρεῖς μὲν ἡμέρας προτιθέασι τὸν νεκρόν: inf. 196, καὶ τὰ πάντ᾽ ἐφαγνίσαι. This part of the treatment of Eteocles would contrast with the prohibition even to mourn for Polynices. Cp. Thuc. 2. 34, where the words καὶ ἐπιφέρει τῷ αὑτοῦ ἕκαστος ἤν τι βούληται throw some light on the custom implied in σὺν δίκῃ δικαίᾳ καὶ νόμῳ. For the emphatic δικαίᾳ, cp. Αj. 1100, ἐς ταφὰς ἐγὼ θήσω δικαίως: Hdt. 8. 106, νόμῳ δικαίῳ χρεώμενοι. προθείς may have been changed to προσθείς (which Donaldson conjectured), and to this may have been added an interlinear gloss ἃ χρή. Cp. 1. 243. κάφαγιστεύσας ἃ χρή. Another guess is χρῆσθαι δικαιῶν (sc. αὐτῷ). For similar fullness of expression on a solemn occasion, cp. O. T. 219, 259.

25. mvp-comment-18-1 τοῖς .. νεκροῖς Holding his honours amongst the dead; i.e. not ἄτιμος, or deprived of common rights.

26. mvp-comment-19-1 θανόντα .. νέκυν Cp. infr. 515, ὁ κατθανὼν νέκυς.

27. mvp-comment-20-1 ἐκκεκηρύχθαι Passive. That proclamation has been made. Cp. προκεῖσθαι, l. 36 .

29. mvp-comment-21-1 ἐἂν. Sc. πάντας. The affirmative subject is supplied from the negative Cp. the language of the proclamation in O. T. 241, and see Essay on Language p. 59.

29. mvp-comment-21-2 ἄκλαυτον, ἄταφον Cp. Od. 11. 72; Il. 22. 386; Eur. Hec. 30.

29-30. mvp-comment-22-1 οἰωνοῖς .. βορᾶς (1) To the vultures a sweet treasure as they eye him with a view to the gratification of food. Cp. infr. 371 τόλμας χάριν : 908, τίνος νόμου δὴ ταῦτα πρὸς χάριν λέγω; Or, perhaps. (2) To the vultures, eyeing him, a glad store of food to gratify their desire. For πρὸς χάριν in the latter rendering, cp. Phil. 1156, ἀντίφονον κορέσαι στόμα πρὸς χάριν, and for the combination of adverbial phrase and noun, El. 1336, σὺν χαρᾷ βοῆς.

31. mvp-comment-23-1 τὸν ἀγαθὸν Κρέοντα Cp. Phil. 873, ἁγαθοὶ στρατηλάται.

31-32. mvp-comment-24-1 σοι | κάμοί, λέγω γὰρ κἀμέ] Antigone first says, There is Creon's proclamation for you! (σοι unemphatic as in l. 37:) then, going off upon the word, For you, did I say? ay, and for me too, for I count myself also amongst those forbidden. This is said with bitter emphasis, showing that she has fully counted the cost of the act she meditates. The proclamation extends to me-I accept the consequences. For λέγω in this sense, cp. Aesch. Prom. 973, καὶ σὲ δ᾽ ἐν τούτοις λέγω: Cho. 989, Αἰγίσθου γὰρ οὐ λέγω μόρον. Others take κἀμέ as κάμοί, Το me, I say! (whose spirit he little knows).