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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

Χορός

παρὰ δὲ Κυανεᾶν πελάγει διδύμας ἁλὸς

ἀκταὶ Βοσπόριαι ἠδʼ ὁ Θρῃκῶν ἄξενος

Σαλμυδησσός, ἵνʼ ἀγχίπτολις Ἄρης
970

δισσοῖσι Φινεΐδαις

εἶδεν ἀρατὸν ἕλκος

τυφλωθὲν ἐξ ἀγρίας δάμαρτος

ἀλαὸν ἀλαστόροισιν ὀμμάτων κύκλοις

ἀραχθέντων, ὑφʼ αἱματηραῖς
975

χείρεσσι καὶ κερκίδων ἀκμαῖσιν.

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 mares¹ 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 hin¹

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.

Antistrofa 2.a

CORO

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.

Teiresias

English (Robert Potter, 1788) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Robert Potter, 1788)) — 966 focus

With tears their slow obedience to repent.

Tiresias

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

955

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

966

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

977

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

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.

Sophocles Antigone 966

Friedrich Hölderlin (Translator)