Sophocles Antigone 1278

mvp-comment-94-1 ὅτε ¹

mvp-comment-94-2 πρὸς διπλῆς μ. ² διπλῆς . . μίαν ³

mvp-comment-94-3 παίσαντες . . πληγέντες ⁴

mvp-comment-94-4 αὐτόχειρι … μιάσματι ⁵

mvp-comment-95-1 ἐγὼ . . δή ⁶

mvp-comment-95-2 κράτη ⁷

mvp-comment-95-3 γένους κατ’ ἀγχιστεῖα τῶν ὀλ. ⁸

mvp-comment-96-1 ἀμήχανον δέ ⁹ δέ ¹⁰ δέ ¹¹

mvp-comment-96-2 Demosthenes, in his speech on the Embassy (343 B.C.), quotes this passage (vv. 175—190) as illustrating maxims

mvp-comment-96-3 which Aeschines had violated, though, accustomed as he had been to play tritagonists' parts, he ought to have known them by heart (or. 19 § 247).

mvp-comment-97-1 ψυχήν ¹² φρόνημα ¹³ γνώμην ¹⁴

mvp-comment-98-1 ἀρχαῖς ¹⁵ νόμοισιν ¹⁶

mvp-comment-98-2 ἐντριβής ¹⁷

mvp-comment-98-3 φανῇ ¹⁸

mvp-comment-99-1 ἐμοὶ γάρ ¹⁹ γάρ ²⁰ πᾶσαν … πόλιν ²¹

mvp-comment-99-2 μὴ … ἅπτεται ²² ὅστις μὴ ἅπτεται ²³

mvp-comment-99-3 ἐκ φ. του ²⁴

mvp-comment-99-4 ἐγκλῄσας ἔχει ²⁵

mvp-comment-99-5 νῦν τε καὶ πάλαι ²⁶

mvp-comment-100-1 μείζον’ ²⁷ ἀντὶ τῆς...πάτρας ²⁸ ἤ ²⁹ μεῖζον ³⁰

mvp-comment-100-2 οὐδαμοῦ λέγω ³¹

mvp-comment-101-1 ἐγὼ γάρ ³² γάρ ³³ τοῦτο γιγνώσκων ³⁴ ἴστω ³⁵

mvp-comment-102-1 οὔτ’ ἂν σιωπήσαιμι ³⁶

mvp-comment-103-1 στείχουσαν ἀστοῖς ³⁷ ὁμοῦ ³⁸

mvp-comment-103-2 ἀντὶ τῆς σωτηρίας ³⁹ τῆς ⁴⁰

mvp-comment-104-1 ἄνδρα δυσμενῆ χθονός ⁴¹

mvp-comment-104-2 ἐμαυτῷ ⁴² φίλον ⁴³ θείμην ⁴⁴

mvp-comment-105-1 ἡ σῴζουσα ⁴⁵

mvp-comment-105-2 ταύτης ⁴⁶ ὀρθῆς ⁴⁷

mvp-comment-105-3 τοὺς φίλους ποιούμεθα ⁴⁸

mvp-comment-105-4

. ‘Pericles Thucydidis 11. 60 Sophoclem videtur respexisse, vel eum Sophocles,’ is Dobree's remark ( Adv. 2. 37 ); but there is no adequate ground for such a view. The verbal coincidence of with may well have been accidental. What is really common to poet and historian is the general sentiment of Periclean Athens. For another example of this, cp. O. C. 116 n.

mvp-comment-106-1 νόμοισι ⁴⁹

mvp-comment-106-2 αὔξω ⁵⁰

mvp-comment-107-1 ἀδελφὰ τῶνδε ⁵¹

mvp-comment-107-2 τῶν ἀπ’ Οἰδίπου ⁵²

mvp-comment-108-1 δορί ⁵³ δόρει ⁵⁴

mvp-comment-109-1 τὰ πάντ’ ἐφαγνίσαι ⁵⁵ ἐπί ⁵⁶ ἐφαγνίσαι ⁵⁷ ἀφαγνίσαι ⁵⁸ ἀπό ⁵⁹

mvp-comment-110-1 τοῖς ἀρίστοις ⁶⁰

mvp-comment-110-2 ἔρχεται κάτω ⁶¹

mvp-comment-111-1 L has Πολυνείκην ⁶²

mvp-comment-111-2 λέγω ⁶³

mvp-comment-112-1 γτ=ν πατρῴαν . . καὶ θεοὺς . . πρῆσαι ⁶⁴

mvp-comment-112-2 θ. τοὺς ἐγγενεῖς ⁶⁵

mvp-comment-112-3 κατελθών ⁶⁶

mvp-comment-112-4 γ)θέλησε μέν … ἠθέλ. δέ ⁶⁷ ἠθέλησε μὲν ⁶⁸

mvp-comment-112-5 πρῆσαι ⁶⁹

mvp-comment-112-6 κατ’ ἄκρας ⁷⁰

mvp-comment-112-7 αἵματος κ. πάσασθαι ⁷¹

mvp-comment-112-8 τοὺς δὲ … ἄγειν ⁷²

mvp-comment-113-1 The traditional ἐκκεκηρῦχθαι τάφῳ ⁷³ ἐκκεκήρυκται τάφῳ ⁷⁴ ἐκκεκηρῦχθαι λέγω ⁷⁵ τάφῳ ⁷⁶ κτερίζειν ⁷⁷ τάφῳ ⁷⁸ κτερίζειν ⁷⁹ μήτε ⁸⁰ κωκῦσαι ⁸¹ τάφῳ ⁸² λέγω ⁸³ τάφῳ ⁸⁴ ἐκκεκ ⁸⁵

mvp-comment-114-1 ἐᾶν δ ⁸⁶ ἄθαπτον, αἰκισθέντ’ ἰδεῖν ⁸⁷ δέμας καὶ πρὸς οἰωνῶν καὶ πρὸς κυνῶν ἐδεστόν ⁸⁸ αἰκισθέντ ⁸⁹ αἰκισθέντ ⁹⁰ ἐδεστόν ⁹¹ αἰκισθέν τ’, δέμας ⁹²

mvp-comment-114-2 δέμας ⁹³

mvp-comment-114-3 ἰδεῖν ⁹⁴

mvp-comment-115-1 φρόνημα ⁹⁵

mvp-comment-115-2 ἔκ γ’ ἐμοῦ ⁹⁶

mvp-comment-116-1 The MSS. have τιμὴν προέξουσ’ ..τῶν ἐνδ. ⁹⁷ τιμήν ⁹⁸ τιμῆ ⁹⁹ προσέξους ¹⁰⁰

mvp-comment-117-1 τιμήσεται ¹⁰¹

mvp-comment-118-1 I print Dindorf's κἀς ¹⁰² καὶ ¹⁰³ σοὶ ταῦτ’ ἀρέσκει ¹⁰⁴ Κρέον ¹⁰⁵ ταὔτ ¹⁰⁶ ταῦτ’ ¹⁰⁷

mvp-comment-119-1 In παντί πού γ’ ¹⁰⁸ σοί γ’ … που ¹⁰⁹ ἔνεστι ¹¹⁰ χὡπόσοι ζῶμεν ¹¹¹ πέρι ¹¹²

mvp-comment-120-1 ὡς ἂν … ἦτε ¹¹³ πῶς ἂν … εἶτε ¹¹⁴

mvp-comment-120-2 σκοποί ¹¹⁵

mvp-comment-120-3 νυν ¹¹⁶ νῦν ¹¹⁷

mvp-comment-120-4 τῶν εἰρ ¹¹⁸

mvp-comment-121-1 πρόθες τοῦτο ¹¹⁹ βαστάζειν ¹²⁰

mvp-comment-121-2 τοῦ νεκροῦ γ’ ¹²¹

mvp-comment-122-1 τί δῆτ’ ἂν … ἐπεντέλλοις ¹²²

mvp-comment-122-2 The reading ἄλλῳ ¹²³ τοῦτο ¹²⁴

mvp-comment-122-3 ἐπιχωρεῖν ¹²⁵

mvp-comment-122-4 ἀπιστοῦσιν ¹²⁶

mvp-comment-122-5 τάδε, ¹²⁷

mvp-comment-123-1 ὃς ¹²⁸ ἐρᾷ ¹²⁹

mvp-comment-123-2 καὶ μὴν ¹³⁰ γε ¹³¹ μισθός ¹³²

mvp-comment-123-3 requital of disobedience is that.’ For

so used, cp. O. T. 836 , 1004 f., El. 556 .

mvp-comment-123-4 τὸ κέρδος ¹³³

mvp-comment-123-5 διώλεσεν ¹³⁴

mvp-comment-124-1 ἐρῶ μὲν οὐχ ¹³⁵

mvp-comment-124-2 ὅπως ¹³⁶

mvp-comment-124-3 τάχους ὕπο ¹³⁷ τάχους ¹³⁸

mvp-comment-125-1 ἐξάρας ¹³⁹

mvp-comment-125-2 φροντίδων ¹⁴⁰ ἐπιστάσεις ¹⁴¹

mvp-comment-125-3 ὁδοῖς ¹⁴²

mvp-comment-125-4 κυκλῶν ¹⁴³

mvp-comment-126-1 ψυχὴ γὰρ ηὔδα ¹⁴⁴ πολλὰ ¹⁴⁵ μυθουμένη ¹⁴⁶

mvp-comment-127-1 τάλας … τλήμων ¹⁴⁷

mvp-comment-127-2 μένεις ¹⁴⁸ μενεῖς ¹⁴⁹ αὖ ¹⁵⁰

mvp-comment-127-3 πῶς … οὐκ ¹⁵¹

mvp-comment-127-4 ἀλγυνεῖ ¹⁵²

mvp-comment-128-1 ἑλίσσων ¹⁵³

mvp-comment-128-2 ἤνυτον ¹⁵⁴

mvp-comment-128-3 σχολῇ βραδύς ¹⁵⁵

mvp-comment-129-1 τέλος γε μέντοι ¹⁵⁶

mvp-comment-129-2 ἐνίκησεν ¹⁵⁷

mvp-comment-129-3

. That should not be regarded as the subject to , is shown by such an example as Her. 8.9

ἐνίκα τὴν ἡμέρην ἐκείνην αὐτοῦ μείναντάς τε καὶ αὐλισθέντας μετέπειτα νύκτα μέσην παρέντας πορεύεσθαι

, where the length of the interval excludes such a view. The personal constr. occurs below, 274; cp. Thuc. 2.12

ἦν...Περικλέους γνώμη...νενικηκυῖα

.

mvp-comment-130-1 σοί ¹⁵⁸ μολεῖν ¹⁵⁹ σοί ¹⁶⁰ φράσων ¹⁶¹ φράσω δ ¹⁶² κεἰ ¹⁶³ κεἴ σοι ¹⁶⁴ σοί. ¹⁶⁵

mvp-comment-130-2 τὸ μηδέν ¹⁶⁶

mvp-comment-131-1 τῆς ἐλπίδος ¹⁶⁷

mvp-comment-131-2 δεδραγμένος ¹⁶⁸ πεφραγμένος ¹⁶⁹ πεπραγμένος ¹⁷⁰

mvp-comment-131-3 τὸ μὴ παθεῖν ἄν ¹⁷¹

mvp-comment-131-4

, depending on . as= : for the art. with infin., cp. 78 n.

mvp-comment-131-5 τὸ μόρσιμον ¹⁷²

mvp-comment-132-1 ἀνθ’ οὗ ¹⁷³

mvp-comment-132-2 τὸ γὰρ | πρᾶγμ’ ¹⁷⁴ γάρ ¹⁷⁵

mvp-comment-133-1 εὖ γε στοχάζει ¹⁷⁶ στοχάζει ¹⁷⁷ ἀποφράγνυσαι ¹⁷⁸ στοχάζομαι ¹⁷⁹

mvp-comment-133-2 κἀποφράγνυσαι ¹⁸⁰

mvp-comment-133-3 τὸ πρᾶγμα ¹⁸¹

mvp-comment-134-1 δηλοῖς δ’ ὥς τι ς. ¹⁸²

mvp-comment-135-1 τὰ δεινά ¹⁸³ γάρ ¹⁸⁴

mvp-comment-135-2 ποτ ¹⁸⁵

mvp-comment-135-3 ἀπαλλαχθείς ¹⁸⁶

mvp-comment-136-1 καὶ δή ¹⁸⁷

mvp-comment-136-2 θάψας ¹⁸⁸ κἀπί ¹⁸⁹

mvp-comment-136-3 διψίαν ¹⁹⁰

mvp-comment-136-4 κἀφαγιστεύσας ¹⁹¹ ἃ χρή ¹⁹²

mvp-comment-137-1 ἀνδρῶν ¹⁹³

mvp-comment-137-2 οὔτε του γενῇδος … οὐ δικέλλης ¹⁹⁴ οὔτε … οὐ ¹⁹⁵ γενῄς ¹⁹⁶ γενῄς ¹⁹⁷ δίκελλα ¹⁹⁸

mvp-comment-137-3 δικ. ἐκβολή ¹⁹⁹ ἐκβ. ²⁰⁰ στύφλος ²⁰¹ χέρσος ²⁰² ἀρρώξ ²⁰³

mvp-comment-137-4 ἐπημαξευμένη ²⁰⁴ ἐπ‐ ²⁰⁵ ἐφ‐ ²⁰⁶

mvp-comment-137-5 ἀλλ’ ὁ ἐργάτης ἄσημός τις ἦν ²⁰⁷

mvp-comment-138-1 It is still the early morning of the day on which the drama opens. The Argives having fled in the night, Creon had published his edict shortly before dawn. Antigone had done her deed in the short interval between the publication of the edict and the beginning of the watch over the corpse. ὁ πρῶτος ἡμεροσκόπος ²⁰⁸ ἡμεροσκ. ²⁰⁹

mvp-comment-138-2 δείκνυσι … παρῆν ²¹⁰

mvp-comment-138-3 δυσχερές ²¹¹

mvp-comment-139-1 ὁ μὲν ²¹²

mvp-comment-139-2 τυμβήρης μὲν οὔ ²¹³ τυμβ. ²¹⁴ λεπτὴ δ’ … ἐπῆν ²¹⁵

mvp-comment-139-3 ἄγος φεύγοντος ὥς ²¹⁶ ἄγος ²¹⁷

mvp-comment-140-1 θηρός ²¹⁸

mvp-comment-140-2 του ²¹⁹ θηρός ²²⁰

mvp-comment-140-3 οὐ σπάσαντος ²²¹ οὐ ²²² σπάσαντος ²²³ σπάσαντος οὐδ’ ἐλθόντος ²²⁴

mvp-comment-141-1 λόγοι δ’ … φύλακα ²²⁵ λόγοι κακοὶ ἐρρόθουν ²²⁶ ἐρρόθουν ²²⁷

mvp-comment-141-2

, of an unintelligible jargon.

mvp-comment-141-3 ἐλέγχων ²²⁸

mvp-comment-141-4 κἂν ἐγίγνετο ²²⁹

mvp-comment-141-5 τελευτῶς ²³⁰

mvp-comment-141-6 ὁ κωλύσων ²³¹

mvp-comment-142-1 ἦν … οὑξειργ. ²³²

mvp-comment-142-2 ἐναργής ²³³

mvp-comment-142-3 ἀλλ’ ²³⁴

mvp-comment-142-4 ἕφευγε μὴ εἰδέναι ²³⁵

mvp-comment-142-5 μὴ ²³⁶ εἰδέναι ²³⁷

mvp-comment-143-1 μύδρους ²³⁸

mvp-comment-143-2 a red-hot mass of metal, and that the custom was symbolical of an older use of the

in ordeals by fire. This would explain how the Alexandrian poets of the 3rd cent. B.C. (Lycophron, Callimachus) came to use the word , in defiance of its etymology, as simply ‘a lump’ (or even ‘a stone’). They supposed that the had been cold masses.

mvp-comment-144-1 πῦρ διέρπειν ²³⁹

mvp-comment-144-2 θεοὺς ὁρκ. ²⁴¹

mvp-comment-144-3 τὸ μήτε δρ ²⁴²

mvp-comment-144-4 μήτ’ είργασμένῳ ²⁴³ μηδ ²⁴⁴

mvp-comment-145-1 πλέον ²⁴⁵

mvp-comment-145-2 λέγει ²⁴⁶

mvp-comment-145-3 τις εἷς ²⁴⁷

mvp-comment-146-1 προὔτρεψεν ²⁴⁸

mvp-comment-146-2 οὐ γὰρ εἴχομεν ²⁴⁹

mvp-comment-146-3 As ἀντιφωνεῖν ²⁵⁰ δρῶντες ²⁵¹ ὅπως δρῶντες ²⁵² εἴχομεν ²⁵³

mvp-comment-147-1 σοί ²⁵⁴

mvp-comment-147-2 ταῦτ’ ἐνίκα ²⁵⁵

mvp-comment-147-3 πάλος ²⁵⁶ καθαιρεῖ ²⁵⁷

mvp-comment-147-4 τἀγαθόν ²⁵⁸ —ἄκων οὐχ ἑκοῦσιν ²⁵⁹

mvp-comment-148-1 ἐμοί ²⁶⁰ βουλεύει ²⁶¹ μή ²⁶²

mvp-comment-148-2 τι ²⁶³

mvp-comment-148-3 θεήλατον, ²⁶⁴

mvp-comment-148-4 ἡ ξύννοια ²⁶⁵

mvp-comment-148-5 πάλαι ²⁶⁶

mvp-comment-149-1 πρὶν ὀργῆς καί με μεστῶσαι ²⁶⁷ καί ²⁶⁸ πρίν ²⁶⁹ μεστῶσαι ²⁷⁰ καί ²⁷¹ με ²⁷²

mvp-comment-149-2 κἀμέ ²⁷³

mvp-comment-149-3 μεστῶσαι ²⁷⁴

mvp-comment-150-1 πότερον ²⁷⁵ ἔκρυπτον ²⁷⁶

mvp-comment-150-2 ἀμφικίονας ναούς ²⁷⁷

mvp-comment-150-3 κἀναθήματα ²⁷⁸

mvp-comment-150-4 Her. 1.50 ; Thuc. 6.46 ; Isae. or. 7 § 41.) The wealth of Delphi in

is already proverbial in Il. 9.404 ; at Thebes the ( O. T. 21 ) also seems to have been rich in them. After the gen. denotes either (as more oft.), or, as here, the divine owner.

mvp-comment-150-5 γῆν ἐκείνων ²⁷⁹ πυρώσων ²⁸⁰

mvp-comment-150-6 νόμους διασκεδῶν ²⁸¹

mvp-comment-150-7 διασκεδῶν ²⁸²

mvp-comment-151-1 τοὺς κακοὺς τιμῶντας … θεούς; ²⁸³

mvp-comment-152-1 ταῦτα ²⁸⁴ μόλις φέροντες ²⁸⁵ καὶ πάλαι ²⁸⁶

mvp-comment-152-2 πόλεως ἄνδρες ²⁸⁷

mvp-comment-152-3 ἐρρόθουν ²⁸⁸

mvp-comment-152-4 ἐμοί ²⁸⁹

mvp-comment-152-5 κάρα σείοντες ²⁹⁰

mvp-comment-152-6 ὑπὸ ζυγῷ ²⁹¹

mvp-comment-152-7 λόφον ²⁹²

mvp-comment-152-8 δικαίως ²⁹³

mvp-comment-152-9 equal poise’ ( New Crat. 371).—

( O. T. 84 ): στέργειν ²⁹⁴

mvp-comment-153-1 τῶνδε ²⁹⁵ ἐκ ²⁹⁶

mvp-comment-153-2 τούτους, ²⁹⁷

mvp-comment-153-3 εἰργάσθαι ²⁹⁸ ἐξεπίσταμαι ²⁹⁹ παρηγμένους ³⁰⁰

mvp-comment-154-1 νόμισμ’ ³⁰¹

mvp-comment-154-2 ἔβλαστε ³⁰²

mvp-comment-154-3 πορθεῖ ³⁰³

mvp-comment-154-4 τόδ’ ³⁰⁴ ἄνδρας ³⁰⁵

mvp-comment-155-1 τόδ’ ἐκδ. καὶ παραλλάσσει ³⁰⁶ ἵστασθαι ³⁰⁷ καὶ παραλλάσσει ³⁰⁸

mvp-comment-155-2 ἵστασθαι πρός τι ³⁰⁹

mvp-comment-156-1 πανουργίας … ἔχειν ³¹⁰

mvp-comment-156-2 εἰδέναι ³¹¹ παντὸς ἔργου δυσσέβ. ³¹² παντὸς ἔργ ³¹³ πανουργίας ³¹⁴

mvp-comment-157-1 ἤνυσαν ³¹⁵

mvp-comment-157-2 χρόνῳ ποτέ ³¹⁶ δοῦναι δίκην ³¹⁷

mvp-comment-157-3 ἐξέπραξαν ὡς ³¹⁸

mvp-comment-158-1 Ζεύς ³¹⁹

mvp-comment-158-2 ὅρκιος ³²⁰

mvp-comment-158-3 τὸν αὐτόχειρα ³²¹ τάφου = ταφῆς ³²²

mvp-comment-159-1 μοῦνος ³²³ πρὶν ἂν . . δηλώσητε ³²⁴ κρεμαστοί ³²⁵ ζῶντες κρεμαστοί ³²⁶

mvp-comment-159-2 δηλώσηθ’ ³²⁷

mvp-comment-159-3 ὕβριν ³²⁸

mvp-comment-160-1 ἵν’ … ἁρπάζητε ³²⁹

mvp-comment-160-2 τὸ κέρδος ³³⁰ ἔνθεν οἰστέον ³³¹

mvp-comment-160-3 μάθηθ’ ³³²

mvp-comment-160-4 ἐξ ἅπαντος ³³³ τὸ κερδαίνειν ³³⁴

mvp-comment-160-5

. In O. C. 807

ἑξ ἅπαντος εὖ λέγει

=speaks well on any theme (starting from anything).

mvp-comment-161-1 τι ³³⁵

mvp-comment-161-2 δέ ³³⁶ δώσεις ³³⁷

mvp-comment-161-3 οὕτως ³³⁸

mvp-comment-161-4 ἴω ³³⁹

mvp-comment-161-5 καὶ νῦν ὡς ³⁴⁰ ἀνιαρῶς ³⁴¹ ι— ³⁴²

mvp-comment-162-1 ἐν ³⁴³ ὠσίν ³⁴⁴

mvp-comment-162-2 ἐπί ³⁴⁵

mvp-comment-163-1 τί δὲ ³⁴⁶ τί δαὶ ³⁴⁷

mvp-comment-163-2 ῥυθμίζεις ³⁴⁸ ὅπου ³⁴⁹ ὅπου ³⁵⁰

mvp-comment-164-1 τὰς φρένας...τὰ δ’ ὦτ’ ³⁵¹ σε ³⁵²

mvp-comment-164-2 οἴμ’ ὡς ³⁵³

mvp-comment-164-3 λάλημα ³⁵⁴ ἄλημα ³⁵⁵ ἄλημα ³⁵⁶

mvp-comment-164-4 δῆλον, ³⁵⁷

mvp-comment-165-1 ‘At any rate (

—babbler or not) I certainly have not done this deed.’ εἰμί ³⁵⁸ οὔκουν … γε ³⁵⁹

mvp-comment-166-1 ‘Yes, (you have done it,) and that, too, at the cost of betraying,’ etc. The particle γε ³⁶⁰ καὶ ταῦτα ³⁶¹ προδούς ³⁶²

mvp-comment-167-1 ἦ δεινόν ³⁶³ καὶ ³⁶⁴ γε ³⁶⁵

mvp-comment-168-1 κόμψευε . . τὴν δόξαν ³⁶⁶

mvp-comment-168-2 τὴν δόξαν ³⁶⁷

mvp-comment-168-3

(the of which you speak), not merely, ‘the word .’ If the v. l. (see cr. n.) was intended to mean the latter, it should have been

mvp-comment-168-4 νυν ³⁶⁸ νῦν ³⁶⁹ ταῦτα … τοὺς δρῶντας = τοὺς ταῦτα δρῶντας ³⁷⁰

mvp-comment-169-1 δειλά ³⁷¹

mvp-comment-169-2 δεινά ³⁷² ν ³⁷³

mvp-comment-170-1 ἀλλ’ ³⁷⁴ εὑρεθείη ³⁷⁵ καὶ ³⁷⁶

mvp-comment-171-1 καὶ ³⁷⁷ γάρ ³⁷⁸

mvp-comment-171-2 γνώμης ³⁷⁹

mvp-comment-173-1 πολλὰ … κοὐδέν ³⁸⁰

mvp-comment-173-2 καί ³⁸¹

mvp-comment-173-3 τὰ δεινά ³⁸²

mvp-comment-174-1 τοῦτο ³⁸³ πέραν ³⁸⁴ πέρα ³⁸⁵

mvp-comment-175-1 χειμερίῳ νότῳ ³⁸⁶

mvp-comment-176-1 περιβρ … ὑπ’ οἴδμασιν ³⁸⁷

mvp-comment-177-1 ὑπερτάταν ³⁸⁸

mvp-comment-178-1 ἀκαμάταν ³⁸⁹

mvp-comment-178-2 ἀποτρύεται ³⁹⁰

mvp-comment-179-1 ἰλλομένων ἀρότρων, ³⁹¹ ἀρότων ³⁹²

mvp-comment-179-2 ἔτος εἰς ἔτος ³⁹³ εἰς ³⁹⁴

mvp-comment-180-1 ἱππείῳ γένει ³⁹⁵

mvp-comment-180-2 πολεύων ³⁹⁶ τοῦτο ³⁹⁷

mvp-comment-181-1 Man's conquests over the animal world are here taken in two groups. First, those of which the primary aim is to kill or to capture. Here the means is netting (

), in its threefold sporting use, as applied to fowling ( ), hunting ( ), and fishing ( ). Secondly, those conquests which aim at reducing wild animals to man's service. These are effected by (349),— arts of taming and training. And their result is aptly expressed by the word

mvp-comment-181-2

: here, man is not merely the slayer or captor; he becomes the master of docile toilers. The horse and the bull are types.

mvp-comment-181-3 Thus, in this ode, the scale of achievement ever ascends: man (1) conquers inanimate nature: (2) makes animals his captives: (3) trains them to be his servants: (4) develops his own social and intellectual life.

mvp-comment-181-4 κουφονόων ³⁹⁸

mvp-comment-181-5 ἀμφιβαλὼν ³⁹⁹

mvp-comment-182-1 πόντου … εἰναλίαν φύσιν ⁴⁰⁰

mvp-comment-183-1 περιφραδής ⁴⁰¹

mvp-comment-184-1 μηχαναῖς ⁴⁰² ἀγραύλου ⁴⁰³ ὀρεσσιβάτα ⁴⁰⁴

mvp-comment-185-1 λασιαύχενά θ’ ⁴⁰⁵

mvp-comment-186-1 ὀχμάζεται ⁴⁰⁶ ἀμφὶ λόφον ζυγῶν ⁴⁰⁷

mvp-comment-186-2 Rhod. 1. 743

. The midd. voice does not occur elsewhere; but this cannot be regarded as an objection, when we remember how many rare middle forms occur in the dramatists. Thus in O. C. 244 is a solitary example of that verb in the midd., and if the license could be taken with so common a word, much more might it be allowed with a comparatively rare one. Blaydes writes : but the Ms. indicates that the verb, whatever it was, was of the midd. form. was published by G. Schöne in 1833, and by Franz in 1846: they appear to have made the conjecture independently. Donaldson (1848) printed , and seems to ascribe to Franz and Schöne; though Franz, at least, proposed has been revived (seemingly without knowledge of a predecessor) by H. Schütz (1886). Sophocles would write , and thus changes no letter. Aesch. used the fut. (fr. 110), and Soph. has the verbal ( El. 702 ). To it may be objected that, being clear, it was not likely to become - : but, when had once been written, (or ) would easily become . As to the schol. on ,—it cannot fairly be urged for (or for any partic.), since it may be merely a paraphrase of .—Schütz's ἐφέζεται ⁴⁰⁸

mvp-comment-187-1 φθέγμα ⁴⁰⁹

mvp-comment-187-2 beginnings of speech...Speech is the development, through imitation, of a capacity of man—the capacity of making a noise.’ This is quite compatible with

mvp-comment-187-3 ἀνεμόεν φρόνημα ⁴¹⁰

mvp-comment-188-1 ἀστυνόμους ὀργάς ⁴¹¹

mvp-comment-189-1 ἐδιδάξατο ⁴¹²

mvp-comment-190-1 πάγων ⁴¹³

mvp-comment-190-2 ἐναίθρεια ⁴¹⁴

mvp-comment-190-3 βέλη ⁴¹⁶

mvp-comment-191-1 παντοπόρος ⁴¹⁷

mvp-comment-191-2

( ), nothing that is to be (cp. the absolute ). So Plat. Lach. 197 A . This negative form is as correct as (though actually rarer than) the positive ( Plat. Rep. 381A ) for . Donaldson took adverbially: ‘in regard to the future, he comes to nothing without resources.’ Cp. 728 , , where is subst., not adv.

mvp-comment-192-1 μόνον ⁴¹⁸ μόνου ⁴¹⁹ φεῦξιν — ἐπάξεται ⁴²⁰

mvp-comment-193-1 ἀμηχάνων ⁴²¹

mvp-comment-193-2 φυγάς ⁴²²

mvp-comment-193-3 ξυμπέφρασται ⁴²³

mvp-comment-194-1 The ode closes with a more direct reference to the incident which suggested its theme. The daring ingenuity shown by the unknown breaker of Creon's edict is an instance of the subtlety which leads to ruin. The implied contrast with Creon—

by his care for the laws—is effective in view of the destined .

mvp-comment-194-2 σοφόν τι … ἔχων ⁴²⁴

mvp-comment-194-3 τὸ μηχανόεν τ ⁴²⁵

mvp-comment-195-1 τοτὲ μὲν … ἄλλοτ’ ⁴²⁶

mvp-comment-195-2 ἐπ’ ⁴²⁷

mvp-comment-196-1 γεραίρων ⁴²⁸

mvp-comment-196-2 5. 67

. Ar. Th. 960 .

mvp-comment-197-1 θεῶν τ’ ἔνορκον δίκαν ⁴²⁹

mvp-comment-198-1 ὑψίπολις ⁴³⁰

mvp-comment-198-2 ἄπολις ⁴³¹

mvp-comment-198-3 τὸ μὴ καλόν ⁴³² τόλμας χάριν ⁴³³

mvp-comment-199-1 παρέστιος ⁴³⁴

mvp-comment-199-2 ἴσον φρονῶν ⁴³⁵

mvp-comment-200-1 ἔρδει ⁴³⁶ ἔρδοι ⁴³⁷

mvp-comment-202-1 The choral ode has closed with an allusion to the unknown man ( ὅς ⁴³⁸ ἀμφινοῶ ⁴³⁹ ἐς ⁴⁴⁰

mvp-comment-202-2 δαιμόνιον τέρας ⁴⁴¹

mvp-comment-203-1 πῶς εἰδὼς ⁴⁴²

mvp-comment-203-2 ἀντιλογήσω ⁴⁴³

mvp-comment-204-1 ὦ δύστηνος ⁴⁴⁴

mvp-comment-204-2 δ. πατρός ⁴⁴⁵

mvp-comment-204-3 Οἰδιπόδα— ⁴⁴⁶

mvp-comment-205-1 τί ποτ’ ⁴⁴⁷

mvp-comment-205-2 οὐ δή που ⁴⁴⁸

mvp-comment-205-3 ἀπιστοῦσαν ⁴⁴⁹

mvp-comment-205-4 ἄγουσι ⁴⁵⁰

mvp-comment-205-5 colloquialism, it would be nearly as bad as, ‘Have they taken you up?’

mvp-comment-205-6 καὶ ⁴⁵¹ ἀπιστοῦσαν ⁴⁵² καθελόντες ⁴⁵³

mvp-comment-206-1 Second

. Antigone, brought before Creon, avows and justifies her deed. Creon declares that she shall die. Ismene, when led in (531), associates herself with the act, but is not permitted by her sister to claim any part in it. Creon orders that both sisters shall be kept prisoners.

mvp-comment-206-2 ἐκείνη ⁴⁵⁴

mvp-comment-206-3 τοὔργον ἡ ’ξειργ ⁴⁵⁵

mvp-comment-207-1 ἐς δέον ⁴⁵⁶

mvp-comment-208-1 ξύμμετρος ⁴⁵⁷

mvp-comment-209-1 ἀπώμοτον ⁴⁵⁸

mvp-comment-210-1 ψεύδει ⁴⁵⁹

mvp-comment-210-2 ἡ ’πίνοια ⁴⁶⁰

mvp-comment-211-1 ἐξηύχουν ἄν ⁴⁶¹ σχολῇ ἥξειν ποτὲ δεῦρο ⁴⁶²

mvp-comment-211-2 σχολῇ ⁴⁶³

mvp-comment-212-1 ταῖς σαῖς ἀπειλαῖς ⁴⁶⁴

mvp-comment-212-2 ἐχειμάσθην ⁴⁶⁵

mvp-comment-213-1 ἡ...ἐκτὸς ⁴⁶⁶ ἐκτός ⁴⁶⁷

mvp-comment-214-1 οὐδὲν ἔοικε μῆκος ⁴⁶⁸ α+λλῃ ἡδονῇ ⁴⁶⁹ οὐδέν ⁴⁷⁰ μῆκος ⁴⁷¹ ἔοικε ⁴⁷²

mvp-comment-215-1 δῑ ὅρκων … ἀπώμοτος ⁴⁷³

mvp-comment-216-1 καθῃρέθη ⁴⁷⁴

mvp-comment-216-2 τάφον κοσμοῦσα ⁴⁷⁵

mvp-comment-216-3 ἐπάλλετο ⁴⁷⁶ ἕρμαιον ⁴⁷⁷

mvp-comment-217-1 κρῖνε ⁴⁷⁸

mvp-comment-217-2 δίκαιός εἰμι ⁴⁷⁹

mvp-comment-217-3 ἀπηλλάχθαι ⁴⁸⁰

mvp-comment-218-1 Observe the order of the words as marking his amazement. For the double interrog. cp. Il. 21.150

; Ph. 243

mvp-comment-218-2 πάντ’ ἐπίστασαι ⁴⁸¹

mvp-comment-219-1 ἦ καὶ ⁴⁸²

mvp-comment-219-2 ὀρθῶς ⁴⁸³

mvp-comment-219-3 mean to say? (Not, merely, ‘truly,’ i.e. in accordance with the fact: cp. 99 n.)

mvp-comment-220-1 τὸν νεκρόν ⁴⁸⁴

mvp-comment-221-1 ἆρ’ ἔνδηλα ⁴⁸⁵

mvp-comment-222-1 ὁρᾶται...ᾑρέθη ⁴⁸⁶

mvp-comment-222-2 ἐπίληπτος ⁴⁸⁷

mvp-comment-223-1 ἥκομεν ⁴⁸⁹

mvp-comment-224-1 τὰ δείν’ ἐκεῖν’ ⁴⁹⁰

mvp-comment-224-2 τὸν | νέκυν ⁴⁹¹

mvp-comment-225-1 καθήμεθ’ ⁴⁹²

mvp-comment-225-2 ἄκρων ἐκ πάγων ⁴⁹³

mvp-comment-225-3

. Here, goes with : but , however much may have influenced it, at least cannot be disjoined from . (2) Eur. Phoen. 1009

ἀλλ’ εἶμι καὶ στὰς ἐξ ἐπάλξεων ἄκρων | σφάξας ἐμαυτὸν σηκὸν εἰς μελαμβαθῆ | δράκοντος, ἔνθ’ ὁ μάντις ἐξηγήσατο, | ἐλευθερώσω γαῖαν

. It is impossible to sever from , even if we partly explain by . (3) ib. 1224

Ἐτεοκλέης δ’ ὑπῆρξ’ ἀπ’ ὀρθίου σταθεὶς | πύργου κελεύσας σῖγα κηρῦξαι στρατῷ

. The position of forbids us to sever it from , even though or is used to explain . (4) Eur. Tro. 522

ἀνὰ δ’ ἐβόασεν λεὼς | Τρῳάδος ἀπὸ πέτρας σταθείς

. A similar case. In all these passages, a picture is presented, and we have to glance from a remoter to a nearer object. The mental eye is required to measure the space between Hera on the peak of Olympus, and Poseidon on the plain of Troy; between Megareus on the walls of Thebes, and the cavern into which his corpse is to fall. And, in each case, or denotes the quarter in which the remoter object is to be looked for. This, which might be called the ‘surveying’ use, is distinct from that in which the prep. has a pregnant force, as being directly suggestive of motion ( ); but it springs from the same mental tendency,—viz., to take a rapid glance over the dividing interval. Cp. (‘on his side’). So here: in the foreground of the picture is the corpse, which they have just laid bare. Now look to the hillocks behind it; in that quarter you will see the guards at their post.—I have not cited Od. 21.419

τόν ῥ’ ἐπὶ πήχει ἑλὼν ἕλκεν νευρὴν γλυφίδας τε | αὐτόθεν ἐκ δίφροιο καθήμενος

, because there goes with , not with (he drew the bow, just from the chair, where he sat).

mvp-comment-225-4 ὑπήνεμοι ⁴⁹⁴

mvp-comment-226-1 βάλῃ ⁴⁹⁵

mvp-comment-227-1 ἐγερτί ⁴⁹⁶

mvp-comment-227-2 κινῶν ⁴⁹⁷

mvp-comment-227-3 ἐπιρρόθοις κακοῖσιν ⁴⁹⁸

mvp-comment-227-4 the adj. expressing the loud, continuous noise of tongues. The

- does not mean ‘bandied to and fro’: see Tr. 263

πολλὰ μὲν λόγοις | ἐπερρόθησε

. In fr. 521 =‘open to reproach.’ Elsewhere (as with Aesch.) = ‘helper’ ( , to come with shouts to the rescue). Cp. 259 n., Aesch. 290.

mvp-comment-228-1 ἀκηδήσοι ⁴⁹⁹ ἀφειδήσοι ⁵⁰⁰

mvp-comment-229-1 The incident of the storm was a dramatic necessity, to account for Antigone reaching the corpse unobserved. A powerful picture is compressed into seven lines. (Cp. O. C. 1315 ff. for a like instance of self-restraint in description.)

mvp-comment-230-1 κατέστη ⁵⁰¹

mvp-comment-230-2 χθονὸς ⁵⁰²

mvp-comment-231-1 τυφώς ⁵⁰³ σκηπτός ⁵⁰⁴

mvp-comment-231-2 οὐράνιον ἄχος ⁵⁰⁵

mvp-comment-232-1 πίμπλησι ⁵⁰⁶ αἰκίζων ⁵⁰⁷

mvp-comment-232-2 ἐν δ’ ἐμεστ ⁵⁰⁸

mvp-comment-233-1 μύσαντες ⁵⁰⁹

mvp-comment-233-2 νόσον ⁵¹⁰

mvp-comment-233-3 ἐν χρ. μακρ ⁵¹¹

mvp-comment-234-1 πικρᾶς ⁵¹²

mvp-comment-235-1 εὐνῆς...λέχος ⁵¹³

mvp-comment-236-1 οὕτω δέ ⁵¹⁴

mvp-comment-236-2 ψιλόν ⁵¹⁵

mvp-comment-237-1 γόοισιν ἐξῴμωξεν ⁵¹⁶

mvp-comment-237-2 ἐκ δ’ … ἠρᾶτο ⁵¹⁷

mvp-comment-237-3 διψίαν ⁵¹⁸

mvp-comment-238-1 φέρει κόνιν ⁵¹⁹

mvp-comment-239-1 The πρόχους ⁵²⁰

mvp-comment-239-2 εὐκρότητος ⁵²¹

mvp-comment-239-3 ἄρδην ⁵²²

mvp-comment-240-1 χοαῖσι ⁵²³

mvp-comment-240-2 τρισπόνδ. ⁵²⁴ στέφει ⁵²⁵

mvp-comment-241-1 ἱέμεσθα ⁵²⁶

mvp-comment-241-2 σὺν δὲ … θηρώμεθ’ ⁵²⁷

mvp-comment-242-1 ἠλέγχομεν ⁵²⁸

mvp-comment-242-2 ἄπαρνος … οὐδενός ⁵²⁹

mvp-comment-242-3 καθίστατο ⁵³⁰

mvp-comment-243-1 ἅμ’ ⁵³¹

mvp-comment-244-1 φίλους ⁵³²

mvp-comment-245-1 πάντα ταῦθ’ ⁵³³ λαβεῖν ⁵³⁴

mvp-comment-246-1 σὲ δή, ⁵³⁵

mvp-comment-247-1 φὴς δεδρακέναι, ἢ καταρνεῖ μὴ δεδρ ⁵³⁶ καταρνεῖ ⁵³⁷

mvp-comment-248-1 καὶ......κοὐκ ⁵³⁸

mvp-comment-248-2 τὸ μή ⁵³⁹

mvp-comment-249-1 σὺ μέν ⁵⁴⁰ κομίζοις ἂν ς ⁵⁴¹

mvp-comment-249-2 ἔξω ⁵⁴² β. αἰτίας ⁵⁴³ ἐλεύθερον ⁵⁴⁴

mvp-comment-250-1 μῆκος ⁵⁴⁵

mvp-comment-251-1 ᾔδησθα ⁵⁴⁶ ᾔδης τὰ ⁵⁴⁷ σθα ⁵⁴⁸

mvp-comment-251-2 κηρυχθέντα ⁵⁴⁹

mvp-comment-252-1 ᾔδη ⁵⁵⁰

mvp-comment-252-2 τί δ’ οὐκ ἔμελλον ⁵⁵¹

mvp-comment-252-3 ἐμφανῆ ⁵⁵² ἐκφανῆ ⁵⁵³

mvp-comment-253-1 καὶ δῆτ’ ⁵⁵⁴

mvp-comment-254-1 Ζεύς ⁵⁵⁵

mvp-comment-255-1 τῶν κάτω θεῶν ⁵⁵⁶ ξύνοικος ⁵⁵⁷ τοιούσδ’ … ὥρισεν ⁵⁵⁸ οἳ τούσδ’ … ὥρισαν ⁵⁵⁹ τάδε ⁵⁶⁰

mvp-comment-256-1 ἄγραπτα … νόμιμα ⁵⁶¹

mvp-comment-256-2 quotes vv. 456 f.) Cp. O.T. 865 ff.

, with notes there. Thuc. 2.37 ( ) . When ‘the unwritten laws’ are thus called , the latter word is used figuratively. νόμιμα ⁵⁶²

mvp-comment-256-3 ἀσφαλῆ ⁵⁶³

mvp-comment-256-4 θνητὸν ὄντ’ ⁵⁶⁴

mvp-comment-256-5 ὑπερδραμεῖν ⁵⁶⁵

mvp-comment-257-1 νῦν γε κἀχθές ⁵⁶⁶

mvp-comment-257-2 ζῇ ⁵⁶⁷

mvp-comment-257-3 ’φάνη ⁵⁶⁸

mvp-comment-258-1 τούτων ⁵⁶⁹ τὴν δίκην ⁵⁷⁰ τούτων ⁵⁷¹

mvp-comment-258-2 shows that, like

just before, it refers to the : we cannot, therefore, render, ‘the penalty of such an act’ ( sc. ).

mvp-comment-258-3 ἐν θεοῖσι ⁵⁷²

mvp-comment-259-1 δώσειν ⁵⁷³

mvp-comment-259-2 θανουμένη γάρ ⁵⁷⁴

mvp-comment-259-3 τί δ’ οὔ ⁵⁷⁵

mvp-comment-260-1 κεἰ μὴ σὺ προὐκήρυξας ⁵⁷⁶

mvp-comment-260-2 τοῦ χρόνου ⁵⁷⁷

mvp-comment-260-3 αὔτ’ ⁵⁷⁸

mvp-comment-261-1 φέρει ⁵⁷⁹

mvp-comment-262-1 Kvičala and Wecklein reject these four verses, despairing of the difficulties found in vv. 466, 467, which have been variously amended; see Appendix. The alleged difficulties are, (1)

: (2) the mention of the mother only: (3) the position of , which might suggest the sense, ‘slain by my mother’: (4) (as L has it). Before dealing with these points, I would call attention to a trait which the impugners of these verses have overlooked, and which speaks strongly for the genuineness of the passage as a whole, corrupt though it be in certain words. That trait is the clause τοῖσδε δ’ οὐκ ἀλγύνομαι ⁵⁸⁰

mvp-comment-263-1 ἄλγος ⁵⁸¹ παρ’ οὐδέν ⁵⁸²

mvp-comment-263-2 adv.: ‘is a pain in no appreciable degree,’ is a pain not worth a thought: as he might have said,

. The normal use of , ‘of no account,’ is either ( a) with the verb , as O. T. 982

ταῦθ’ ὅτῳ | παρ’ οὐδέν ἐστι

, or ( b) with a verb meaning ‘to esteem,’ as above, v. 34, . The only peculiarity here is that, instead of a word in the general sense, ‘ is esteemed’ ( ), we have a virtual equivalent, tinged with the special thought of the moment, viz., ‘ is a pain.’ Exactly so in El. 1327 we have , instead of . Thus the suspicions as to the genuineness of are illusory.

mvp-comment-263-3 ἀλλ’ ἄν ⁵⁸³

mvp-comment-264-1 ἄθαπτον ἠνσχόμην νέκυν ⁵⁸⁴ ηἰσχόμην ⁵⁸⁵ ἠνσχόμην ⁵⁸⁶

mvp-comment-264-2 In my first edition I placed in the text the emendation of Semitelos (1887) ᾔσχυναν κύνες ⁵⁸⁷

mvp-comment-264-3 Other emendations will be found in the Appendix. Most of them assume that we must have

(or ), and therefore alter the words and in various ways, —usu. omitting . The verses produced by these processes are wretched, while, from a palaeographical point of view, they are pure conjectures, which do not attempt to account for the tradition in L.—Two points remain. (1) τὸν ἐξ ἐμῆς | μητρός ⁵⁸⁸

mvp-comment-264-4 or

(Meineke). (2) τὸν ἐξ ἐμ. | μητρος θανόντ’ ⁵⁸⁹

mvp-comment-265-1 σχεδόν τι ⁵⁹⁰

mvp-comment-265-2 μώρῳ μωρίαν ⁵⁹¹

mvp-comment-265-3 ὀφλισκάνω ⁵⁹²

mvp-comment-266-1 These two verses give a moment of stillness before the storm breaks forth. So at O. T. 404 four verses of the chorus divide the angry speech of Oedipus from the retort of Teiresias.

mvp-comment-266-2 τὸ γέννημα τῆς παιδός ⁵⁹³ δηλοῖ ⁵⁹⁴ ὠμόν ⁵⁹⁵ ἐξ ὠμοῦ πατρός ⁵⁹⁶ γέννημα ⁵⁹⁷

mvp-comment-267-1 εἴκειν … κακοῖς ⁵⁹⁸

mvp-comment-268-1 ἀλλ’ ἴσθι τοι ⁵⁹⁹

mvp-comment-268-2 πίπτειν ⁶⁰⁰

mvp-comment-269-1 ὀπτὸν … περισκελῆ ⁶⁰¹

mvp-comment-269-2 περισκελής ⁶⁰²

mvp-comment-269-3 ἐκ πυρός ⁶⁰³

mvp-comment-270-1 θραυσθέντα καὶ ῥαγέντα ⁶⁰⁴

mvp-comment-271-1 χαλινῷ δ’ ⁶⁰⁵ σμικρῷ ⁶⁰⁶

mvp-comment-271-2 καταρτυθέντας ⁶⁰⁷

mvp-comment-272-1 Suspicion has fallen on ἐκπέλει ⁶⁰⁸

mvp-comment-272-2 ὅστις ⁶⁰⁹

mvp-comment-272-3 τῶν πέλας ⁶¹⁰

mvp-comment-273-1 αὕτη δ’ ⁶¹¹ ὑβρίζειν μὲν … ὕβρις δ’ ⁶¹² ἐξηπίστατο ⁶¹³ τότ’ ⁶¹⁴

mvp-comment-273-2 τούτοις ⁶¹⁵

mvp-comment-273-3 δεδρακυῖαν γελᾶν ⁶¹⁶

mvp-comment-274-1 νῦν ⁶¹⁷

mvp-comment-274-2 εἰ ταῦτα … κράτη ⁶¹⁸ κράτη ⁶¹⁹ κείσεται ⁶²⁰ πείσεται ⁶²¹ ἀνατί ⁶²² ταῦτα ⁶²³

mvp-comment-275-1 ἀδελφῆς ⁶²⁴

mvp-comment-275-2 εἴθ’ ὁμαιμονεστέρα ⁶²⁵

mvp-comment-275-3 Hyperbole is congenial to Creon's excitement; cp. 1040 . But the addition,

, ill suits this, while, on the other hand, it agrees well with the nom. . On the whole, then, I incline to prefer the nom.; but the point is a nice one, and the gen. is quite tenable.

mvp-comment-275-4 κυρεῖ ⁶²⁶

mvp-comment-276-1 τοῦ παντὸς Ζηνὸς ἑρκείου ⁶²⁷

mvp-comment-277-1 ἀλύξετον ⁶²⁸ μόρου ⁶²⁹

mvp-comment-278-1 καὶ γὰρ οὖν ⁶³⁰

mvp-comment-278-2 ἐπαιτιῶμαι κείνην ⁶³¹ βουλεῦσαι ἴσον τοῦδε τάφου ⁶³² ἴσον ⁶³³

mvp-comment-278-3 βουλεῦσαι ⁶³⁴

mvp-comment-279-1 καί νιν καλεῖτ’ ⁶³⁵

mvp-comment-280-1 λυσσῶσαν … οὐδ’ ἐπ ⁶³⁶

mvp-comment-280-2 ἐπήβολον ⁶³⁷

mvp-comment-281-1 ὁ θυμὸς τῶν … τεχνωμένων ⁶³⁸ φιλεῖ κλοπεὺς ᾑρῆσθαι ⁶³⁹ πρόσθεν ⁶⁴⁰ κλοπεύς ⁶⁴¹ ᾑρῆσθαι κλοπεύς ⁶⁴²

mvp-comment-281-2 τεχνωμένων ⁶⁴³

mvp-comment-282-1 γε μέντοι ⁶⁴⁴

mvp-comment-282-2 Ismene's guilty terror is contrasted with Antigone's impudent hardihood,—as Creon deems it. μισῶ … ὅταν ⁶⁴⁵

mvp-comment-282-3 ἔπειτα ⁶⁴⁶

mvp-comment-282-4 καλλύνειν ⁶⁴⁷

mvp-comment-283-1 θέλεις τι μεῖζον ⁶⁴⁸

mvp-comment-283-2 ἑλών ⁶⁴⁹

mvp-comment-283-3 ἐγὼ μὲν οὐδέν ⁶⁵⁰

mvp-comment-283-4 ἅπαντ’ ἔχω ⁶⁵¹

mvp-comment-284-1 ἀρεστὸν οὐδέν ⁶⁵²

mvp-comment-284-2 μηδ’ ἀρεσθείη ⁶⁵³ ἀρεσθείην ⁶⁵⁴ ἀρέστ’ εἴη ⁶⁵⁵

mvp-comment-285-1 τἀμά ⁶⁵⁶

mvp-comment-285-2 ἔφυ ⁶⁵⁷

mvp-comment-286-1 καίτοι ⁶⁵⁸ κλέος … εὐκλεέστερον ⁶⁵⁹

mvp-comment-287-1 ἐν τάφῳ τιθεῖσα ⁶⁶⁰ τούτοις πᾶσι λέγοιτο ἄν ⁶⁶¹ τοῦτο ἁνδάνειν ⁶⁶² ἐγκλῄοι ⁶⁶³

mvp-comment-288-1 ἀλλ’ ἡ τυραννίς ⁶⁶⁴

mvp-comment-289-1 μούνη ⁶⁶⁵

mvp-comment-289-2 τοῦτο … ὁρᾷς ⁶⁶⁶

mvp-comment-289-3 ὑπίλλουσιν ⁶⁶⁷

mvp-comment-290-1 σὺ δ’ οὐκ ἐπαιδεῖ ⁶⁶⁹

mvp-comment-291-1 ὅμαιμος ⁶⁷⁰

mvp-comment-291-2 ἐκ μιᾶς τε ⁶⁷¹ τε ⁶⁷²

mvp-comment-292-1 πῶς δῆτ’ ⁶⁷³

mvp-comment-292-2 ἐκείνῳ ⁶⁷⁴

mvp-comment-292-3 χάριν ⁶⁷⁵ τιμᾷς ⁶⁷⁶ ὁ κατθανὼν νέκυς ⁶⁷⁷

mvp-comment-293-1 εἴ τοι ⁶⁷⁸ σφε ⁶⁷⁹

mvp-comment-293-2 ἐξ ἴσου ⁶⁸⁰

mvp-comment-294-1 οὐ γάρ τι δοῦλος ⁶⁸¹

mvp-comment-294-2 cannot complain, for Polyneices was not his slave—his natural inferior—but his brother, and had the same claim on me that he had. Creon insists on the difference between the loyal man and the disloyal. Antigone dwells on the fact that both men had the same claim on her natural piety, and (519) on her sense of religious duty.

mvp-comment-295-1 πορθῶν δέ ⁶⁸²

mvp-comment-295-2 ὁ δ’ ⁶⁸³ ὕπερ ⁶⁸⁴

mvp-comment-296-1 τούτους ⁶⁸⁵ ἴσους ⁶⁸⁶ ἴσους ⁶⁸⁷ ὅμως ⁶⁸⁸ ἴσους ⁶⁸⁹ τούτους ⁶⁹⁰ ἴσους ⁶⁹¹

mvp-comment-297-1 The MS. λαχεῖν ἴσος ⁶⁹² ἴσους ⁶⁹³

mvp-comment-298-1 κάτωθεν ⁶⁹⁴ κάτω ’στὶν ⁶⁹⁵

mvp-comment-298-2 εὐαγῆ ⁶⁹⁶

mvp-comment-299-1 οὔτοι συνέχθειν ⁶⁹⁷

mvp-comment-300-1 νυ^ν ⁶⁹⁸

mvp-comment-301-1 καὶ μὴν ⁶⁹⁹

mvp-comment-301-2 εἰβομένη ⁷⁰⁰ κάτω ⁷⁰¹

mvp-comment-301-3 with

, for Homer never says . Nothing is more natural than that should have become in the MSS., the latter word being much the commoner.

mvp-comment-301-4 κάτω ⁷⁰²

mvp-comment-302-1 νεφέλη δ’ ὀφρύων ὕπερ ⁷⁰³

mvp-comment-302-2 αἱματόεν ⁷⁰⁴

mvp-comment-302-3 ῥέθος ⁷⁰⁵

mvp-comment-302-4 αἰσχύνει ⁷⁰⁶

mvp-comment-303-1 σὺ δ’ ⁷⁰⁷ ὑφειμένη ⁷⁰⁸

mvp-comment-303-2 ἔχιδνα ⁷⁰⁹

mvp-comment-303-3

. (Cp. Shaksp. Per. 1. 1. 64

I am no viper, yet I feed On mother's flesh.

)

mvp-comment-304-1 λήθουσά μ’ ἐξέπινες ⁷¹⁰

mvp-comment-305-1 ἄτα κἀπαναστάσεις ⁷¹¹

mvp-comment-305-2 ἐπαναστάσεις ⁷¹² θρόνων ⁷¹³

mvp-comment-306-1 τὸ μὴ ⁷¹⁴

mvp-comment-307-1 ὁμορροθεῖ ⁷¹⁵

mvp-comment-308-1 τῆς αἰτίας ⁷¹⁶ ξυμμετίσχω ⁷¹⁷ φέρω ⁷¹⁸

mvp-comment-309-1 ἀλλ’ οὐκ ἐάσει σ’ ⁷¹⁹

mvp-comment-309-2 ’κοινωσάμην ⁷²⁰

mvp-comment-310-1 ξύμπλουν ⁷²¹

mvp-comment-311-1 Cp. Ph. 1293

mvp-comment-311-2 λόγοις ⁷²²

mvp-comment-312-1 μή μ’ ἀτιμάσῃς ⁷²³ τὸ μὴ οὐ ⁷²⁴ ἁγνίσαι τὸν θ ⁷²⁵

mvp-comment-313-1 μή μοι ⁷²⁶ κοινά ⁷²⁷

mvp-comment-313-2 μηδ’ ἃ μὴ ’θιγες ⁷²⁸ ἅ ⁷²⁹ ἅ ⁷³⁰

mvp-comment-314-1 ποιοῦ σεαυτῆς ⁷³¹

mvp-comment-314-2 ἀρκέσω ⁷³³

mvp-comment-315-1 σοῦ λελειμμένῃ ⁷³⁴

mvp-comment-315-2 φίλος ⁷³⁵

mvp-comment-316-1 κηδεμών ⁷³⁶

mvp-comment-317-1 ἀλγοῦσα μὲν δῆτ’ ⁷³⁷ δῆτα ⁷³⁸

mvp-comment-317-2 ἐν σοί ⁷³⁹

mvp-comment-317-3 Heath's εἰ γελῶ γ’ ⁷⁴⁰

mvp-comment-318-1 ἀλλὰ νῦν ⁷⁴¹

mvp-comment-319-1 κἀμπλάκω ⁷⁴²

mvp-comment-319-2 fate? i.e. to be dissociated from it: delib. aor. subj., which can be used, not only in asking what one is to do, but also in expressions of despair as to what one must suffer ( Tr. 973

;). For cp. 910 , 1234.

mvp-comment-320-1 εἵλου ⁷⁴³

mvp-comment-320-2 ζῆν ⁷⁴⁴

mvp-comment-321-1 ἐπ’ ἀρρήτοις … τοῖς ἐμ. λ. ⁷⁴⁵

mvp-comment-322-1 σὺ μὲν τοῖς ⁷⁴⁶

mvp-comment-323-1 καὶ μήν ⁷⁴⁷

mvp-comment-324-1 θάρσει ⁷⁴⁸

mvp-comment-324-2 ἡ ἐμὴ ψυχή ⁷⁴⁹

mvp-comment-324-3 πάλαι ⁷⁵⁰

mvp-comment-324-4 ὥστε τοῖς θ. ὠφελεῖν ⁷⁵¹

mvp-comment-325-1 L gives τὼ παῖδε φημὶ ⁷⁵²

mvp-comment-325-2 τὼ παῖδε … τὴν μὲν … τὴν δέ ⁷⁵³

mvp-comment-325-3 ἀρτίως ⁷⁵⁴

mvp-comment-326-1 The apology is for her sister as well as for herself: even such prudence ( cp. 68

) as may have been inborn forsakes the unfortunate under the stress of their misfortunes.

mvp-comment-326-2 βλάστῃ ⁷⁵⁵

mvp-comment-326-3 τοῖς κ. πράσσουσιν ⁷⁵⁶

mvp-comment-326-4 ἐξίσταται ⁷⁵⁷

mvp-comment-327-1 σοὶ γοῦν ⁷⁵⁸

mvp-comment-327-2 κακοῖς ⁷⁵⁹

mvp-comment-328-1 τῆσδ’ ἄτερ ⁷⁶⁰ μόνῃ ⁷⁶¹

mvp-comment-328-2 βιώσιμον ⁷⁶² τί ⁷⁶³

mvp-comment-329-1 ἀλλὰ … μέντοι ⁷⁶⁴

mvp-comment-329-2 ἥδε μὴ λέγε ⁷⁶⁵

mvp-comment-330-1 νυμφεῖα ⁷⁶⁶

mvp-comment-331-1 ἀρώσιμοι ⁷⁶⁷

mvp-comment-332-1 οὐχ ὥς γ’ ⁷⁶⁸ ἡρμοσμένα ἦν ⁷⁶⁹

mvp-comment-333-1 υἱέσι ⁷⁷⁰ υἱάσιν ⁷⁷¹

mvp-comment-333-2

: cp. Monro Hom. Gr. § 107.—The dat. of interest goes with κακὰς γυναῖκας ⁷⁷² στυγῶ ⁷⁷³

mvp-comment-334-1 It is not of much moment that L, like the later MSS., gives this verse to Ismene. Errors as to the persons occur not seldom in L (see, e.g., cr. n. to O. C. 837 , and cp. ib. 1737 ); and here a mistake would have been peculiarly easy, as the dialogue from v. 561 onwards has been between Creon and Ismene. To me it seems certain that the verse is Antigone's, and that one of the finest touches in the play is effaced by giving it to Ismene. The taunt,

, moves Antigone to break the silence which she has kept since v. 560: in all this scene she has not spoken to Creon, nor does she now address him: she is thinking of Haemon,—of the dishonour to him implied in the charge of having made such a choice, — . How little does his father know the heart which was in sympathy with her own. This solitary reference to her love heightens in a wonderful degree our sense of her unselfish devotion to a sacred duty. If Ismene speaks this verse, then in 573 must be, ‘the marriage of which you talk’ (like El. 1110

οὐκ οἶδα τὴν σὴν κλῄδον

'), which certainly is not its natural sense.

mvp-comment-334-2 Αἷμον ⁷⁷⁴

mvp-comment-335-1 ἄγαν γε λυπεῖς ⁷⁷⁵

mvp-comment-336-1 The MSS. give this verse to Ismene; but Boeckh is clearly right in giving it to the Chorus. Ismene asked this question in 568, and Creon answered: she rejoined to this answer (570), and Creon replied still more bitterly. She could not now ask her former question over again. But there is no unfitness in the question being repeated by a new intercessor, since to ask it thus is a form of mild remonstrance.

mvp-comment-337-1 ἐμοί ⁷⁷⁶ ἔφυ ⁷⁷⁷

mvp-comment-338-1 This verse clearly belongs to the Chorus, to whom L assigns it. The first words of the next verse show this. Hermann objected that in similar situations the Chorus usually has two verses. It is true that this is usually the case. But O. T. 1312 is enough to show that there was no rigid rule; why, indeed, should there be? And, here, surely,

mvp-comment-338-2 δεδογμένα ⁷⁷⁸

mvp-comment-339-1 καὶ σοί γε κἀμοί ⁷⁷⁹

mvp-comment-339-2 μὴ τριβάς ⁷⁸⁰

mvp-comment-339-3 νιν ⁷⁸¹

mvp-comment-340-1 ἐκ δὲ τοῦδε ⁷⁸² γυναικας ⁷⁸³ ἀνειμένας ⁷⁸⁴

mvp-comment-341-1 χοἱ θρασεῖς ⁷⁸⁵ πέλας ⁷⁸⁶ εἰσορῶσι ⁷⁸⁷

mvp-comment-343-1 κακῶν ἄγευστος ⁷⁸⁸

mvp-comment-344-1 σεισθῇ θεόθεν ⁷⁸⁹

mvp-comment-344-2 ἄτας οὐδὲν ἐλλείπει ⁷⁹⁰ ἐλλείπει ⁷⁹¹

mvp-comment-344-3 γενεᾶς ἐπὶ πλῆθος ⁷⁹² γενεᾶς ⁷⁹³

mvp-comment-345-1 ὅμοιον ⁷⁹⁴

mvp-comment-345-2 ποντίαις ⁷⁹⁵ πνοαῖς ⁷⁹⁶ ὅταν οἶδμα ⁷⁹⁷ ποντίαις δυσπν. Θρ. πνοαῖς ⁷⁹⁸ ἐπιδράμῃ ἔρεβος ὕφαλον ⁷⁹⁹ Θρῄσσαισιν ⁸⁰⁰

mvp-comment-346-1 κελαινὰν θῖνα ⁸⁰¹

mvp-comment-346-2 δυσάνεμοι ⁸⁰² δυσάνεμον ⁸⁰³

mvp-comment-346-3 στόνῳ βρ.· ⁸⁰⁴

mvp-comment-346-4 ἀντιπλῆγες ⁸⁰⁵ ἀκταί ⁸⁰⁶

mvp-comment-347-1 ἀρχαῖα ⁸⁰⁷

mvp-comment-347-2 ὁρῶμαι ⁸⁰⁸ οἴκων ⁸⁰⁹ φθι^τῶν ⁸¹⁰

mvp-comment-348-1 ἀπαλλάσσει ⁸¹¹

mvp-comment-348-2 γενεὰν γένος ⁸¹² ἔχει ⁸¹³

mvp-comment-348-3 λύσιν ⁸¹⁴

mvp-comment-349-1 νῦν γὰρ ἐσχάτας ⁸¹⁵ ὃ τέτατο ⁸¹⁶ ἐτέτατο ⁸¹⁷ κατ’ αὖ ⁸¹⁸ ὑπέρ ⁸¹⁹ ὅπερ ⁸²⁰ ὃ τέτατο ⁸²¹ νιν ⁸²² φάος ⁸²³ ἐσχάτη ῥίζα ⁸²⁴ φάος ⁸²⁵ νιν ⁸²⁶ φάος ⁸²⁷ θάλος ⁸²⁸ τέτατο ⁸²⁹ ῥίζας ⁸³⁰

mvp-comment-350-1 κατ’ αὖ … ἀμᾷ, ⁸³¹ κοπίς ⁸³² κόνις ⁸³³ κόνις ⁸³⁴

mvp-comment-350-2 (1) If κόνις ⁸³⁵ καταμᾷ ⁸³⁶

mvp-comment-350-3 (2) If we read κοπίς ⁸³⁷

mvp-comment-350-4 It has further been urged against

that the word is too homely. This may be so; but we lack proof. seems to have been a large curved knife, known to the Greeks chiefly as ( a) a butcher's or cook's implement, ( b) an oriental military weapon. It does not follow, however, that the effect here would be like that of ‘chopper,’ or of ‘scimitar,’ in English. The dignity of a word may be protected by its simplicity; and is merely ‘that which cuts.’ Pindar was not afraid of homeliness when he described a chorus-master as a , or an inspiring thought as an (cp. O. C. 1052 n.). Nicander could say, of the scorpion, ( Ther. 780 ). If be right, the change to may have been caused, not by a misreading of letters, but by mere inadvertence,—the copyist having the word in his thoughts at the moment: it has already occurred frequently ( 247 , 256 , 409 , 429 ).—See Appendix.

mvp-comment-351-1 λόγου … ἄνοια ⁸³⁸ φρενῶν ἐρινύς ⁸³⁹

mvp-comment-352-1 τεάν ⁸⁴⁰

mvp-comment-352-2 δύνα^σιν ⁸⁴¹

mvp-comment-352-3 κατάσχοι ⁸⁴²

mvp-comment-353-1 The MS. παντογήρως ⁸⁴³ παντοθήρας ⁸⁴⁴ παντόθηρος ⁸⁴⁵ πάντ’ ἀγρεύων ⁸⁴⁶

mvp-comment-354-1 The MS. οὔτ’ ἀκάματοι θεῶν ⁸⁴⁷

mvp-comment-354-2

. Far the best emendation is οὔτε θεῶν ἄκματοι ⁸⁴⁸ θεῶν ⁸⁴⁹ θεῶν μῆνες ⁸⁵⁰ θεῶν ⁸⁵¹ οὔτε ⁸⁵²

mvp-comment-354-3 ἄκματοι ⁸⁵³

mvp-comment-355-1 I doubt whether the dat. χρόνῳ ⁸⁵⁴

mvp-comment-355-2 μαρμαρόεσσαν ⁸⁵⁵

mvp-comment-356-1 τό τ’ ἔπειτα ⁸⁵⁶ τὸ μέλλον ⁸⁵⁷

mvp-comment-356-2 καὶ τὸ πρίν ⁸⁶¹ ἐπαρκέσει ⁸⁶²

mvp-comment-357-1 πάμπολύ γ’ ⁸⁶³

mvp-comment-357-2 ἕρπει ⁸⁶⁴ ἕρπειν ⁸⁶⁵ ἕρπει ⁸⁶⁶

mvp-comment-357-3 πάμπολις ⁸⁶⁷

mvp-comment-358-1 ἁ γὰρ δή ⁸⁶⁸ γάρ ⁸⁶⁹ πολύπλαγκτος ⁸⁷⁰

mvp-comment-358-2 oft tossed up and down, ploughing a sea of vain deceits.’—

might also be act., ‘causing men to err greatly’; but this is less fitting here.

mvp-comment-359-1 πολλοῖς μὲν ὄνασις ⁸⁷¹

mvp-comment-360-1 ἀπάτα … ἐρώτων ⁸⁷²

mvp-comment-360-2 κουφονόων ⁸⁷³

mvp-comment-361-1 The

, or final frustration of his desires, ἕρπει ⁸⁷⁴ οὐδὲν εἰδότι ⁸⁷⁵

mvp-comment-362-1 πρὶν … προσαύσῃ ⁸⁷⁶

mvp-comment-362-2 προσαύσῃ ⁸⁷⁷

mvp-comment-362-3 πόδα ⁸⁷⁸ προσαύσῃ ⁸⁷⁹

mvp-comment-363-1 σοφίᾳ ⁸⁸⁰

mvp-comment-363-2 ἔκ του ⁸⁸¹

mvp-comment-363-3 πεφάνται ⁸⁸²

mvp-comment-364-1 τὸ κακὸν δοκεῖν ποτ’ ⁸⁸³ ποτέ ⁸⁸⁴

mvp-comment-364-2 1676 Among them he a spirit of phrenzy sent, Who hurt their minds. Cp.

. Il. 19.137

ἀλλ’ ἐπεὶ ἀασάμην, καί μευ φρένας ἐξέλετο Ζεύς

. Theognis 403 . Lycurgus in Leocr. § 92 . The schol. on our verse quotes an unknown poet's lines, . (‘Quem Iuppiter vult perdere, dementat prius.’ See n. in Appendix.)— The epic ἔμμεν ⁸⁸⁵

mvp-comment-365-1 ὀλίγιστον ⁸⁸⁶ ὀλιγοστόν ⁸⁸⁷ πράσσει … ἐκτὸς ἄτας ⁸⁸⁸ ἄτας ⁸⁸⁹

mvp-comment-366-1 μήν ⁸⁹⁰

mvp-comment-366-2 νέατον ⁸⁹¹

mvp-comment-366-3 to a person,

could not be said of a sole survivor unless he was also the latest-born.

γέννημ’

: cp. 471 n.

mvp-comment-366-4 ἀχνύμενος ⁸⁹² μόρον ⁸⁹³

mvp-comment-367-1 In the MS. reading (see cr. n.)

is a gloss on τάλιδος ⁸⁹⁴ τῆς μελλογάμου ⁸⁹⁵ τῆς μελλογάμου ⁸⁹⁶ τάλιδος ⁸⁹⁷

mvp-comment-368-1 ἀπάτας ⁸⁹⁸ λεχέων ⁸⁹⁹

mvp-comment-370-1 μάντεων ὑπέρτερον ⁹⁰⁰

mvp-comment-371-1 τελείαν ⁹⁰¹

mvp-comment-371-2 ψῆφο<*> ⁹⁰²

mvp-comment-371-3 ἆρα μή ⁹⁰³

mvp-comment-371-4 τῆς μελλονύμφου ⁹⁰⁴

mvp-comment-371-5 λυσσαίνων ⁹⁰⁵ σοὶ μέν ⁹⁰⁶ θυμαίνων ⁹⁰⁷

mvp-comment-372-1 σοὶ μέν ⁹⁰⁸

mvp-comment-372-2 πανταχῇ δρῶντες ⁹⁰⁹

mvp-comment-373-1 σός ⁹¹⁰

mvp-comment-373-2 γνώμας ἔχων χρηστάς ⁹¹¹ ἀπορθοῖς ⁹¹² μοι ⁹¹³

mvp-comment-374-1 ἀξιώσεται ⁹¹⁵ ἀξ. μείζων φέρεσθαι ⁹¹⁶ ἀξίως ἔσται ⁹¹⁷

mvp-comment-374-2 σοῦ καλῶς ἡγουμ. ⁹¹⁸ μείζων ⁹¹⁹

mvp-comment-375-1 γάρ ⁹²⁰

mvp-comment-375-2 διὰ στέρνων ἔχειν ⁹²¹ διά ⁹²² ἔχειν ⁹²³ οὕτω ⁹²⁴ ἔχειν ⁹²⁵

mvp-comment-376-1 (One ought to think thus),—that is, ὄπισθεν ἑστάναι πατρ. γνώμης ⁹²⁶ πάντα ⁹²⁷ ἑστάναι ⁹²⁸

mvp-comment-377-1 ὡς ⁹²⁹

mvp-comment-377-2 ἀνταμύνωνται ⁹³⁰ κακοῖς ⁹³¹

mvp-comment-378-1 ἄλλο ⁹³² φῦσαι ⁹³³ πλήν ⁹³⁴ ἄλλο ⁹³⁵ εἴποις ⁹³⁶

mvp-comment-378-2 πόνους ⁹³⁷

mvp-comment-378-3 γέλων ⁹³⁸

mvp-comment-379-1 τὰς φρένας γ’ ⁹³⁹ γε ⁹⁴⁰ φρένας σύ γ’ ἡδονῇ ⁹⁴¹

mvp-comment-379-2 φρένας … ἐκβάλῃς ⁹⁴²

mvp-comment-379-3 ὑφ’ ἡδονῆς ⁹⁴³

mvp-comment-380-1 ψυχρόν ⁹⁴⁴

mvp-comment-380-2 παραγκάλισμα ⁹⁴⁵

mvp-comment-381-1 δόμοις ⁹⁴⁶

mvp-comment-381-2 ἕλκος ⁹⁴⁷

mvp-comment-381-3 φίλος ⁹⁴⁸

mvp-comment-382-1 πτύσας ⁹⁴⁹

mvp-comment-382-2 ὠσεί τε δυσμενῆ ⁹⁵⁰ τε ⁹⁵¹

mvp-comment-383-1 νυμφεύειν ⁹⁵²

mvp-comment-384-1 ἀπιστήσασαν ⁹⁵³ ψευδῆ ⁹⁵⁴

mvp-comment-385-1 κτενῶ ⁹⁵⁵

mvp-comment-385-2 πρὸς ταῦτ ⁹⁵⁶

mvp-comment-385-3 ἐφυμνείτω ⁹⁵⁷

mvp-comment-385-4 Δία ξύναιμον ⁹⁵⁸

mvp-comment-386-1 τά γ’ ἐγγ. φύσει ⁹⁵⁹

mvp-comment-386-2 ἄκοσμα ⁹⁶⁰

mvp-comment-386-3 θρέψω ⁹⁶¹

mvp-comment-386-4 κάρτα τοὺς ἔξω γ. ⁹⁶²

mvp-comment-387-1 Seidler transposes vv. 663—667, placing them after 671. The object is to bring vv. 668—671 into immediate connection with 662. In this there is one slight grammatical gain; since, as the vv. stand in the MSS.,

(668) means, ‘the man who acts thus’ (viz., as described in vv. 666 f.). But the order given in the MSS. is right. The transposition obliterates one of the finest touches in the speech. Creon demands that the obedience of the citizens to the ruler shall be absolute (666 f.). And then he supplements this demand with a remark on the dignity of such obedience. The man who so obeys gives the best proof that he could also rule (668 ff.). Seidler destroys the point of vv. 668 ff. by placing them after 662.

mvp-comment-387-2 The connection of thought in the whole passage—which is slightly obscured by compression—may be most clearly shown by taking the verses in small consecutive groups. (1) 659 f. If I tolerate disloyalty

mvp-comment-387-3 in my own relatives, I shall encourage it in other citizens. (2) 661 f. For (

) only a man who is firm ( ) where his own relatives are concerned will be found to uphold justice in the State (i.e. will have the authority necessary for doing so). (3) 663 f. Now, I recognise disloyalty in any one who breaks the law and defies the government, as Antigone has done. (4) 666 f. Instead of so doing, the citizen is bound to obey the government in everything. (5) 668—671. There is nothing slavish in that; on the contrary, it shows that the citizen is not only a good subject, but would, if required, be a good ruler;—as he would also be a good soldier.—Then comes the general censure on unruliness (672—676). And then the conclusion:—I must vindicate my authority, and punish Antigone (677 —680).

mvp-comment-388-1 ὑπερβάς ⁹⁶³

mvp-comment-388-2 τοὐπιτάσσειν ⁹⁶⁴

mvp-comment-388-3 νοεῖ ⁹⁶⁵

mvp-comment-389-1 στήσειε ⁹⁶⁶

mvp-comment-389-2 καὶ τἀναντία ⁹⁶⁷

mvp-comment-390-1 τοῦτον … τὸν ἄνδρα ⁹⁶⁸

mvp-comment-390-2 καλῶς...εὖ ⁹⁶⁹

mvp-comment-390-3 ἄν ⁹⁷⁰ ἄρχειν ⁹⁷¹ θέλειν ⁹⁷²

mvp-comment-391-1 δορὸς … χειμῶνι ⁹⁷³

mvp-comment-391-2 προστεταγμένον ⁹⁷⁴

mvp-comment-391-3 παραστάτην ⁹⁷⁵

mvp-comment-392-1 πόλεις ὄλλυσιν, ἥδ’ ⁹⁷⁶ πόλεις τ’ … ἥδ’ ⁹⁷⁷

mvp-comment-393-1 συμμάχου ⁹⁷⁸ συμμάχηι ⁹⁷⁹ σὺν μάχῃ ⁹⁸⁰

mvp-comment-393-2 τροπὰς καταρρήγνυσι ⁹⁸¹

mvp-comment-393-3 τῶν δ’ ὀρθουμένων ⁹⁸² τὰ πολλὰ σώματα ⁹⁸³

mvp-comment-393-4 ἡ πειθαρχία ⁹⁸⁴

mvp-comment-394-1 ἀμυντέ’ ⁹⁸⁵

mvp-comment-394-2 τοῖς κοσμουμένοις ⁹⁸⁶ τοῖς κ. ⁹⁸⁸

mvp-comment-395-1 κοὔτοι … ἡσσητέα ⁹⁸⁹

mvp-comment-396-1 δεῖ ⁹⁹⁰ ἐκπεσεῖν ⁹⁹¹

mvp-comment-396-2 thrust out: oft. of dethronement (

, Aesch. ), or of exile ( , O. C. 766 ).

mvp-comment-396-3 κοὐκ ἂν...καλοίμεθ’ ἄν ⁹⁹²

mvp-comment-397-1 μέν ⁹⁹³

mvp-comment-397-2 τῷ χρόνῳ ⁹⁹⁴

mvp-comment-397-3 κεκλέμμεθα ⁹⁹⁵

mvp-comment-398-1 δοκεῖς λέγειν φρονούντως περὶ ⁹⁹⁶

mvp-comment-399-1 θεοί ⁹⁹⁷

mvp-comment-399-2 κτημάτων ⁹⁹⁸

mvp-comment-400-1 ἐγὼ δ’ ὅπως ⁹⁹⁹

mvp-comment-400-2 μὴ ¹⁰⁰⁰ ὅπως ¹⁰⁰¹ μή ¹⁰⁰² ὀρθῶς ¹⁰⁰³

mvp-comment-400-3 μήτ’ ἐπισταίμην ¹⁰⁰⁴

mvp-comment-401-1 καλῶς ἔχον ¹⁰⁰⁵ γένοιτο ἂν καὶ ἑτέρῳ ¹⁰⁰⁶

mvp-comment-402-1 σοῦ δ’ οὖν ¹⁰⁰⁷ σοῦ ¹⁰⁰⁸ σοί ¹⁰⁰⁹ σὺ δ’ οὐ πέφυκας ¹⁰¹⁰ τις ¹⁰¹¹ μῆνίν τιν’ ἢ κότον τιν ¹⁰¹²

mvp-comment-403-1 τὸ γὰρ σόν ¹⁰¹³ ὄμμα ¹⁰¹⁴

mvp-comment-403-2 δημότῃ ¹⁰¹⁵

mvp-comment-404-1 λόγοις τοιούτοις ¹⁰¹⁶ λόγοις τοιούτοις ¹⁰¹⁷

mvp-comment-404-2 οἷς ¹⁰¹⁸ τέρψει ¹⁰¹⁹ κλύων ¹⁰²⁰ μή ¹⁰²¹ τέρψῃ ¹⁰²²

mvp-comment-405-1 ὑπὸ σκότον ¹⁰²³ ἀκούειν ¹⁰²⁴ ὀδύρεται ¹⁰²⁵

mvp-comment-406-1 κάκιστ’ … εὐκλεεστάτων ¹⁰²⁶

mvp-comment-406-2 ἀπ’ ἔργων ¹⁰²⁷

mvp-comment-407-1 ἥτις ¹⁰²⁸ μήθ’ … μήθ’ ¹⁰²⁹ εἴασε ¹⁰³⁰ ὀλέσθαι ¹⁰³¹

mvp-comment-407-2 αὐτάδελφον ¹⁰³²

mvp-comment-407-3 ἐνφοναῖς ¹⁰³³

mvp-comment-408-1 χρυσῆς ¹⁰³⁴

mvp-comment-408-2 λαχεῖν ¹⁰³⁵ ἀξία ¹⁰³⁶

mvp-comment-409-1 ἐπέρχεται ¹⁰³⁷

mvp-comment-410-1 θάλλοντος ¹⁰³⁸

mvp-comment-410-2 μεῖζον εὐκλείας ¹⁰³⁹

mvp-comment-410-3 πρὸς παίδων ¹⁰⁴⁰ εὐκλεία ¹⁰⁴¹

mvp-comment-411-1 νυν ¹⁰⁴²

mvp-comment-411-2 φόρει ¹⁰⁴³

mvp-comment-411-3 ἦθος ¹⁰⁴⁴ ὡς φὴς σύ ¹⁰⁴⁵

mvp-comment-411-4 κοὐδέν ¹⁰⁴⁶

mvp-comment-411-5 τοῦτο ¹⁰⁴⁷

mvp-comment-412-1 μόνος ¹⁰⁴⁸ φρονεῖν ¹⁰⁴⁹ ψυχήν ¹⁰⁵⁰

mvp-comment-412-2

(devices) . Isocr. or. 3 § 43 joins Theognis, Hesiod and Phocylides as . They were read in schools.

mvp-comment-413-1 οὗτοι ¹⁰⁵¹

mvp-comment-413-2 διαπτυχθέντες ¹⁰⁵²

mvp-comment-413-3 κενοί ¹⁰⁵³

mvp-comment-414-1 ἄνδρα ¹⁰⁵⁴ μανθάνειν ¹⁰⁵⁵ τό ¹⁰⁵⁶

mvp-comment-414-2 κεἰ … ᾖ ¹⁰⁵⁷

mvp-comment-414-3 τείνειν ¹⁰⁵⁸

mvp-comment-414-4 παρὰ ῥείθρ. ¹⁰⁵⁹

mvp-comment-414-5 χειμάρροις ¹⁰⁶⁰

mvp-comment-415-1 ὑπείκει ¹⁰⁶¹

mvp-comment-415-2 αὐτόπρεμνα ¹⁰⁶²

mvp-comment-416-1 αὔτως ¹⁰⁶³

mvp-comment-416-2 ναός ¹⁰⁶⁴

mvp-comment-416-3 ἐγκρατῆ ¹⁰⁶⁵

mvp-comment-416-4 πόδα ¹⁰⁶⁶

mvp-comment-417-1 μηδέν ¹⁰⁶⁷

mvp-comment-417-2 κάτω στρέψας ¹⁰⁶⁸ τὸ πλοῖον ¹⁰⁶⁹ τὸ λοιπόν ¹⁰⁷⁰

mvp-comment-417-3 σέλμασιν ¹⁰⁷¹ ὑπτίοις ¹⁰⁷²

mvp-comment-418-1 εἶκε θυμοῦ ¹⁰⁷³

mvp-comment-418-2 καὶ μετάστασιν δίδου ¹⁰⁷⁴

mvp-comment-418-3 δίδου ¹⁰⁷⁵ εἶκε ¹⁰⁷⁶ καί ¹⁰⁷⁷ καί ¹⁰⁷⁸

mvp-comment-419-1 εἴ τις γνώμη πρόσεστι καὶ ἀπ’ ἐμοῦ ν. ¹⁰⁷⁹ καί ¹⁰⁸⁰

mvp-comment-419-2 πρεσβεύειν ¹⁰⁸¹

mvp-comment-420-1 φῦναι ¹⁰⁸²

mvp-comment-420-2 πάντ’ ¹⁰⁸³

mvp-comment-421-1 εἰ δ’ οὖν ¹⁰⁸⁴ φιλεῖ γάρ ¹⁰⁸⁵

mvp-comment-421-2 τοῦτο … ταύτῃ ¹⁰⁸⁶ ταύτῃ ¹⁰⁸⁷

mvp-comment-421-3 ῥέπειν ¹⁰⁸⁸

mvp-comment-422-1 καὶ τὸ τῶν εὖ λεγόντων μανθάνειν καλόν ¹⁰⁸⁹

mvp-comment-423-1 σέ τ’ ¹⁰⁹⁰ διπλᾶι ¹⁰⁹¹ διπλᾶ ¹⁰⁹² διπλῇ ¹⁰⁹³ διπλᾶ ¹⁰⁹⁴

mvp-comment-423-2 On the other hand, διπλῇ ¹⁰⁹⁵

mvp-comment-424-1 καὶ ¹⁰⁹⁶ διδαξ. ¹⁰⁹⁷

mvp-comment-424-2 δή ¹⁰⁹⁸

mvp-comment-424-3 τὴν φύσιν ¹⁰⁹⁹

mvp-comment-425-1 μηδέν ¹¹⁰⁰ τὸ μὴ δίκ. ¹¹⁰¹

mvp-comment-425-2 τὸν χρόνον ¹¹⁰² τἄργα ¹¹⁰³

mvp-comment-426-1 ἔργον ¹¹⁰⁴

mvp-comment-426-2 τοὺς ἀκοσμοῦντας ¹¹⁰⁵

mvp-comment-426-3 σέβειν ¹¹⁰⁶

mvp-comment-427-1 οὐδ’ ¹¹⁰⁷

mvp-comment-428-1 τοιᾷδε … νοσῳ ¹¹⁰⁸

mvp-comment-428-2 ἐπείληπται ¹¹⁰⁹

mvp-comment-429-1 Θήβης ¹¹¹⁰ ὁμόπτολις ¹¹¹¹

mvp-comment-430-1 ἡμῖν ¹¹¹² ἐμέ ¹¹¹³

mvp-comment-431-1 ὡς ἄγαν νέος ¹¹¹⁴

mvp-comment-432-1 Dobree's με ¹¹¹⁵ γε ¹¹¹⁶ χρή ¹¹¹⁷ ἄλλῳ ἢ ’μοί ¹¹¹⁸ ἐμοί ¹¹¹⁹ χρή γε ¹¹²⁰

mvp-comment-433-1 πόλις γὰρ οὐκ ἔσθ’ ¹¹²¹

mvp-comment-433-2

is , Rep. 544 C. de Rep. 3. 31

mvp-comment-434-1 νομίζεται ¹¹²²

mvp-comment-435-1 καλῶς ἐρήμης γ’ ¹¹²³

mvp-comment-436-1 Though at least one late MS. (Paris E) has

, it is needless to assume here the same mixed constr. as Tr. 1238

ἁνὴρ δ’ ὅδ’, ὡς ἔοικεν, οὐ νεμεῖν ἐμοὶ | φθίνοντι μοῖραν

.

mvp-comment-437-1 οὖν ¹¹²⁴ προκήδομαι ¹¹²⁵

mvp-comment-438-1 ὦ παγκάκιστε ¹¹²⁶

mvp-comment-438-2 διὰ δίκης ἰὼν πατρί ¹¹²⁷

mvp-comment-439-1 ἀρχάς ¹¹²⁸

mvp-comment-440-1 οὐ γὰρ σέβεις ¹¹²⁹

mvp-comment-440-2 τιμάς ¹¹³⁰

mvp-comment-441-1 ὦ μιαρόν ¹¹³¹ γυναικὸς ὕστερον ¹¹³²

mvp-comment-442-1 ‘I may be inferior to a woman, but at least you will never find me yielding to base temptations.’ It would have been

if he had allowed fear or self-interest to deter him from pleading this cause. ( Cp. 509 .) Cp. Tr. 489

ἔρωτος...ἥσσων

: fr. 844

mvp-comment-442-2 οὔ τἄν ¹¹³³

mvp-comment-442-3 γε ¹¹³⁴

mvp-comment-443-1 γοῦν ¹¹³⁵

mvp-comment-444-1 καὶ σοῦ γε ¹¹³⁶

mvp-comment-445-1 Objections have been made to the traditional order of these verses, chiefly in two respects. (1) 755

is—it is argued—the strongest thing said by Haemon, and ought therefore to come immediately before Creon's final outburst, ; (758). How could it be followed by merely so mild a phrase as ?—We may reply:— Haemon says that, if Creon were not his father, he would have thought him mad. It is to this that refers, meaning, ‘Do not seek to deceive me by an affectation of filial deference.’ (2) 757 is too mild a remark—it is said—to form the climax of provocation to Creon's anger. We may reply:—It is in substance, if not in form, such a climax, —for a father who holds that unquestioning obedience (640) is a son's first duty. It asserts Haemon's right to maintain his own views against his father's,— , as Creon put it (742). The traditional order seems, therefore, to be right.

mvp-comment-445-2 Three modes of transposition have been proposed. (1) Enger puts 756 and 757 after 749. Then

(756) refers to Haemon's plea that he has his father's cause, and that of religion, at heart. We lose nothing by such a transposition; but neither do we gain.

mvp-comment-445-3 (2) Donner (in his transl., ed. 1863) simply transposed verses 755 and 757, leaving the rest as they stand. For this it may fairly be said that 757 comes very fitly after 754. On the other hand it seems to me that 756 does not aptly follow 757.

mvp-comment-445-4 (3) Pallis arranges thus:—749, 756, 755, 754, 757, 750—753. Thus

(753) becomes the last sting.— The fact is that, in a stormy altercation, we do not look for a closely logical texture and a delicately graduated crescendo. The MS. order is (to my mind) the best; but other arrangements are possible, and would be nearly as good.

mvp-comment-445-5 Creon, instead of replying to v. 749, abruptly repeats his resolve.

(fut.) , it cannot be that you shall ever wed her while she yet lives; i.e. she is to die at once, and can become your bride, if ever, only (654). Cp. 1240 .— ὡς ¹¹³⁷ ποτέ ¹¹³⁸ ταύτην ¹¹³⁹

mvp-comment-446-1 ἥδ’ ¹¹⁴⁰ ὀλεῖ τινά ¹¹⁴¹

mvp-comment-447-1 ἦ ἐπεξέρχει και ἐπαπειλῶν ὧδε θρασύς; ¹¹⁴² καί ¹¹⁴³

mvp-comment-448-1 κλαίων ¹¹⁴⁴

mvp-comment-448-2 φρενώσεις ¹¹⁴⁵

mvp-comment-449-1 οὐκ εὖ φρονεῖν ¹¹⁴⁶

mvp-comment-450-1 δούλευμα ¹¹⁴⁷

mvp-comment-450-2 μὴ κωτιλλέ με ¹¹⁴⁸

mvp-comment-450-3 Cp. Theognis 363

(cajole)' : id. 851 .

mvp-comment-451-1 λέγειν … κλύειν; ¹¹⁴⁹ λέγειν τι ¹¹⁵⁰

mvp-comment-452-1 ἄληθες; ¹¹⁵¹

mvp-comment-452-2 οὐ τόνδ’ Ὄλ. ¹¹⁵²

mvp-comment-452-3 ἴσθ’ ὅτι ¹¹⁵³

mvp-comment-453-1 χαίρων ¹¹⁵⁴

mvp-comment-453-2 ἐπὶ ψόγοισι δεννάσεις ¹¹⁵⁵ ἐπί ¹¹⁵⁶ ἔτι ¹¹⁵⁷

mvp-comment-454-1 ἄγετε ¹¹⁵⁸ ἄγ’ ἄγε ¹¹⁵⁹ ἄγαγε ¹¹⁶⁰

mvp-comment-454-2 τὸ μῖσος ¹¹⁶¹

mvp-comment-454-3 κατ’ ὄμματ’ ¹¹⁶²

mvp-comment-454-4 παρόντι … πλησία ¹¹⁶³

mvp-comment-455-1 ἔμοιγε ¹¹⁶⁴ οὔτε ¹¹⁶⁵ τε ¹¹⁶⁶

mvp-comment-455-2 οὐδαμά ¹¹⁶⁷

mvp-comment-455-3 ἐν ὀφθαλμοῖς ¹¹⁶⁸

mvp-comment-456-1 ὡς ¹¹⁶⁹

mvp-comment-456-2 τοῖς θέλουσι ¹¹⁷⁰

mvp-comment-457-1 ἐξ ὀργῆς ταχύς ¹¹⁷¹

mvp-comment-457-2 βαρύς ¹¹⁷²

mvp-comment-458-1 μεῖζον ἢ κατ’ ἄνδρα ¹¹⁷³

mvp-comment-458-2 ἰών ¹¹⁷⁴

mvp-comment-458-3

: Ai. 304

ὅσην κατ’ αὐτῶν ὕβριν ἐκτίσαιτ’ ἰών

. So here it scornfully suggests some daring enterprise.

mvp-comment-459-1 For δ’ οὖν ¹¹⁷⁵

mvp-comment-459-2 τὼ … τώδε ¹¹⁷⁶

mvp-comment-459-3 καί ¹¹⁷⁷ κατακτ. νοεῖς ¹¹⁷⁸ κατακτ ¹¹⁷⁹

mvp-comment-460-1 θιγοῦσαν ¹¹⁸⁰

mvp-comment-460-2 γὰρ οὖν ¹¹⁸¹

mvp-comment-461-1 καί ¹¹⁸² βουλεύει ¹¹⁸³

mvp-comment-461-2 σφε ¹¹⁸⁴

mvp-comment-462-1 ἔνθα ¹¹⁸⁵

mvp-comment-463-1 πετρώδει … ἐν κατώρυχι ¹¹⁸⁶

mvp-comment-464-1 ὡς ἄγος μόνον ¹¹⁸⁷ ὡς ¹¹⁸⁸ ὅσον ¹¹⁸⁹

mvp-comment-464-2 ἄγος ¹¹⁹⁰

mvp-comment-464-3 Creon's edict had announced that the transgressor would be publicly stoned to death (36). It is to this that the anxious question of the Chorus alludes (772). Creon had already said that Antigone's doom was to be

(489). But now, at least, he feels that he cannot inflict such a death on the maiden, his kinswoman. She shall die, not by stoning, but by starvation. The choice is not prompted by cruelty, but simply by the desire to avoid physical violence.

mvp-comment-464-4 The danger of a

—to be avoided by a dole of food—has no relation to the special circumstances,—Antigone's royal birth, and the nature of her offence. In the ancient belief, that danger existed whenever a person was put to death by starvation. Two notions were probably blended; ( a) that, if a little food was given, the death was nature's work, not man's; ( b) that the claimed an indemnity for the usual . So the Greeks put Philoctetes ashore on desolate Lemnos, — ( Ph. 274 ). So, too, when a Vestal was to be buried alive, the small vault in the Campus Sceleratus was furnished with a couch, a burning lamp, and a small table, on which the dole was placed,—bread, olives, milk, and a jug of water ( Plut. Num. 10 ).

mvp-comment-465-1 πᾶσ’ ¹¹⁹¹

mvp-comment-466-1 ὃν μόνον σέβει ¹¹⁹²

mvp-comment-466-2

(199). By honouring him, and Hades (519), she has dishonoured those other gods.

mvp-comment-467-1 τὸ μὴ θανεῖν ¹¹⁹³ τεύξεται ¹¹⁹⁴

mvp-comment-468-1 ἀλλὰ τηνικαῦτα ¹¹⁹⁵ τἀν ¹¹⁹⁶

mvp-comment-470-1 ἀνίκατε μάχαν ¹¹⁹⁷

mvp-comment-471-1 ἐν κτήμασι πίπτεις, ¹¹⁹⁸

mvp-comment-472-1 ἐν μαλακαῖς παρειαῖς ¹¹⁹⁹

mvp-comment-472-2 ἐννυχεύεις ¹²⁰⁰

mvp-comment-473-1 ὑπερπόντιος ¹²⁰¹

mvp-comment-473-2 ἔν τ’ ἀγρ. αὐλαῖς ¹²⁰²

mvp-comment-474-1 οὔτ’ ἀθανάτων ¹²⁰³

mvp-comment-474-2 σὲ … φύξιμός ἐστι ¹²⁰⁴

mvp-comment-475-1 σέ γ’ ¹²⁰⁵

mvp-comment-475-2 ὁ δ’ ἔχων ¹²⁰⁶

mvp-comment-476-1 ἀδίκους ¹²⁰⁷ παρασπᾷς ¹²⁰⁸

mvp-comment-477-1 ξύναιμον ¹²⁰⁹

mvp-comment-477-2 ἔχεις ¹²¹⁰

mvp-comment-477-3 ταράξας ¹²¹¹

mvp-comment-478-1 ἐναργής ¹²¹²

mvp-comment-478-2 βλεφάρωνἵμερος ¹²¹³ εὐλέκτρου νύμφας ¹²¹⁴

mvp-comment-478-3 εὐλέκτρου ¹²¹⁵

mvp-comment-479-1 πάρεδρος ἐν ἀρχαῖς ¹²¹⁶ πάρεδρος ¹²¹⁷ ἐν ἀρχαῖς ¹²¹⁸

mvp-comment-479-2 The words answer metrically to

(788). The first two syllables of therefore represent a resolved long syllable. Pindar affords some instances of such resolution (see Appendix), and there is a probable example below (970 , where see n.). But it is rare, and certainly unpleasing. As

mvp-comment-479-3 a whole, too, the phrase

is suspicious. A yet stronger objection is the strangeness of describing the power which is in conflict with the as their assessor, or peer, in sway; an expression which would seem appropriate only if that power was working in harmony with them; as when Eur. ( Eur. Med. 843 ) speaks of ,—‘the loves that sit with wisdom, co-workers of all excellence,’—those aspirations of the soul which assist intellectual effort.

mvp-comment-479-4 The best line of emendation yet suggested is that of Semitelos, who writes ὥστε πέρα δρᾶν ¹²¹⁹

mvp-comment-480-1 ἐμπαίζει ¹²²⁰ νικᾷ ¹²²¹

mvp-comment-481-1 καὐτὸς θεσμῶν ἔξω ¹²²²

mvp-comment-481-2 φέρομαι ¹²²³

mvp-comment-481-3 ἴσχειν δ’ ¹²²⁴

mvp-comment-482-1 πηγάς ¹²²⁵

mvp-comment-483-1 παγκοίτην ¹²²⁶

mvp-comment-483-2 of Antigone are brought into finer relief by the different tone of the choral anapaests. Cp. 822 , and see Appendix on 110.—Cp. O. C. 1578 (Death)

. The word θάλαμον ¹²²⁷

mvp-comment-483-3 ἀνύτουσαν ¹²²⁸

mvp-comment-485-1 νεάταν … νέατον δέ ¹²²⁹

mvp-comment-485-2 νέατον ¹²³⁰

mvp-comment-485-3 κοὔποτ’ αὖθις ¹²³¹

mvp-comment-486-1 παγκοίτας ¹²³² πάγκοινος ¹²³³

mvp-comment-487-1 ἄγει … ἀκτάν ¹²³⁴

mvp-comment-488-1 οὔθ’ ὑμεναίων … οὔτ’ ἐπινύμφειος … ὕμνος ¹²³⁵

mvp-comment-488-2 οὔτε … ἔγκληρον, … οὔτε … ὕμνησεν ¹²³⁷

mvp-comment-488-3 ἐπινύμφειος ¹²³⁸ ἐπινυμφίδιος ¹²³⁹ ἐπὶ νυμφείοις ¹²⁴⁰ ἐπινυμφίδιος ¹²⁴¹

mvp-comment-489-1 Ἀχέροντι νυμφεύσω ¹²⁴²

mvp-comment-490-1 ξιφέων ¹²⁴³ ἐπίχειρα ¹²⁴⁴

mvp-comment-491-1 αὐτόνομος ¹²⁴⁵

mvp-comment-491-2 δή ¹²⁴⁶ μόνη ¹²⁴⁷ Ἀΐδην ¹²⁴⁸ Ἅιδην ¹²⁴⁹

mvp-comment-492-1 ἤκουσα δή ¹²⁵⁰

mvp-comment-492-2 λυγροτάταν ¹²⁵¹

mvp-comment-492-3 ξέναν ¹²⁵²

mvp-comment-493-1 Ταντάλου ¹²⁵³

mvp-comment-493-2 Σιπύλῳ ¹²⁵⁴

mvp-comment-494-1 ἀτενής ¹²⁵⁵

mvp-comment-494-2 πετραία βλάστα δάμασεν ¹²⁵⁶ αι^ ¹²⁵⁷

mvp-comment-495-1 καί νιν ὄμρροι ¹²⁵⁸ τέγγει δ’ ¹²⁵⁹ ὄμβρῳ ¹²⁶⁰ τακομέναν ¹²⁶¹ τέγγει … δειράδας ¹²⁶² ὄμβροι ¹²⁶³ ὄμβρῳ ¹²⁶⁴

mvp-comment-495-2 χιών ¹²⁶⁵

mvp-comment-495-3 οὐδαμά ¹²⁶⁶

mvp-comment-496-1 τέγγει δ’ ὑπ’ ὀφρύσι … δειράδας ¹²⁶⁷

mvp-comment-496-2 The Niobe of Sipylus has usually been identified with a colossal rock-image on the N. side of the range. It is rudely carved in relief, within a rectangular niche on the face of a limestone cliff, and represents a woman seated on a throne. (See Stark, Niobe, pl. 1, Leips. 1863: cp. Baumeister, Denkm. p. 1029). Prof. W. M. Ramsay, however, holds that this image is the ‘very ancient’

of Cybele mentioned by Paus. 3.22.4 . In two respects it differs from the ancient accounts of the Niobe (quoted below): ( a) it does not ‘weep,’—for the rainwater drops from the front of the niche, clear of the figure; and ( b) the likeness to a human form grows, instead of vanishing, as one approaches. ( Journ. Hellen. Studies III. 61 ff., 1882.) This has been confirmed by another traveller, Herr Schweisthal (as reported in the Berl. Phil. Wochenschr., May 28, 1887, p. 704). He finds the true Niobe at no great distance from the Cybele, but nearer Magnesia, and in the vicinity of a stream (the Jarikkaia) which Humann, in his ‘Excursion into Sipylus’ (1881), had already identified with the Achelous of Il. 24.616 . It is a natural phenomenon,—the semblance—as seen from a distance—of a draped woman, seated high on the rocks; she looks towards the right, and lifts her right arm, as if in lament.

mvp-comment-496-3 The best ancient description is by a poet whose native place was in that neighbourhood,—Quintus Smyrnaeus (1. 293— 306):—‘Her streaming tears still fall from the heights of the rugged cliff; and in sympathy with her the sounding waters of the Hermus make lament, and the lofty peaks of Sipylus, over which the mist that shepherds dread floats evermore. A great marvel is she to passers by, because she is like a sorrowful woman, who mourns some cruel grief, and weeps without stint. Such verily seems the figure, when thou gazest at it from afar; but when thou drawest near, lo, 'tis but a sheer rock, a cliff of Sipylus’ (

).

mvp-comment-496-4 Nonnus was thinking of the effect from the road, when he wrote (2. 160),

. Pausanias, too, says that, at a certain distance from the cliff, , but that the illusion vanishes on a nearer approach (1. 21 § 3).

mvp-comment-497-1 ὁμοιοτάταν ¹²⁶⁸

mvp-comment-498-1 ἀλλὰ … θανοῦσαν ¹²⁶⁹ καίτοι ¹²⁷⁰ ζῶσαν ¹²⁷¹ θανοῦσαν ¹²⁷² οἴμοι γελῶμαι ¹²⁷³

mvp-comment-498-2 θεός ¹²⁷⁴

mvp-comment-498-3 θεογεννής ¹²⁷⁵ θειογενής ¹²⁷⁶

mvp-comment-499-1 καίτοι ¹²⁷⁷ φθιμένῃ ¹²⁷⁸

mvp-comment-499-2 κἀκοῦσαι ¹²⁷⁹ μέγ’ ἀκοῦσαι ¹²⁸⁰

mvp-comment-500-1 τοῖς ἰσοθέοις σύγκληρα ¹²⁸¹ ἔγκληρα ¹²⁸²

mvp-comment-500-2 Hipp. 1011 : or (2) pass., included in one's

, as H. F. 468 (‘by inheritance’). Here, was perh. partly due to a reminiscence of in 814.—The change of τοῖς ἰσοθέοις ¹²⁸³ τοῖσι θεοῖσιν ¹²⁸⁴ ι— ¹²⁸⁵ α— ¹²⁸⁶ τοῖς ἰσοθέοις ἔγκληρα ¹²⁸⁷

mvp-comment-501-1 ζῶσαν … θανοῦσαν ¹²⁸⁸

mvp-comment-502-1 γελῶμαι ¹²⁸⁹

mvp-comment-503-1 πολυκτήμονες ¹²⁹⁰

mvp-comment-504-1 κρῆναι ¹²⁹¹

mvp-comment-504-2 εὐαρμάτου ¹²⁹²

mvp-comment-504-3 ἄλσος ¹²⁹³

mvp-comment-504-4 ἔμπας ¹²⁹⁴

mvp-comment-505-1 ὔμμ’ ¹²⁹⁵

mvp-comment-505-2 ἐπικτῶμαι ¹²⁹⁶ ἐπί ¹²⁹⁷

mvp-comment-506-1 οἵα ¹²⁹⁸

mvp-comment-506-2 φίλων ἄκλαυτος ¹²⁹⁹

mvp-comment-507-1 ἕργμα τυμβόχωστον ¹³⁰⁰ ἕρμα ¹³⁰¹

mvp-comment-508-1 ποταινίου ¹³⁰²

mvp-comment-509-1 Though every treatment of this verse must remain subject to doubt, far the most probable (to my mind) is Seyffert's modification of Boeckh's βροτοῖς οὔτ’ ἐν νεκροῖς κυροῦσα ¹³⁰³ οὔτε ¹³⁰⁴ κυροῦσα ¹³⁰⁵ νεκροῖς ¹³⁰⁶

mvp-comment-510-1 μέτοικος ¹³⁰⁷

mvp-comment-511-1 προβᾶσ’ … πολύ ¹³⁰⁸ προσέπεσες ¹³⁰⁹

mvp-comment-511-2 πολύ ¹³¹⁰ ἐσχάτου ¹³¹¹ προσέπεσες ¹³¹²

mvp-comment-512-1 πατρῷόν τινα … ἆθλον ¹³¹³ τινά ¹³¹⁴

mvp-comment-512-2 ἐκτίνεις ¹³¹⁵

mvp-comment-513-1 μερίμνας ¹³¹⁶ οἶκτον ¹³¹⁷ πατρός ¹³¹⁸ πότμου ¹³¹⁹ οἶκτον ¹³²⁰

mvp-comment-513-2 to taking

as acc. in apposition with is that this would imply ( ) : as Eur. Or. 1105

Ἑλένην κτάνωμεν, Μενέλεῳ λύπην πικράν

, implies, : Aesch. Ag. 224

ἔτλα δ’ οὖν | θυτὴρ γενέσθαι θυγατρός, γυναικοποίνων πολέμων ἀρωγάν

, implies, . Now, if we had, for instance, , it is conceivable that , as acc. in appos., should mean or . But when, as here, the subject of is distinct from the person who makes the lament, it seems impossible that should have this pregnant sense.

mvp-comment-513-3 ἀλγ. μερίμνας ¹³²¹ οἶτον ¹³²²

mvp-comment-513-4 τριπόλιστον ¹³²³

mvp-comment-513-5 κλεινοῖς Λαβδακίδαισιν ¹³²⁴ πότμου ¹³²⁵

mvp-comment-513-6 ἁμετέρου ¹³²⁶

mvp-comment-514-1 ματρῷαι λέκτρων ἆται ¹³²⁷ πατρῷαι ¹³²⁸

mvp-comment-514-2

; and ( b) with the explanation by , etc., would have been less needed.

mvp-comment-515-1 κοιμήματα . . αὐτογέννητα . . ματρός ¹³²⁹

mvp-comment-515-2 ἐμῷ πατρί ¹³³⁰

mvp-comment-515-3 δυσμόρου ¹³³¹

mvp-comment-516-1 οἵων ¹³³² ποτέ ¹³³³ οἵων ¹³³⁴ ποτέ ¹³³⁵ οὕς ¹³³⁶ οἵων ¹³³⁷ ματρός.—ἀραῖος ¹³³⁸

mvp-comment-516-2 μέτοικος ¹³³⁹

mvp-comment-517-1 κασίγνητε ¹³⁴⁰

mvp-comment-518-1 θανὼν ἔτ’ οὖσαν ¹³⁴¹

mvp-comment-518-2 κατήναρες ¹³⁴²

mvp-comment-519-1 σέβειν ¹³⁴³

mvp-comment-519-2 sense,

’: i.e. though it is not complete —which the Chorus regard as including loyalty to the State's laws— yet, so far as it goes, it deserves praise of the same kind. Cp. 924 : by practising towards the dead, she had come to be thought, on the whole, —as a law-breaker. The Chorus is here the apologist of Creon, and this concession is meant to emphasise the next sentence. Hence the purposed vagueness of σέβειν ¹³⁴⁴

mvp-comment-520-1 κράτος δὲ ¹³⁴⁵ ὅτῳ ¹³⁴⁶

mvp-comment-520-2 οὐδαμᾷ ¹³⁴⁷ μέλει ¹³⁴⁸

mvp-comment-521-1 αὐτόγνωτος ¹³⁴⁹ αὐτὴ γιγνώσκουσα ¹³⁵⁰

mvp-comment-521-2 ὀργά ¹³⁵¹

mvp-comment-522-1 ἑτοίμαν ¹³⁵²

mvp-comment-523-1 τόδε λ. ἱρὸν ὄμμα ¹³⁵³

mvp-comment-524-1 ἀδάκρυτον ¹³⁵⁴

mvp-comment-524-2 (and so it remains) unwept. Soph. has several instances of the predicative adj. thus added to a subst. which has the art. and possessive pron.; as O. T. 671

(n.): El. 1143

τῆς ἐμῆς πάλαι τροφῆς | ἀνωφελήτου

. Cp. 791 .

mvp-comment-525-1 ἆρ’ ἴστε ¹³⁵⁵ λέγειν ¹³⁵⁶ ἀοιδὰς καὶ γόους ¹³⁵⁷ ἴστε ¹³⁵⁸

mvp-comment-525-2 οὐδ’ ἂν εἷς ¹³⁵⁹

mvp-comment-526-1 οὐκ ἄξεθ’ ¹³⁶⁰ τάχιστα.—κατηρεφεῖ ¹³⁶¹

mvp-comment-527-1 περιπτύξαντες ¹³⁶²

mvp-comment-528-1 χρῇ ¹³⁶³ ζῶσα ¹³⁶⁴ χρῇ ¹³⁶⁵

mvp-comment-528-2

; but the MSS. are supported by the testimony of Suidas and Hesychius to as= . In the other four places where these forms are usu. read, they are not indispensable, being possible; but in two, at least, they are much better than , viz. El. 606

κήρυσσέ μ’ εἰς ἅπαντας, εἴτε χρῇς κακήν, | εἴτε στόμαργον, κ.τ.λ.

: and Ai. 1373

σοὶ δὲ δρᾶν ἔξεσθ’ ἃ χρῇς

. In the other two, might well stand: Eur. fr. 910 : Cratinus fr. 2 . Except in Ach. 778 , the MSS. everywhere give : and the variants in the next v. (see cr. n.) show that was strange to the copyists, though known to the Scholiast.

mvp-comment-529-1 ζῶσα τυμβεύειν ¹³⁶⁶ νυμφεύειν ¹³⁶⁷

mvp-comment-529-2 στέγῃ ¹³⁶⁸

mvp-comment-530-1 ἁγνοί ¹³⁶⁹

mvp-comment-530-2 τοὐπὶ τήνδε ¹³⁷⁰

mvp-comment-531-1 μετοικίας ¹³⁷¹

mvp-comment-531-2 δ’ οὖν ¹³⁷²

mvp-comment-531-3 στερήσεται ¹³⁷³

mvp-comment-532-1 ὦ τύμβος ¹³⁷⁴

mvp-comment-532-2 νυμφεῖον ¹³⁷⁵

mvp-comment-532-3 κατασκαφής ¹³⁷⁶

mvp-comment-533-1 ἀριθμὸν … πλεϊστον ¹³⁷⁷

mvp-comment-533-2 ἐν νεκροῖς ¹³⁷⁸ δέδεκται ¹³⁷⁹

mvp-comment-533-3

to Hades ( O. C. 1569 f.). So Oedipus is led by ( ib. 1548 ). As she is associated with Hades ( ib. 1556 ).

mvp-comment-533-4 Φερσέφασσα ¹³⁸⁰ Φ ¹³⁸¹

mvp-comment-534-1 κάκιστα ¹³⁸² δή ¹³⁸³

mvp-comment-534-2 μοῖραν … βίου ¹³⁸⁴ ἐξήκειν ¹³⁸⁵

mvp-comment-535-1 ἐν ἐλπίσιν τρέφω ¹³⁸⁶ φίλη μὲν … προσφιλὴς δέ ¹³⁸⁷

mvp-comment-536-1 κασίγνητον κάρα ¹³⁸⁸ νῦν δέ ¹³⁸⁹

mvp-comment-537-1 ὑμᾶς ¹³⁹⁰

mvp-comment-537-2 ἔλουσα κἀκόσμησα ¹³⁹¹

mvp-comment-537-3 χοάς ¹³⁹²

mvp-comment-537-4 περιστέλλουσα ¹³⁹³

mvp-comment-537-5 δέμας ¹³⁹⁴

mvp-comment-538-1 Few problems of Greek Tragedy have been more discussed than the question whether these vv., or some of them, are spurious. Arist. ( Arist. Rhet. 3. 16 § 9) quotes vv. 911, 912 , and certainly had the whole passage in his text of The Soph. interpolation, then, if such it be, must have been made soon after the poet's death; and has been imputed to his son Iophon (

), or some other sorry poet; or to the actors. I confess that, after long thought, I cannot bring myself to believe that Soph. wrote 905—912: with which 904 and 913—920 are in organic unity, and must now stand or fall. Some remarks will be found in the Appendix.

mvp-comment-538-2 The main points (to my mind) are briefly these. (1) The general validity of the divine law, as asserted in 450— 460, cannot be intelligibly reconciled with the limitation in vv. 905—907. (2) A still further limitation is involved in 911 f. She has buried her brother, not simply as such, but because, while he lived, he was an irreplaceable relative. Could she have hoped for the birth of another brother, she would not, then, have felt the duty to be so binding. (3) The composition of vv. 909—912 is unworthy of Sophocles.

mvp-comment-538-3 ’τίμησα ¹³⁹⁵ εὖ ¹³⁹⁶ τοῖς φρονοῦσιν ¹³⁹⁷

mvp-comment-539-1 ἐτήκετο ¹³⁹⁸

mvp-comment-540-1 βίᾳ πολιτῶν ¹³⁹⁹

mvp-comment-541-1 πρὸς χάριν ¹⁴⁰⁰

mvp-comment-542-1 Cp. Her. 3.119 , which clearly supplied, not merely the thought, but the form, of these verses:—

(3.119.6) . Arist. Rhet. 3.16 § 9 (if you introduce a trait of character which will seem improbable, the reason ofit should be added): [this=vv. 909, 910]: (he then quotes 911 f., with ,—a mere slip of memory: see on 223

).

mvp-comment-542-2 Three points in these vv. are strange. (1) The gen. abs. κατθανόντος ¹⁴⁰¹ πόσις ¹⁴⁰² ἀπ’ ἄλλου φωτός ¹⁴⁰³

mvp-comment-543-1 ἐκπροτιμήσασ’ ¹⁴⁰⁴

mvp-comment-544-1 διὰ χερῶν … λαβών ¹⁴⁰⁵

mvp-comment-545-1 ἀνυμέναιον ¹⁴⁰⁶

mvp-comment-546-1 ἀλλ’ ¹⁴⁰⁷

mvp-comment-546-2 πρὸς φίλων ¹⁴⁰⁸ ἔρημος ¹⁴⁰⁹

mvp-comment-547-1 δαιμόνων δίκην ¹⁴¹⁰

mvp-comment-548-1 If the gods allow her to suffer for obeying them, is it not vain for her to invoke them?

mvp-comment-548-2 βλέπειν ¹⁴¹¹

mvp-comment-548-3 τίνα … ξυμμάχων ¹⁴¹²

mvp-comment-548-4 ἐπεί γε δή ¹⁴¹³

mvp-comment-548-5 τὴν δυσσέβειαν ¹⁴¹⁴

mvp-comment-549-1 The gods are allowing her to perish. But it does not follow that they approve of her doom: for they are sometimes slow in punishing wrong ( O. C. 1536 ). Hence the dilemma, introduced

mvp-comment-549-2 by ἀλλ’ οὖν ¹⁴¹⁵

mvp-comment-549-3 ἐν θεοῖς ¹⁴¹⁶

mvp-comment-549-4 ξυγγνοῖμεν ¹⁴¹⁷

mvp-comment-549-5 ἡμαρτηκότες ¹⁴¹⁸ παθόντες ¹⁴¹⁹

mvp-comment-550-1 οἵδε ¹⁴²⁰

mvp-comment-550-2 μὴ πλείω ¹⁴²¹ μείω ¹⁴²²

mvp-comment-551-1 ἀνέμων‐ῥιπαὶ ψυχῆς ¹⁴²³

mvp-comment-552-1 τούτων ¹⁴²⁴

mvp-comment-552-2 κλαύμαθ’ ¹⁴²⁵

mvp-comment-552-3 ὕπερ ¹⁴²⁶

mvp-comment-553-1 This threat (to the guards) ‘has come very near to death,’ i.e., ‘portends imminent death for me.’ The phrase is not fig., ‘is bitter as death to hear’ (being a prelude to death).

mvp-comment-554-1 Said by Creon, clearly—not by the Chorus. ‘I can give thee no encouragement ( οὐδέν ¹⁴²⁷

mvp-comment-554-2 the doom is not to be ratified on this wise’ (i.e., by death). μὴ οὐ ¹⁴²⁸

mvp-comment-554-3 κατακυροῦσθαι ¹⁴²⁹

mvp-comment-554-4 ταύτῃ ¹⁴³⁰ τάδε ¹⁴³¹

mvp-comment-555-1 θεοὶ προγενεῖς ¹⁴³²

mvp-comment-556-1 δή ¹⁴³³

mvp-comment-556-2 κοὐκέτι μέλλω ¹⁴³⁴

mvp-comment-557-1 οἱ κοιρανίδαι ¹⁴³⁵

mvp-comment-558-1 βασιλειδᾶν ¹⁴³⁶ βασιλίδα ¹⁴³⁷

mvp-comment-558-2 μούνην ¹⁴³⁸

mvp-comment-559-1 εὐσεβίαν ¹⁴³⁹ ια ¹⁴⁴⁰ εια ¹⁴⁴¹

mvp-comment-559-2

. The motive was metrical convenience. Such forms are not Ionic, as Triclinius called them (cr. n.): thus Herod. used , not : though there are other cases in which Ionic substitutes for (as , etc.).— σεβίσασα ¹⁴⁴²

mvp-comment-561-1 Acrisius, the father of Danaë, was king of Argos. The oracle at Delphi told him that he was to be slain by his daughter's son. He therefore immured the maiden in a chamber built for that purpose within the precincts of his house at Argos. Here Zeus visited her in the golden rain; she bore Perseus; and Acrisius sent mother and child adrift on the Aegean in a chest; but Zeus heard her prayer, and brought them safely to the island of Seriphus. Both Soph. and Eur. wrote a

: Soph. wrote also an .

mvp-comment-561-2 καὶ Δανάας δέμας ἔτλα ἀλλάξαι οὐράνιον φῶς ¹⁴⁴³ ἔτλα καί ¹⁴⁴⁴

mvp-comment-561-3 δέμας ¹⁴⁴⁵

mvp-comment-561-4 χαλκοδέτοις αὐλαῖς ¹⁴⁴⁶

mvp-comment-562-1 τυμβήρει ¹⁴⁴⁷

mvp-comment-562-2 κατεζεύχθη ¹⁴⁴⁸

mvp-comment-563-1 τίμιος ¹⁴⁴⁹

mvp-comment-564-1 ταμιεύεσκε ¹⁴⁵⁰

mvp-comment-564-2 χρυσορύτους ¹⁴⁵¹

mvp-comment-565-1 ἁ μοιριδία τις ¹⁴⁵² τις ¹⁴⁵³

mvp-comment-566-1 οὔτ’ … ὄλβος ¹⁴⁵⁴

mvp-comment-566-2

mvp-comment-566-3 πύργος ¹⁴⁵⁵

mvp-comment-566-4 οὔτ’ … οὔτ’ ¹⁴⁵⁶ οὐ … οὐχ ¹⁴⁵⁷

mvp-comment-567-1 ζεύχθη ¹⁴⁵⁸

mvp-comment-567-2 ὀξύχολος ¹⁴⁵⁹

mvp-comment-567-3 The

, or ( Thuc. 2.99 ), occupied in historical times the part of Thrace E. of the Strymon and W. of the Nestus. In earlier times they had dwelt further west, but had been driven eastward by the Macedonian conquest of Mygdonia.

mvp-comment-567-4 Dionysus, when he came from Asia with his new rites, was opposed by Lycurgus in Thrace, as by Pentheus at Thebes. The

of Aeschylus is known from the schol. on Ar. Th. 135. This trilogy consisted of , with as satyric drama. In Il. 6.130 ff. Dionysus, pursued by Lycurgus, dives beneath the sea; Thetis receives him; and Zeus blinds Lycurgus.

mvp-comment-568-1 κερτομίοις ὀργαῖς ¹⁴⁶⁰ ὀργαῖς ¹⁴⁶¹ κερτομίοις ¹⁴⁶²

mvp-comment-569-1 ἐκ Διονύσου ¹⁴⁶³

mvp-comment-569-2 πετρώδει … δεσμῷ ¹⁴⁶⁴

mvp-comment-569-3 κατάφαρκτος ¹⁴⁶⁵

mvp-comment-570-1 οὕτω ¹⁴⁶⁶

mvp-comment-570-2 ἀνθηρόν ¹⁴⁶⁷

mvp-comment-570-3 ἀποστάζει ¹⁴⁶⁸

mvp-comment-571-1 ἐπέγνω τὸν θεόν, μανίαις ψαύων ¹⁴⁶⁹

mvp-comment-571-2 μανίαις ¹⁴⁷⁰

mvp-comment-571-3 ψαύων ¹⁴⁷¹

mvp-comment-571-4 ἐν ¹⁴⁷²

mvp-comment-571-5 γλώσσαις ¹⁴⁷³

mvp-comment-572-1 παύεσκε ¹⁴⁷⁴

mvp-comment-572-2 ἐνθέους γυναῖκας ¹⁴⁷⁵

mvp-comment-572-3 εὔιον … πῦρ ¹⁴⁷⁶

mvp-comment-573-1 Μούσας ¹⁴⁷⁷

mvp-comment-573-2 save the nymph by changing her into a vine; and behind him stand his followers. At the extreme left are three Muses—Urania, with globe; Clio, with roll; Euterpè, prob. with flutes. (Zoega seems clearly right in thus explaining the three women: others have made them Moirae.)—The close relation of Dionysus with the Muses is marked by one of his Attic titles,

( Paus. 1.2.5 ), as conversely Apollo had the title (id. 1. 31.4). Muses were sometimes said to have nursed him. (Cp. Welcker, Götterl. 2. 611.)

mvp-comment-573-3 The monuments relating to the myth of Lycurgus have been critically treated by Michaelis ( Annal. Inst. 1872, pp. 248— 270). The Italian vase-paintings follow a version different from that of Soph. , viz. that the frenzy of Lycurgus was wreaked on his own son and wife. A large Neapolitan vase gives two pictures: in one, we see his murderous rage; in the other, Dionysus sits on his throne in calm majesty, stroking his panther.

mvp-comment-574-1 Cleopatra is the third example. Her father was the wind-god, Boreas: her mother, the Athenian Oreithyia, whom he carried off to his wild home in Thrace. Cleopatra married Phineus, king of the Thracian Salmydessus, on the W. coast of the Euxine, not far from the entrance to the Bosporus. She bore him two sons. He afterwards put her away, and imprisoned her. Her imprisonment is not directly mentioned here: but cp. Diod. 4. 44 , who says of Heracles, when serving with the Argonauts,

. Phineus then married Eidothea, sister of Cadmus. Eidothea put out the eyes of Cleopatra's two sons, and caused them also to be imprisoned.

mvp-comment-574-2 It is the fate of Cleopatra herself which Soph. means to compare with Antigone's: this is plain from 986. The fate of the sons is made so prominent only because nothing else could give us so strong a sense of the savage hatred which pursued the mother.

mvp-comment-574-3 Soph. supposes the outline of the story to be familiar. Cleopatra has already been divorced and imprisoned. The poet chooses the moment at which Cleopatra's sons are being blinded by Eidothea, with the sharp shuttle in her blood-stained hands. Ares, the god of cruel bloodshed, beholds with joy a deed so worthy of his Thracian realm.

mvp-comment-574-4 The name of Cleopatra (like that of Capaneus, 133) is not mentioned. Two strophes are given to this theme, partly, perh., as having an Attic interest (982). Soph. wrote two plays called

. We know only that Cleopatra's sons were there called (? H. Weil) and : and that the subsequent blindness of Phineus was represented as a punishment of his cruelty (schol. Apoll. Rhod. 2. 178). Eidothea was mentioned by Soph. in his (schol. on 980),—a play which perh. concerned the Dionysiac worship, since the (kettle-drum) was used in his as well as in those of Cybelè. Another version called her Idaea, daughter of Dardanus.

mvp-comment-574-5 παρὰ δὲ Κυανεᾶν πελάγει δ. ἁλός ¹⁴⁷⁸ πετρῶν ¹⁴⁷⁹

mvp-comment-574-6 of

into is also erroneous.

mvp-comment-574-7 L's accent, πελάγεων ¹⁴⁸⁰ πελάγει ¹⁴⁸¹ παρά ¹⁴⁸² πελάγει ¹⁴⁸³ Κυανεᾶν ¹⁴⁸⁴

mvp-comment-575-1 ἀκταὶ Βοσπόριαι ¹⁴⁸⁵ Θρῃκῶν ¹⁴⁸⁶ ἄξενος ¹⁴⁸⁷ κλῄζεται ¹⁴⁸⁸ ἠδ’ ¹⁴⁸⁹

mvp-comment-576-1 ἀγχίπολις Ἄρης ¹⁴⁹⁰ ἀγχίπτολις ¹⁴⁹¹ Ἄρης ¹⁴⁹² ἀρχαιογόνων ¹⁴⁹³

mvp-comment-577-1 Φινεΐδαις ¹⁴⁹⁴

mvp-comment-577-2 ἀρατόν ¹⁴⁹⁵

mvp-comment-577-3 ἕλκος τυφλωθέν ¹⁴⁹⁶

mvp-comment-577-4 ἐξ ¹⁴⁹⁷

mvp-comment-578-1 ἀλαὸν … κύκλοις ¹⁴⁹⁸

mvp-comment-578-2 ἀλαστόροισιν ¹⁴⁹⁹

mvp-comment-579-1 ἀραχθέντων ¹⁵⁰⁰

mvp-comment-579-2 ὑπό ¹⁵⁰¹

mvp-comment-580-1 κερκίδων ¹⁵⁰²

mvp-comment-580-2 at the loom, will I send the shuttle flying across the warp’).—Cp. Eur. Hec. 1170 , where the women blind Polymestor with their brooches (

); and O. T. 1269 n.

mvp-comment-581-1 κατά ¹⁵⁰³

mvp-comment-581-2 μέλεοι μελέαν ¹⁵⁰⁴

mvp-comment-582-1 ματρὸς ἔχοντες ἀν. γονάν ¹⁵⁰⁵ γονάν ¹⁵⁰⁶ ματρός ¹⁵⁰⁷ ἀνύμφ. ¹⁵⁰⁸ ματρός ¹⁵⁰⁹ πάθαν ¹⁵¹⁰ ματρὸς … γονάν ¹⁵¹¹

mvp-comment-583-1 σπέρμα ¹⁵¹²

mvp-comment-583-2 ἀρχαιογ. ¹⁵¹³

mvp-comment-583-3 ἄντασ’ Ἐρ. ¹⁵¹⁴

mvp-comment-584-1 τηλεπόροις ¹⁵¹⁵

mvp-comment-585-1 ἅμιππος ¹⁵¹⁶

mvp-comment-585-2 ὀρθόποδος ¹⁵¹⁷

mvp-comment-586-1 κἀπ’ ἐκείνᾳ … ἔσχον ¹⁵¹⁸ μακραίωνες ¹⁵¹⁹

mvp-comment-588-1 ἄνακτες ¹⁵²⁰

mvp-comment-589-1 αὕτη κ. ¹⁵²¹ πέλει ¹⁵²²

mvp-comment-590-1 τί δ’ ἔστιν ¹⁵²³

mvp-comment-591-1 οὔκουν … γε ¹⁵²⁴

mvp-comment-591-2 δῑ ὀρθῆς ¹⁵²⁵

mvp-comment-591-3 ἐναυκλήρεις ¹⁵²⁶

mvp-comment-592-1 πεπονθὼς ὀνήσιμα, ἔχω μαρτυρεῖν ¹⁵²⁷

mvp-comment-593-1 φρόνει βεβώς ¹⁵²⁸

mvp-comment-593-2 τύχης ¹⁵²⁹

mvp-comment-594-1 ὡς ¹⁵³⁰

mvp-comment-595-1 θᾶκον ¹⁵³¹

mvp-comment-595-2 λιμήν ¹⁵³²

mvp-comment-596-1 κακῷ ¹⁵³³

mvp-comment-596-2 οἴστρῳ ¹⁵³⁴

mvp-comment-596-3 κλάζοντας ¹⁵³⁵

mvp-comment-596-4 βεβαρβαρωμένῳ ¹⁵³⁶

mvp-comment-597-1 ἐν χηλαῖσιν ¹⁵³⁷ φοναῖς ¹⁵³⁸

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

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

mvp-comment-598-2 ἐμπύρων ¹⁵³⁹

mvp-comment-598-3 ἐγευόμην ¹⁵⁴⁰

mvp-comment-599-1 παμφλέκτοισι ¹⁵⁴¹ θυμάτων ¹⁵⁴²

mvp-comment-600-1 Ἥφαιστος ¹⁵⁴³

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

: 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 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 , and his daughter reports the signs to him (as the does here): (= ) (= ) | (‘as if creeping on its way without an aim, the fire played timidly around the offering’). In Seneca Oed. 307 Teiresias asks,

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 (

). 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 ¹⁵⁴⁴

mvp-comment-601-3 κηκὶς μηρίων ¹⁵⁴⁵

mvp-comment-601-4 ἐτήκετο ¹⁵⁴⁶ ἐπὶ σποδῷ ¹⁵⁴⁷

mvp-comment-601-5 ἀνέπτυε ¹⁵⁴⁸

mvp-comment-602-1 χολαί ¹⁵⁴⁹

mvp-comment-602-2 καταρρυεῖς ¹⁵⁵⁰

mvp-comment-603-1 μηροί … μηρίων ¹⁵⁵¹

mvp-comment-603-2 καλυπτῆς ¹⁵⁵²

mvp-comment-603-3 πιμελῆς ¹⁵⁵³ ἐξέκειντο ¹⁵⁵⁴

mvp-comment-604-1 τοιαῦτα ¹⁵⁵⁵

mvp-comment-604-2 ὀργίων μαντεύματα ¹⁵⁵⁶ φθίνοντα ¹⁵⁵⁷

mvp-comment-604-3 ἀσήμων ¹⁵⁵⁸

mvp-comment-605-1 ἡγεμών ¹⁵⁵⁹

mvp-comment-606-1 ἐκ ¹⁵⁶⁰

mvp-comment-606-2 φρενός ¹⁵⁶¹

mvp-comment-606-3 νοσεῖ ¹⁵⁶²

mvp-comment-607-1 βωμοί ¹⁵⁶³

mvp-comment-607-2 ἐσχάραι ¹⁵⁶⁴

mvp-comment-607-3 παντελεῖς ¹⁵⁶⁵

mvp-comment-608-1 πλήρεις ¹⁵⁶⁶ ὑπ’ οἰων. κ. κυνῶν ¹⁵⁶⁷ βορᾶς τοῦ...Οἰδ. γόνου ¹⁵⁶⁸ γόνου ¹⁵⁶⁹ δυσμόρου ¹⁵⁷⁰ πεπτῶτος ¹⁵⁷¹ τοῦ … γόνου ¹⁵⁷² βορᾶς ¹⁵⁷³ τοῦ … γόνου ¹⁵⁷⁴

mvp-comment-609-1 κᾆτ’ ¹⁵⁷⁵

mvp-comment-609-2 θυστάδας ¹⁵⁷⁶

mvp-comment-610-1 ὅρνι^ς ¹⁵⁷⁷

mvp-comment-610-2 εὐσήμους ¹⁵⁷⁸

mvp-comment-610-3 βεβρῶτες ¹⁵⁷⁹

mvp-comment-610-4 ἀνδροφθόρου ¹⁵⁸⁰

mvp-comment-611-1 ἐπεί ¹⁵⁸¹

mvp-comment-611-2 ἄνολβος ¹⁵⁸²

mvp-comment-612-1 ἀκεῖται ¹⁵⁸³

mvp-comment-612-2 ἀκίνητος ¹⁵⁸⁴

mvp-comment-613-1 αὐθαδία ¹⁵⁸⁵ ὀφλισκάνει ¹⁵⁸⁶

mvp-comment-614-1 εἶκε τῷ θανόντι ¹⁵⁸⁷

mvp-comment-614-2 κέντει ¹⁵⁸⁸

mvp-comment-615-1 ἐπικτανεῖν ¹⁵⁸⁹

mvp-comment-616-1 εὖ φρονήσας ¹⁵⁹⁰

mvp-comment-616-2 μανθάνειν δ ¹⁵⁹¹

mvp-comment-616-3 εἰ … λέγοι ¹⁵⁹² ἥδιστον ¹⁵⁹³

mvp-comment-617-1 ὥστε ¹⁵⁹⁴ σκοποῦ ¹⁵⁹⁵

mvp-comment-618-1 κοὐδὲ μαντικῆς ¹⁵⁹⁶ ἄπρακτος ¹⁵⁹⁷ μαντικῆς ¹⁵⁹⁸ α ¹⁵⁹⁹ μαντικῇ ¹⁶⁰⁰ ἄπρατος ¹⁶⁰¹

mvp-comment-618-2 τῶν δ’ ὑπαὶ γένους ¹⁶⁰² τῶν ¹⁶⁰³

mvp-comment-618-3 refer to ὑμῖν ¹⁶⁰⁴ μαντικῆς ¹⁶⁰⁵ μαντικοῖς ¹⁶⁰⁶

mvp-comment-618-4 ὑπαί ¹⁶⁰⁷

mvp-comment-618-5 γένους ¹⁶⁰⁸

mvp-comment-619-1 ἐξημπόλημαι ¹⁶⁰⁹ ἐμπεφόρτισμαι ¹⁶¹⁰ ἐκπεφόρτισμαι ¹⁶¹¹

mvp-comment-620-1 τἀπὸ Σάρδεων ἤλεκτρον ¹⁶¹²

mvp-comment-620-2 τἀπὸ ¹⁶¹³

mvp-comment-620-3 Ἰνδικὸν χρυσόν ¹⁶¹⁴

mvp-comment-621-1 οἱ Ζηνὸς αἰετοί ¹⁶¹⁵

mvp-comment-622-1 οὐδ’ ὥς ¹⁶¹⁶

mvp-comment-623-1 θεοὺς μιαίνειν ¹⁶¹⁷

mvp-comment-623-2 This view seems to do some injustice to the poet's dramatic psychology. I read the words quite differently. The most orthodox Greek piety held that ‘no mortal could pollute the gods.’ See, for example, H. F. 1232. Heracles, having recovered sanity after slaying his children, has covered his face, to hide it from the holy light of the sun. Theseus —who is a type of normal

— makes him uncover, saying,— . The sungod cannot be polluted by a mortal. The idea of religious was that a mortal had contracted some impurity which disqualified him for communion with the gods. The tainting of an altar cut off such communion by bringing uncleanness to the very place where men sought to be cleansed. Creon excitedly imagines a seemingly worse profanation, and then excuses his apparent impiety by a general maxim which all would admit:—‘no man can pollute the gods.’

mvp-comment-623-3 ‘The sky-throne of Zeus is still more sacred than his altar on earth: if defilement cannot reach him there, much less here.’ The sophism is of the kind with which an honest but stubborn and wrongheaded man might seek to quiet his conscience. Creon reveres Zeus (304): he feels for the majesty of the gods, and refuses to believe that they can honour the wicked (284 ff.). But his religious sense is temporarily confused by his anger.

mvp-comment-624-1 πολλά ¹⁶¹⁸

mvp-comment-625-1 καλῶς ¹⁶¹⁹

mvp-comment-626-1 ἆρ’ οἶδεν ¹⁶²⁰

mvp-comment-627-1 τί χρῆμα ¹⁶²¹

mvp-comment-627-2 πάγκοινον ¹⁶²²

mvp-comment-628-1 κτημάτων ¹⁶²³

mvp-comment-628-2 ὅσῳπερ ¹⁶²⁴ μὴ φρονεῖν ¹⁶²⁵

mvp-comment-629-1 νόσου ¹⁶²⁶ πλήρης ¹⁶²⁷

mvp-comment-630-1 In

qualifies the whole phrase: i.e., it means, ‘to revile in return,’ , as ( O. C. 1191 )= .

mvp-comment-631-1 καὶ μήν ¹⁶²⁸ λέγεις ¹⁶²⁹

mvp-comment-632-1 γένος ¹⁶³⁰

mvp-comment-633-1 τὸ δ’ ἐκ τυράννων ¹⁶³¹ ἐκ ¹⁶³²

mvp-comment-633-2 αἰσχροκέρδειαν ¹⁶³³

mvp-comment-634-1 ἆρ’ οἶσθα ¹⁶³⁴ ἃ ἂν λέγῃς ¹⁶³⁵ ταγούς ¹⁶³⁶

mvp-comment-635-1 ἐξ ἐμοῦ ¹⁶³⁷

mvp-comment-635-2 ἔχεις σώσας ¹⁶³⁸

mvp-comment-636-1 τἀκίνητα διὰ φρενῶν ¹⁶³⁹

mvp-comment-637-1 κίνει ¹⁶⁴⁰

mvp-comment-637-2 μόνον δέ ¹⁶⁴¹

mvp-comment-637-3 ἐπὶ κέρδεσιν ¹⁶⁴²

mvp-comment-638-1 οὕτω γὰρ ἤδη ¹⁶⁴³ τὸ σὸν μέρος ¹⁶⁴⁴ καί ¹⁶⁴⁵

mvp-comment-639-1 ἴσθι ὡς μὴ ἐμπ. ¹⁶⁴⁶ ὡς ¹⁶⁴⁷

mvp-comment-639-2 φρένα ¹⁶⁴⁸

mvp-comment-640-1 ἀλλ’ εὺ= γέ τοι ¹⁶⁴⁹

mvp-comment-640-2 μη … τελῶν ¹⁶⁵⁰ ἥλιον τελεῖν ¹⁶⁵¹ κάτισθι ¹⁶⁵² τελῶν ¹⁶⁵³

mvp-comment-640-3 τρόχους ¹⁶⁵⁴ τροχους ¹⁶⁵⁵

mvp-comment-640-4 ἁμιλλητῆρας ¹⁶⁵⁶

mvp-comment-641-1 ἐν οἷσι ¹⁶⁵⁷

mvp-comment-641-2 τῶν σῶν … ἐκ σπλάγχνων ἕνα ¹⁶⁵⁸

mvp-comment-642-1 νέκυν νεκρῶν ¹⁶⁵⁹ ἀντιδοὺς ἔσει ¹⁶⁶⁰

mvp-comment-643-1 ἀνθ’ ὧν ¹⁶⁶¹

mvp-comment-643-2 ἔχεις βαλὼν κάτω τῶν ἄνω ¹⁶⁶²

mvp-comment-644-1 Bothe, omitting τε ¹⁶⁶³ ψυχήν ¹⁶⁶⁴ τῶν ἄνω ¹⁶⁶⁵ τῶν ἄνω ¹⁶⁶⁶ τῶν ἄνω … ψυχήν ¹⁶⁶⁷ ψυχήν τ’ … κατῴκισας ¹⁶⁶⁸ ἀνθ’ ὧν ¹⁶⁶⁹ τῶν ἄνω ¹⁶⁷⁰

mvp-comment-644-2 ἀτίμως ¹⁶⁷¹

mvp-comment-645-1 ἔχεις δέ ¹⁶⁷² τῶν κάτωθεν θεῶν ¹⁶⁷³ νέκυν ¹⁶⁷⁴

mvp-comment-645-2 ἄμοιρον ¹⁶⁷⁵

mvp-comment-645-3

with : ‘without a portion in the gods below,’ i.e., not admitted to communion with them. But the phrase is a strange one; and the leading thought here is that the are robbed of one who belongs to them.

mvp-comment-645-4 ἀκτέριστον ¹⁶⁷⁶

mvp-comment-645-5 ἀνόσιον ¹⁶⁷⁷

mvp-comment-646-1 ὧν ¹⁶⁷⁸

mvp-comment-646-2 βιάζονται ¹⁶⁷⁹

mvp-comment-647-1 τούτων ¹⁶⁸⁰

mvp-comment-647-2 λωβητῆρες ¹⁶⁸¹

mvp-comment-647-3 ὑστεροφθόροι ¹⁶⁸²

mvp-comment-648-1 λοχῶσιν ¹⁶⁸³

mvp-comment-648-2 Ἅιδου καὶ θεῶν ¹⁶⁸⁴

mvp-comment-648-3 ληφθῆναι ¹⁶⁸⁵

mvp-comment-649-1 κατηργ. ¹⁶⁸⁶ οὐ μακρ. χρόν. τριβή ¹⁶⁸⁷ φανεῖ ¹⁶⁸⁸

mvp-comment-650-1 The πόλεις ¹⁶⁸⁹ συνταράσσονται ¹⁶⁹⁰

mvp-comment-650-2 It has been objected that the play contains no hint of burial having been denied to any one except Polyneices. This is not exactly the case: the phrase

in v. 10 is such a hint. But it was unnecessary for the poet to state a fact which all his hearers would assume. Every one knew how Creon had refused burial to the Argives, and how Theseus had recovered their corpses by force of arms. In the Supplices of Eur. the Chorus consists of widows and mothers of the unburied warriors. No Athenian exploit was more famous ( Her. 9.27 ; Isocr. Paneg. § 52 , Encom. Helen. § 31, Panath. § 168; Plat. Menex. 244 ; [Lys. ] or. 2 §§ 4 ff. : [Dem. ] or. 60 §§ 7 ff. ). The war of the Epigoni, which was included in the epic Thebais ( Paus. 9. 9 § 5), was dramatised both by Aesch. and by Soph. ( ).

mvp-comment-650-3 Just as, in the O. C. (1410 n.), Soph. glances at the theme of his Antigone, so here he might naturally glance—however indirectly—at a later chapter of the Theban story,—whether his Epigoni already existed, or was still in the future. Dramatically, the reference is the more fitting, since the legend represented Teiresias as still living, and still zealous for Theban welfare, when the Epigoni came.—For other views of the passage, see Appendix.

mvp-comment-651-1 ὅσων ¹⁶⁹¹ ὅσων ¹⁶⁹²

mvp-comment-651-2 L's καθήγνισαν ¹⁶⁹³ καθήγισαν ¹⁶⁹⁴ καθήγνισαν ¹⁶⁹⁵ καθήγισαν ¹⁶⁹⁶

mvp-comment-651-3 of

here. The Schol. read the latter ( ). But the fact that L has must be set against these doubtful testimonies.—For the irony, cp. El. 1487

πρόθες | ταφεῦσιν, ὧν τόνδ’ εἰκός ἐστι τυγχάνειν

(as Gorgias called vultures , 3 § 2): Aesch. Th. 1020 : Ennius Ann. 142 Lucr. 5. 993

viva videns vivo sepeliri viscera busto.

mvp-comment-652-1 ἑστιοῦχον … πόλιν ¹⁶⁹⁷

mvp-comment-653-1 σου ¹⁶⁹⁸ ἀφῆκα ¹⁶⁹⁹

mvp-comment-653-2 θυμῷ ¹⁷⁰⁰ καρδίας τοξεύματα ¹⁷⁰¹

mvp-comment-654-1 ὦ παῖ ¹⁷⁰²

mvp-comment-655-1 τρέφειν ¹⁷⁰³

mvp-comment-655-2 ἡσυχωτέραν ¹⁷⁰⁴ ω ¹⁷⁰⁵ αι ¹⁷⁰⁶ αι ¹⁷⁰⁷ ω ¹⁷⁰⁸ ω ¹⁷⁰⁹ αι ¹⁷¹⁰ αι ¹⁷¹¹

mvp-comment-656-1 τὸν νοῦν … τῶν φρενῶν ἀμείνω ¹⁷¹²

mvp-comment-656-2 φέρει ¹⁷¹³ τῶν φρενῶν ¹⁷¹⁴ ἀμείνω ¹⁷¹⁵ ἢ ¹⁷¹⁶ ὧν ¹⁷¹⁷

mvp-comment-657-1 ἐξ ὅτου ¹⁷¹⁸

mvp-comment-657-2 λευκὴν … ἐκ μελαίνης ¹⁷¹⁹

mvp-comment-657-3 ἀμφιβάλλομαι ¹⁷²⁰

mvp-comment-658-1 μὴ ¹⁷²¹

mvp-comment-658-2 λακεῖν ¹⁷²²

mvp-comment-659-1 ἔγνωκα ¹⁷²³

mvp-comment-660-1 For τε … δέ ¹⁷²⁴ δέ ¹⁷²⁵ τ ¹⁷²⁶ τε … τε ¹⁷²⁷ τε … δέ ¹⁷²⁸ δέ ¹⁷²⁹

mvp-comment-661-1 ἄτῃ πατάξαι ¹⁷³⁰ θυμὸν ¹⁷³¹ ἀντιστάντα ¹⁷³²

mvp-comment-661-2 ἐν δεινῷ πάρα ¹⁷³³ πάρα ¹⁷³⁴ ἓν δεινοῦ πέρα ¹⁷³⁵

mvp-comment-662-1 The question between L's λαβεῖν ¹⁷³⁶ Κρέον ¹⁷³⁷

mvp-comment-663-1 κατώρυχος ¹⁷³⁸

mvp-comment-664-1 I read the impers. δοκεῖ ¹⁷³⁹ δοκεῖς ¹⁷⁴⁰ δοκεῖς ¹⁷⁴¹

mvp-comment-664-2 παρεικαθεῖν ¹⁷⁴²

mvp-comment-665-1 συντέμνουσι … τοὺς κ. ¹⁷⁴³

mvp-comment-665-2 ποδώκεις ¹⁷⁴⁴

mvp-comment-665-3 βλάβαι ¹⁷⁴⁵

mvp-comment-665-4 κακόφρονας ¹⁷⁴⁶

mvp-comment-666-1 μόλις μέν ¹⁷⁴⁷

mvp-comment-666-2 ἐξίσταμαι καρδίας ¹⁷⁴⁸

mvp-comment-666-3 τὸ δρᾶν ¹⁷⁴⁹

mvp-comment-666-4 δυσμαχητέον ¹⁷⁵⁰

mvp-comment-667-1 ἐπ’ ἄλλ’. τρέπε ¹⁷⁵¹

mvp-comment-668-1 ὡς ἔχω ¹⁷⁵²

mvp-comment-668-2 στείχοιμ’ ἄν ¹⁷⁵³

mvp-comment-668-3 ἴτ’ ἴτ’ ¹⁷⁵⁴ εἶ’ ¹⁷⁵⁵

mvp-comment-669-1 οἵ τ’ ὄντες οἵ τ’ ἀπόντες ¹⁷⁵⁶

mvp-comment-669-2 ἀξίνας ¹⁷⁵⁷

mvp-comment-670-1 ἐπόψιον ¹⁷⁵⁸

mvp-comment-671-1 ἐγὼ δ’ ¹⁷⁵⁹ ἐπιστράφη ¹⁷⁶⁰ τῇδ’ ¹⁷⁶¹

mvp-comment-672-1 αὐτός τ’ ἔδησα ¹⁷⁶²

mvp-comment-673-1 δέδοικα μὴ … ᾖ ¹⁷⁶³ τοὺς καθεστ. νόμους ¹⁷⁶⁴

mvp-comment-673-2 σῴζοντα … τὸν βίον τελεῖν ¹⁷⁶⁵

mvp-comment-675-1 πολυώνυμε ¹⁷⁶⁶

mvp-comment-675-2 Καδμείας ¹⁷⁶⁸

mvp-comment-675-3 ἄγαλμα ¹⁷⁶⁹

mvp-comment-675-4 νύμφας ¹⁷⁷⁰ βαρυβρεμέτα ¹⁷⁷¹

mvp-comment-676-1 The traditional reading, Ἰταλίαν ¹⁷⁷²

mvp-comment-676-2 The only worthy rival of

is the conjecture Ἰκαρίαν ¹⁷⁷³ Ἰταλίαν ¹⁷⁷⁴

mvp-comment-677-1 παγκοίνοις ¹⁷⁷⁵

mvp-comment-677-2

(Olympia).

mvp-comment-677-3 κόλποις ¹⁷⁷⁶

mvp-comment-677-4 Ἐλευσι^νίας ¹⁷⁷⁷ ι^ ¹⁷⁷⁸

mvp-comment-678-1 Βακχεῦ ¹⁷⁷⁹ ὦ ¹⁷⁸⁰ ὁ ¹⁷⁸¹ ματρόπολιν ¹⁷⁸²

mvp-comment-678-2 ματρόπολιν ¹⁷⁸³

mvp-comment-679-1 L has ὑγρὸν … ῥέεθρον ¹⁷⁸⁴ ὑγρῶν … ῥεέθρων ¹⁷⁸⁵ ῥεῖθρον ¹⁷⁸⁶ ὑγρόν ¹⁷⁸⁷ παρά ¹⁷⁸⁸ ῥεῖθρον ¹⁷⁸⁹ ὑγρόν ¹⁷⁹⁰

mvp-comment-679-2 Ἰσμηνοῦ ¹⁷⁹¹

mvp-comment-680-1 ἐπὶ σπορᾷ δρ. ¹⁷⁹²

mvp-comment-681-1 The general sense is: ‘and on the heights of Parnassus thou holdest thy revels by night amid the Corycian Nymphs, who brandish torches.’

mvp-comment-681-2 διλόφου πέτρας ¹⁷⁹³

mvp-comment-681-3 By ὑπὲρ διλόφου πέτρας ¹⁷⁹⁴

mvp-comment-681-4 λιγνύς ¹⁷⁹⁵ στέροψ ¹⁷⁹⁶

mvp-comment-681-5 ὄπωπε ¹⁷⁹⁷

mvp-comment-681-6 Κωρύκιαι … Νύμφαι ¹⁷⁹⁸

mvp-comment-681-7 The simple transposition, στείχουσι νύμφαι ¹⁷⁹⁹

mvp-comment-682-1 Κασταλίας τε νᾶμα ¹⁸⁰⁰

mvp-comment-683-1 καί σε Νυσαίων ¹⁸⁰¹

mvp-comment-684-1 κισσήρεις ὄχθαι ¹⁸⁰²

mvp-comment-684-2 for the fact was noticed in antiquity (schol. on Aratus Phaenom. 33). Thus Pind. P. 1. 64

: Eur. Suppl. 655

Ἰσμήνιον πρὸς ὄχθον

.—The was to Dionysus what the was to Apollo. The crowning with ivy ( ) was a regular incident of his festivals: he was called . Cp. Alciphron Epist. 2. 3 § 10 . F. 3. 767

mvp-comment-685-1 πολυστάφυλος ¹⁸⁰³

mvp-comment-685-2 πέμπει ¹⁸⁰⁴

mvp-comment-686-1 The words ἀμβρότων ἐπέων ¹⁸⁰⁵

mvp-comment-686-2 εὐαζόντων ¹⁸⁰⁶

mvp-comment-687-1 τὰν ἐκ πασᾶν ¹⁸⁰⁷ τάν ¹⁸⁰⁸ ἐκ ¹⁸⁰⁹ ὑπερτάταν ¹⁸¹⁰

mvp-comment-688-1 κεραυνίᾳ ¹⁸¹¹

mvp-comment-689-1 ἔχεται ἐπὶ βιαίας νόσου ¹⁸¹² ὑπό ¹⁸¹³ ἔχεται ¹⁸¹⁴ βιαι^ας ¹⁸¹⁵ ἀμὰ ¹⁸¹⁶ πόλις ¹⁸¹⁷

mvp-comment-689-2 πάνδαμος ¹⁸¹⁸

mvp-comment-690-1 μολεῖν ¹⁸¹⁹

mvp-comment-690-2 καθαρσίῳ ¹⁸²⁰

mvp-comment-690-3 κλιτύν ¹⁸²¹

mvp-comment-690-4 πορθμόν ¹⁸²²

mvp-comment-690-5 στονόεντα ¹⁸²³

mvp-comment-691-1 πνειόντων ¹⁸²⁴ πνειόντων ¹⁸²⁵

mvp-comment-691-2 Other conjectures are: (1) ἰὼ πύρπνων ἄστρων χοραγὲ καὶ νυχίων ¹⁸²⁶ πῦρ πνεόντων χοραγὲ καὶ νυχίων ¹⁸²⁷ χοραγὲ ἄστρων ¹⁸²⁸

mvp-comment-691-3 originally preceded

. Neglect of elision is frequent in L: thus, to take one play only, the O. C. supplies these examples: 266 : 694 : 883 : 915 : 1026 : 1210 . The deletion of καί ¹⁸²⁹ νυχίων ¹⁸³⁰

mvp-comment-691-4 χοράγ’ ἄστρων ¹⁸³¹

mvp-comment-691-5 νυχίων φθεγμάτων ¹⁸³²

mvp-comment-692-1 παῖ Διὸς ¹⁸³³

mvp-comment-693-1 ὦναξ ¹⁸³⁴

mvp-comment-694-1 Θυίαισιν ¹⁸³⁵

mvp-comment-694-2 χορεύουσι ¹⁸³⁶

mvp-comment-695-1 ταμίαν ¹⁸³⁷

mvp-comment-695-2 Ἴακχον ¹⁸³⁸

mvp-comment-697-1 δόμων ¹⁸³⁹ Κάδμου ¹⁸⁴⁰ πάροικοι ¹⁸⁴¹ δόμων ¹⁸⁴²

mvp-comment-698-1 οὐκ ἔστι ¹⁸⁴³ στάντα ¹⁸⁴⁴ στάντα ¹⁸⁴⁵

mvp-comment-698-2 βίον ¹⁸⁴⁶ ὁποίᾳ ¹⁸⁴⁷

mvp-comment-699-1 μάντις … τῶν καθεστώτων ¹⁸⁴⁸ ἐφεστώτων ¹⁸⁴⁹

mvp-comment-700-1 ὡς ἐμοί ¹⁸⁵⁰

mvp-comment-701-1 σώσας … ἐχθρῶν ¹⁸⁵¹ δέ ¹⁸⁵² τε ¹⁸⁵³ λαβών τε ¹⁸⁵⁴ ηὔθυνε ¹⁸⁵⁵ παντελῆ ¹⁸⁵⁶

mvp-comment-701-2 ηὔθυνε ¹⁸⁵⁷

mvp-comment-701-3 εὐγενεῖ ¹⁸⁵⁸

mvp-comment-702-1 ἀφεῖται πάντα ¹⁸⁵⁹

mvp-comment-703-1 προδῶσιν ¹⁸⁶⁰ προδῶσιν ¹⁸⁶¹ ἀνδρὸς ¹⁸⁶² προδῶσιν ¹⁸⁶³ ἄνδρες ¹⁸⁶⁴ ἀνδρός ¹⁸⁶⁵ τὰς γὰρ ἡδονάς ¹⁸⁶⁶

mvp-comment-703-2 οὐ τίθημι ¹⁸⁶⁷

mvp-comment-704-1 For

has been proposed: but the Epic and Ionic does not occur in

mvp-comment-704-2 τοῦτον ¹⁸⁶⁸

mvp-comment-704-3 ἔμψ. νεκρόν ¹⁸⁶⁹

mvp-comment-705-1 πλούτει … ζῆ ¹⁸⁷⁰

mvp-comment-705-2 εἰ βούλει ¹⁸⁷¹ ζῆ ¹⁸⁷² σχῆμα ¹⁸⁷³

mvp-comment-706-1 τὸ χαίρειν ¹⁸⁷⁴

mvp-comment-706-2 καπνοῦ σκιᾶς ¹⁸⁷⁵

mvp-comment-707-1 πριαίμην ἀνδρί ¹⁸⁷⁶

mvp-comment-707-2 πρὸς τὴν ἡδ. ¹⁸⁷⁷

mvp-comment-708-1 βασιλέων ¹⁸⁷⁸ αἴτιοι θανεῖν ¹⁸⁷⁹

mvp-comment-709-1 φονεύει ¹⁸⁸⁰ ὁ κείμενος ¹⁸⁸¹

mvp-comment-710-1 αὐτόχειρ ¹⁸⁸²

mvp-comment-711-1 φόνου ¹⁸⁸³

mvp-comment-711-2 ὀρθὸν ἤνυσας ¹⁸⁸⁴

mvp-comment-712-1 ὡς ¹⁸⁸⁵ πάρεστι βουλ. τὰ ἄλλα ¹⁸⁸⁶ βουλεύειν ¹⁸⁸⁷ τὰ ἄλλα ¹⁸⁸⁸

mvp-comment-712-2 ὧδ’ ἐχόντων ¹⁸⁸⁹

mvp-comment-713-1 καὶ μήν ¹⁸⁹⁰

mvp-comment-713-2 Εὐρυδίκην ¹⁸⁹¹

mvp-comment-714-1 κλύουσα παιδός ¹⁸⁹²

mvp-comment-715-1 ὦ πάντες ἀστοί ¹⁸⁹³

mvp-comment-716-1 Παλλάδος προσήγορος εὐγμάτων ¹⁸⁹⁴

mvp-comment-717-1 τυγχάνω τε … καὶ … βάλλει ¹⁸⁹⁵

mvp-comment-717-2 the sound ( cp. 1172 f. n.). For the temporal parataxis with τε … καί ¹⁸⁹⁶

mvp-comment-717-3 κλῇθρα χαλῶσα πύλης ἀνασπαστοῦ ¹⁸⁹⁷

mvp-comment-717-4 κλῇθρα ¹⁸⁹⁸

mvp-comment-717-5 ἀνασπαστοῦ ¹⁸⁹⁹

mvp-comment-717-6 φθόγγος ¹⁹⁰⁰

mvp-comment-717-7 οἰκείου ¹⁹⁰¹

mvp-comment-718-1 δῑ ὤτων ¹⁹⁰²

mvp-comment-718-2 πρὸς δμωαῖσι ¹⁹⁰³

mvp-comment-718-3 ἀποπλήσσομαι ¹⁹⁰⁴

mvp-comment-719-1 καὶ παρὼν ἐρῶ, κοὐδὲν παρήσω ¹⁹⁰⁵ παρὠν ¹⁹⁰⁶

mvp-comment-720-1 ὧν ¹⁹⁰⁷

mvp-comment-720-2 ὧν ¹⁹⁰⁸ ψεῦσται ¹⁹⁰⁹ φανούμεθ’ ¹⁹¹⁰

mvp-comment-720-3 ὀρθόν ¹⁹¹¹

mvp-comment-721-1 ποδαγός ¹⁹¹² ἑσπόμην ¹⁹¹³

mvp-comment-722-1 πεδίον … ἄκρον ¹⁹¹⁴

mvp-comment-722-2 νηλεές ¹⁹¹⁵

mvp-comment-723-1 κυνοσπάρακτον ¹⁹¹⁶

mvp-comment-724-1 τὸν μέν ¹⁹¹⁷

mvp-comment-724-2 ἐνοδίαν θεόν ¹⁹¹⁸

mvp-comment-724-3 θεόν ¹⁹¹⁹

mvp-comment-724-4 εὐμενεῖς ¹⁹²⁰

mvp-comment-724-5 κατασχεθεῖν ¹⁹²¹

mvp-comment-725-1 λούσαντες ἁγν. λουτρόν ¹⁹²²

mvp-comment-725-2 ἐν ¹⁹²³ θαλλοῖς ¹⁹²⁴

mvp-comment-725-3 )λέλειπτο ¹⁹²⁵

mvp-comment-725-4 συγκατῄθομεν ¹⁹²⁶ εἰσεβαίνομεν ¹⁹²⁷

mvp-comment-726-1 τύμβον ¹⁹²⁸

mvp-comment-726-2 ὀρθόκρανον ¹⁹²⁹

mvp-comment-726-3 οἰκείας ¹⁹³⁰

mvp-comment-727-1 αὖθις ¹⁹³¹

mvp-comment-727-2 For

as=‘afterwards,’ cp. Ai. 1283 , Tr. 270 .

mvp-comment-727-3 λιθόστρωτον ¹⁹³²

mvp-comment-727-4 κόρης νυμφεῖον‐Ἅιδου ¹⁹³³

mvp-comment-728-1 κωκυμάτων ¹⁹³⁴

mvp-comment-729-1 ἀκτέριστον ἀμφὶ παστάδα ¹⁹³⁵

mvp-comment-730-1 ἀθλίας … ἄσημα βοῆς ¹⁹³⁶

mvp-comment-730-2 περιβαίνει ¹⁹³⁷

mvp-comment-731-1 μᾶλλον ἆσσον ¹⁹³⁸

mvp-comment-731-2 ἔπος ¹⁹³⁹ δυσθρήνητον ¹⁹⁴⁰

mvp-comment-731-3 ὦ τάλας ¹⁹⁴¹

mvp-comment-732-1 τῶν παρελθουσῶν ¹⁹⁴²

mvp-comment-732-2 σαίνει ¹⁹⁴³

mvp-comment-733-1 ὠκεῖς ¹⁹⁴⁴

mvp-comment-734-1 ἁρμὸν χώματος λιθοσπ. ¹⁹⁴⁵

mvp-comment-734-2 ἁρμόν ¹⁹⁴⁶ δύντες ¹⁹⁴⁷

mvp-comment-735-1 στόμιον ¹⁹⁴⁸

mvp-comment-735-2 The kind of tomb which the poet here imagines is perhaps best represented, in Greece, by the rock-tombs of Nauplia, and of Spata in Attica. These consist of chambers worked horizontally into the rock, and approached by a passage or

, answering to that which Creon's men have to traverse before they reach the of the tomb. The general type seems to have been determined by that of the more elaborate domed tombs, such as the so-called ‘Treasury of Atreus’ at Mycenae, which, like these ruder copies, were entered by a . Indeed, the Nauplia tombs indicate a rough attempt to reproduce the dome ( ). [See Helbig, Das Homer. Epos aus den Denkm. erläutert, p. 53, with the sources quoted there in nn. 5, 6.]

mvp-comment-735-3 The phrase

(1220) might suggest a recess within the principal chamber, like that in the ‘Treasury of Atreus’; but it is simpler to take it as merely ‘the furthest part of the tomb.’ We may observe that the words (774) and (891) are sufficiently explained if we suppose that the leading to the chamber sloped downwards from the entrance.

mvp-comment-736-1 θεοῖσι ¹⁹⁴⁹

mvp-comment-736-2 κλέπτομαι ¹⁹⁵⁰

mvp-comment-737-1 The simple correction, κελευσμάτων ¹⁹⁵¹

mvp-comment-737-2 With κελεύσμασιν ¹⁹⁵²

mvp-comment-737-3 (2) The alternative is to amend ἐξ ἀθύμου ¹⁹⁵³ ὀξυθύμου ¹⁹⁵⁴

mvp-comment-737-4 Dindorf writes κελεύμασιν ¹⁹⁵⁵

mvp-comment-738-1 αὐχένος ¹⁹⁵⁶

mvp-comment-739-1 μιτώδει ¹⁹⁵⁷

mvp-comment-740-1 Haemon has thrown his arms around her waist ( ἀμφὶ μέσσῃ περιπετῆ ¹⁹⁵⁸ προσκείμενον ¹⁹⁵⁹

mvp-comment-740-2 μέσσῃ ¹⁹⁶⁰

mvp-comment-740-3 περιπετῆ ¹⁹⁶¹

mvp-comment-741-1 εὐνῆς … τῆς κάτω ¹⁹⁶²

mvp-comment-741-2 πατρὸς ἔργα ¹⁹⁶³

mvp-comment-741-3 λέχος ¹⁹⁶⁴

mvp-comment-742-1 σφε ¹⁹⁶⁵

mvp-comment-742-2 στυγνόν ¹⁹⁶⁶

mvp-comment-743-1 οἷον ἔργον ¹⁹⁶⁷ τίνα νοῦν ἔσχες ¹⁹⁶⁸

mvp-comment-743-2 ἐν τῷ συμφορᾶς ¹⁹⁶⁹

mvp-comment-743-3 διεφθάρης ¹⁹⁷⁰

mvp-comment-744-1 ἱκέσιος ¹⁹⁷¹

mvp-comment-744-2 ὄσσοισι ¹⁹⁷²

mvp-comment-744-3 παπτήνας ¹⁹⁷³

mvp-comment-745-1 πτύσας προσώπῳ ¹⁹⁷⁴

mvp-comment-746-1 διπλοῦς κνώδοντας ξίφους ¹⁹⁷⁵ διπλοῦς κνώδοντας ¹⁹⁷⁶

mvp-comment-746-2 ἐκ δ’ ὁρμ. ¹⁹⁷⁷

mvp-comment-746-3 φυγαῖσιν ¹⁹⁷⁸

mvp-comment-746-4 Haemon, in his madness, meant to kill his father. He had harboured no such purpose before ( see on 752

); and his frantic impulse is instantly followed by violent remorse. Arist. ( Arist. Poet. 14 ) observes that it is not conducive to a properly tragic effect ( ) if a person contemplates a dreadful act, and then desists from it, in the light of sober thought or fuller knowledge: (such incidents in Tragedy are rare), . It need not be assumed that Arist. meant to censure Sophocles; it is more natural to suppose that he cited the exception as one justified by the circumstances. But it should further be noticed that Aristotle was not accurate in taking this incident as the exception which illustrated his rule. For Haemon did not abandon his dreadful purpose; he was simply foiled by his father's flight. And then, in swift remorse, he actually did .

mvp-comment-747-1 ὥσπερ εἶχ’ ¹⁹⁷⁹ ἐπενταθείς ¹⁹⁸⁰

mvp-comment-747-2 πλευραῖς ¹⁹⁸¹

mvp-comment-747-3 μέσσον ¹⁹⁸²

mvp-comment-747-4 ἔγχος ¹⁹⁸³

mvp-comment-747-5 ἐς δ’ ὑγρὸν ἀγκῶν’ ¹⁹⁸⁴

mvp-comment-748-1 φυσιῶν ¹⁹⁸⁵

mvp-comment-748-2 ῥοὴν ¹⁹⁸⁶

mvp-comment-749-1 τέλη ¹⁹⁸⁷

mvp-comment-749-2 ἔν γ’ Ἅιδου ¹⁹⁸⁸ ἔν γ ¹⁹⁸⁹ γε ¹⁹⁹⁰ ἔν γε ¹⁹⁹¹

mvp-comment-750-1 δείξας … τὴν ἀβουλίαν ¹⁹⁹²

mvp-comment-751-1 πρόσκειται ¹⁹⁹³

mvp-comment-752-1 τί τοῦτ’ ἂν εἰκάς. ¹⁹⁹⁴

mvp-comment-752-2 ἐσθλὸν ἢ κακόν ¹⁹⁹⁵

mvp-comment-753-1 τεθάμβηκ’ ¹⁹⁹⁶

mvp-comment-753-2 βόσκομαι ¹⁹⁹⁷

mvp-comment-754-1 γόους … ἀξιώσειν ¹⁹⁹⁸

mvp-comment-754-2 ὑπὸ στέγης ¹⁹⁹⁹

mvp-comment-755-1 προθήσειν ²⁰⁰⁰ στένειν ²⁰⁰¹

mvp-comment-755-2 them’ by making a lament, after which her handmaids, sitting around her, will wail in chorus. Il. 24.746 (Andromache has bewailed Hector,)

.

mvp-comment-756-1 γνώμης … οὐκ ἄπειρος ²⁰⁰²

mvp-comment-757-1 δ’ οὖν ²⁰⁰³ προσεῖναι ²⁰⁰⁴

mvp-comment-758-1 εἰσόμεσθα, μή τι … καλύπτει ²⁰⁰⁵

mvp-comment-758-2 καὶ ²⁰⁰⁶ κατάσχετον … καλύπτει ²⁰⁰⁷

mvp-comment-758-3 κατάσχετον ²⁰⁰⁸

mvp-comment-759-1 δόμους παραστείχοντες ²⁰⁰⁹

mvp-comment-760-1 καὶ μήν ²⁰¹⁰

mvp-comment-760-2 ἐφήκει ²⁰¹¹

mvp-comment-761-1 μνῆμ ²⁰¹² ἐπίσημον ²⁰¹³

mvp-comment-761-2 διὰ χειρός ²⁰¹⁴

mvp-comment-762-1 εἰ θέμις εἰπεῖν ²⁰¹⁵ ἄτην ²⁰¹⁶ ἀλλοτρίαν ²⁰¹⁷

mvp-comment-762-2 ἁμαρτών ²⁰¹⁸

mvp-comment-763-1 This

is composed of four strophes and four antistrophes, which correspond as follows. (1) 1st strophe 1261—1269=1st antistr. 1284—1292. (2) 2nd str. 1271—1277 =2nd ant. 1294—1300. (3) 3rd str. 1306—1311=3rd ant. 1328—1333. (4) 4th str. 1317—1325=4th ant. 1339— 1347.

mvp-comment-763-2 The lyric strophes and antistrophes are divided from each other by iambic trimeters, spoken by the Chorus or by the Messenger.—See Metrical Analysis.

mvp-comment-763-3 φρενῶν δυσφρόνων ²⁰¹⁹

mvp-comment-763-4 στερεά ²⁰²⁰

mvp-comment-764-1 ὦ … βλέποντες ²⁰²¹

mvp-comment-764-2 κτανόντας ²⁰²² θανόντας ²⁰²³

mvp-comment-764-3 ἐμφυλίους ²⁰²⁴

mvp-comment-765-1 ἐμῶν ἄνολβα βουλευμάτων ²⁰²⁵ ἄνολβα ²⁰²⁶

mvp-comment-766-1 νέος νέῳ ξυν μόρῳ ²⁰²⁷ νέῳ ²⁰²⁸

mvp-comment-767-1 ἀπελύθης ²⁰²⁹

mvp-comment-768-1 ἐμαῖς οὐδὲ σαῖσι ²⁰³⁰

mvp-comment-769-1 ἔχω μαθὼν ²⁰³¹ με ²⁰³² μέγα βάρος ἔχων ²⁰³³ ἐν δ’ ἐμῷ κάρᾳ ²⁰³⁴ ἔπαισε ²⁰³⁵ με ²⁰³⁶ κάρᾳ ²⁰³⁷

mvp-comment-769-2 ἐν δ’ ἔσεισεν ²⁰³⁸

mvp-comment-769-3 ἀγρίαις ὁδοῖς ²⁰³⁹

mvp-comment-770-1 λακπάτητον ²⁰⁴⁰ κ ²⁰⁴¹ ξπ ²⁰⁴² κ ²⁰⁴³

mvp-comment-770-2 ἀντρέπων ²⁰⁴⁴

mvp-comment-771-1 φεῦ φεῦ, ὦ ²⁰⁴⁵

mvp-comment-771-2 πόνοι .. δύσπονοι ²⁰⁴⁶

mvp-comment-772-1 ὡς ἔχων τε καὶ κεκτημένος ²⁰⁴⁷ ἔχων ²⁰⁴⁸ κεκτημένος ²⁰⁴⁹

mvp-comment-773-1 πρὸ χειρῶν ²⁰⁵⁰

mvp-comment-773-2 τάδε ²⁰⁵¹

mvp-comment-773-3 τὰ δ’ ἐν δόμοις ²⁰⁵² τὰ μὲν … φέρων ²⁰⁵³ ἔοικας ἥκειν ²⁰⁵⁴ καὶ τάχ’ ὄψεσθαι ²⁰⁵⁵

mvp-comment-773-4 Since τὰ δ’ ἐν δόμοις ²⁰⁵⁶ ἥκειν καὶ ²⁰⁵⁷

mvp-comment-773-5 (

) . Others, indeed, take καὶ τάχα ²⁰⁵⁸