Sophocles Antigone 1328

mvp-comment-146-1 προὔτρεψεν ¹

mvp-comment-146-2 οὐ γὰρ εἴχομεν ²

mvp-comment-146-3 As ἀντιφωνεῖν ³ δρῶντες ⁴ ὅπως δρῶντες ⁵ εἴχομεν ⁶

mvp-comment-147-1 σοί ⁷

mvp-comment-147-2 ταῦτ’ ἐνίκα ⁸

mvp-comment-147-3 πάλος ⁹ καθαιρεῖ ¹⁰

mvp-comment-147-4 τἀγαθόν ¹¹ —ἄκων οὐχ ἑκοῦσιν ¹²

mvp-comment-148-1 ἐμοί ¹³ βουλεύει ¹⁴ μή ¹⁵

mvp-comment-148-2 τι ¹⁶

mvp-comment-148-3 θεήλατον, ¹⁷

mvp-comment-148-4 ἡ ξύννοια ¹⁸

mvp-comment-148-5 πάλαι ¹⁹

mvp-comment-149-1 πρὶν ὀργῆς καί με μεστῶσαι ²⁰ καί ²¹ πρίν ²² μεστῶσαι ²³ καί ²⁴ με ²⁵

mvp-comment-149-2 κἀμέ ²⁶

mvp-comment-149-3 μεστῶσαι ²⁷

mvp-comment-150-1 πότερον ²⁸ ἔκρυπτον ²⁹

mvp-comment-150-2 ἀμφικίονας ναούς ³⁰

mvp-comment-150-3 κἀναθήματα ³¹

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 ³² πυρώσων ³³

mvp-comment-150-6 νόμους διασκεδῶν ³⁴

mvp-comment-150-7 διασκεδῶν ³⁵

mvp-comment-151-1 τοὺς κακοὺς τιμῶντας … θεούς; ³⁶

mvp-comment-152-1 ταῦτα ³⁷ μόλις φέροντες ³⁸ καὶ πάλαι ³⁹

mvp-comment-152-2 πόλεως ἄνδρες ⁴⁰

mvp-comment-152-3 ἐρρόθουν ⁴¹

mvp-comment-152-4 ἐμοί ⁴²

mvp-comment-152-5 κάρα σείοντες ⁴³

mvp-comment-152-6 ὑπὸ ζυγῷ ⁴⁴

mvp-comment-152-7 λόφον ⁴⁵

mvp-comment-152-8 δικαίως ⁴⁶

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

( O. T. 84 ): στέργειν ⁴⁷

mvp-comment-153-1 τῶνδε ⁴⁸ ἐκ ⁴⁹

mvp-comment-153-2 τούτους, ⁵⁰

mvp-comment-153-3 εἰργάσθαι ⁵¹ ἐξεπίσταμαι ⁵² παρηγμένους ⁵³

mvp-comment-154-1 νόμισμ’ ⁵⁴

mvp-comment-154-2 ἔβλαστε ⁵⁵

mvp-comment-154-3 πορθεῖ ⁵⁶

mvp-comment-154-4 τόδ’ ⁵⁷ ἄνδρας ⁵⁸

mvp-comment-155-1 τόδ’ ἐκδ. καὶ παραλλάσσει ⁵⁹ ἵστασθαι ⁶⁰ καὶ παραλλάσσει ⁶¹

mvp-comment-155-2 ἵστασθαι πρός τι ⁶²

mvp-comment-156-1 πανουργίας … ἔχειν ⁶³

mvp-comment-156-2 εἰδέναι ⁶⁴ παντὸς ἔργου δυσσέβ. ⁶⁵ παντὸς ἔργ ⁶⁶ πανουργίας ⁶⁷

mvp-comment-157-1 ἤνυσαν ⁶⁸

mvp-comment-157-2 χρόνῳ ποτέ ⁶⁹ δοῦναι δίκην ⁷⁰

mvp-comment-157-3 ἐξέπραξαν ὡς ⁷¹

mvp-comment-158-1 Ζεύς ⁷²

mvp-comment-158-2 ὅρκιος ⁷³

mvp-comment-158-3 τὸν αὐτόχειρα ⁷⁴ τάφου = ταφῆς ⁷⁵

mvp-comment-159-1 μοῦνος ⁷⁶ πρὶν ἂν . . δηλώσητε ⁷⁷ κρεμαστοί ⁷⁸ ζῶντες κρεμαστοί ⁷⁹

mvp-comment-159-2 δηλώσηθ’ ⁸⁰

mvp-comment-159-3 ὕβριν ⁸¹

mvp-comment-160-1 ἵν’ … ἁρπάζητε ⁸²

mvp-comment-160-2 τὸ κέρδος ⁸³ ἔνθεν οἰστέον ⁸⁴

mvp-comment-160-3 μάθηθ’ ⁸⁵

mvp-comment-160-4 ἐξ ἅπαντος ⁸⁶ τὸ κερδαίνειν ⁸⁷

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 ⁸⁸

mvp-comment-161-2 δέ ⁸⁹ δώσεις ⁹⁰

mvp-comment-161-3 οὕτως ⁹¹

mvp-comment-161-4 ἴω ⁹²

mvp-comment-161-5 καὶ νῦν ὡς ⁹³ ἀνιαρῶς ⁹⁴ ι— ⁹⁵

mvp-comment-162-1 ἐν ⁹⁶ ὠσίν ⁹⁷

mvp-comment-162-2 ἐπί ⁹⁸

mvp-comment-163-1 τί δὲ ⁹⁹ τί δαὶ ¹⁰⁰

mvp-comment-163-2 ῥυθμίζεις ¹⁰¹ ὅπου ¹⁰² ὅπου ¹⁰³

mvp-comment-164-1 τὰς φρένας...τὰ δ’ ὦτ’ ¹⁰⁴ σε ¹⁰⁵

mvp-comment-164-2 οἴμ’ ὡς ¹⁰⁶

mvp-comment-164-3 λάλημα ¹⁰⁷ ἄλημα ¹⁰⁸ ἄλημα ¹⁰⁹

mvp-comment-164-4 δῆλον, ¹¹⁰

mvp-comment-165-1 ‘At any rate (

—babbler or not) I certainly have not done this deed.’ εἰμί ¹¹¹ οὔκουν … γε ¹¹²

mvp-comment-166-1 ‘Yes, (you have done it,) and that, too, at the cost of betraying,’ etc. The particle γε ¹¹³ καὶ ταῦτα ¹¹⁴ προδούς ¹¹⁵

mvp-comment-167-1 ἦ δεινόν ¹¹⁶ καὶ ¹¹⁷ γε ¹¹⁸

mvp-comment-168-1 κόμψευε . . τὴν δόξαν ¹¹⁹

mvp-comment-168-2 τὴν δόξαν ¹²⁰

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 ¹²¹ νῦν ¹²² ταῦτα … τοὺς δρῶντας = τοὺς ταῦτα δρῶντας ¹²³

mvp-comment-169-1 δειλά ¹²⁴

mvp-comment-169-2 δεινά ¹²⁵ ν ¹²⁶

mvp-comment-170-1 ἀλλ’ ¹²⁷ εὑρεθείη ¹²⁸ καὶ ¹²⁹

mvp-comment-171-1 καὶ ¹³⁰ γάρ ¹³¹

mvp-comment-171-2 γνώμης ¹³²

mvp-comment-173-1 πολλὰ … κοὐδέν ¹³³

mvp-comment-173-2 καί ¹³⁴

mvp-comment-173-3 τὰ δεινά ¹³⁵

mvp-comment-174-1 τοῦτο ¹³⁶ πέραν ¹³⁷ πέρα ¹³⁸

mvp-comment-175-1 χειμερίῳ νότῳ ¹³⁹

mvp-comment-176-1 περιβρ … ὑπ’ οἴδμασιν ¹⁴⁰

mvp-comment-177-1 ὑπερτάταν ¹⁴¹

mvp-comment-178-1 ἀκαμάταν ¹⁴²

mvp-comment-178-2 ἀποτρύεται ¹⁴³

mvp-comment-179-1 ἰλλομένων ἀρότρων, ¹⁴⁴ ἀρότων ¹⁴⁵

mvp-comment-179-2 ἔτος εἰς ἔτος ¹⁴⁶ εἰς ¹⁴⁷

mvp-comment-180-1 ἱππείῳ γένει ¹⁴⁸

mvp-comment-180-2 πολεύων ¹⁴⁹ τοῦτο ¹⁵⁰

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 ¹⁵¹

mvp-comment-181-5 ἀμφιβαλὼν ¹⁵²

mvp-comment-182-1 πόντου … εἰναλίαν φύσιν ¹⁵³

mvp-comment-183-1 περιφραδής ¹⁵⁴

mvp-comment-184-1 μηχαναῖς ¹⁵⁵ ἀγραύλου ¹⁵⁶ ὀρεσσιβάτα ¹⁵⁷

mvp-comment-185-1 λασιαύχενά θ’ ¹⁵⁸

mvp-comment-186-1 ὀχμάζεται ¹⁵⁹ ἀμφὶ λόφον ζυγῶν ¹⁶⁰

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 ¹⁶¹

mvp-comment-187-1 φθέγμα ¹⁶²

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 ¹⁶³

mvp-comment-188-1 ἀστυνόμους ὀργάς ¹⁶⁴

mvp-comment-189-1 ἐδιδάξατο ¹⁶⁵

mvp-comment-190-1 πάγων ¹⁶⁶

mvp-comment-190-2 ἐναίθρεια ¹⁶⁷

mvp-comment-190-3 βέλη ¹⁶⁹

mvp-comment-191-1 παντοπόρος ¹⁷⁰

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 ¹⁷¹ μόνου ¹⁷² φεῦξιν — ἐπάξεται ¹⁷³

mvp-comment-193-1 ἀμηχάνων ¹⁷⁴

mvp-comment-193-2 φυγάς ¹⁷⁵

mvp-comment-193-3 ξυμπέφρασται ¹⁷⁶

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 ¹⁷⁷

mvp-comment-194-3 τὸ μηχανόεν τ ¹⁷⁸

mvp-comment-195-1 τοτὲ μὲν … ἄλλοτ’ ¹⁷⁹

mvp-comment-195-2 ἐπ’ ¹⁸⁰

mvp-comment-196-1 γεραίρων ¹⁸¹

mvp-comment-196-2 5. 67

. Ar. Th. 960 .

mvp-comment-197-1 θεῶν τ’ ἔνορκον δίκαν ¹⁸²

mvp-comment-198-1 ὑψίπολις ¹⁸³

mvp-comment-198-2 ἄπολις ¹⁸⁴

mvp-comment-198-3 τὸ μὴ καλόν ¹⁸⁵ τόλμας χάριν ¹⁸⁶

mvp-comment-199-1 παρέστιος ¹⁸⁷

mvp-comment-199-2 ἴσον φρονῶν ¹⁸⁸

mvp-comment-200-1 ἔρδει ¹⁸⁹ ἔρδοι ¹⁹⁰

mvp-comment-202-1 The choral ode has closed with an allusion to the unknown man ( ὅς ¹⁹¹ ἀμφινοῶ ¹⁹² ἐς ¹⁹³

mvp-comment-202-2 δαιμόνιον τέρας ¹⁹⁴

mvp-comment-203-1 πῶς εἰδὼς ¹⁹⁵

mvp-comment-203-2 ἀντιλογήσω ¹⁹⁶

mvp-comment-204-1 ὦ δύστηνος ¹⁹⁷

mvp-comment-204-2 δ. πατρός ¹⁹⁸

mvp-comment-204-3 Οἰδιπόδα— ¹⁹⁹

mvp-comment-205-1 τί ποτ’ ²⁰⁰

mvp-comment-205-2 οὐ δή που ²⁰¹

mvp-comment-205-3 ἀπιστοῦσαν ²⁰²

mvp-comment-205-4 ἄγουσι ²⁰³

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

mvp-comment-205-6 καὶ ²⁰⁴ ἀπιστοῦσαν ²⁰⁵ καθελόντες ²⁰⁶

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 ²⁰⁷

mvp-comment-206-3 τοὔργον ἡ ’ξειργ ²⁰⁸

mvp-comment-207-1 ἐς δέον ²⁰⁹

mvp-comment-208-1 ξύμμετρος ²¹⁰

mvp-comment-209-1 ἀπώμοτον ²¹¹

mvp-comment-210-1 ψεύδει ²¹²

mvp-comment-210-2 ἡ ’πίνοια ²¹³

mvp-comment-211-1 ἐξηύχουν ἄν ²¹⁴ σχολῇ ἥξειν ποτὲ δεῦρο ²¹⁵

mvp-comment-211-2 σχολῇ ²¹⁶

mvp-comment-212-1 ταῖς σαῖς ἀπειλαῖς ²¹⁷

mvp-comment-212-2 ἐχειμάσθην ²¹⁸

mvp-comment-213-1 ἡ...ἐκτὸς ²¹⁹ ἐκτός ²²⁰

mvp-comment-214-1 οὐδὲν ἔοικε μῆκος ²²¹ α+λλῃ ἡδονῇ ²²² οὐδέν ²²³ μῆκος ²²⁴ ἔοικε ²²⁵

mvp-comment-215-1 δῑ ὅρκων … ἀπώμοτος ²²⁶

mvp-comment-216-1 καθῃρέθη ²²⁷

mvp-comment-216-2 τάφον κοσμοῦσα ²²⁸

mvp-comment-216-3 ἐπάλλετο ²²⁹ ἕρμαιον ²³⁰

mvp-comment-217-1 κρῖνε ²³¹

mvp-comment-217-2 δίκαιός εἰμι ²³²

mvp-comment-217-3 ἀπηλλάχθαι ²³³

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 ²³⁴

mvp-comment-219-1 ἦ καὶ ²³⁵

mvp-comment-219-2 ὀρθῶς ²³⁶

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 ²³⁷

mvp-comment-221-1 ἆρ’ ἔνδηλα ²³⁸

mvp-comment-222-1 ὁρᾶται...ᾑρέθη ²³⁹

mvp-comment-222-2 ἐπίληπτος ²⁴⁰

mvp-comment-223-1 ἥκομεν ²⁴²

mvp-comment-224-1 τὰ δείν’ ἐκεῖν’ ²⁴³

mvp-comment-224-2 τὸν | νέκυν ²⁴⁴

mvp-comment-225-1 καθήμεθ’ ²⁴⁵

mvp-comment-225-2 ἄκρων ἐκ πάγων ²⁴⁶

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 ²⁴⁷

mvp-comment-226-1 βάλῃ ²⁴⁸

mvp-comment-227-1 ἐγερτί ²⁴⁹

mvp-comment-227-2 κινῶν ²⁵⁰

mvp-comment-227-3 ἐπιρρόθοις κακοῖσιν ²⁵¹

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 ²⁵² ἀφειδήσοι ²⁵³

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 ²⁵⁴

mvp-comment-230-2 χθονὸς ²⁵⁵

mvp-comment-231-1 τυφώς ²⁵⁶ σκηπτός ²⁵⁷

mvp-comment-231-2 οὐράνιον ἄχος ²⁵⁸

mvp-comment-232-1 πίμπλησι ²⁵⁹ αἰκίζων ²⁶⁰

mvp-comment-232-2 ἐν δ’ ἐμεστ ²⁶¹

mvp-comment-233-1 μύσαντες ²⁶²

mvp-comment-233-2 νόσον ²⁶³

mvp-comment-233-3 ἐν χρ. μακρ ²⁶⁴

mvp-comment-234-1 πικρᾶς ²⁶⁵

mvp-comment-235-1 εὐνῆς...λέχος ²⁶⁶

mvp-comment-236-1 οὕτω δέ ²⁶⁷

mvp-comment-236-2 ψιλόν ²⁶⁸

mvp-comment-237-1 γόοισιν ἐξῴμωξεν ²⁶⁹

mvp-comment-237-2 ἐκ δ’ … ἠρᾶτο ²⁷⁰

mvp-comment-237-3 διψίαν ²⁷¹

mvp-comment-238-1 φέρει κόνιν ²⁷²

mvp-comment-239-1 The πρόχους ²⁷³

mvp-comment-239-2 εὐκρότητος ²⁷⁴

mvp-comment-239-3 ἄρδην ²⁷⁵

mvp-comment-240-1 χοαῖσι ²⁷⁶

mvp-comment-240-2 τρισπόνδ. ²⁷⁷ στέφει ²⁷⁸

mvp-comment-241-1 ἱέμεσθα ²⁷⁹

mvp-comment-241-2 σὺν δὲ … θηρώμεθ’ ²⁸⁰

mvp-comment-242-1 ἠλέγχομεν ²⁸¹

mvp-comment-242-2 ἄπαρνος … οὐδενός ²⁸²

mvp-comment-242-3 καθίστατο ²⁸³

mvp-comment-243-1 ἅμ’ ²⁸⁴

mvp-comment-244-1 φίλους ²⁸⁵

mvp-comment-245-1 πάντα ταῦθ’ ²⁸⁶ λαβεῖν ²⁸⁷

mvp-comment-246-1 σὲ δή, ²⁸⁸

mvp-comment-247-1 φὴς δεδρακέναι, ἢ καταρνεῖ μὴ δεδρ ²⁸⁹ καταρνεῖ ²⁹⁰

mvp-comment-248-1 καὶ......κοὐκ ²⁹¹

mvp-comment-248-2 τὸ μή ²⁹²

mvp-comment-249-1 σὺ μέν ²⁹³ κομίζοις ἂν ς ²⁹⁴

mvp-comment-249-2 ἔξω ²⁹⁵ β. αἰτίας ²⁹⁶ ἐλεύθερον ²⁹⁷

mvp-comment-250-1 μῆκος ²⁹⁸

mvp-comment-251-1 ᾔδησθα ²⁹⁹ ᾔδης τὰ ³⁰⁰ σθα ³⁰¹

mvp-comment-251-2 κηρυχθέντα ³⁰²

mvp-comment-252-1 ᾔδη ³⁰³

mvp-comment-252-2 τί δ’ οὐκ ἔμελλον ³⁰⁴

mvp-comment-252-3 ἐμφανῆ ³⁰⁵ ἐκφανῆ ³⁰⁶

mvp-comment-253-1 καὶ δῆτ’ ³⁰⁷

mvp-comment-254-1 Ζεύς ³⁰⁸

mvp-comment-255-1 τῶν κάτω θεῶν ³⁰⁹ ξύνοικος ³¹⁰ τοιούσδ’ … ὥρισεν ³¹¹ οἳ τούσδ’ … ὥρισαν ³¹² τάδε ³¹³

mvp-comment-256-1 ἄγραπτα … νόμιμα ³¹⁴

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 ³¹⁵

mvp-comment-256-3 ἀσφαλῆ ³¹⁶

mvp-comment-256-4 θνητὸν ὄντ’ ³¹⁷

mvp-comment-256-5 ὑπερδραμεῖν ³¹⁸

mvp-comment-257-1 νῦν γε κἀχθές ³¹⁹

mvp-comment-257-2 ζῇ ³²⁰

mvp-comment-257-3 ’φάνη ³²¹

mvp-comment-258-1 τούτων ³²² τὴν δίκην ³²³ τούτων ³²⁴

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 ³²⁵

mvp-comment-259-1 δώσειν ³²⁶

mvp-comment-259-2 θανουμένη γάρ ³²⁷

mvp-comment-259-3 τί δ’ οὔ ³²⁸

mvp-comment-260-1 κεἰ μὴ σὺ προὐκήρυξας ³²⁹

mvp-comment-260-2 τοῦ χρόνου ³³⁰

mvp-comment-260-3 αὔτ’ ³³¹

mvp-comment-261-1 φέρει ³³²

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 ³³³

mvp-comment-263-1 ἄλγος ³³⁴ παρ’ οὐδέν ³³⁵

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 ³³⁶

mvp-comment-264-1 ἄθαπτον ἠνσχόμην νέκυν ³³⁷ ηἰσχόμην ³³⁸ ἠνσχόμην ³³⁹

mvp-comment-264-2 In my first edition I placed in the text the emendation of Semitelos (1887) ᾔσχυναν κύνες ³⁴⁰

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 ³⁴¹

mvp-comment-264-4 or

(Meineke). (2) τὸν ἐξ ἐμ. | μητρος θανόντ’ ³⁴²

mvp-comment-265-1 σχεδόν τι ³⁴³

mvp-comment-265-2 μώρῳ μωρίαν ³⁴⁴

mvp-comment-265-3 ὀφλισκάνω ³⁴⁵

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 ³⁴⁶ δηλοῖ ³⁴⁷ ὠμόν ³⁴⁸ ἐξ ὠμοῦ πατρός ³⁴⁹ γέννημα ³⁵⁰

mvp-comment-267-1 εἴκειν … κακοῖς ³⁵¹

mvp-comment-268-1 ἀλλ’ ἴσθι τοι ³⁵²

mvp-comment-268-2 πίπτειν ³⁵³

mvp-comment-269-1 ὀπτὸν … περισκελῆ ³⁵⁴

mvp-comment-269-2 περισκελής ³⁵⁵

mvp-comment-269-3 ἐκ πυρός ³⁵⁶

mvp-comment-270-1 θραυσθέντα καὶ ῥαγέντα ³⁵⁷

mvp-comment-271-1 χαλινῷ δ’ ³⁵⁸ σμικρῷ ³⁵⁹

mvp-comment-271-2 καταρτυθέντας ³⁶⁰

mvp-comment-272-1 Suspicion has fallen on ἐκπέλει ³⁶¹

mvp-comment-272-2 ὅστις ³⁶²

mvp-comment-272-3 τῶν πέλας ³⁶³

mvp-comment-273-1 αὕτη δ’ ³⁶⁴ ὑβρίζειν μὲν … ὕβρις δ’ ³⁶⁵ ἐξηπίστατο ³⁶⁶ τότ’ ³⁶⁷

mvp-comment-273-2 τούτοις ³⁶⁸

mvp-comment-273-3 δεδρακυῖαν γελᾶν ³⁶⁹

mvp-comment-274-1 νῦν ³⁷⁰

mvp-comment-274-2 εἰ ταῦτα … κράτη ³⁷¹ κράτη ³⁷² κείσεται ³⁷³ πείσεται ³⁷⁴ ἀνατί ³⁷⁵ ταῦτα ³⁷⁶

mvp-comment-275-1 ἀδελφῆς ³⁷⁷

mvp-comment-275-2 εἴθ’ ὁμαιμονεστέρα ³⁷⁸

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 ³⁷⁹

mvp-comment-276-1 τοῦ παντὸς Ζηνὸς ἑρκείου ³⁸⁰

mvp-comment-277-1 ἀλύξετον ³⁸¹ μόρου ³⁸²

mvp-comment-278-1 καὶ γὰρ οὖν ³⁸³

mvp-comment-278-2 ἐπαιτιῶμαι κείνην ³⁸⁴ βουλεῦσαι ἴσον τοῦδε τάφου ³⁸⁵ ἴσον ³⁸⁶

mvp-comment-278-3 βουλεῦσαι ³⁸⁷

mvp-comment-279-1 καί νιν καλεῖτ’ ³⁸⁸

mvp-comment-280-1 λυσσῶσαν … οὐδ’ ἐπ ³⁸⁹

mvp-comment-280-2 ἐπήβολον ³⁹⁰

mvp-comment-281-1 ὁ θυμὸς τῶν … τεχνωμένων ³⁹¹ φιλεῖ κλοπεὺς ᾑρῆσθαι ³⁹² πρόσθεν ³⁹³ κλοπεύς ³⁹⁴ ᾑρῆσθαι κλοπεύς ³⁹⁵

mvp-comment-281-2 τεχνωμένων ³⁹⁶

mvp-comment-282-1 γε μέντοι ³⁹⁷

mvp-comment-282-2 Ismene's guilty terror is contrasted with Antigone's impudent hardihood,—as Creon deems it. μισῶ … ὅταν ³⁹⁸

mvp-comment-282-3 ἔπειτα ³⁹⁹

mvp-comment-282-4 καλλύνειν ⁴⁰⁰

mvp-comment-283-1 θέλεις τι μεῖζον ⁴⁰¹

mvp-comment-283-2 ἑλών ⁴⁰²

mvp-comment-283-3 ἐγὼ μὲν οὐδέν ⁴⁰³

mvp-comment-283-4 ἅπαντ’ ἔχω ⁴⁰⁴

mvp-comment-284-1 ἀρεστὸν οὐδέν ⁴⁰⁵

mvp-comment-284-2 μηδ’ ἀρεσθείη ⁴⁰⁶ ἀρεσθείην ⁴⁰⁷ ἀρέστ’ εἴη ⁴⁰⁸

mvp-comment-285-1 τἀμά ⁴⁰⁹

mvp-comment-285-2 ἔφυ ⁴¹⁰

mvp-comment-286-1 καίτοι ⁴¹¹ κλέος … εὐκλεέστερον ⁴¹²

mvp-comment-287-1 ἐν τάφῳ τιθεῖσα ⁴¹³ τούτοις πᾶσι λέγοιτο ἄν ⁴¹⁴ τοῦτο ἁνδάνειν ⁴¹⁵ ἐγκλῄοι ⁴¹⁶

mvp-comment-288-1 ἀλλ’ ἡ τυραννίς ⁴¹⁷

mvp-comment-289-1 μούνη ⁴¹⁸

mvp-comment-289-2 τοῦτο … ὁρᾷς ⁴¹⁹

mvp-comment-289-3 ὑπίλλουσιν ⁴²⁰

mvp-comment-290-1 σὺ δ’ οὐκ ἐπαιδεῖ ⁴²²

mvp-comment-291-1 ὅμαιμος ⁴²³

mvp-comment-291-2 ἐκ μιᾶς τε ⁴²⁴ τε ⁴²⁵

mvp-comment-292-1 πῶς δῆτ’ ⁴²⁶

mvp-comment-292-2 ἐκείνῳ ⁴²⁷

mvp-comment-292-3 χάριν ⁴²⁸ τιμᾷς ⁴²⁹ ὁ κατθανὼν νέκυς ⁴³⁰

mvp-comment-293-1 εἴ τοι ⁴³¹ σφε ⁴³²

mvp-comment-293-2 ἐξ ἴσου ⁴³³

mvp-comment-294-1 οὐ γάρ τι δοῦλος ⁴³⁴

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 ⁴³⁵

mvp-comment-295-2 ὁ δ’ ⁴³⁶ ὕπερ ⁴³⁷

mvp-comment-296-1 τούτους ⁴³⁸ ἴσους ⁴³⁹ ἴσους ⁴⁴⁰ ὅμως ⁴⁴¹ ἴσους ⁴⁴² τούτους ⁴⁴³ ἴσους ⁴⁴⁴

mvp-comment-297-1 The MS. λαχεῖν ἴσος ⁴⁴⁵ ἴσους ⁴⁴⁶

mvp-comment-298-1 κάτωθεν ⁴⁴⁷ κάτω ’στὶν ⁴⁴⁸

mvp-comment-298-2 εὐαγῆ ⁴⁴⁹

mvp-comment-299-1 οὔτοι συνέχθειν ⁴⁵⁰

mvp-comment-300-1 νυ^ν ⁴⁵¹

mvp-comment-301-1 καὶ μὴν ⁴⁵²

mvp-comment-301-2 εἰβομένη ⁴⁵³ κάτω ⁴⁵⁴

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 ⁴⁵⁵

mvp-comment-302-1 νεφέλη δ’ ὀφρύων ὕπερ ⁴⁵⁶

mvp-comment-302-2 αἱματόεν ⁴⁵⁷

mvp-comment-302-3 ῥέθος ⁴⁵⁸

mvp-comment-302-4 αἰσχύνει ⁴⁵⁹

mvp-comment-303-1 σὺ δ’ ⁴⁶⁰ ὑφειμένη ⁴⁶¹

mvp-comment-303-2 ἔχιδνα ⁴⁶²

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 ⁴⁶³

mvp-comment-305-1 ἄτα κἀπαναστάσεις ⁴⁶⁴

mvp-comment-305-2 ἐπαναστάσεις ⁴⁶⁵ θρόνων ⁴⁶⁶

mvp-comment-306-1 τὸ μὴ ⁴⁶⁷

mvp-comment-307-1 ὁμορροθεῖ ⁴⁶⁸

mvp-comment-308-1 τῆς αἰτίας ⁴⁶⁹ ξυμμετίσχω ⁴⁷⁰ φέρω ⁴⁷¹

mvp-comment-309-1 ἀλλ’ οὐκ ἐάσει σ’ ⁴⁷²

mvp-comment-309-2 ’κοινωσάμην ⁴⁷³

mvp-comment-310-1 ξύμπλουν ⁴⁷⁴

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

mvp-comment-311-2 λόγοις ⁴⁷⁵

mvp-comment-312-1 μή μ’ ἀτιμάσῃς ⁴⁷⁶ τὸ μὴ οὐ ⁴⁷⁷ ἁγνίσαι τὸν θ ⁴⁷⁸

mvp-comment-313-1 μή μοι ⁴⁷⁹ κοινά ⁴⁸⁰

mvp-comment-313-2 μηδ’ ἃ μὴ ’θιγες ⁴⁸¹ ἅ ⁴⁸² ἅ ⁴⁸³

mvp-comment-314-1 ποιοῦ σεαυτῆς ⁴⁸⁴

mvp-comment-314-2 ἀρκέσω ⁴⁸⁶

mvp-comment-315-1 σοῦ λελειμμένῃ ⁴⁸⁷

mvp-comment-315-2 φίλος ⁴⁸⁸

mvp-comment-316-1 κηδεμών ⁴⁸⁹

mvp-comment-317-1 ἀλγοῦσα μὲν δῆτ’ ⁴⁹⁰ δῆτα ⁴⁹¹

mvp-comment-317-2 ἐν σοί ⁴⁹²

mvp-comment-317-3 Heath's εἰ γελῶ γ’ ⁴⁹³

mvp-comment-318-1 ἀλλὰ νῦν ⁴⁹⁴

mvp-comment-319-1 κἀμπλάκω ⁴⁹⁵

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 ⁴⁹⁶

mvp-comment-320-2 ζῆν ⁴⁹⁷

mvp-comment-321-1 ἐπ’ ἀρρήτοις … τοῖς ἐμ. λ. ⁴⁹⁸

mvp-comment-322-1 σὺ μὲν τοῖς ⁴⁹⁹

mvp-comment-323-1 καὶ μήν ⁵⁰⁰

mvp-comment-324-1 θάρσει ⁵⁰¹

mvp-comment-324-2 ἡ ἐμὴ ψυχή ⁵⁰²

mvp-comment-324-3 πάλαι ⁵⁰³

mvp-comment-324-4 ὥστε τοῖς θ. ὠφελεῖν ⁵⁰⁴

mvp-comment-325-1 L gives τὼ παῖδε φημὶ ⁵⁰⁵

mvp-comment-325-2 τὼ παῖδε … τὴν μὲν … τὴν δέ ⁵⁰⁶

mvp-comment-325-3 ἀρτίως ⁵⁰⁷

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 ⁵⁰⁸

mvp-comment-326-3 τοῖς κ. πράσσουσιν ⁵⁰⁹

mvp-comment-326-4 ἐξίσταται ⁵¹⁰

mvp-comment-327-1 σοὶ γοῦν ⁵¹¹

mvp-comment-327-2 κακοῖς ⁵¹²

mvp-comment-328-1 τῆσδ’ ἄτερ ⁵¹³ μόνῃ ⁵¹⁴

mvp-comment-328-2 βιώσιμον ⁵¹⁵ τί ⁵¹⁶

mvp-comment-329-1 ἀλλὰ … μέντοι ⁵¹⁷

mvp-comment-329-2 ἥδε μὴ λέγε ⁵¹⁸

mvp-comment-330-1 νυμφεῖα ⁵¹⁹

mvp-comment-331-1 ἀρώσιμοι ⁵²⁰

mvp-comment-332-1 οὐχ ὥς γ’ ⁵²¹ ἡρμοσμένα ἦν ⁵²²

mvp-comment-333-1 υἱέσι ⁵²³ υἱάσιν ⁵²⁴

mvp-comment-333-2

: cp. Monro Hom. Gr. § 107.—The dat. of interest goes with κακὰς γυναῖκας ⁵²⁵ στυγῶ ⁵²⁶

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 ⁵²⁷

mvp-comment-335-1 ἄγαν γε λυπεῖς ⁵²⁸

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 ⁵²⁹ ἔφυ ⁵³⁰

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 ⁵³¹

mvp-comment-339-1 καὶ σοί γε κἀμοί ⁵³²

mvp-comment-339-2 μὴ τριβάς ⁵³³

mvp-comment-339-3 νιν ⁵³⁴

mvp-comment-340-1 ἐκ δὲ τοῦδε ⁵³⁵ γυναικας ⁵³⁶ ἀνειμένας ⁵³⁷

mvp-comment-341-1 χοἱ θρασεῖς ⁵³⁸ πέλας ⁵³⁹ εἰσορῶσι ⁵⁴⁰

mvp-comment-343-1 κακῶν ἄγευστος ⁵⁴¹

mvp-comment-344-1 σεισθῇ θεόθεν ⁵⁴²

mvp-comment-344-2 ἄτας οὐδὲν ἐλλείπει ⁵⁴³ ἐλλείπει ⁵⁴⁴

mvp-comment-344-3 γενεᾶς ἐπὶ πλῆθος ⁵⁴⁵ γενεᾶς ⁵⁴⁶

mvp-comment-345-1 ὅμοιον ⁵⁴⁷

mvp-comment-345-2 ποντίαις ⁵⁴⁸ πνοαῖς ⁵⁴⁹ ὅταν οἶδμα ⁵⁵⁰ ποντίαις δυσπν. Θρ. πνοαῖς ⁵⁵¹ ἐπιδράμῃ ἔρεβος ὕφαλον ⁵⁵² Θρῄσσαισιν ⁵⁵³

mvp-comment-346-1 κελαινὰν θῖνα ⁵⁵⁴

mvp-comment-346-2 δυσάνεμοι ⁵⁵⁵ δυσάνεμον ⁵⁵⁶

mvp-comment-346-3 στόνῳ βρ.· ⁵⁵⁷

mvp-comment-346-4 ἀντιπλῆγες ⁵⁵⁸ ἀκταί ⁵⁵⁹

mvp-comment-347-1 ἀρχαῖα ⁵⁶⁰

mvp-comment-347-2 ὁρῶμαι ⁵⁶¹ οἴκων ⁵⁶² φθι^τῶν ⁵⁶³

mvp-comment-348-1 ἀπαλλάσσει ⁵⁶⁴

mvp-comment-348-2 γενεὰν γένος ⁵⁶⁵ ἔχει ⁵⁶⁶

mvp-comment-348-3 λύσιν ⁵⁶⁷

mvp-comment-349-1 νῦν γὰρ ἐσχάτας ⁵⁶⁸ ὃ τέτατο ⁵⁶⁹ ἐτέτατο ⁵⁷⁰ κατ’ αὖ ⁵⁷¹ ὑπέρ ⁵⁷² ὅπερ ⁵⁷³ ὃ τέτατο ⁵⁷⁴ νιν ⁵⁷⁵ φάος ⁵⁷⁶ ἐσχάτη ῥίζα ⁵⁷⁷ φάος ⁵⁷⁸ νιν ⁵⁷⁹ φάος ⁵⁸⁰ θάλος ⁵⁸¹ τέτατο ⁵⁸² ῥίζας ⁵⁸³

mvp-comment-350-1 κατ’ αὖ … ἀμᾷ, ⁵⁸⁴ κοπίς ⁵⁸⁵ κόνις ⁵⁸⁶ κόνις ⁵⁸⁷

mvp-comment-350-2 (1) If κόνις ⁵⁸⁸ καταμᾷ ⁵⁸⁹

mvp-comment-350-3 (2) If we read κοπίς ⁵⁹⁰

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 ⁵⁹¹ φρενῶν ἐρινύς ⁵⁹²

mvp-comment-352-1 τεάν ⁵⁹³

mvp-comment-352-2 δύνα^σιν ⁵⁹⁴

mvp-comment-352-3 κατάσχοι ⁵⁹⁵

mvp-comment-353-1 The MS. παντογήρως ⁵⁹⁶ παντοθήρας ⁵⁹⁷ παντόθηρος ⁵⁹⁸ πάντ’ ἀγρεύων ⁵⁹⁹

mvp-comment-354-1 The MS. οὔτ’ ἀκάματοι θεῶν ⁶⁰⁰

mvp-comment-354-2

. Far the best emendation is οὔτε θεῶν ἄκματοι ⁶⁰¹ θεῶν ⁶⁰² θεῶν μῆνες ⁶⁰³ θεῶν ⁶⁰⁴ οὔτε ⁶⁰⁵

mvp-comment-354-3 ἄκματοι ⁶⁰⁶

mvp-comment-355-1 I doubt whether the dat. χρόνῳ ⁶⁰⁷

mvp-comment-355-2 μαρμαρόεσσαν ⁶⁰⁸

mvp-comment-356-1 τό τ’ ἔπειτα ⁶⁰⁹ τὸ μέλλον ⁶¹⁰

mvp-comment-356-2 καὶ τὸ πρίν ⁶¹⁴ ἐπαρκέσει ⁶¹⁵

mvp-comment-357-1 πάμπολύ γ’ ⁶¹⁶

mvp-comment-357-2 ἕρπει ⁶¹⁷ ἕρπειν ⁶¹⁸ ἕρπει ⁶¹⁹

mvp-comment-357-3 πάμπολις ⁶²⁰

mvp-comment-358-1 ἁ γὰρ δή ⁶²¹ γάρ ⁶²² πολύπλαγκτος ⁶²³

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 ⁶²⁴

mvp-comment-360-1 ἀπάτα … ἐρώτων ⁶²⁵

mvp-comment-360-2 κουφονόων ⁶²⁶

mvp-comment-361-1 The

, or final frustration of his desires, ἕρπει ⁶²⁷ οὐδὲν εἰδότι ⁶²⁸

mvp-comment-362-1 πρὶν … προσαύσῃ ⁶²⁹

mvp-comment-362-2 προσαύσῃ ⁶³⁰

mvp-comment-362-3 πόδα ⁶³¹ προσαύσῃ ⁶³²

mvp-comment-363-1 σοφίᾳ ⁶³³

mvp-comment-363-2 ἔκ του ⁶³⁴

mvp-comment-363-3 πεφάνται ⁶³⁵

mvp-comment-364-1 τὸ κακὸν δοκεῖν ποτ’ ⁶³⁶ ποτέ ⁶³⁷

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 ⁶³⁸

mvp-comment-365-1 ὀλίγιστον ⁶³⁹ ὀλιγοστόν ⁶⁴⁰ πράσσει … ἐκτὸς ἄτας ⁶⁴¹ ἄτας ⁶⁴²

mvp-comment-366-1 μήν ⁶⁴³

mvp-comment-366-2 νέατον ⁶⁴⁴

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 ⁶⁴⁵ μόρον ⁶⁴⁶

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

is a gloss on τάλιδος ⁶⁴⁷ τῆς μελλογάμου ⁶⁴⁸ τῆς μελλογάμου ⁶⁴⁹ τάλιδος ⁶⁵⁰

mvp-comment-368-1 ἀπάτας ⁶⁵¹ λεχέων ⁶⁵²

mvp-comment-370-1 μάντεων ὑπέρτερον ⁶⁵³

mvp-comment-371-1 τελείαν ⁶⁵⁴

mvp-comment-371-2 ψῆφο<*> ⁶⁵⁵

mvp-comment-371-3 ἆρα μή ⁶⁵⁶

mvp-comment-371-4 τῆς μελλονύμφου ⁶⁵⁷

mvp-comment-371-5 λυσσαίνων ⁶⁵⁸ σοὶ μέν ⁶⁵⁹ θυμαίνων ⁶⁶⁰

mvp-comment-372-1 σοὶ μέν ⁶⁶¹

mvp-comment-372-2 πανταχῇ δρῶντες ⁶⁶²

mvp-comment-373-1 σός ⁶⁶³

mvp-comment-373-2 γνώμας ἔχων χρηστάς ⁶⁶⁴ ἀπορθοῖς ⁶⁶⁵ μοι ⁶⁶⁶

mvp-comment-374-1 ἀξιώσεται ⁶⁶⁸ ἀξ. μείζων φέρεσθαι ⁶⁶⁹ ἀξίως ἔσται ⁶⁷⁰

mvp-comment-374-2 σοῦ καλῶς ἡγουμ. ⁶⁷¹ μείζων ⁶⁷²

mvp-comment-375-1 γάρ ⁶⁷³

mvp-comment-375-2 διὰ στέρνων ἔχειν ⁶⁷⁴ διά ⁶⁷⁵ ἔχειν ⁶⁷⁶ οὕτω ⁶⁷⁷ ἔχειν ⁶⁷⁸

mvp-comment-376-1 (One ought to think thus),—that is, ὄπισθεν ἑστάναι πατρ. γνώμης ⁶⁷⁹ πάντα ⁶⁸⁰ ἑστάναι ⁶⁸¹

mvp-comment-377-1 ὡς ⁶⁸²

mvp-comment-377-2 ἀνταμύνωνται ⁶⁸³ κακοῖς ⁶⁸⁴

mvp-comment-378-1 ἄλλο ⁶⁸⁵ φῦσαι ⁶⁸⁶ πλήν ⁶⁸⁷ ἄλλο ⁶⁸⁸ εἴποις ⁶⁸⁹

mvp-comment-378-2 πόνους ⁶⁹⁰

mvp-comment-378-3 γέλων ⁶⁹¹

mvp-comment-379-1 τὰς φρένας γ’ ⁶⁹² γε ⁶⁹³ φρένας σύ γ’ ἡδονῇ ⁶⁹⁴

mvp-comment-379-2 φρένας … ἐκβάλῃς ⁶⁹⁵

mvp-comment-379-3 ὑφ’ ἡδονῆς ⁶⁹⁶

mvp-comment-380-1 ψυχρόν ⁶⁹⁷

mvp-comment-380-2 παραγκάλισμα ⁶⁹⁸

mvp-comment-381-1 δόμοις ⁶⁹⁹

mvp-comment-381-2 ἕλκος ⁷⁰⁰

mvp-comment-381-3 φίλος ⁷⁰¹

mvp-comment-382-1 πτύσας ⁷⁰²

mvp-comment-382-2 ὠσεί τε δυσμενῆ ⁷⁰³ τε ⁷⁰⁴

mvp-comment-383-1 νυμφεύειν ⁷⁰⁵

mvp-comment-384-1 ἀπιστήσασαν ⁷⁰⁶ ψευδῆ ⁷⁰⁷

mvp-comment-385-1 κτενῶ ⁷⁰⁸

mvp-comment-385-2 πρὸς ταῦτ ⁷⁰⁹

mvp-comment-385-3 ἐφυμνείτω ⁷¹⁰

mvp-comment-385-4 Δία ξύναιμον ⁷¹¹

mvp-comment-386-1 τά γ’ ἐγγ. φύσει ⁷¹²

mvp-comment-386-2 ἄκοσμα ⁷¹³

mvp-comment-386-3 θρέψω ⁷¹⁴

mvp-comment-386-4 κάρτα τοὺς ἔξω γ. ⁷¹⁵

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 ⁷¹⁶

mvp-comment-388-2 τοὐπιτάσσειν ⁷¹⁷

mvp-comment-388-3 νοεῖ ⁷¹⁸

mvp-comment-389-1 στήσειε ⁷¹⁹

mvp-comment-389-2 καὶ τἀναντία ⁷²⁰

mvp-comment-390-1 τοῦτον … τὸν ἄνδρα ⁷²¹

mvp-comment-390-2 καλῶς...εὖ ⁷²²

mvp-comment-390-3 ἄν ⁷²³ ἄρχειν ⁷²⁴ θέλειν ⁷²⁵

mvp-comment-391-1 δορὸς … χειμῶνι ⁷²⁶

mvp-comment-391-2 προστεταγμένον ⁷²⁷

mvp-comment-391-3 παραστάτην ⁷²⁸

mvp-comment-392-1 πόλεις ὄλλυσιν, ἥδ’ ⁷²⁹ πόλεις τ’ … ἥδ’ ⁷³⁰

mvp-comment-393-1 συμμάχου ⁷³¹ συμμάχηι ⁷³² σὺν μάχῃ ⁷³³

mvp-comment-393-2 τροπὰς καταρρήγνυσι ⁷³⁴

mvp-comment-393-3 τῶν δ’ ὀρθουμένων ⁷³⁵ τὰ πολλὰ σώματα ⁷³⁶

mvp-comment-393-4 ἡ πειθαρχία ⁷³⁷

mvp-comment-394-1 ἀμυντέ’ ⁷³⁸

mvp-comment-394-2 τοῖς κοσμουμένοις ⁷³⁹ τοῖς κ. ⁷⁴¹

mvp-comment-395-1 κοὔτοι … ἡσσητέα ⁷⁴²

mvp-comment-396-1 δεῖ ⁷⁴³ ἐκπεσεῖν ⁷⁴⁴

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

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

mvp-comment-396-3 κοὐκ ἂν...καλοίμεθ’ ἄν ⁷⁴⁵

mvp-comment-397-1 μέν ⁷⁴⁶

mvp-comment-397-2 τῷ χρόνῳ ⁷⁴⁷

mvp-comment-397-3 κεκλέμμεθα ⁷⁴⁸

mvp-comment-398-1 δοκεῖς λέγειν φρονούντως περὶ ⁷⁴⁹

mvp-comment-399-1 θεοί ⁷⁵⁰

mvp-comment-399-2 κτημάτων ⁷⁵¹

mvp-comment-400-1 ἐγὼ δ’ ὅπως ⁷⁵²

mvp-comment-400-2 μὴ ⁷⁵³ ὅπως ⁷⁵⁴ μή ⁷⁵⁵ ὀρθῶς ⁷⁵⁶

mvp-comment-400-3 μήτ’ ἐπισταίμην ⁷⁵⁷

mvp-comment-401-1 καλῶς ἔχον ⁷⁵⁸ γένοιτο ἂν καὶ ἑτέρῳ ⁷⁵⁹

mvp-comment-402-1 σοῦ δ’ οὖν ⁷⁶⁰ σοῦ ⁷⁶¹ σοί ⁷⁶² σὺ δ’ οὐ πέφυκας ⁷⁶³ τις ⁷⁶⁴ μῆνίν τιν’ ἢ κότον τιν ⁷⁶⁵

mvp-comment-403-1 τὸ γὰρ σόν ⁷⁶⁶ ὄμμα ⁷⁶⁷

mvp-comment-403-2 δημότῃ ⁷⁶⁸

mvp-comment-404-1 λόγοις τοιούτοις ⁷⁶⁹ λόγοις τοιούτοις ⁷⁷⁰

mvp-comment-404-2 οἷς ⁷⁷¹ τέρψει ⁷⁷² κλύων ⁷⁷³ μή ⁷⁷⁴ τέρψῃ ⁷⁷⁵

mvp-comment-405-1 ὑπὸ σκότον ⁷⁷⁶ ἀκούειν ⁷⁷⁷ ὀδύρεται ⁷⁷⁸

mvp-comment-406-1 κάκιστ’ … εὐκλεεστάτων ⁷⁷⁹

mvp-comment-406-2 ἀπ’ ἔργων ⁷⁸⁰

mvp-comment-407-1 ἥτις ⁷⁸¹ μήθ’ … μήθ’ ⁷⁸² εἴασε ⁷⁸³ ὀλέσθαι ⁷⁸⁴

mvp-comment-407-2 αὐτάδελφον ⁷⁸⁵

mvp-comment-407-3 ἐνφοναῖς ⁷⁸⁶

mvp-comment-408-1 χρυσῆς ⁷⁸⁷

mvp-comment-408-2 λαχεῖν ⁷⁸⁸ ἀξία ⁷⁸⁹

mvp-comment-409-1 ἐπέρχεται ⁷⁹⁰

mvp-comment-410-1 θάλλοντος ⁷⁹¹

mvp-comment-410-2 μεῖζον εὐκλείας ⁷⁹²

mvp-comment-410-3 πρὸς παίδων ⁷⁹³ εὐκλεία ⁷⁹⁴

mvp-comment-411-1 νυν ⁷⁹⁵

mvp-comment-411-2 φόρει ⁷⁹⁶

mvp-comment-411-3 ἦθος ⁷⁹⁷ ὡς φὴς σύ ⁷⁹⁸

mvp-comment-411-4 κοὐδέν ⁷⁹⁹

mvp-comment-411-5 τοῦτο ⁸⁰⁰

mvp-comment-412-1 μόνος ⁸⁰¹ φρονεῖν ⁸⁰² ψυχήν ⁸⁰³

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 ⁸⁰⁴

mvp-comment-413-2 διαπτυχθέντες ⁸⁰⁵

mvp-comment-413-3 κενοί ⁸⁰⁶

mvp-comment-414-1 ἄνδρα ⁸⁰⁷ μανθάνειν ⁸⁰⁸ τό ⁸⁰⁹

mvp-comment-414-2 κεἰ … ᾖ ⁸¹⁰

mvp-comment-414-3 τείνειν ⁸¹¹

mvp-comment-414-4 παρὰ ῥείθρ. ⁸¹²

mvp-comment-414-5 χειμάρροις ⁸¹³

mvp-comment-415-1 ὑπείκει ⁸¹⁴

mvp-comment-415-2 αὐτόπρεμνα ⁸¹⁵

mvp-comment-416-1 αὔτως ⁸¹⁶

mvp-comment-416-2 ναός ⁸¹⁷

mvp-comment-416-3 ἐγκρατῆ ⁸¹⁸

mvp-comment-416-4 πόδα ⁸¹⁹

mvp-comment-417-1 μηδέν ⁸²⁰

mvp-comment-417-2 κάτω στρέψας ⁸²¹ τὸ πλοῖον ⁸²² τὸ λοιπόν ⁸²³

mvp-comment-417-3 σέλμασιν ⁸²⁴ ὑπτίοις ⁸²⁵

mvp-comment-418-1 εἶκε θυμοῦ ⁸²⁶

mvp-comment-418-2 καὶ μετάστασιν δίδου ⁸²⁷

mvp-comment-418-3 δίδου ⁸²⁸ εἶκε ⁸²⁹ καί ⁸³⁰ καί ⁸³¹

mvp-comment-419-1 εἴ τις γνώμη πρόσεστι καὶ ἀπ’ ἐμοῦ ν. ⁸³² καί ⁸³³

mvp-comment-419-2 πρεσβεύειν ⁸³⁴

mvp-comment-420-1 φῦναι ⁸³⁵

mvp-comment-420-2 πάντ’ ⁸³⁶

mvp-comment-421-1 εἰ δ’ οὖν ⁸³⁷ φιλεῖ γάρ ⁸³⁸

mvp-comment-421-2 τοῦτο … ταύτῃ ⁸³⁹ ταύτῃ ⁸⁴⁰

mvp-comment-421-3 ῥέπειν ⁸⁴¹

mvp-comment-422-1 καὶ τὸ τῶν εὖ λεγόντων μανθάνειν καλόν ⁸⁴²

mvp-comment-423-1 σέ τ’ ⁸⁴³ διπλᾶι ⁸⁴⁴ διπλᾶ ⁸⁴⁵ διπλῇ ⁸⁴⁶ διπλᾶ ⁸⁴⁷

mvp-comment-423-2 On the other hand, διπλῇ ⁸⁴⁸

mvp-comment-424-1 καὶ ⁸⁴⁹ διδαξ. ⁸⁵⁰

mvp-comment-424-2 δή ⁸⁵¹

mvp-comment-424-3 τὴν φύσιν ⁸⁵²

mvp-comment-425-1 μηδέν ⁸⁵³ τὸ μὴ δίκ. ⁸⁵⁴

mvp-comment-425-2 τὸν χρόνον ⁸⁵⁵ τἄργα ⁸⁵⁶

mvp-comment-426-1 ἔργον ⁸⁵⁷

mvp-comment-426-2 τοὺς ἀκοσμοῦντας ⁸⁵⁸

mvp-comment-426-3 σέβειν ⁸⁵⁹

mvp-comment-427-1 οὐδ’ ⁸⁶⁰

mvp-comment-428-1 τοιᾷδε … νοσῳ ⁸⁶¹

mvp-comment-428-2 ἐπείληπται ⁸⁶²

mvp-comment-429-1 Θήβης ⁸⁶³ ὁμόπτολις ⁸⁶⁴

mvp-comment-430-1 ἡμῖν ⁸⁶⁵ ἐμέ ⁸⁶⁶

mvp-comment-431-1 ὡς ἄγαν νέος ⁸⁶⁷

mvp-comment-432-1 Dobree's με ⁸⁶⁸ γε ⁸⁶⁹ χρή ⁸⁷⁰ ἄλλῳ ἢ ’μοί ⁸⁷¹ ἐμοί ⁸⁷² χρή γε ⁸⁷³

mvp-comment-433-1 πόλις γὰρ οὐκ ἔσθ’ ⁸⁷⁴

mvp-comment-433-2

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

mvp-comment-434-1 νομίζεται ⁸⁷⁵

mvp-comment-435-1 καλῶς ἐρήμης γ’ ⁸⁷⁶

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 ⁸⁷⁷ προκήδομαι ⁸⁷⁸

mvp-comment-438-1 ὦ παγκάκιστε ⁸⁷⁹

mvp-comment-438-2 διὰ δίκης ἰὼν πατρί ⁸⁸⁰

mvp-comment-439-1 ἀρχάς ⁸⁸¹

mvp-comment-440-1 οὐ γὰρ σέβεις ⁸⁸²

mvp-comment-440-2 τιμάς ⁸⁸³

mvp-comment-441-1 ὦ μιαρόν ⁸⁸⁴ γυναικὸς ὕστερον ⁸⁸⁵

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 ⁸⁸⁶

mvp-comment-442-3 γε ⁸⁸⁷

mvp-comment-443-1 γοῦν ⁸⁸⁸

mvp-comment-444-1 καὶ σοῦ γε ⁸⁸⁹

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 ⁸⁹⁰ ποτέ ⁸⁹¹ ταύτην ⁸⁹²

mvp-comment-446-1 ἥδ’ ⁸⁹³ ὀλεῖ τινά ⁸⁹⁴

mvp-comment-447-1 ἦ ἐπεξέρχει και ἐπαπειλῶν ὧδε θρασύς; ⁸⁹⁵ καί ⁸⁹⁶

mvp-comment-448-1 κλαίων ⁸⁹⁷

mvp-comment-448-2 φρενώσεις ⁸⁹⁸

mvp-comment-449-1 οὐκ εὖ φρονεῖν ⁸⁹⁹

mvp-comment-450-1 δούλευμα ⁹⁰⁰

mvp-comment-450-2 μὴ κωτιλλέ με ⁹⁰¹

mvp-comment-450-3 Cp. Theognis 363

(cajole)' : id. 851 .

mvp-comment-451-1 λέγειν … κλύειν; ⁹⁰² λέγειν τι ⁹⁰³

mvp-comment-452-1 ἄληθες; ⁹⁰⁴

mvp-comment-452-2 οὐ τόνδ’ Ὄλ. ⁹⁰⁵

mvp-comment-452-3 ἴσθ’ ὅτι ⁹⁰⁶

mvp-comment-453-1 χαίρων ⁹⁰⁷

mvp-comment-453-2 ἐπὶ ψόγοισι δεννάσεις ⁹⁰⁸ ἐπί ⁹⁰⁹ ἔτι ⁹¹⁰

mvp-comment-454-1 ἄγετε ⁹¹¹ ἄγ’ ἄγε ⁹¹² ἄγαγε ⁹¹³

mvp-comment-454-2 τὸ μῖσος ⁹¹⁴

mvp-comment-454-3 κατ’ ὄμματ’ ⁹¹⁵

mvp-comment-454-4 παρόντι … πλησία ⁹¹⁶

mvp-comment-455-1 ἔμοιγε ⁹¹⁷ οὔτε ⁹¹⁸ τε ⁹¹⁹

mvp-comment-455-2 οὐδαμά ⁹²⁰

mvp-comment-455-3 ἐν ὀφθαλμοῖς ⁹²¹

mvp-comment-456-1 ὡς ⁹²²

mvp-comment-456-2 τοῖς θέλουσι ⁹²³

mvp-comment-457-1 ἐξ ὀργῆς ταχύς ⁹²⁴

mvp-comment-457-2 βαρύς ⁹²⁵

mvp-comment-458-1 μεῖζον ἢ κατ’ ἄνδρα ⁹²⁶

mvp-comment-458-2 ἰών ⁹²⁷

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 ⁹²⁸

mvp-comment-459-2 τὼ … τώδε ⁹²⁹

mvp-comment-459-3 καί ⁹³⁰ κατακτ. νοεῖς ⁹³¹ κατακτ ⁹³²

mvp-comment-460-1 θιγοῦσαν ⁹³³

mvp-comment-460-2 γὰρ οὖν ⁹³⁴

mvp-comment-461-1 καί ⁹³⁵ βουλεύει ⁹³⁶

mvp-comment-461-2 σφε ⁹³⁷

mvp-comment-462-1 ἔνθα ⁹³⁸

mvp-comment-463-1 πετρώδει … ἐν κατώρυχι ⁹³⁹

mvp-comment-464-1 ὡς ἄγος μόνον ⁹⁴⁰ ὡς ⁹⁴¹ ὅσον ⁹⁴²

mvp-comment-464-2 ἄγος ⁹⁴³

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’ ⁹⁴⁴

mvp-comment-466-1 ὃν μόνον σέβει ⁹⁴⁵

mvp-comment-466-2

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

mvp-comment-467-1 τὸ μὴ θανεῖν ⁹⁴⁶ τεύξεται ⁹⁴⁷

mvp-comment-468-1 ἀλλὰ τηνικαῦτα ⁹⁴⁸ τἀν ⁹⁴⁹

mvp-comment-470-1 ἀνίκατε μάχαν ⁹⁵⁰

mvp-comment-471-1 ἐν κτήμασι πίπτεις, ⁹⁵¹

mvp-comment-472-1 ἐν μαλακαῖς παρειαῖς ⁹⁵²

mvp-comment-472-2 ἐννυχεύεις ⁹⁵³

mvp-comment-473-1 ὑπερπόντιος ⁹⁵⁴

mvp-comment-473-2 ἔν τ’ ἀγρ. αὐλαῖς ⁹⁵⁵

mvp-comment-474-1 οὔτ’ ἀθανάτων ⁹⁵⁶

mvp-comment-474-2 σὲ … φύξιμός ἐστι ⁹⁵⁷

mvp-comment-475-1 σέ γ’ ⁹⁵⁸

mvp-comment-475-2 ὁ δ’ ἔχων ⁹⁵⁹

mvp-comment-476-1 ἀδίκους ⁹⁶⁰ παρασπᾷς ⁹⁶¹

mvp-comment-477-1 ξύναιμον ⁹⁶²

mvp-comment-477-2 ἔχεις ⁹⁶³

mvp-comment-477-3 ταράξας ⁹⁶⁴

mvp-comment-478-1 ἐναργής ⁹⁶⁵

mvp-comment-478-2 βλεφάρωνἵμερος ⁹⁶⁶ εὐλέκτρου νύμφας ⁹⁶⁷

mvp-comment-478-3 εὐλέκτρου ⁹⁶⁸

mvp-comment-479-1 πάρεδρος ἐν ἀρχαῖς ⁹⁶⁹ πάρεδρος ⁹⁷⁰ ἐν ἀρχαῖς ⁹⁷¹

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 ⁹⁷²

mvp-comment-480-1 ἐμπαίζει ⁹⁷³ νικᾷ ⁹⁷⁴

mvp-comment-481-1 καὐτὸς θεσμῶν ἔξω ⁹⁷⁵

mvp-comment-481-2 φέρομαι ⁹⁷⁶

mvp-comment-481-3 ἴσχειν δ’ ⁹⁷⁷

mvp-comment-482-1 πηγάς ⁹⁷⁸

mvp-comment-483-1 παγκοίτην ⁹⁷⁹

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 ⁹⁸⁰

mvp-comment-483-3 ἀνύτουσαν ⁹⁸¹

mvp-comment-485-1 νεάταν … νέατον δέ ⁹⁸²

mvp-comment-485-2 νέατον ⁹⁸³

mvp-comment-485-3 κοὔποτ’ αὖθις ⁹⁸⁴

mvp-comment-486-1 παγκοίτας ⁹⁸⁵ πάγκοινος ⁹⁸⁶

mvp-comment-487-1 ἄγει … ἀκτάν ⁹⁸⁷

mvp-comment-488-1 οὔθ’ ὑμεναίων … οὔτ’ ἐπινύμφειος … ὕμνος ⁹⁸⁸

mvp-comment-488-2 οὔτε … ἔγκληρον, … οὔτε … ὕμνησεν ⁹⁹⁰

mvp-comment-488-3 ἐπινύμφειος ⁹⁹¹ ἐπινυμφίδιος ⁹⁹² ἐπὶ νυμφείοις ⁹⁹³ ἐπινυμφίδιος ⁹⁹⁴

mvp-comment-489-1 Ἀχέροντι νυμφεύσω ⁹⁹⁵

mvp-comment-490-1 ξιφέων ⁹⁹⁶ ἐπίχειρα ⁹⁹⁷

mvp-comment-491-1 αὐτόνομος ⁹⁹⁸

mvp-comment-491-2 δή ⁹⁹⁹ μόνη ¹⁰⁰⁰ Ἀΐδην ¹⁰⁰¹ Ἅιδην ¹⁰⁰²

mvp-comment-492-1 ἤκουσα δή ¹⁰⁰³

mvp-comment-492-2 λυγροτάταν ¹⁰⁰⁴

mvp-comment-492-3 ξέναν ¹⁰⁰⁵

mvp-comment-493-1 Ταντάλου ¹⁰⁰⁶

mvp-comment-493-2 Σιπύλῳ ¹⁰⁰⁷

mvp-comment-494-1 ἀτενής ¹⁰⁰⁸

mvp-comment-494-2 πετραία βλάστα δάμασεν ¹⁰⁰⁹ αι^ ¹⁰¹⁰

mvp-comment-495-1 καί νιν ὄμρροι ¹⁰¹¹ τέγγει δ’ ¹⁰¹² ὄμβρῳ ¹⁰¹³ τακομέναν ¹⁰¹⁴ τέγγει … δειράδας ¹⁰¹⁵ ὄμβροι ¹⁰¹⁶ ὄμβρῳ ¹⁰¹⁷

mvp-comment-495-2 χιών ¹⁰¹⁸

mvp-comment-495-3 οὐδαμά ¹⁰¹⁹

mvp-comment-496-1 τέγγει δ’ ὑπ’ ὀφρύσι … δειράδας ¹⁰²⁰

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 ¹⁰²¹

mvp-comment-498-1 ἀλλὰ … θανοῦσαν ¹⁰²² καίτοι ¹⁰²³ ζῶσαν ¹⁰²⁴ θανοῦσαν ¹⁰²⁵ οἴμοι γελῶμαι ¹⁰²⁶

mvp-comment-498-2 θεός ¹⁰²⁷

mvp-comment-498-3 θεογεννής ¹⁰²⁸ θειογενής ¹⁰²⁹

mvp-comment-499-1 καίτοι ¹⁰³⁰ φθιμένῃ ¹⁰³¹

mvp-comment-499-2 κἀκοῦσαι ¹⁰³² μέγ’ ἀκοῦσαι ¹⁰³³

mvp-comment-500-1 τοῖς ἰσοθέοις σύγκληρα ¹⁰³⁴ ἔγκληρα ¹⁰³⁵

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 ¹⁰³⁶ τοῖσι θεοῖσιν ¹⁰³⁷ ι— ¹⁰³⁸ α— ¹⁰³⁹ τοῖς ἰσοθέοις ἔγκληρα ¹⁰⁴⁰

mvp-comment-501-1 ζῶσαν … θανοῦσαν ¹⁰⁴¹

mvp-comment-502-1 γελῶμαι ¹⁰⁴²

mvp-comment-503-1 πολυκτήμονες ¹⁰⁴³

mvp-comment-504-1 κρῆναι ¹⁰⁴⁴

mvp-comment-504-2 εὐαρμάτου ¹⁰⁴⁵

mvp-comment-504-3 ἄλσος ¹⁰⁴⁶

mvp-comment-504-4 ἔμπας ¹⁰⁴⁷

mvp-comment-505-1 ὔμμ’ ¹⁰⁴⁸

mvp-comment-505-2 ἐπικτῶμαι ¹⁰⁴⁹ ἐπί ¹⁰⁵⁰

mvp-comment-506-1 οἵα ¹⁰⁵¹

mvp-comment-506-2 φίλων ἄκλαυτος ¹⁰⁵²

mvp-comment-507-1 ἕργμα τυμβόχωστον ¹⁰⁵³ ἕρμα ¹⁰⁵⁴

mvp-comment-508-1 ποταινίου ¹⁰⁵⁵

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 ¹⁰⁵⁶ οὔτε ¹⁰⁵⁷ κυροῦσα ¹⁰⁵⁸ νεκροῖς ¹⁰⁵⁹

mvp-comment-510-1 μέτοικος ¹⁰⁶⁰

mvp-comment-511-1 προβᾶσ’ … πολύ ¹⁰⁶¹ προσέπεσες ¹⁰⁶²

mvp-comment-511-2 πολύ ¹⁰⁶³ ἐσχάτου ¹⁰⁶⁴ προσέπεσες ¹⁰⁶⁵

mvp-comment-512-1 πατρῷόν τινα … ἆθλον ¹⁰⁶⁶ τινά ¹⁰⁶⁷

mvp-comment-512-2 ἐκτίνεις ¹⁰⁶⁸

mvp-comment-513-1 μερίμνας ¹⁰⁶⁹ οἶκτον ¹⁰⁷⁰ πατρός ¹⁰⁷¹ πότμου ¹⁰⁷² οἶκτον ¹⁰⁷³

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 ¹⁰⁷⁴ οἶτον ¹⁰⁷⁵

mvp-comment-513-4 τριπόλιστον ¹⁰⁷⁶

mvp-comment-513-5 κλεινοῖς Λαβδακίδαισιν ¹⁰⁷⁷ πότμου ¹⁰⁷⁸

mvp-comment-513-6 ἁμετέρου ¹⁰⁷⁹

mvp-comment-514-1 ματρῷαι λέκτρων ἆται ¹⁰⁸⁰ πατρῷαι ¹⁰⁸¹

mvp-comment-514-2

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

mvp-comment-515-1 κοιμήματα . . αὐτογέννητα . . ματρός ¹⁰⁸²

mvp-comment-515-2 ἐμῷ πατρί ¹⁰⁸³

mvp-comment-515-3 δυσμόρου ¹⁰⁸⁴

mvp-comment-516-1 οἵων ¹⁰⁸⁵ ποτέ ¹⁰⁸⁶ οἵων ¹⁰⁸⁷ ποτέ ¹⁰⁸⁸ οὕς ¹⁰⁸⁹ οἵων ¹⁰⁹⁰ ματρός.—ἀραῖος ¹⁰⁹¹

mvp-comment-516-2 μέτοικος ¹⁰⁹²

mvp-comment-517-1 κασίγνητε ¹⁰⁹³

mvp-comment-518-1 θανὼν ἔτ’ οὖσαν ¹⁰⁹⁴

mvp-comment-518-2 κατήναρες ¹⁰⁹⁵

mvp-comment-519-1 σέβειν ¹⁰⁹⁶

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 ¹⁰⁹⁷

mvp-comment-520-1 κράτος δὲ ¹⁰⁹⁸ ὅτῳ ¹⁰⁹⁹

mvp-comment-520-2 οὐδαμᾷ ¹¹⁰⁰ μέλει ¹¹⁰¹

mvp-comment-521-1 αὐτόγνωτος ¹¹⁰² αὐτὴ γιγνώσκουσα ¹¹⁰³

mvp-comment-521-2 ὀργά ¹¹⁰⁴

mvp-comment-522-1 ἑτοίμαν ¹¹⁰⁵

mvp-comment-523-1 τόδε λ. ἱρὸν ὄμμα ¹¹⁰⁶

mvp-comment-524-1 ἀδάκρυτον ¹¹⁰⁷

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 ¹¹⁰⁸ λέγειν ¹¹⁰⁹ ἀοιδὰς καὶ γόους ¹¹¹⁰ ἴστε ¹¹¹¹

mvp-comment-525-2 οὐδ’ ἂν εἷς ¹¹¹²

mvp-comment-526-1 οὐκ ἄξεθ’ ¹¹¹³ τάχιστα.—κατηρεφεῖ ¹¹¹⁴

mvp-comment-527-1 περιπτύξαντες ¹¹¹⁵

mvp-comment-528-1 χρῇ ¹¹¹⁶ ζῶσα ¹¹¹⁷ χρῇ ¹¹¹⁸

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 ¹¹¹⁹ νυμφεύειν ¹¹²⁰

mvp-comment-529-2 στέγῃ ¹¹²¹

mvp-comment-530-1 ἁγνοί ¹¹²²

mvp-comment-530-2 τοὐπὶ τήνδε ¹¹²³

mvp-comment-531-1 μετοικίας ¹¹²⁴

mvp-comment-531-2 δ’ οὖν ¹¹²⁵

mvp-comment-531-3 στερήσεται ¹¹²⁶

mvp-comment-532-1 ὦ τύμβος ¹¹²⁷

mvp-comment-532-2 νυμφεῖον ¹¹²⁸

mvp-comment-532-3 κατασκαφής ¹¹²⁹

mvp-comment-533-1 ἀριθμὸν … πλεϊστον ¹¹³⁰

mvp-comment-533-2 ἐν νεκροῖς ¹¹³¹ δέδεκται ¹¹³²

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 ¹¹³³ Φ ¹¹³⁴

mvp-comment-534-1 κάκιστα ¹¹³⁵ δή ¹¹³⁶

mvp-comment-534-2 μοῖραν … βίου ¹¹³⁷ ἐξήκειν ¹¹³⁸

mvp-comment-535-1 ἐν ἐλπίσιν τρέφω ¹¹³⁹ φίλη μὲν … προσφιλὴς δέ ¹¹⁴⁰

mvp-comment-536-1 κασίγνητον κάρα ¹¹⁴¹ νῦν δέ ¹¹⁴²

mvp-comment-537-1 ὑμᾶς ¹¹⁴³

mvp-comment-537-2 ἔλουσα κἀκόσμησα ¹¹⁴⁴

mvp-comment-537-3 χοάς ¹¹⁴⁵

mvp-comment-537-4 περιστέλλουσα ¹¹⁴⁶

mvp-comment-537-5 δέμας ¹¹⁴⁷

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 ¹¹⁴⁸ εὖ ¹¹⁴⁹ τοῖς φρονοῦσιν ¹¹⁵⁰

mvp-comment-539-1 ἐτήκετο ¹¹⁵¹

mvp-comment-540-1 βίᾳ πολιτῶν ¹¹⁵²

mvp-comment-541-1 πρὸς χάριν ¹¹⁵³

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 ¹¹⁵⁴ πόσις ¹¹⁵⁵ ἀπ’ ἄλλου φωτός ¹¹⁵⁶

mvp-comment-543-1 ἐκπροτιμήσασ’ ¹¹⁵⁷

mvp-comment-544-1 διὰ χερῶν … λαβών ¹¹⁵⁸

mvp-comment-545-1 ἀνυμέναιον ¹¹⁵⁹

mvp-comment-546-1 ἀλλ’ ¹¹⁶⁰

mvp-comment-546-2 πρὸς φίλων ¹¹⁶¹ ἔρημος ¹¹⁶²

mvp-comment-547-1 δαιμόνων δίκην ¹¹⁶³

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 ¹¹⁶⁴

mvp-comment-548-3 τίνα … ξυμμάχων ¹¹⁶⁵

mvp-comment-548-4 ἐπεί γε δή ¹¹⁶⁶

mvp-comment-548-5 τὴν δυσσέβειαν ¹¹⁶⁷

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 ¹¹⁶⁸

mvp-comment-549-3 ἐν θεοῖς ¹¹⁶⁹

mvp-comment-549-4 ξυγγνοῖμεν ¹¹⁷⁰

mvp-comment-549-5 ἡμαρτηκότες ¹¹⁷¹ παθόντες ¹¹⁷²

mvp-comment-550-1 οἵδε ¹¹⁷³

mvp-comment-550-2 μὴ πλείω ¹¹⁷⁴ μείω ¹¹⁷⁵

mvp-comment-551-1 ἀνέμων‐ῥιπαὶ ψυχῆς ¹¹⁷⁶

mvp-comment-552-1 τούτων ¹¹⁷⁷

mvp-comment-552-2 κλαύμαθ’ ¹¹⁷⁸

mvp-comment-552-3 ὕπερ ¹¹⁷⁹

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 ¹¹⁸⁰

mvp-comment-554-2 the doom is not to be ratified on this wise’ (i.e., by death). μὴ οὐ ¹¹⁸¹

mvp-comment-554-3 κατακυροῦσθαι ¹¹⁸²

mvp-comment-554-4 ταύτῃ ¹¹⁸³ τάδε ¹¹⁸⁴

mvp-comment-555-1 θεοὶ προγενεῖς ¹¹⁸⁵

mvp-comment-556-1 δή ¹¹⁸⁶

mvp-comment-556-2 κοὐκέτι μέλλω ¹¹⁸⁷

mvp-comment-557-1 οἱ κοιρανίδαι ¹¹⁸⁸

mvp-comment-558-1 βασιλειδᾶν ¹¹⁸⁹ βασιλίδα ¹¹⁹⁰

mvp-comment-558-2 μούνην ¹¹⁹¹

mvp-comment-559-1 εὐσεβίαν ¹¹⁹² ια ¹¹⁹³ εια ¹¹⁹⁴

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 ¹¹⁹⁵

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 ¹¹⁹⁶ ἔτλα καί ¹¹⁹⁷

mvp-comment-561-3 δέμας ¹¹⁹⁸

mvp-comment-561-4 χαλκοδέτοις αὐλαῖς ¹¹⁹⁹

mvp-comment-562-1 τυμβήρει ¹²⁰⁰

mvp-comment-562-2 κατεζεύχθη ¹²⁰¹

mvp-comment-563-1 τίμιος ¹²⁰²

mvp-comment-564-1 ταμιεύεσκε ¹²⁰³

mvp-comment-564-2 χρυσορύτους ¹²⁰⁴

mvp-comment-565-1 ἁ μοιριδία τις ¹²⁰⁵ τις ¹²⁰⁶

mvp-comment-566-1 οὔτ’ … ὄλβος ¹²⁰⁷

mvp-comment-566-2

mvp-comment-566-3 πύργος ¹²⁰⁸

mvp-comment-566-4 οὔτ’ … οὔτ’ ¹²⁰⁹ οὐ … οὐχ ¹²¹⁰

mvp-comment-567-1 ζεύχθη ¹²¹¹

mvp-comment-567-2 ὀξύχολος ¹²¹²

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 ¹²¹³ ὀργαῖς ¹²¹⁴ κερτομίοις ¹²¹⁵

mvp-comment-569-1 ἐκ Διονύσου ¹²¹⁶

mvp-comment-569-2 πετρώδει … δεσμῷ ¹²¹⁷

mvp-comment-569-3 κατάφαρκτος ¹²¹⁸

mvp-comment-570-1 οὕτω ¹²¹⁹

mvp-comment-570-2 ἀνθηρόν ¹²²⁰

mvp-comment-570-3 ἀποστάζει ¹²²¹

mvp-comment-571-1 ἐπέγνω τὸν θεόν, μανίαις ψαύων ¹²²²

mvp-comment-571-2 μανίαις ¹²²³

mvp-comment-571-3 ψαύων ¹²²⁴

mvp-comment-571-4 ἐν ¹²²⁵

mvp-comment-571-5 γλώσσαις ¹²²⁶

mvp-comment-572-1 παύεσκε ¹²²⁷

mvp-comment-572-2 ἐνθέους γυναῖκας ¹²²⁸

mvp-comment-572-3 εὔιον … πῦρ ¹²²⁹

mvp-comment-573-1 Μούσας ¹²³⁰

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 ¹²³¹ πετρῶν ¹²³²

mvp-comment-574-6 of

into is also erroneous.

mvp-comment-574-7 L's accent, πελάγεων ¹²³³ πελάγει ¹²³⁴ παρά ¹²³⁵ πελάγει ¹²³⁶ Κυανεᾶν ¹²³⁷

mvp-comment-575-1 ἀκταὶ Βοσπόριαι ¹²³⁸ Θρῃκῶν ¹²³⁹ ἄξενος ¹²⁴⁰ κλῄζεται ¹²⁴¹ ἠδ’ ¹²⁴²

mvp-comment-576-1 ἀγχίπολις Ἄρης ¹²⁴³ ἀγχίπτολις ¹²⁴⁴ Ἄρης ¹²⁴⁵ ἀρχαιογόνων ¹²⁴⁶

mvp-comment-577-1 Φινεΐδαις ¹²⁴⁷

mvp-comment-577-2 ἀρατόν ¹²⁴⁸

mvp-comment-577-3 ἕλκος τυφλωθέν ¹²⁴⁹

mvp-comment-577-4 ἐξ ¹²⁵⁰

mvp-comment-578-1 ἀλαὸν … κύκλοις ¹²⁵¹

mvp-comment-578-2 ἀλαστόροισιν ¹²⁵²

mvp-comment-579-1 ἀραχθέντων ¹²⁵³

mvp-comment-579-2 ὑπό ¹²⁵⁴

mvp-comment-580-1 κερκίδων ¹²⁵⁵

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 ¹²⁵⁶

mvp-comment-581-2 μέλεοι μελέαν ¹²⁵⁷

mvp-comment-582-1 ματρὸς ἔχοντες ἀν. γονάν ¹²⁵⁸ γονάν ¹²⁵⁹ ματρός ¹²⁶⁰ ἀνύμφ. ¹²⁶¹ ματρός ¹²⁶² πάθαν ¹²⁶³ ματρὸς … γονάν ¹²⁶⁴

mvp-comment-583-1 σπέρμα ¹²⁶⁵

mvp-comment-583-2 ἀρχαιογ. ¹²⁶⁶

mvp-comment-583-3 ἄντασ’ Ἐρ. ¹²⁶⁷

mvp-comment-584-1 τηλεπόροις ¹²⁶⁸

mvp-comment-585-1 ἅμιππος ¹²⁶⁹

mvp-comment-585-2 ὀρθόποδος ¹²⁷⁰

mvp-comment-586-1 κἀπ’ ἐκείνᾳ … ἔσχον ¹²⁷¹ μακραίωνες ¹²⁷²

mvp-comment-588-1 ἄνακτες ¹²⁷³

mvp-comment-589-1 αὕτη κ. ¹²⁷⁴ πέλει ¹²⁷⁵

mvp-comment-590-1 τί δ’ ἔστιν ¹²⁷⁶

mvp-comment-591-1 οὔκουν … γε ¹²⁷⁷

mvp-comment-591-2 δῑ ὀρθῆς ¹²⁷⁸

mvp-comment-591-3 ἐναυκλήρεις ¹²⁷⁹

mvp-comment-592-1 πεπονθὼς ὀνήσιμα, ἔχω μαρτυρεῖν ¹²⁸⁰

mvp-comment-593-1 φρόνει βεβώς ¹²⁸¹

mvp-comment-593-2 τύχης ¹²⁸²

mvp-comment-594-1 ὡς ¹²⁸³

mvp-comment-595-1 θᾶκον ¹²⁸⁴

mvp-comment-595-2 λιμήν ¹²⁸⁵

mvp-comment-596-1 κακῷ ¹²⁸⁶

mvp-comment-596-2 οἴστρῳ ¹²⁸⁷

mvp-comment-596-3 κλάζοντας ¹²⁸⁸

mvp-comment-596-4 βεβαρβαρωμένῳ ¹²⁸⁹

mvp-comment-597-1 ἐν χηλαῖσιν ¹²⁹⁰ φοναῖς ¹²⁹¹

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 ¹²⁹²

mvp-comment-598-3 ἐγευόμην ¹²⁹³

mvp-comment-599-1 παμφλέκτοισι ¹²⁹⁴ θυμάτων ¹²⁹⁵

mvp-comment-600-1 Ἥφαιστος ¹²⁹⁶

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 ¹²⁹⁷

mvp-comment-601-3 κηκὶς μηρίων ¹²⁹⁸

mvp-comment-601-4 ἐτήκετο ¹²⁹⁹ ἐπὶ σποδῷ ¹³⁰⁰

mvp-comment-601-5 ἀνέπτυε ¹³⁰¹

mvp-comment-602-1 χολαί ¹³⁰²

mvp-comment-602-2 καταρρυεῖς ¹³⁰³

mvp-comment-603-1 μηροί … μηρίων ¹³⁰⁴

mvp-comment-603-2 καλυπτῆς ¹³⁰⁵

mvp-comment-603-3 πιμελῆς ¹³⁰⁶ ἐξέκειντο ¹³⁰⁷

mvp-comment-604-1 τοιαῦτα ¹³⁰⁸

mvp-comment-604-2 ὀργίων μαντεύματα ¹³⁰⁹ φθίνοντα ¹³¹⁰

mvp-comment-604-3 ἀσήμων ¹³¹¹

mvp-comment-605-1 ἡγεμών ¹³¹²

mvp-comment-606-1 ἐκ ¹³¹³

mvp-comment-606-2 φρενός ¹³¹⁴

mvp-comment-606-3 νοσεῖ ¹³¹⁵

mvp-comment-607-1 βωμοί ¹³¹⁶

mvp-comment-607-2 ἐσχάραι ¹³¹⁷

mvp-comment-607-3 παντελεῖς ¹³¹⁸

mvp-comment-608-1 πλήρεις ¹³¹⁹ ὑπ’ οἰων. κ. κυνῶν ¹³²⁰ βορᾶς τοῦ...Οἰδ. γόνου ¹³²¹ γόνου ¹³²² δυσμόρου ¹³²³ πεπτῶτος ¹³²⁴ τοῦ … γόνου ¹³²⁵ βορᾶς ¹³²⁶ τοῦ … γόνου ¹³²⁷

mvp-comment-609-1 κᾆτ’ ¹³²⁸

mvp-comment-609-2 θυστάδας ¹³²⁹

mvp-comment-610-1 ὅρνι^ς ¹³³⁰

mvp-comment-610-2 εὐσήμους ¹³³¹

mvp-comment-610-3 βεβρῶτες ¹³³²

mvp-comment-610-4 ἀνδροφθόρου ¹³³³

mvp-comment-611-1 ἐπεί ¹³³⁴

mvp-comment-611-2 ἄνολβος ¹³³⁵

mvp-comment-612-1 ἀκεῖται ¹³³⁶

mvp-comment-612-2 ἀκίνητος ¹³³⁷

mvp-comment-613-1 αὐθαδία ¹³³⁸ ὀφλισκάνει ¹³³⁹

mvp-comment-614-1 εἶκε τῷ θανόντι ¹³⁴⁰

mvp-comment-614-2 κέντει ¹³⁴¹

mvp-comment-615-1 ἐπικτανεῖν ¹³⁴²

mvp-comment-616-1 εὖ φρονήσας ¹³⁴³

mvp-comment-616-2 μανθάνειν δ ¹³⁴⁴

mvp-comment-616-3 εἰ … λέγοι ¹³⁴⁵ ἥδιστον ¹³⁴⁶

mvp-comment-617-1 ὥστε ¹³⁴⁷ σκοποῦ ¹³⁴⁸

mvp-comment-618-1 κοὐδὲ μαντικῆς ¹³⁴⁹ ἄπρακτος ¹³⁵⁰ μαντικῆς ¹³⁵¹ α ¹³⁵² μαντικῇ ¹³⁵³ ἄπρατος ¹³⁵⁴

mvp-comment-618-2 τῶν δ’ ὑπαὶ γένους ¹³⁵⁵ τῶν ¹³⁵⁶

mvp-comment-618-3 refer to ὑμῖν ¹³⁵⁷ μαντικῆς ¹³⁵⁸ μαντικοῖς ¹³⁵⁹

mvp-comment-618-4 ὑπαί ¹³⁶⁰

mvp-comment-618-5 γένους ¹³⁶¹

mvp-comment-619-1 ἐξημπόλημαι ¹³⁶² ἐμπεφόρτισμαι ¹³⁶³ ἐκπεφόρτισμαι ¹³⁶⁴

mvp-comment-620-1 τἀπὸ Σάρδεων ἤλεκτρον ¹³⁶⁵

mvp-comment-620-2 τἀπὸ ¹³⁶⁶

mvp-comment-620-3 Ἰνδικὸν χρυσόν ¹³⁶⁷

mvp-comment-621-1 οἱ Ζηνὸς αἰετοί ¹³⁶⁸

mvp-comment-622-1 οὐδ’ ὥς ¹³⁶⁹

mvp-comment-623-1 θεοὺς μιαίνειν ¹³⁷⁰

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 ¹³⁷¹

mvp-comment-625-1 καλῶς ¹³⁷²

mvp-comment-626-1 ἆρ’ οἶδεν ¹³⁷³

mvp-comment-627-1 τί χρῆμα ¹³⁷⁴

mvp-comment-627-2 πάγκοινον ¹³⁷⁵

mvp-comment-628-1 κτημάτων ¹³⁷⁶

mvp-comment-628-2 ὅσῳπερ ¹³⁷⁷ μὴ φρονεῖν ¹³⁷⁸

mvp-comment-629-1 νόσου ¹³⁷⁹ πλήρης ¹³⁸⁰

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 ¹³⁸¹ λέγεις ¹³⁸²

mvp-comment-632-1 γένος ¹³⁸³

mvp-comment-633-1 τὸ δ’ ἐκ τυράννων ¹³⁸⁴ ἐκ ¹³⁸⁵

mvp-comment-633-2 αἰσχροκέρδειαν ¹³⁸⁶

mvp-comment-634-1 ἆρ’ οἶσθα ¹³⁸⁷ ἃ ἂν λέγῃς ¹³⁸⁸ ταγούς ¹³⁸⁹

mvp-comment-635-1 ἐξ ἐμοῦ ¹³⁹⁰

mvp-comment-635-2 ἔχεις σώσας ¹³⁹¹

mvp-comment-636-1 τἀκίνητα διὰ φρενῶν ¹³⁹²

mvp-comment-637-1 κίνει ¹³⁹³

mvp-comment-637-2 μόνον δέ ¹³⁹⁴

mvp-comment-637-3 ἐπὶ κέρδεσιν ¹³⁹⁵

mvp-comment-638-1 οὕτω γὰρ ἤδη ¹³⁹⁶ τὸ σὸν μέρος ¹³⁹⁷ καί ¹³⁹⁸

mvp-comment-639-1 ἴσθι ὡς μὴ ἐμπ. ¹³⁹⁹ ὡς ¹⁴⁰⁰

mvp-comment-639-2 φρένα ¹⁴⁰¹

mvp-comment-640-1 ἀλλ’ εὺ= γέ τοι ¹⁴⁰²

mvp-comment-640-2 μη … τελῶν ¹⁴⁰³ ἥλιον τελεῖν ¹⁴⁰⁴ κάτισθι ¹⁴⁰⁵ τελῶν ¹⁴⁰⁶

mvp-comment-640-3 τρόχους ¹⁴⁰⁷ τροχους ¹⁴⁰⁸

mvp-comment-640-4 ἁμιλλητῆρας ¹⁴⁰⁹

mvp-comment-641-1 ἐν οἷσι ¹⁴¹⁰

mvp-comment-641-2 τῶν σῶν … ἐκ σπλάγχνων ἕνα ¹⁴¹¹

mvp-comment-642-1 νέκυν νεκρῶν ¹⁴¹² ἀντιδοὺς ἔσει ¹⁴¹³

mvp-comment-643-1 ἀνθ’ ὧν ¹⁴¹⁴

mvp-comment-643-2 ἔχεις βαλὼν κάτω τῶν ἄνω ¹⁴¹⁵

mvp-comment-644-1 Bothe, omitting τε ¹⁴¹⁶ ψυχήν ¹⁴¹⁷ τῶν ἄνω ¹⁴¹⁸ τῶν ἄνω ¹⁴¹⁹ τῶν ἄνω … ψυχήν ¹⁴²⁰ ψυχήν τ’ … κατῴκισας ¹⁴²¹ ἀνθ’ ὧν ¹⁴²² τῶν ἄνω ¹⁴²³

mvp-comment-644-2 ἀτίμως ¹⁴²⁴

mvp-comment-645-1 ἔχεις δέ ¹⁴²⁵ τῶν κάτωθεν θεῶν ¹⁴²⁶ νέκυν ¹⁴²⁷

mvp-comment-645-2 ἄμοιρον ¹⁴²⁸

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 ¹⁴²⁹

mvp-comment-645-5 ἀνόσιον ¹⁴³⁰

mvp-comment-646-1 ὧν ¹⁴³¹

mvp-comment-646-2 βιάζονται ¹⁴³²

mvp-comment-647-1 τούτων ¹⁴³³

mvp-comment-647-2 λωβητῆρες ¹⁴³⁴

mvp-comment-647-3 ὑστεροφθόροι ¹⁴³⁵

mvp-comment-648-1 λοχῶσιν ¹⁴³⁶

mvp-comment-648-2 Ἅιδου καὶ θεῶν ¹⁴³⁷

mvp-comment-648-3 ληφθῆναι ¹⁴³⁸

mvp-comment-649-1 κατηργ. ¹⁴³⁹ οὐ μακρ. χρόν. τριβή ¹⁴⁴⁰ φανεῖ ¹⁴⁴¹

mvp-comment-650-1 The πόλεις ¹⁴⁴² συνταράσσονται ¹⁴⁴³

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 ¹⁴⁴⁴ ὅσων ¹⁴⁴⁵

mvp-comment-651-2 L's καθήγνισαν ¹⁴⁴⁶ καθήγισαν ¹⁴⁴⁷ καθήγνισαν ¹⁴⁴⁸ καθήγισαν ¹⁴⁴⁹

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 ¹⁴⁵⁰

mvp-comment-653-1 σου ¹⁴⁵¹ ἀφῆκα ¹⁴⁵²

mvp-comment-653-2 θυμῷ ¹⁴⁵³ καρδίας τοξεύματα ¹⁴⁵⁴

mvp-comment-654-1 ὦ παῖ ¹⁴⁵⁵

mvp-comment-655-1 τρέφειν ¹⁴⁵⁶

mvp-comment-655-2 ἡσυχωτέραν ¹⁴⁵⁷ ω ¹⁴⁵⁸ αι ¹⁴⁵⁹ αι ¹⁴⁶⁰ ω ¹⁴⁶¹ ω ¹⁴⁶² αι ¹⁴⁶³ αι ¹⁴⁶⁴

mvp-comment-656-1 τὸν νοῦν … τῶν φρενῶν ἀμείνω ¹⁴⁶⁵

mvp-comment-656-2 φέρει ¹⁴⁶⁶ τῶν φρενῶν ¹⁴⁶⁷ ἀμείνω ¹⁴⁶⁸ ἢ ¹⁴⁶⁹ ὧν ¹⁴⁷⁰

mvp-comment-657-1 ἐξ ὅτου ¹⁴⁷¹

mvp-comment-657-2 λευκὴν … ἐκ μελαίνης ¹⁴⁷²

mvp-comment-657-3 ἀμφιβάλλομαι ¹⁴⁷³

mvp-comment-658-1 μὴ ¹⁴⁷⁴

mvp-comment-658-2 λακεῖν ¹⁴⁷⁵

mvp-comment-659-1 ἔγνωκα ¹⁴⁷⁶

mvp-comment-660-1 For τε … δέ ¹⁴⁷⁷ δέ ¹⁴⁷⁸ τ ¹⁴⁷⁹ τε … τε ¹⁴⁸⁰ τε … δέ ¹⁴⁸¹ δέ ¹⁴⁸²

mvp-comment-661-1 ἄτῃ πατάξαι ¹⁴⁸³ θυμὸν ¹⁴⁸⁴ ἀντιστάντα ¹⁴⁸⁵

mvp-comment-661-2 ἐν δεινῷ πάρα ¹⁴⁸⁶ πάρα ¹⁴⁸⁷ ἓν δεινοῦ πέρα ¹⁴⁸⁸

mvp-comment-662-1 The question between L's λαβεῖν ¹⁴⁸⁹ Κρέον ¹⁴⁹⁰

mvp-comment-663-1 κατώρυχος ¹⁴⁹¹

mvp-comment-664-1 I read the impers. δοκεῖ ¹⁴⁹² δοκεῖς ¹⁴⁹³ δοκεῖς ¹⁴⁹⁴

mvp-comment-664-2 παρεικαθεῖν ¹⁴⁹⁵

mvp-comment-665-1 συντέμνουσι … τοὺς κ. ¹⁴⁹⁶

mvp-comment-665-2 ποδώκεις ¹⁴⁹⁷

mvp-comment-665-3 βλάβαι ¹⁴⁹⁸

mvp-comment-665-4 κακόφρονας ¹⁴⁹⁹

mvp-comment-666-1 μόλις μέν ¹⁵⁰⁰

mvp-comment-666-2 ἐξίσταμαι καρδίας ¹⁵⁰¹

mvp-comment-666-3 τὸ δρᾶν ¹⁵⁰²

mvp-comment-666-4 δυσμαχητέον ¹⁵⁰³

mvp-comment-667-1 ἐπ’ ἄλλ’. τρέπε ¹⁵⁰⁴

mvp-comment-668-1 ὡς ἔχω ¹⁵⁰⁵

mvp-comment-668-2 στείχοιμ’ ἄν ¹⁵⁰⁶

mvp-comment-668-3 ἴτ’ ἴτ’ ¹⁵⁰⁷ εἶ’ ¹⁵⁰⁸

mvp-comment-669-1 οἵ τ’ ὄντες οἵ τ’ ἀπόντες ¹⁵⁰⁹

mvp-comment-669-2 ἀξίνας ¹⁵¹⁰

mvp-comment-670-1 ἐπόψιον ¹⁵¹¹

mvp-comment-671-1 ἐγὼ δ’ ¹⁵¹² ἐπιστράφη ¹⁵¹³ τῇδ’ ¹⁵¹⁴

mvp-comment-672-1 αὐτός τ’ ἔδησα ¹⁵¹⁵

mvp-comment-673-1 δέδοικα μὴ … ᾖ ¹⁵¹⁶ τοὺς καθεστ. νόμους ¹⁵¹⁷

mvp-comment-673-2 σῴζοντα … τὸν βίον τελεῖν ¹⁵¹⁸

mvp-comment-675-1 πολυώνυμε ¹⁵¹⁹

mvp-comment-675-2 Καδμείας ¹⁵²¹

mvp-comment-675-3 ἄγαλμα ¹⁵²²

mvp-comment-675-4 νύμφας ¹⁵²³ βαρυβρεμέτα ¹⁵²⁴

mvp-comment-676-1 The traditional reading, Ἰταλίαν ¹⁵²⁵

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

is the conjecture Ἰκαρίαν ¹⁵²⁶ Ἰταλίαν ¹⁵²⁷

mvp-comment-677-1 παγκοίνοις ¹⁵²⁸

mvp-comment-677-2

(Olympia).

mvp-comment-677-3 κόλποις ¹⁵²⁹

mvp-comment-677-4 Ἐλευσι^νίας ¹⁵³⁰ ι^ ¹⁵³¹

mvp-comment-678-1 Βακχεῦ ¹⁵³² ὦ ¹⁵³³ ὁ ¹⁵³⁴ ματρόπολιν ¹⁵³⁵

mvp-comment-678-2 ματρόπολιν ¹⁵³⁶

mvp-comment-679-1 L has ὑγρὸν … ῥέεθρον ¹⁵³⁷ ὑγρῶν … ῥεέθρων ¹⁵³⁸ ῥεῖθρον ¹⁵³⁹ ὑγρόν ¹⁵⁴⁰ παρά ¹⁵⁴¹ ῥεῖθρον ¹⁵⁴² ὑγρόν ¹⁵⁴³

mvp-comment-679-2 Ἰσμηνοῦ ¹⁵⁴⁴

mvp-comment-680-1 ἐπὶ σπορᾷ δρ. ¹⁵⁴⁵

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 ¹⁵⁴⁶

mvp-comment-681-3 By ὑπὲρ διλόφου πέτρας ¹⁵⁴⁷

mvp-comment-681-4 λιγνύς ¹⁵⁴⁸ στέροψ ¹⁵⁴⁹

mvp-comment-681-5 ὄπωπε ¹⁵⁵⁰

mvp-comment-681-6 Κωρύκιαι … Νύμφαι ¹⁵⁵¹

mvp-comment-681-7 The simple transposition, στείχουσι νύμφαι ¹⁵⁵²

mvp-comment-682-1 Κασταλίας τε νᾶμα ¹⁵⁵³

mvp-comment-683-1 καί σε Νυσαίων ¹⁵⁵⁴

mvp-comment-684-1 κισσήρεις ὄχθαι ¹⁵⁵⁵

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 ¹⁵⁵⁶

mvp-comment-685-2 πέμπει ¹⁵⁵⁷

mvp-comment-686-1 The words ἀμβρότων ἐπέων ¹⁵⁵⁸

mvp-comment-686-2 εὐαζόντων ¹⁵⁵⁹

mvp-comment-687-1 τὰν ἐκ πασᾶν ¹⁵⁶⁰ τάν ¹⁵⁶¹ ἐκ ¹⁵⁶² ὑπερτάταν ¹⁵⁶³

mvp-comment-688-1 κεραυνίᾳ ¹⁵⁶⁴

mvp-comment-689-1 ἔχεται ἐπὶ βιαίας νόσου ¹⁵⁶⁵ ὑπό ¹⁵⁶⁶ ἔχεται ¹⁵⁶⁷ βιαι^ας ¹⁵⁶⁸ ἀμὰ ¹⁵⁶⁹ πόλις ¹⁵⁷⁰

mvp-comment-689-2 πάνδαμος ¹⁵⁷¹

mvp-comment-690-1 μολεῖν ¹⁵⁷²

mvp-comment-690-2 καθαρσίῳ ¹⁵⁷³

mvp-comment-690-3 κλιτύν ¹⁵⁷⁴

mvp-comment-690-4 πορθμόν ¹⁵⁷⁵

mvp-comment-690-5 στονόεντα ¹⁵⁷⁶

mvp-comment-691-1 πνειόντων ¹⁵⁷⁷ πνειόντων ¹⁵⁷⁸

mvp-comment-691-2 Other conjectures are: (1) ἰὼ πύρπνων ἄστρων χοραγὲ καὶ νυχίων ¹⁵⁷⁹ πῦρ πνεόντων χοραγὲ καὶ νυχίων ¹⁵⁸⁰ χοραγὲ ἄστρων ¹⁵⁸¹

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 ¹⁵⁸² νυχίων ¹⁵⁸³

mvp-comment-691-4 χοράγ’ ἄστρων ¹⁵⁸⁴

mvp-comment-691-5 νυχίων φθεγμάτων ¹⁵⁸⁵

mvp-comment-692-1 παῖ Διὸς ¹⁵⁸⁶

mvp-comment-693-1 ὦναξ ¹⁵⁸⁷

mvp-comment-694-1 Θυίαισιν ¹⁵⁸⁸

mvp-comment-694-2 χορεύουσι ¹⁵⁸⁹

mvp-comment-695-1 ταμίαν ¹⁵⁹⁰

mvp-comment-695-2 Ἴακχον ¹⁵⁹¹

mvp-comment-697-1 δόμων ¹⁵⁹² Κάδμου ¹⁵⁹³ πάροικοι ¹⁵⁹⁴ δόμων ¹⁵⁹⁵

mvp-comment-698-1 οὐκ ἔστι ¹⁵⁹⁶ στάντα ¹⁵⁹⁷ στάντα ¹⁵⁹⁸

mvp-comment-698-2 βίον ¹⁵⁹⁹ ὁποίᾳ ¹⁶⁰⁰

mvp-comment-699-1 μάντις … τῶν καθεστώτων ¹⁶⁰¹ ἐφεστώτων ¹⁶⁰²

mvp-comment-700-1 ὡς ἐμοί ¹⁶⁰³

mvp-comment-701-1 σώσας … ἐχθρῶν ¹⁶⁰⁴ δέ ¹⁶⁰⁵ τε ¹⁶⁰⁶ λαβών τε ¹⁶⁰⁷ ηὔθυνε ¹⁶⁰⁸ παντελῆ ¹⁶⁰⁹

mvp-comment-701-2 ηὔθυνε ¹⁶¹⁰

mvp-comment-701-3 εὐγενεῖ ¹⁶¹¹

mvp-comment-702-1 ἀφεῖται πάντα ¹⁶¹²

mvp-comment-703-1 προδῶσιν ¹⁶¹³ προδῶσιν ¹⁶¹⁴ ἀνδρὸς ¹⁶¹⁵ προδῶσιν ¹⁶¹⁶ ἄνδρες ¹⁶¹⁷ ἀνδρός ¹⁶¹⁸ τὰς γὰρ ἡδονάς ¹⁶¹⁹

mvp-comment-703-2 οὐ τίθημι ¹⁶²⁰

mvp-comment-704-1 For

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

mvp-comment-704-2 τοῦτον ¹⁶²¹

mvp-comment-704-3 ἔμψ. νεκρόν ¹⁶²²

mvp-comment-705-1 πλούτει … ζῆ ¹⁶²³

mvp-comment-705-2 εἰ βούλει ¹⁶²⁴ ζῆ ¹⁶²⁵ σχῆμα ¹⁶²⁶

mvp-comment-706-1 τὸ χαίρειν ¹⁶²⁷

mvp-comment-706-2 καπνοῦ σκιᾶς ¹⁶²⁸

mvp-comment-707-1 πριαίμην ἀνδρί ¹⁶²⁹

mvp-comment-707-2 πρὸς τὴν ἡδ. ¹⁶³⁰

mvp-comment-708-1 βασιλέων ¹⁶³¹ αἴτιοι θανεῖν ¹⁶³²

mvp-comment-709-1 φονεύει ¹⁶³³ ὁ κείμενος ¹⁶³⁴

mvp-comment-710-1 αὐτόχειρ ¹⁶³⁵

mvp-comment-711-1 φόνου ¹⁶³⁶

mvp-comment-711-2 ὀρθὸν ἤνυσας ¹⁶³⁷

mvp-comment-712-1 ὡς ¹⁶³⁸ πάρεστι βουλ. τὰ ἄλλα ¹⁶³⁹ βουλεύειν ¹⁶⁴⁰ τὰ ἄλλα ¹⁶⁴¹

mvp-comment-712-2 ὧδ’ ἐχόντων ¹⁶⁴²

mvp-comment-713-1 καὶ μήν ¹⁶⁴³

mvp-comment-713-2 Εὐρυδίκην ¹⁶⁴⁴

mvp-comment-714-1 κλύουσα παιδός ¹⁶⁴⁵

mvp-comment-715-1 ὦ πάντες ἀστοί ¹⁶⁴⁶

mvp-comment-716-1 Παλλάδος προσήγορος εὐγμάτων ¹⁶⁴⁷

mvp-comment-717-1 τυγχάνω τε … καὶ … βάλλει ¹⁶⁴⁸

mvp-comment-717-2 the sound ( cp. 1172 f. n.). For the temporal parataxis with τε … καί ¹⁶⁴⁹

mvp-comment-717-3 κλῇθρα χαλῶσα πύλης ἀνασπαστοῦ ¹⁶⁵⁰

mvp-comment-717-4 κλῇθρα ¹⁶⁵¹

mvp-comment-717-5 ἀνασπαστοῦ ¹⁶⁵²

mvp-comment-717-6 φθόγγος ¹⁶⁵³

mvp-comment-717-7 οἰκείου ¹⁶⁵⁴

mvp-comment-718-1 δῑ ὤτων ¹⁶⁵⁵

mvp-comment-718-2 πρὸς δμωαῖσι ¹⁶⁵⁶

mvp-comment-718-3 ἀποπλήσσομαι ¹⁶⁵⁷

mvp-comment-719-1 καὶ παρὼν ἐρῶ, κοὐδὲν παρήσω ¹⁶⁵⁸ παρὠν ¹⁶⁵⁹

mvp-comment-720-1 ὧν ¹⁶⁶⁰

mvp-comment-720-2 ὧν ¹⁶⁶¹ ψεῦσται ¹⁶⁶² φανούμεθ’ ¹⁶⁶³

mvp-comment-720-3 ὀρθόν ¹⁶⁶⁴

mvp-comment-721-1 ποδαγός ¹⁶⁶⁵ ἑσπόμην ¹⁶⁶⁶

mvp-comment-722-1 πεδίον … ἄκρον ¹⁶⁶⁷

mvp-comment-722-2 νηλεές ¹⁶⁶⁸

mvp-comment-723-1 κυνοσπάρακτον ¹⁶⁶⁹

mvp-comment-724-1 τὸν μέν ¹⁶⁷⁰

mvp-comment-724-2 ἐνοδίαν θεόν ¹⁶⁷¹

mvp-comment-724-3 θεόν ¹⁶⁷²

mvp-comment-724-4 εὐμενεῖς ¹⁶⁷³

mvp-comment-724-5 κατασχεθεῖν ¹⁶⁷⁴

mvp-comment-725-1 λούσαντες ἁγν. λουτρόν ¹⁶⁷⁵

mvp-comment-725-2 ἐν ¹⁶⁷⁶ θαλλοῖς ¹⁶⁷⁷

mvp-comment-725-3 )λέλειπτο ¹⁶⁷⁸

mvp-comment-725-4 συγκατῄθομεν ¹⁶⁷⁹ εἰσεβαίνομεν ¹⁶⁸⁰

mvp-comment-726-1 τύμβον ¹⁶⁸¹

mvp-comment-726-2 ὀρθόκρανον ¹⁶⁸²

mvp-comment-726-3 οἰκείας ¹⁶⁸³

mvp-comment-727-1 αὖθις ¹⁶⁸⁴

mvp-comment-727-2 For

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

mvp-comment-727-3 λιθόστρωτον ¹⁶⁸⁵

mvp-comment-727-4 κόρης νυμφεῖον‐Ἅιδου ¹⁶⁸⁶

mvp-comment-728-1 κωκυμάτων ¹⁶⁸⁷

mvp-comment-729-1 ἀκτέριστον ἀμφὶ παστάδα ¹⁶⁸⁸

mvp-comment-730-1 ἀθλίας … ἄσημα βοῆς ¹⁶⁸⁹

mvp-comment-730-2 περιβαίνει ¹⁶⁹⁰

mvp-comment-731-1 μᾶλλον ἆσσον ¹⁶⁹¹

mvp-comment-731-2 ἔπος ¹⁶⁹² δυσθρήνητον ¹⁶⁹³

mvp-comment-731-3 ὦ τάλας ¹⁶⁹⁴

mvp-comment-732-1 τῶν παρελθουσῶν ¹⁶⁹⁵

mvp-comment-732-2 σαίνει ¹⁶⁹⁶

mvp-comment-733-1 ὠκεῖς ¹⁶⁹⁷

mvp-comment-734-1 ἁρμὸν χώματος λιθοσπ. ¹⁶⁹⁸

mvp-comment-734-2 ἁρμόν ¹⁶⁹⁹ δύντες ¹⁷⁰⁰

mvp-comment-735-1 στόμιον ¹⁷⁰¹

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 ¹⁷⁰²

mvp-comment-736-2 κλέπτομαι ¹⁷⁰³

mvp-comment-737-1 The simple correction, κελευσμάτων ¹⁷⁰⁴

mvp-comment-737-2 With κελεύσμασιν ¹⁷⁰⁵

mvp-comment-737-3 (2) The alternative is to amend ἐξ ἀθύμου ¹⁷⁰⁶ ὀξυθύμου ¹⁷⁰⁷

mvp-comment-737-4 Dindorf writes κελεύμασιν ¹⁷⁰⁸

mvp-comment-738-1 αὐχένος ¹⁷⁰⁹

mvp-comment-739-1 μιτώδει ¹⁷¹⁰

mvp-comment-740-1 Haemon has thrown his arms around her waist ( ἀμφὶ μέσσῃ περιπετῆ ¹⁷¹¹ προσκείμενον ¹⁷¹²

mvp-comment-740-2 μέσσῃ ¹⁷¹³

mvp-comment-740-3 περιπετῆ ¹⁷¹⁴

mvp-comment-741-1 εὐνῆς … τῆς κάτω ¹⁷¹⁵

mvp-comment-741-2 πατρὸς ἔργα ¹⁷¹⁶

mvp-comment-741-3 λέχος ¹⁷¹⁷

mvp-comment-742-1 σφε ¹⁷¹⁸

mvp-comment-742-2 στυγνόν ¹⁷¹⁹

mvp-comment-743-1 οἷον ἔργον ¹⁷²⁰ τίνα νοῦν ἔσχες ¹⁷²¹

mvp-comment-743-2 ἐν τῷ συμφορᾶς ¹⁷²²

mvp-comment-743-3 διεφθάρης ¹⁷²³

mvp-comment-744-1 ἱκέσιος ¹⁷²⁴

mvp-comment-744-2 ὄσσοισι ¹⁷²⁵

mvp-comment-744-3 παπτήνας ¹⁷²⁶

mvp-comment-745-1 πτύσας προσώπῳ ¹⁷²⁷

mvp-comment-746-1 διπλοῦς κνώδοντας ξίφους ¹⁷²⁸ διπλοῦς κνώδοντας ¹⁷²⁹

mvp-comment-746-2 ἐκ δ’ ὁρμ. ¹⁷³⁰

mvp-comment-746-3 φυγαῖσιν ¹⁷³¹

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’ ¹⁷³² ἐπενταθείς ¹⁷³³

mvp-comment-747-2 πλευραῖς ¹⁷³⁴

mvp-comment-747-3 μέσσον ¹⁷³⁵

mvp-comment-747-4 ἔγχος ¹⁷³⁶

mvp-comment-747-5 ἐς δ’ ὑγρὸν ἀγκῶν’ ¹⁷³⁷

mvp-comment-748-1 φυσιῶν ¹⁷³⁸

mvp-comment-748-2 ῥοὴν ¹⁷³⁹

mvp-comment-749-1 τέλη ¹⁷⁴⁰

mvp-comment-749-2 ἔν γ’ Ἅιδου ¹⁷⁴¹ ἔν γ ¹⁷⁴² γε ¹⁷⁴³ ἔν γε ¹⁷⁴⁴

mvp-comment-750-1 δείξας … τὴν ἀβουλίαν ¹⁷⁴⁵

mvp-comment-751-1 πρόσκειται ¹⁷⁴⁶

mvp-comment-752-1 τί τοῦτ’ ἂν εἰκάς. ¹⁷⁴⁷

mvp-comment-752-2 ἐσθλὸν ἢ κακόν ¹⁷⁴⁸

mvp-comment-753-1 τεθάμβηκ’ ¹⁷⁴⁹

mvp-comment-753-2 βόσκομαι ¹⁷⁵⁰

mvp-comment-754-1 γόους … ἀξιώσειν ¹⁷⁵¹

mvp-comment-754-2 ὑπὸ στέγης ¹⁷⁵²

mvp-comment-755-1 προθήσειν ¹⁷⁵³ στένειν ¹⁷⁵⁴

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 ¹⁷⁵⁵

mvp-comment-757-1 δ’ οὖν ¹⁷⁵⁶ προσεῖναι ¹⁷⁵⁷

mvp-comment-758-1 εἰσόμεσθα, μή τι … καλύπτει ¹⁷⁵⁸

mvp-comment-758-2 καὶ ¹⁷⁵⁹ κατάσχετον … καλύπτει ¹⁷⁶⁰

mvp-comment-758-3 κατάσχετον ¹⁷⁶¹

mvp-comment-759-1 δόμους παραστείχοντες ¹⁷⁶²

mvp-comment-760-1 καὶ μήν ¹⁷⁶³

mvp-comment-760-2 ἐφήκει ¹⁷⁶⁴

mvp-comment-761-1 μνῆμ ¹⁷⁶⁵ ἐπίσημον ¹⁷⁶⁶

mvp-comment-761-2 διὰ χειρός ¹⁷⁶⁷

mvp-comment-762-1 εἰ θέμις εἰπεῖν ¹⁷⁶⁸ ἄτην ¹⁷⁶⁹ ἀλλοτρίαν ¹⁷⁷⁰

mvp-comment-762-2 ἁμαρτών ¹⁷⁷¹

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 ¹⁷⁷²

mvp-comment-763-4 στερεά ¹⁷⁷³

mvp-comment-764-1 ὦ … βλέποντες ¹⁷⁷⁴

mvp-comment-764-2 κτανόντας ¹⁷⁷⁵ θανόντας ¹⁷⁷⁶

mvp-comment-764-3 ἐμφυλίους ¹⁷⁷⁷

mvp-comment-765-1 ἐμῶν ἄνολβα βουλευμάτων ¹⁷⁷⁸ ἄνολβα ¹⁷⁷⁹

mvp-comment-766-1 νέος νέῳ ξυν μόρῳ ¹⁷⁸⁰ νέῳ ¹⁷⁸¹

mvp-comment-767-1 ἀπελύθης ¹⁷⁸²

mvp-comment-768-1 ἐμαῖς οὐδὲ σαῖσι ¹⁷⁸³

mvp-comment-769-1 ἔχω μαθὼν ¹⁷⁸⁴ με ¹⁷⁸⁵ μέγα βάρος ἔχων ¹⁷⁸⁶ ἐν δ’ ἐμῷ κάρᾳ ¹⁷⁸⁷ ἔπαισε ¹⁷⁸⁸ με ¹⁷⁸⁹ κάρᾳ ¹⁷⁹⁰

mvp-comment-769-2 ἐν δ’ ἔσεισεν ¹⁷⁹¹

mvp-comment-769-3 ἀγρίαις ὁδοῖς ¹⁷⁹²

mvp-comment-770-1 λακπάτητον ¹⁷⁹³ κ ¹⁷⁹⁴ ξπ ¹⁷⁹⁵ κ ¹⁷⁹⁶

mvp-comment-770-2 ἀντρέπων ¹⁷⁹⁷

mvp-comment-771-1 φεῦ φεῦ, ὦ ¹⁷⁹⁸

mvp-comment-771-2 πόνοι .. δύσπονοι ¹⁷⁹⁹

mvp-comment-772-1 ὡς ἔχων τε καὶ κεκτημένος ¹⁸⁰⁰ ἔχων ¹⁸⁰¹ κεκτημένος ¹⁸⁰²

mvp-comment-773-1 πρὸ χειρῶν ¹⁸⁰³

mvp-comment-773-2 τάδε ¹⁸⁰⁴

mvp-comment-773-3 τὰ δ’ ἐν δόμοις ¹⁸⁰⁵ τὰ μὲν … φέρων ¹⁸⁰⁶ ἔοικας ἥκειν ¹⁸⁰⁷ καὶ τάχ’ ὄψεσθαι ¹⁸⁰⁸

mvp-comment-773-4 Since τὰ δ’ ἐν δόμοις ¹⁸⁰⁹ ἥκειν καὶ ¹⁸¹⁰

mvp-comment-773-5 (

) . Others, indeed, take καὶ τάχα ¹⁸¹¹

mvp-comment-774-1 τί δ’ ἔστιν ¹⁸¹² ἦ ¹⁸¹³

mvp-comment-774-2 (2) Transposing αὖ ¹⁸¹⁴ ἤ ¹⁸¹⁵ ἦ ¹⁸¹⁶

mvp-comment-774-3 (3) Canter gave,

; The change of to would have been peculiarly easy before initial (KAKIONEKAKON for KAKIONEKKAKON). For ἐκ ¹⁸¹⁷

mvp-comment-774-4 reading. The comparat. κάκιον ¹⁸¹⁸

mvp-comment-775-1 παμμήτωρ ¹⁸¹⁹

mvp-comment-775-2 νεοτόμ ¹⁸²⁰ ἄρτι ¹⁸²¹

mvp-comment-776-1 δυσκάθαρτος Ἅιδου λιμήν ¹⁸²² λιμήν ¹⁸²³

mvp-comment-777-1 κακάγγελτα ¹⁸²⁴

mvp-comment-777-2 προπέμψας ¹⁸²⁵

mvp-comment-778-1 ἐπεξειργάσω ¹⁸²⁶

mvp-comment-779-1 ὦ παῖ ¹⁸²⁷

mvp-comment-779-2

(instead of ), has not much palaeographical probability. It gives, indeed, a closer correspondence with 1266. But the form of dochmiac which the MS. reading gives here is equally correct. (See Analysis. Met.) Seidler was certainly right in omitting (see cr. n.): and that remedy suffices.

mvp-comment-779-3 Construe: τίνα νέον σφάγιον γυναικεῖον μόρον λέγεις ἀμφικεῖσθαί μοι ἐπ’ ὀλέθρῳ ¹⁸²⁸

mvp-comment-779-4 But another version is possible, if

is taken with : ‘besetting me,’ , for (my) ruin. Cp. 1285 ; For , cp. Thuc. 4.86

οὐκ ἐπὶ κακῷ, ἐπ’ ἐλευθερώσει δέ

. The difficulty is that cannot well be said of one sorrow (Eurydicè's death), and that, therefore, we have to evolve from the epithet the notion of a circle of woes of which this is one. Thus the image would be much more obscurely expressed than that in Ai. 351 , , (‘behold what a surge hath but now burst around me and hemmed me in, under stress of a deadly storm,’) where Ajax is sitting in the midst of the carnage which he has wrought. It is altogether improbable that alludes to Eurydicè's corpse having been brought (by the ) into such a position that Creon stood between it and Haemon's. See 1298, where Creon speaks of her as being .

mvp-comment-780-1 ὁρᾶν πάρεστιν ¹⁸²⁹

mvp-comment-780-2 three or four persons; and was low enough to admit of an actor stepping off it with ease. It was pushed on through the central stage entrance, and was usually brought sufficiently far forward to allow of actors entering or making their exit behind it. Here, the corpse of Eurydicè is evidently in full view of the house ( cp. 1299 ). Soph. has used the

in two other plays: El. 1458 (the corpse of Clytaemnestra, with Orestes and Pylades beside it); and in Ai. 344 (Ajax in his tent among his victims). See Albert Müller, Gr. Bühnenalterthümer, pp. 142 ff. (1886).

mvp-comment-780-3 Recent explorations in the Dionysiac theatre at Athens have given rise to a theory that there was no permanent raised stage or proscenium before the Roman age. Even if this could be proved, it would still, however, remain certain that some such expedient as the

was used in the fifth century. This is proved by the texts of Aesch. , Soph. , and Eur. , as well as by the two scenes of Ar. where the tragic is parodied ( Ar. Ach. 408 —479; Thesm. 95—238). Ar. has the words and . Wecklein thinks that the was employed when a part of the interior of the house was to be disclosed, but the when merely a single object was to be shown; and that the was used here ( N. Jahrb. 1870, vol. 101, p. 572: Philol. 31. 451). The meaning of is, however, doubtful.

mvp-comment-781-1 χείρεσσιν ¹⁸³⁰

mvp-comment-782-1 ἔναντα ¹⁸³¹

mvp-comment-783-1 ἥδ’ ¹⁸³² βωμία ¹⁸³³ βωμία ¹⁸³⁴

mvp-comment-783-2 ξίφει ¹⁸³⁵

mvp-comment-783-3 Next to Arndt's, the best conjecture seems that of Blaydes, ἥδ’ ὀξυθήκτῳ σφαγίδι βωμίᾳ πέρι ¹⁸³⁶

mvp-comment-784-1 λύει κελαινὰ βλέφαρα ¹⁸³⁷ μύει ¹⁸³⁸

mvp-comment-785-1 Μεγαρέως ¹⁸³⁹

mvp-comment-785-2 κλεινὸν λάχος ¹⁸⁴⁰ λάχος ¹⁸⁴¹ λέχος ¹⁸⁴²

mvp-comment-786-1 κακὰς πράξεις ¹⁸⁴³

mvp-comment-786-2 ἐφυμνής. ¹⁸⁴⁴

mvp-comment-787-1 ἀνέπταν ¹⁸⁴⁵ φόβῳ ¹⁸⁴⁶

mvp-comment-787-2 ἀνταίαν ¹⁸⁴⁷

mvp-comment-788-1 δείλαι^ος ¹⁸⁴⁸

mvp-comment-788-2

.—The following are a few among many instances of αι^ ¹⁸⁴⁹ ο ¹⁸⁵⁰

mvp-comment-788-3 συγκέκραμαι ¹⁸⁵¹

mvp-comment-789-1 ὡς αἰτίαν … ἔχων ¹⁸⁵²

mvp-comment-789-2 τῶνδε … μόρων ¹⁸⁵³ κἀκείνων ¹⁸⁵⁴

mvp-comment-789-3 ἐπεσκήπτου ¹⁸⁵⁵

mvp-comment-790-1 κἀπελύσατ’ ¹⁸⁵⁶ καί ¹⁸⁵⁷ ἐν φοναῖς ¹⁸⁵⁸

mvp-comment-791-1 ὑφ’ ἦπαρ ¹⁸⁵⁹

mvp-comment-791-2 ὀξυκώκυτον ¹⁸⁶⁰

mvp-comment-792-1 τάδ’ οὐκ ἐπ’ ἄλλον βροτῶν ¹⁸⁶¹

mvp-comment-792-2 ἁρμόσει ποτέ ¹⁸⁶² ἁρμόσει ¹⁸⁶³ ἐκ ¹⁸⁶⁴

mvp-comment-793-1 μέλεος ¹⁸⁶⁵

mvp-comment-793-2 φάμ’ ἔτυμον ¹⁸⁶⁶

mvp-comment-794-1 ὅ τι τάχιστ’ ¹⁸⁶⁷

mvp-comment-795-1 τὸν οὐκ ὄντα μᾶλλον ἢ μηδένα ¹⁸⁶⁸

mvp-comment-796-1 κέρδη ¹⁸⁶⁹

mvp-comment-796-2 τὰ γὰρ ἐν ποσὶ κακὰ κράτιστά ¹⁸⁷⁰ βράχιστα ¹⁸⁷¹

mvp-comment-796-3 τἀν ποσίν ¹⁸⁷²

mvp-comment-797-1 μόρων ὁ κάλλιστ’ ἔχων ¹⁸⁷³

mvp-comment-797-2 Both these difficulties (which to me seem insuperable) are removed by reading

, the best of fates. That could have been changed to , either by conjecture or by accident, is shown by v. 575, where at the end of the verse L has the probably true , while other MSS. have . (If is right in 467, and in 1301, these, too, are instances of final words corrupted.) A question of punctuation remains. The comma might follow either or . I prefer the latter. Cp. Ai. 394

ἰὼ σκότος, ἐμὸν φάος, | ἔρεβος ὦ φαεννότατον, ὡς ἐμοί

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