Sophocles Antigone 966

Friedrich Hölderlin (Translator)

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Bei himmelblauen Felsen aber, wo
An beiden Enden Meerist,
1005
Dort sind des Bosphoros Ufer
Und der Busen Salmidessos,
Der Thraziern gehöret; daselbst sah, nahe
Der Stadt, der Schlachtgeist zu, ‚als beiden
Phineiden ward die Wunde der Blindheit
1010
Vom wilden Weibe gestofsen ,
Und finster wars in den muthwillgen Augenzirkeln.
Veni Speeren Stiche. Unter
Blutigen Händen und Nadelspizen.

Antigone. Sophocles. Friedrich Hölderlin (Translator). Frankfurt am Main. 1804.

Funding provided by National Endowment for the Humanities.

Current edition Experimental

German (F. Hölderlin, 1804) (OCR draft) (German) (German (F. Hölderlin, 1804))

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Editions (12)
Greek (L. Benloew, 1858) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (L. Benloew, 1858)) — 966 focus
παρὰ δὲ 1 Κυανέων πελαγέων διδύμας ἁλὸς
ἀκταὶ Βοσπόριαι,
ἰδ᾽ ὁ Θρῃκῶν Σαλμυδησσὸς 2 ,
ἵν᾽ 3 ἀγχίπολις Ἄρης
δισσοῖσι Φινείδαις 4
965
εἶδεν ἀρατὸν ἕλκος,
τυφλωθὲν ἐξ ἀγρίας δάμαρτος 5 ,
ἀλαὸν ἀλαστόροισιν ὀμμάτων κύκλοις
χάραγμ᾽ 6 ἐγχέων, ὑφ᾽ αἱματηραῖς
χείρεσσι καὶ κερκίδων ἀκμαῖσιν·
970
b
Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 966 focus
παρὰ δὲ Κυανέων πελαγέων διδύμας ἁλὸς
ἀκταὶ Βοσπόριαι ἰδ᾽ ὁ Θρῃκῶν ἄξενος
Σαλμυδησσός, ἵν᾽ ἀγχίπολις Ἄρης δισσοῖσι Φινεΐδαις
εἶδεν ἀρατὸν ἕλκος
τυφλωθὲν ἐξ ἀγρίας δάμαρτος,
930
ἀλαὸν ἀλαστόροισιν ὀμμάτων κύκλοις
ἀραχθέντων ὑφ᾽ αἱματηραῖς
χείρεσσι καὶ κερκίδων ἀκμαῖσιν.
2
Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 966 focus
παρὰ δὲ Κυανέων
πελαγέων διδύμας ἁλὸς
ἀκταὶ Βοσπόριαι,
ἰδ᾽ ὁ Θρᾳκῶν Σαλμυδησὸς,
950
ἵν᾽ ἀγχίπολις Ἄρης
δισσοῖσι Φινείδαις
εἶδεν ἀρατὸν ἕλκος
τυφλωθὲν ἐξ ἀγρίας δάμαρτος,
ἀλαὸν, ἀλαστόροισιν ὀμμάτων κύκλοις,
955
ῥαγὲν δ᾽ οὐκ ἐγχέων, αἱματηρᾶς
χειρὸς δὲ καὶ κερκίδων, ἀκμαῖσι.
2
Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879)) — 966 focus
παρὰ δὲ Κυανεᾶν *σπιλάδων διδύμας ἁλὸς
ἀκταὶ Βοσπόριαι ἰδ᾽ ὁ Θρῃκῶν – u -
Σαλμυδησός, ἵν᾿ ἀγχίπτολις Ἄρης
970
δισσοῖσι Φινεΐδαις
εἶδεν ἀρατὸν ἕλκος
τυφλωθὲν ἐξ ἀγρίας δάμαρτος
ἀλαὸν ἀλαστόροισιν ὀμμάτων κύκλοις
ἀραχθέντων ὑφ᾽ αἱματηραῖς
975
χείρεσσι καὶ κερκίδων ἀκμαῖσιν.
β
Greek (A. Colonna, 1978) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Colonna, 1978)) — 966 focus
παρὰ δὲ Κυανέων πελάγει διδύμας ἁλὸς
ἀκταὶ Βοσπόριαι ἰδ’ ὁ Θρῃκῶν ἄξενος
Σαλμυδησσός, ἵν᾽ ἀγχίπολις Ἄρης
970
δισσοῖσι Φινείδαις
εἶδεν ἀρατὸν ἕλκος
τυφλωθὲν ἐξ ἀγρίας δάμαρτος
ἀλαὸν ἀλαστόροισιν ὀμμάτων κύκλοις,
ἀραχθέντων, ὑφ᾽ αἱματηραῖς
975
χείρεσσι καὶ κερκίδων ἀκμαῖσιν.
2
Greek (A. Dain, 1955) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Dain, 1955)) — 966 focus
παρὰ δὲ Κυανέων πελάγει διδύμας ἁλὸς
ἀκταὶ Βοσπόριαι ἰδ’ ὁ Θρῃκῶν ἠιὼν
Σαλμυδησσός, ἵν’ ἀγχίπολις Ἄρης
970
δισσοῖσι Φινείδαις
εἶδεν ἀρατὸν ἕλκος
τυφλωθὲν ἐξ ἀγρίας δάμαρτος
ἀλαὸν ἀλαστόροισιν ὀμμάτων κύκλοις
ἄτερθ’ ἐγχέων, ὑφ’ αἱματηραῖς
975
χείρεσσι καὶ κερκίδων ἀκμαῖσιν.
2
Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979)) — 966 focus
παρὰ δὲ κυανέων †πελαγέων πετρῶν† διδύμας
ἁλὸς
ἀκταὶ Βοσπόριαι, †ἦδ᾽ ὁ Θρηικῶν †
Σαλμυδησσός, ἵν᾽ ἀγχίπολις Ἄρης
970
δισσοῖσι Φινείδαις
εἶδεν ἀρατὸν ἕλκος
τυφλωθὲν ἐξ ἀγρίας δάμαρτος,
ἀλαὸν ἀλαστόροισιν ὀμμάτων κύκλοις
†ἀραχθὲν ἐγχέων † ὑφ᾽ αἱματηραῖς
975
χείρεσσι καὶ κερκίδων ἀκμαῖσιν.
2
Greek (G. Hermann, 1830) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (G. Hermann, 1830)) — 966 focus
παρὰ δὲ Κυανέων πελαγέων διδύμας ἁλός,
955
ἀκταὶ Βοσπόριαι, ἰδ᾽ ὁ Θρῃκῶν Σαλμυδησσός,
ἵν᾽ ἀγχίπολις Ἄρης
δισσοῖσι Φινείδαις
εἶδεν ἀρατὸν ἕλκος
960
τυφλωθὲν ἐξ ἀγρίας δάμαρτος,
ἀλαὸν ἀλαστόροισιν ὀμμάτων κύκλοις
ἄτερθ᾽ ἐγχέων, ὑφ᾽ αἱματηραῖς
χείρεσσι καὶ κερκίδων ἀκμαῖσιν·
2
Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906)) — 966 focus
παρὰ δὲ Κυανεᾶν πελάγει διδύμας ἁλὸς 1
ἀκταὶ Βοσπόριαι ἠδ᾽ ὁ Θρῃκῶν 2
Σαλμυδησσός, ἵν᾿ ἀγχίπολις Ἄρης 3
970
δισσοῖσι Φινεΐδαις 4
εἶδεν ἀρατὸν ἕλκος 5
τυφλωθὲν ἐξ ἀγρίας δάμαρτος, 6
ἀλαὸν ἀλαστόροισιν ὀμμάτων κύκλοις, 7
ἀραχθέντων ὑφ᾽ αἱματηραῖς 8
975
χείρεσσι καὶ κερκίδων ἀκμαῖσιν. 9
2
Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924)) — 966 focus
παρὰ δὲ κυανέαιν σπιλάδοιν διδύμας ἁλὸς
ἀκταὶ Βοσπόριαι ἰδ᾽ ὁ Θρῃκῶν ἠιὼν
Σαλμυδησσός, ἵν᾽ ἀγχίπολις Ἄρης
970
δισσοῖσι Φινεΐδαις
εἶδεν ἀρατὸν ἕλκος
τυφλωθὲν ἐξ ἀγρίας δάμαρτος
ἀλαὸν ἀλαστόροισιν ὀμμάτων κύκλοις
ἀραχθέντων ὑφ᾽ αἱματηραῖς
975
χείρεσσι καὶ κερκίδων ἀκμαῖσιν.
Antigone (OCR draft) Experimental (Antigone) — 966 focus
Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949)) — 966 focus
παρὰ δὲ Κυανέων †πελαγέων πετρῶν† διδύμας
965
ἁλὸς
ἀκταὶ Βοσπόριαι ἠδ᾽ ὁ Θρηικῶν
Σαλμυδησσός, ἵν᾽ ἀγχίπτολις Ἄρης
970
δισσοῖσι Φινεΐδαις
εἶδεν ἀραῖον ἕλκος
τυφλωθὲν ἐξ ἀγρίας δάμαρτος
ἀλαὸν ἀλαστόροισιν ὀμμάτων κύκλοις
†ἀραχθὲν ἐγχέων ὑφ᾽ αἱματηραῖς
975
χείρεσσι καὶ κερκίδων ἀκμαῖσιν.
Translations (10)
German (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 966 focus
An den Kyanischen Wassern des flutenden Doppelmeers,
dort ist Bosporos' Strand und der Thraker schrecklicher
Salmydessos, wo einst Ares, der Stadt Gott, sah die Wunden, des Fluchs
volle, womit dem Phineus
der Söhne Paar wilder Gattin Ingrimm
930
geblendet, die der Augen Sterne gräuelvoll
mit blutumflofsnen Mörderhänden
und ihrer Webschiffe Zacken ausrifs.
Gegenstr. 2.
Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921)) — 966 focus
Y junto a las negras rocas de los dos mares 1 están las orillas del Bósforo y la inhospitalaria Salmideso de los tracios, en donde Marte, el protector de la ciudad, vió vio la execrable herida que a los dos hijos de Fineo infirió la fiera madrastra, que les arrancó los ojos de las órbitas, cruelmente doloridas, sin valerse de espada, sino con sangrientas manos y aguda punta de lanzadera;
Latin (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Latin (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 966 focus
Iuxta Cyanea aequora gemini maris, litora sunt Bosporia et Thracius Salmydesus, ubi vicinas urbes colens Mars geminos Phinei filios a fera noverca vidit lumine orbatos execrabili vulnere, inficto non lancearum, sed cruentae manus et pectinum cuspidibus.
English (Lewis Campbell, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Lewis Campbell, 1906)) — 966 focus
Chilling the Maenad breast
Kindled with Bacchic fire, and with annoy
Angering the Muse that in the flute hath joy.
And near twin rocks that guard the Colchian sea,
970
Bosporian cliffs ’fore Salmydessus rise,
Where neighbouring Ares from his shrine beheld
Phineus’ two sons by female fury quelled.
With cursèd wounding of their sight-reft eyes,
That cried to Heaven to ’venge the iniquity.
975
The shuttle’s sharpness in a cruel hand
German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review)) — 966 focus
An der kyanischen Flut des verschwisterten Meeres hin 1
Dehnt sich Bosporos' Strand und der Thrakier Salmydessos,
945
Wo Ares, im Land waltend als Gott,
An Phineus' zwei Söhnen
Schaute die grause Wunde,
Nachdem die ruchlose Gattin blendend
Der Augen Sterne beiden nicht mit dem Speere, nein,
950
Ergrimmt ausstach mit blut'gen Händen,
Mit ihrer Webschiffe scharfen Spizen.
Zweite Gegenstrophe.
Und es vergingen die Armen im Leid und beweinten ihr
English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759)) — 966 focus
His turbid waves where Salmydessus rolled,
And proud Oyaneji-'s rocks divide the flood,
There from thy temple. Mars, didst thou behold
970
The sons of Phineus weltering in their blood ;
A mother did the cruel deed,
A mother bade her children bleed ;
Both by her impious hand, deprived of light,
In vain lamented long their ravished sight,
And closed their eyes in never-ending night,
975
Long time they wept a better mother's fate,
Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889)) — 966 focus
No lejos de las aguas Cyancas, que corren entre ambos mares, junto á las playas del Bósforo y del hospitalario Salsmydesso de Tracia, el dios Marte, adorado en aquellos lugares, vió á los hijos de Fineo execrablemente vulnerados por su cruel madrastra con los ojos fuera de sus órbitas, pidiendo venganza, arrancados no con la lanza, sino por sangrientas manos con la aguda punta de la lanzadera.
English (Sir Richard Jebb1, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb1, 1904)) — 966 focus
Pining in their misery, they bewailed their cruel 980 doom, those sons of a mother hapless in her marriage ; but she traced her descent from the ancient line of the Erechtheidae; and in far-distant caves she was nursed amid her father’s storms, that child of Boreas, swift as a steed over the steep hills, a daughter of gods; yet upon her also the gray Fates bore hard, my daughter. Enter TEIRESIAS, led by a Boy, on the spectators’ right.
English (Robert Potter, 1788) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Robert Potter, 1788)) — 966 focus
With tears their slow obedience to repent.
English (Sir Richard Jebb2, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb2, 1904)) — 966 focus

Commentary

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

mvp-comment-598-1 The feuds and friendships of birds (

ἔχθραι τε καὶ στέργηθρα
Aesch. PV 492 ) were among the signs noted by augurs. In this case there was a vague omen of bloodshed (
φοναῖς
), but no clear sign. The seer now sought further light by another mode of divination.

mvp-comment-598-2 ἐμπύρων 1

mvp-comment-598-3 ἐγευόμην 2

mvp-comment-599-1 παμφλέκτοισι 3 θυμάτων 4

mvp-comment-600-1 Ἥφαιστος 5

mvp-comment-600-2 a bad sign, if the fire was smothered in smoke, or played feebly around the flesh without consuming it. See Eur. Phoen. 1255

μάντεις δὲ μῆλ’ ἔσφαζον, ἐμπύρους τ’ ἀκμὰς | ῥήξεις τ’ ἐνώμων, ὑγρότητ’ ἐναντίαν, | ἄκραν τε λαμπάδ’, ἣ δυοῖν ὅρους ἔχει, | vίκης τε σῆμα καὶ τὸ τῶν ἡσσωμένων
: the seers ‘were watching for points of flame, or for breaks in it,—such flickering as portends evil’; i.e., they were watching to see whether it would blaze up or die down. The
ἄκρα λαμπάς
is prob. the highest point of the fire, which, if towards the right side, meant victory; if towards the left, defeat. So Statius, Theb. 10. 599 , where Teiresias offers
ἔμπυρα
, and his daughter reports the signs to him (as the
παῖς
does here):
Sanguineos flammarum apices
(=
ἐμπύρους ἀκμάς
)
geminumque per aras | Ignem, et clara tamen mediae fastigia lucis
(=
ἄκραν λαμπάδα
) |
Orta docet: tunc in speciem serpentis inanem | Ancipiti gyro volvi
(‘as if creeping on its way without an aim, the fire played timidly around the offering’). In Seneca Oed. 307 Teiresias asks,
Quid flamma? Larga iamne comprendit dapes? | Utrumne clarus ignis et nitidus stetit, | Rectusque purum verticem caelo tulit, | An latera circum serpit incertus viae, | Et fluctuante turbidus fumo labat?

mvp-comment-601-1 The fat wrapped about the thigh-bones ought to have caught fire, when the flesh on the bones would have been burned, and the bones themselves calcined. But here there was no flame; the kindled fuel lay in smouldering embers (

σποδός
). The heat caused a fatty moisture to exude from the covering of the thigh-bones. Trickling forth on the embers, this moisture emitted smoke, and sputtered as it threw particles of the fat upwards. The gall-bladder, too, which lay on the top of the thighbones, instead of catching fire, was gradually inflated by the heat, till it burst, scattering the gall into the air. And now the melting of the fat which covered the thigh-bones had gone so far that it was no longer a covering, but merely a liquid that was streaming off them, while they themselves were left naked and intact. So utterly had the gods refused the offering.

mvp-comment-601-2 μυδῶσα 6

mvp-comment-601-3 κηκὶς μηρίων 7

mvp-comment-601-4 ἐτήκετο 8 ἐπὶ σποδῷ 9

mvp-comment-601-5 ἀνέπτυε 10

mvp-comment-602-1 χολαί 11

mvp-comment-602-2 καταρρυεῖς 12

mvp-comment-603-1 μηροί … μηρίων 13

mvp-comment-603-2 καλυπτῆς 14

mvp-comment-603-3 πιμελῆς 15 ἐξέκειντο 16

mvp-comment-604-1 τοιαῦτα 17

mvp-comment-604-2 ὀργίων μαντεύματα 18 φθίνοντα 19

mvp-comment-604-3 ἀσήμων 20

mvp-comment-605-1 ἡγεμών 21

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

1004. mvp-comment-580-1 πτερῶν.. ἦν For the whirring of their wings gave no uncertain sound: although their voices did. 1005 ἐγευόμην] By analogy for ἐπειρώμην, I made trial of the divination by burnt sacrifice,' similar to that used in the temple of Ismenus: O. Τ. 21.

1006. mvp-comment-581-1 βωμοῖσι παμφλέκτοισιν At the blazing altar. παν in composition is simply intensive, as in El. 1139: and the epithet is generally descriptive. See Essay on Language § 55. p. 101.

1006. mvp-comment-581-2 ἐκ δὲ θυμάτων 'But from the sacrifice the Fire-god refused to gleam; and on the ash a dank humour dripped from the thigh-bones, and fumed and sputtered, and the gall was sprinkled abroad in air, and the thighs wasted and lay bared of their enclosing fat.

1007. mvp-comment-582-1 For σποδός, cp Ο. Τ. 21: Hdt. 4.35, τῶν μηρίων καταγιζομένων ἐπὶ τῷ βωμῷ τὴν σποδόν.

1009. mvp-comment-583-1 μετάρσιοι is supplementary predicate. The preposition in ἐξέκειντο is emphatic. Cp. Od. 23. 179, ἔνθα οἱ ἐκθεῖσαι πυκινὸν λέχος: Thuc. 4. 129. § 3. ἔτυχον ἐξεστρατοπεδευμένοι ἔξω τῆς πόλεως.

1010. mvp-comment-584-1 καταρρυεῖς is explained to mean Flowing down with moisture,' but means rather Fallen away. Cp. Paus. 10. 2, 6 (L. and S s. ν. καταρρέω 1. 4), νεκροῦ κατερρυηκότος τὰς σάρκας.

1011. mvp-comment-585-1 The apparently active use of καλυπτῆς comes from καλύπτειν, in the sense of placing as a covering, i. e.

1011. mvp-comment-585-2 καλύπτειν πιμελὴν μηροῖς. For the meaning, cp. Aesch. Pr. 496, foll., κνισῇ τε κώλα συγκαλυπτά· καὶ μακρὰν | ὀσφὺν πυρώσας, δυστέκμαρτον ἐς τέχνην | ὥδωσα θνητούς· καὶ φλογωπὰ σήματα | ἐξωμμάτωσα, πρόσθεν ὄντ᾽ ἐπάργεμα.

1013. mvp-comment-586-1 Such failing tokens given by baffling auspices. Lit. Of victims giving no sign. Cp. Ps. 74. 9. We see not our signs; there is no more any prophet. φθίνοντα μαντεύματα are not Prophecies of decay,' but Rites of divination fading away, i. e. losing their virtue. Cp. Ο. Τ. 902, φθίνοντα.. Λαΐου | θέσφατα.