Sophocles Antigone 275

πάλος καθαιρεῖ τοῦτο τἀγαθὸν λαβεῖν.
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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)) — 275 focus
πάρειμι δ᾽ ἄκων 1 οὐχ ἑκοῦσιν, οἶδ’ ὅτι.
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Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 275 focus
τοὔργον τόδ᾽, ἡ ξύννοια βουλεύει πάλαι.
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Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 275 focus
στέργει γὰρ οὐδεὶς ἄγγελον κακῶν ἐπῶν.
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Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879)) — 275 focus
πάλος καθαιρεῖ τοῦτο τἀγαθὸν λαβεῖν.
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Greek (A. Colonna, 1978) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Colonna, 1978)) — 275 focus
πάλος καθαιρεῖ τοῦτο τἀγαθὸν λαβεῖν.
275
Greek (A. Dain, 1955) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Dain, 1955)) — 275.mvp-line-275 focus
πάλος καθαιρεῖ τοῦτο τἀγαθὸν λαβεῖν.
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Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979)) — 275 focus
πάλος καθαιρεῖ τοῦτο τἀγαθὸν λαβεῖν.
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Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906)) — 275 focus
πάλος καθαιρεῖ τοῦτο τἀγαθὸν λαβεῖν.
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Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924)) — 275.mvp-line-275 focus
πάλος καθαιρεῖ τοῦτο τἀγαθὸν λαβεῖν.
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Antigone (OCR draft) Experimental (Antigone) — 275 focus
πάλος καθαιρεῖ τοῦτο τἀγαθὸν λαβεῖν.
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Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949)) — 275 focus
πάλος καθαιρεῖ τοῦτο τἀγαθὸν λαβεῖν.
275
Translations (6)
German (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 275 focus
HAUSDIENER.
Mit eigner Hand durchbohrte sie die Weichen sich,
als sie des Sohnes tief bejammert Leid gehört.
Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921)) — 275 focus
CORO
1347 La prudencia es la primera condición para la felicidad; y es menester, en todo lo que a los dioses se refiere, no cometer impiedad; pues las insolentes bravatas que castigan a los soberbios con atroces desgracias, les enseñan a ser prudentes en la vejez.
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)) — 275 focus
Deianira
SCENE.— ^e/ore the Palace of Ceyx in Trachis. ACT I. Scene I.
Attendant.
Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889)) — 275 focus
EL CORO
1293 Puedes verla... y no allá en lo reservado de tu palacio 1 .
English (Sir Richard Jebb2, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb2, 1904)) — 332-380 focus

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.

274-275. mvp-comment-166-1 κἀμὲ.. λαβεῖν And the lot devotes me, wretched man, to be the recipient of this piece of luck. καθαιρεῖ is used much as in ἡ καθαιροῦσα ψῆφος, not by an extension of the technical sense, but with the same general mean- ing of Fastening upon, Bringing down, Overtaking and subduing.