Sophocles Antigone 270

νεῦσαι φόβῳ προὔτρεψεν. οὐ γὰρ εἴχομεν
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Antigone. Sophocles. Fleischer. 1830.

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Greek (G. Hermann, 1830) (OCR draft) (Greek) (Greek (G. Hermann, 1830))

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Editions (11)
Greek (L. Benloew, 1858) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (L. Benloew, 1858)) — 270 focus
οὔτ᾽ ἀντιφωνεῖν, οὔθ᾽ ὅπως δρῶντες καλῶς
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Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 270 focus
καὶ ταῦτ᾽ ἐνίκα, κἀμὲ τὸν δυσδαίμονα
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Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 270 focus
πράξαιμεν. ἦν δ᾽ ὁ μῦθος, ὡς ἀνοιστέον
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Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879)) — 270 focus
νεῦσαι φόβῳ προὔτρεψεν· οὐ γὰρ εἴχομεν
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Greek (A. Colonna, 1978) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Colonna, 1978)) — 270 focus
νεῦσαι φόβῳ προὔτρεψεν· οὐ γὰρ εἴχομεν
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Greek (A. Dain, 1955) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Dain, 1955)) — 270.mvp-line-270 focus
νεῦσαι φόβῳ προὔτρεψεν· οὐ γὰρ εἴχομεν
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Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979)) — 270 focus
νεῦσαι φόβωι προύτρεψεν· οὐ γὰρ εἴχομεν
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Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906)) — 270 focus
νεῦσαι φόβῳ προὔτρεψεν· οὐ γὰρ εἴχομεν
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Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924)) — 270.mvp-line-270 focus
νεῦσαι φόβῳ προύτρεψεν· οὐ γὰρ εἴχομεν
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Antigone (OCR draft) Experimental (Antigone) — 270 focus
νεῦσαι φόβῳ προὔτρεψεν· οὐ γὰρ εἴχομεν
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Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949)) — 270 focus
νεῦσαι φόβωι προύτρεψεν· οὐ γὰρ εἴχομεν
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Translations (10)
German (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 270 focus
KREON.
Gegenstr. 2.
Weh mir!
Dies andre zweite Leiden schau' Elender ich!
1235
O welch, welch Geschick denn harrt meiner noch?
In meinen Händen halt' ich noch mein Kind, und dort,
ich Elender, muſs ich jene liegen sehn.
Ach ach, arme Mutter! ach, armes Kind!
Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921)) — 270 focus
CREONTE
1328 ¡Venga, venga! ¡Aparezca el último y más deseado de mis infortunios, trayéndome el fin de mis dias días! ¡Venga, venga, para que ya no vea otro sol!
Latin (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Latin (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 270 focus
Chorus
1334 Futura haec sunt: quae praesens res postulat, procurare decet: illorum enim curam gerent ii, quibus convenit ea esse curae.
English (Lewis Campbell, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Lewis Campbell, 1906)) — 270 focus
CR
1339
Take me away, the vain-proud man that slew
Thee, O my son! unwittingly,—and thee!
1340
Me miserable, which way shall I turn,
Which look upon? Since all that I can touch
Is falling,—falling,—round me, and o’erhead
1345
Intolerable destiny descends.
German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review)) — 278 focus
Schon lang, o König, überlegt mein Inneres,
Ob eine Gottheit diese That nicht angeregt.
English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759)) — 270 focus
Creon
Take hence this useless load, this guilty
wretch
Who slew his child, who slew e'en thee, my wife ;
I know not whither to betake me, where
To turn my eyes, for all is dreadful round me,
And fate hath weighed me down on every side.
Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889)) — 270 focus
CREONTE
¡Mísero de mil tarde, sí la he reconocido. Alguna Deidad, irritada contra mi, trastornó mi juicio, y me precipitó en la senda de la crueldad; y con pié despiadado ¡ay de mi! ha derrumbado toda mi felicidad... ¡Ayl... ¡ay! vanidad de los proyectos humanos!...
German (F. Hölderlin, 1804) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (F. Hölderlin, 1804)) — 270 focus
KREON
Führt Schritt vor Schritt den eiteln Mann. Der ich
Dich, Kind, doch gernenicht, getödtet, sieauch, sie;
1390
Ich Armer weiss nicht, wen ich ansehn soll,
Und nicht, wohin ich gehe.
Denn alles Schiefe hat
Hier in den Händen und hier mir auf das Haupt
Ein wüst Schiksaal gehäufet.
1395
English (Sir Richard Jebb1, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb1, 1904)) — 270 focus
Creon
All my desires, at least, were summed in that prayer.
English (Sir Richard Jebb2, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb2, 1904)) — 332-380 focus

Commentary

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

mvp-comment-146-1 προὔτρεψεν 1

mvp-comment-146-2 οὐ γὰρ εἴχομεν 2

mvp-comment-146-3 As ἀντιφωνεῖν 3 δρῶντες 4 ὅπως δρῶντες 5 εἴχομεν 6

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.