Sophocles, Antigone, Friedrich Hölderlin (Translator), 128

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KREON

Gar lustig bist du auch, du und dein Bette.
595

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)) — 128 focus

ὑπερεχθαίρει· καί σφας ἐσιδὼν

Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 128 focus

χρυσοῦ καναχῆς ὑπεροπτείας,

Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 128 focus

ὑπερεχθαίρει, καί σφας ἐσιδὼν

Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879)) — 128 focus

ὑπερεχθαίρει, καί σφας ἐσιδὼν

Greek (A. Colonna, 1978) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Colonna, 1978)) — 128 focus

ὑπερεχθαίρει, καί σφας ἐσιδὼν

Greek (A. Dain, 1955) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Dain, 1955)) — 128.mvp-line-128 focus

ὑπερεχθαίρει, καί σφας ἐσιδὼν

Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979)) — 128 focus

ὑπερεχθαίρει, καί σφας ἐσιδὼν

Greek (G. Hermann, 1830) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (G. Hermann, 1830)) — 128 focus

ὑπερεχθαίρει· καί σφας ἐσιδὼν

Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906)) — 128 focus

ὑπερεχθαίρει, καί σφας ἐσιδὼν

Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924)) — 128.mvp-line-127 focus

Ζεὺς γὰρ μεγάλης γλώσσης κόμπους

Antigone (OCR draft) Experimental (Antigone) — 128 focus

ὑπερεχθαίρει, καὶ σφας ἐσιδὼν

Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949)) — 128 focus

ὑπερεχθαίρει, καί σφας ἐσιδὼν

Translations (10)

German (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 128 focus

KREON

Von diesen Mädchen, sag' ich, zeigt die eben jetzt

sinnlos sich, und die andre schon seitdem sie ward.

Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921)) — 128 focus

CREONTE

Yo, malas mujeres para mis hijos, no quiero.

Latin (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Latin (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 128 focus

Creon

Malas ego filiorum uxores odi.

English (Lewis Campbell, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Lewis Campbell, 1906)) — 128 focus

CR

I hate a wicked consort for my son.

German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review)) — 127 focus

Denn schwer haßt Zeus der vermessenen Zung'

Hochfahrenden Stolz; und als er ihr Heer,

Den heranwogenden Strom, schimmernd in Gold,

Im Geräusch unbändigen Trozes ersah,
130

Da traf er den Mann mit geschwungenem Strahl,¹

Der schon an die Höh'n,

Siegsruf anstimmend, empordrang.

Zweite Strophe.

English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759)) — 128 focus

Ismene

Wilt thou then take her from him ?

Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889)) — 128 focus

CREONTE

En verdad que tú no has de tener tu juicio cabal, cuando has querido hacerte cómplice de un crimen.

English (Sir Richard Jebb1, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb1, 1904)) — 128 focus

Creon

I like not an evil wife for my son.

English (Robert Potter, 1788) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Robert Potter, 1788)) — 128 focus

Chorus

What death to the offender is decreed?

English (Sir Richard Jebb2, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb2, 1904)) — 100-160 focus

Enter the Chorus on the right.

Chorus

Shaft of the sun, fairest light of all that have dawned on Thebes of the seven gates, you have shone forth at last, eye of golden day, advancing over Dirce’s streams!
100

You have goaded with a sharper bit the warrior of the white shield, who came from Argos in full armor, driving him to headlong retreat.
105

110

Chorus

He set out against our land because of the strife-filled claims of Polyneices, and like a screaming eagle he flew over into our land, covered by his snow-white wing,
110

with a mass of weapons and crested helmets.
115

117

Chorus

He paused above our dwellings; he gaped around our sevenfold portals with spears thirsting for blood; but he left

before his jaws were ever glutted with our gore, or before the Fire-god’s pine-fed flame had seized our crown of towers.
120

So fierce was the crash of battle swelling about his back, a match too hard to win for the rival of the dragon.
125

127

Chorus

For Zeus detests above all the boasts of a proud tongue. And when he saw them advancing in a swollen flood,

arrogant their clanging gold, he dashed with brandished fire one who was already starting to shout victory when he had reached our ramparts.
130

134

Chorus

Staggered, he fell to the earth with a crash,

torch in hand, a man possessed by the frenzy of the mad attack, who just now was raging against us with the blasts of his tempestuous hate. But his threats did not fare as he had hoped, and to the other enemies mighty Ares dispensed each their own dooms with hard blows,
135

Ares, our mighty ally at the turning-point.
140

141

Chorus

For the seven captains, stationed against an equal number at the seven gates, left behind their brazen arms in tribute to Zeus the turner of battle—all but the accursed pair who, born of one father and one

mother, set against each other their spears, both victorious, and who now share in a common death.
145

148

Chorus

But since Victory whose name is glory has come to us, smiling in joy equal to the joy of chariot-rich Thebes ,

let us make for ourselves forgetfulness after the recent wars, and visit all the temples of the gods with night-long dance and song. And may Bacchus, who shakes the earth of Thebes , rule our dancing!
150

155

Chorus

But look, the king of the land is coming here, Creon, the son of Menoeceus, our new ruler in accordance with the new circumstances fated by the gods. What policy is he setting in motion,
155

that he has proposed this special conference of elders, and summoned it by a general mandate?
160

Commentary

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

595. mvp-comment-347-1 The reading of this line has been much questioned, but the meaning is clear, although it is uncertain what word (whether φθιτῶν or some other) has been supplanted by the unmetrical φθιμένων: which may be due to a reminiscence of Aesch. Cho. 403. 4, παρὰ τῶν πρότερον φθιμένων ἄτην | ἑτέραν ἐπάγουσαν ἐπ᾿ ἄτῃ.

Sophocles Antigone 128

Friedrich Hölderlin (Translator)

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KREON

Gar lustig bist du auch, du und dein Bette.
595

Current edition Experimental

KREON

Von diesen Mädchen, sag' ich, zeigt die eben jetzt

sinnlos sich, und die andre schon seitdem sie ward.

CREONTE

Yo, malas mujeres para mis hijos, no quiero.

Creon

Malas ego filiorum uxores odi.

CR

I hate a wicked consort for my son.

Ismene

Wilt thou then take her from him ?

CREONTE

En verdad que tú no has de tener tu juicio cabal, cuando has querido hacerte cómplice de un crimen.

Creon

I like not an evil wife for my son.

Chorus

What death to the offender is decreed?

Chorus

He set out against our land because of the strife-filled claims of Polyneices, and like a screaming eagle he flew over into our land, covered by his snow-white wing,
110

with a mass of weapons and crested helmets.
115

Chorus

For Zeus detests above all the boasts of a proud tongue. And when he saw them advancing in a swollen flood,

arrogant their clanging gold, he dashed with brandished fire one who was already starting to shout victory when he had reached our ramparts.
130

Chorus

But look, the king of the land is coming here, Creon, the son of Menoeceus, our new ruler in accordance with the new circumstances fated by the gods. What policy is he setting in motion,
155

that he has proposed this special conference of elders, and summoned it by a general mandate?
160

Commentary

Stable identifiers

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KREON Gar lustig bist du auch, du und dein Bette. 595

Current edition Experimental

KREON Von diesen Mädchen, sag' ich, zeigt die eben jetzt sinnlos sich, und die andre schon seitdem sie ward.

CREONTE Yo, malas mujeres para mis hijos, no quiero.

Creon Malas ego filiorum uxores odi.

CR I hate a wicked consort for my son.

Denn schwer haßt Zeus der vermessenen Zung' Hochfahrenden Stolz; und als er ihr Heer, Den heranwogenden Strom, schimmernd in Gold, Im Geräusch unbändigen Trozes ersah, 130 Da traf er den Mann mit geschwungenem Strahl, 1 Der schon an die Höh'n, Siegsruf anstimmend, empordrang. Zweite Strophe.

Ismene Wilt thou then take her from him ?

CREONTE En verdad que tú no has de tener tu juicio cabal, cuando has querido hacerte cómplice de un crimen.

Creon I like not an evil wife for my son.

Chorus What death to the offender is decreed?

Chorus He set out against our land because of the strife-filled claims of Polyneices, and like a screaming eagle he flew over into our land, covered by his snow-white wing, 110 with a mass of weapons and crested helmets. 115

Chorus For Zeus detests above all the boasts of a proud tongue. And when he saw them advancing in a swollen flood, arrogant their clanging gold, he dashed with brandished fire one who was already starting to shout victory when he had reached our ramparts. 130

Chorus But look, the king of the land is coming here, Creon, the son of Menoeceus, our new ruler in accordance with the new circumstances fated by the gods. What policy is he setting in motion, 155 that he has proposed this special conference of elders, and summoned it by a general mandate? 160

Commentary

Stable identifiers

KREON

Gar lustig bist du auch, du und dein Bette.
595

KREON

Von diesen Mädchen, sag' ich, zeigt die eben jetzt

sinnlos sich, und die andre schon seitdem sie ward.

CREONTE

Yo, malas mujeres para mis hijos, no quiero.

Creon

Malas ego filiorum uxores odi.

CR

I hate a wicked consort for my son.

Ismene

Wilt thou then take her from him ?

CREONTE

En verdad que tú no has de tener tu juicio cabal, cuando has querido hacerte cómplice de un crimen.

Creon

I like not an evil wife for my son.

Chorus

What death to the offender is decreed?

Chorus

He set out against our land because of the strife-filled claims of Polyneices, and like a screaming eagle he flew over into our land, covered by his snow-white wing,
110

with a mass of weapons and crested helmets.
115

Chorus

For Zeus detests above all the boasts of a proud tongue. And when he saw them advancing in a swollen flood,

arrogant their clanging gold, he dashed with brandished fire one who was already starting to shout victory when he had reached our ramparts.
130

Chorus

But look, the king of the land is coming here, Creon, the son of Menoeceus, our new ruler in accordance with the new circumstances fated by the gods. What policy is he setting in motion,
155

that he has proposed this special conference of elders, and summoned it by a general mandate?
160