ἀλλ᾽ ἁ μοιριδία τις δύνασις δεινά·
Antigone. Sophocles. Fleischer. 1830.
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Greek (G. Hermann, 1830) (OCR draft) (Greek) (Greek (G. Hermann, 1830))
Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.
Editions (11)
Greek (L. Benloew, 1858) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (L. Benloew, 1858)) — 941 focus
αὐλαῖς·
κρυπτομένα δ᾽ ἐν
Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 941 focus
Μοῖραι μακραίωνες ἔσχον, ὦ παῖ.
Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 941 focus
κατάφρακτος ἐν δεσμῷ.
Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879)) — 941 focus
τὴν *βασιλειδᾶν μούνην λοιπήν,
Greek (A. Colonna, 1978) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Colonna, 1978)) — 941 focus
τὴν βασιλειδᾶν μούνην λοιπήν,
Greek (A. Dain, 1955) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Dain, 1955)) — 941.mvp-line-932 focus
τὴν βασιλειδῶν μούνην λοιπήν,
Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979)) — 941 focus
τὴν βασιλειδῶν μούνην λοιπήν,
Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906)) — 941 focus
τὴν βασιλειδᾶν μούνην λοιπήν,
Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924)) — 941.mvp-line-933 focus
τὴν βασιλειδᾶν μούνην λοιπήν,
Antigone (OCR draft) Experimental (Antigone) — 941 focus
τὴν βασιλειδᾶν μούνην λοιπήν,
Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949)) — 941 focus
τὴν βασιλειδᾶν μούνην λοιπήν,
Translations (2)
German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review)) — 944 focus
Auch der Danaë Reiz mußte des Himmels
(sie wird abgeführt.)
Lichtstrahl einst mit der Nacht tauschen im erzdichten
925
Haus und verborgen
Im grabähnlichen Ruhgemach wohnen.
Und doch war sie, o Kind, Kind, von Geburt edel,
Und trug hegend im Schooß goldener Saat Ströme von Zeus.
Ja, wohl ist des Geschicks Obergewalt furchtbar;
930
Nie kann der Reichthum, Ares nie,
1
Nicht Vesten ihr, kein dunkles Schiff
Entflieh'n, das rings umbraust die Woge.
Erste Gegenstrophe.
Auch der Danaë Reiz mußte des Himmels
Lichtstrahl einst mit der Nacht tauschen im erzdichten
925
Haus und verborgen
Im grabähnlichen Ruhgemach wohnen.
Und doch war sie, o Kind, Kind, von Geburt edel,
Und trug hegend im Schooß goldener Saat Ströme von Zeus.
Ja, wohl ist des Geschicks Obergewalt furchtbar;
930
Nie kann der Reichthum, Ares nie,
1
Nicht Vesten ihr, kein dunkles Schiff
Entflieh'n, das rings umbraust die Woge.
English (Sir Richard Jebb2, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb2, 1904)) — 944-985 focus
Chorus
So too endured Danae in her beauty to change
the light of the sky for brass-bound walls, and in that chamber, both burial and bridal, she was held in strict confinement. And yet was she of esteemed lineage, my daughter,
945
and guarded a deposit of the seed of Zeus that had fallen in a golden rain. But dreadful is the mysterious power of fate—there is no deliverance from it by wealth or by war, by towered city, or dark, sea-beaten ships.
950
So too endured Danae in her beauty to change
the light of the sky for brass-bound walls, and in that chamber, both burial and bridal, she was held in strict confinement. And yet was she of esteemed lineage, my daughter,
945
and guarded a deposit of the seed of Zeus that had fallen in a golden rain. But dreadful is the mysterious power of fate—there is no deliverance from it by wealth or by war, by towered city, or dark, sea-beaten ships.
950
Chorus
And Dryas’s son, the Edonian king swift to rage, was tamed in recompense for his frenzied insults, when, by the will of Dionysus, he was shut in a rocky prison. There the fierce and swelling force of his madness trickled away.
955
That man came to know the god whom in his frenzy he had provoked with mockeries. For he had sought to quell the god-inspired women and the Bacchanalian fire,
960
and he angered the Muses who love the flute.
965
And Dryas’s son, the Edonian king swift to rage, was tamed in recompense for his frenzied insults, when, by the will of Dionysus, he was shut in a rocky prison. There the fierce and swelling force of his madness trickled away.
955
That man came to know the god whom in his frenzy he had provoked with mockeries. For he had sought to quell the god-inspired women and the Bacchanalian fire,
960
and he angered the Muses who love the flute.
965
Chorus
And by the waters of the Dark Rocks, the waters of the twofold sea, are the shores of
Bosporus
and the Thracian city Salmydessus,
where Ares, neighbor of that city, saw the accursed, blinding wound inflicted on the two sons of Phineus by his savage wife. It was a wound that brought darkness to the hollows, making them crave vengeance
970
for the eyes she crushed with her bloody hands and with her shuttle for a dagger.
975
And by the waters of the Dark Rocks, the waters of the twofold sea, are the shores of
Bosporus
and the Thracian city Salmydessus,
where Ares, neighbor of that city, saw the accursed, blinding wound inflicted on the two sons of Phineus by his savage wife. It was a wound that brought darkness to the hollows, making them crave vengeance
970
for the eyes she crushed with her bloody hands and with her shuttle for a dagger.
975
Chorus
Wasting away in their misery, they bewailed their miserable suffering
and their birth from their mother stripped of her marriage. But she traced her descent from the ancient line of the Erechtheids, and in far-distant caves she was raised amidst her father’s gusts. She was the child of Boreas,
980
running swift as horses over the steep hills, a daughter of gods. Yet she, too, was assailed by the long-lived Fates, my child.
985
Wasting away in their misery, they bewailed their miserable suffering
and their birth from their mother stripped of her marriage. But she traced her descent from the ancient line of the Erechtheids, and in far-distant caves she was raised amidst her father’s gusts. She was the child of Boreas,
980
running swift as horses over the steep hills, a daughter of gods. Yet she, too, was assailed by the long-lived Fates, my child.
985
Commentary
Commentary (R. C. Jebb) (OCR draft) (Commentary (R. C. Jebb))
Commentary (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) (Commentary (Lewis Campbell, 1879)) focus
941. mvp-comment-535-1 *βασιλειδᾶν is Seyffert's ingenious emendation, based on Hesychius' βασιλείδης· ὁ τοῦ βασιλέως. Ismene is throughout only thought of as a foil for Antigone, and there is no more impropriety in Antigone speaking of herself as the last of her race than in the chorus (supr. 599 ff.) singing of the extinction of the light that was spreading over the last remaining shoot of the Labdacidae.