Sophocles, Antigone, 100

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Chorus

526 Lo, yonder Ismene comes forth, shedding such tears as fond sisters weep; a cloud upon her brow casts 530 its shadow over her darkly-flushing face, and breaks in rain on her fair cheek.

Antigone. Sophocles. Cambridge, UK. 1904.

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Current edition Experimental

English (Sir Richard Jebb1, 1904) (OCR draft) (English) (English (Sir Richard Jebb1, 1904))

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Editions (12)

Greek (L. Benloew, 1858) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (L. Benloew, 1858)) — 100 focus

ἀκτὶς ¹ ἀελίου, τὸ κάλ-

100

Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 100 focus

ἀκτὶς ἀελίου, τὸ κάλ-

100

Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 100 focus

ἀκτὶς ἀελίοιο, κἀλ-

100

Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879)) — 100 focus

ἀκτὶς ἀελίου, τὸ κάλλιστον ἑπταπύλῳ φανὲν

100

Greek (A. Colonna, 1978) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Colonna, 1978)) — 100 focus

ἀκτὶς ἀελίου, τὸ κάλ-

100

Greek (A. Dain, 1955) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Dain, 1955)) — 100.mvp-line-100 focus

ἀκτὶς ἀελίου, τὸ κάλ-

100

Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979)) — 100 focus

ἀκτὶς ἀελίου, τὸ κάλ-

100

Greek (G. Hermann, 1830) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (G. Hermann, 1830)) — 100 focus

ἀκτὶς ἀελίου, τὸ κάλ-

100

Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906)) — 100 focus

ἀκτὶς ἀελίου, τὸ κάλλιστον ἑπταπύλῳ φανὲν 1

100

Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924)) — 100.mvp-line-100 focus

ἀκτὶς ἀελίου, τὸ κάλ-

100

Antigone (OCR draft) Experimental (Antigone) — 100 focus

ἀκτὶς ἀελίου, τὸ κάλλιστον ἑπταπύλῳ φανὲν

100

Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949)) — 100 focus

ἀκτὶς ἀελίου, τὸ κάλ-

100

Translations (10)

German (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 100 focus

ANTIGONE

Nicht Knecht ja, sondern Bruder ihm, fand er den Tod.

Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921)) — 100 focus

CORO

526 Ya en la puerta tienes a Ismena derramando lágrimas de amor por su hermana; la nube de dolor que le oprime los ojos ensombrece su encendida cara, bañándole las hermosas mejillas.

Latin (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Latin (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 100 focus

Chorus

526 Sed ecce pro foribus Ismena, sororis ob desiderium fundens lacrimas, nube vero frontem obducta, amabilem deformat vultum, venustas irrigans genas.

English (Lewis Campbell, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Lewis Campbell, 1906)) — 100 focus

CH
526

Now comes Ismenè forth. Ah, see,

From clouds above her brow

The sister-loving tear

Is falling wet on her fair cheek,

Distaining all her passion-crimson’d face!
530

German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review)) — 100 focus

Strahl des Helios, schönstes Licht,¹
100

Das der siebenthorigen Stadt

Thebe's nimmer zuvor erschien!

Du strahlst endlich, des gold'nen Tags

Aufblick, herrlich herauf,

Ueber Dirke's Fluten herüberwandelnd;²
105

Und Ihn, der mit leuchtendem Schild

Kam von Argos in voller Wehr,

Triebest du flüchtig in eilendem Lauf

Fort mit hastigem Zügel:

English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759)) — 100 focus

Ismene

I do acknowledge it, if she permit me ;
540

I w^as accomplice, and the crime was mine.

Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889)) — 100 focus

ANTÍGONA

Plutón, sin embargo, pide iguales ritos para todos.

German (F. Hölderlin, 1804) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (F. Hölderlin, 1804)) — 100 focus

KREON

Ja! du! die du drin hokst, daheim, wie Schlangen,

Geborgen und mich aussaugst! hat nicht einer mir

Berichtet, dafsich zwei Einbildungen hab’anmir

Und Feinde des Throns? geh, sage, hast du mitgemacht
555

Am Grabe, oder hast du’s mit der Unschuld?

English (Robert Potter, 1788) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Robert Potter, 1788)) — 100 focus

Haemon

To lord it o'er his rulers, shall from me T

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

Enter the Chorus on the right.

Chorus

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

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

110

Chorus

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

with a mass of weapons and crested helmets.
115

117

Chorus

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

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

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

127

Chorus

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

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

134

Chorus

Staggered, he fell to the earth with a crash,

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

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

141

Chorus

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

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

148

Chorus

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

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

155

Chorus

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

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

Commentary

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

mvp-comment-301-1 καὶ μὴν ¹

mvp-comment-301-2 εἰβομένη ² κάτω ³

mvp-comment-301-3 with

εἴβειν

, for Homer never says

κατὰ δάκρυα λείβειν

. Nothing is more natural than that

εἰβομένη

should have become

λειβομένη

in the MSS., the latter word being much the commoner.

mvp-comment-301-4 κάτω ⁴

mvp-comment-302-1 νεφέλη δ’ ὀφρύων ὕπερ ⁵

mvp-comment-302-2 αἱματόεν ⁶

mvp-comment-302-3 ῥέθος ⁷

mvp-comment-302-4 αἰσχύνει ⁸

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

526-530. mvp-comment-308-1 Here comes Ismene forth, shedding sisterly tears; from clouds above her brow, that moisten her fair cheek, doing disgrace unto her flushed countenance. Cp. Sh Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream, 1. 1, Lys. Why is your cheek so pale? | How chance the roses there do fade so fast? | Herm. Belike, for want of rain, which I could well | Beteem them from the tempest of mine eyes. Ant. and Cleo. 3. 2. 52. Il. 17. 591, ἄχεος νεφέλη: Eur. Hipp. 173, ὀφρύων νέφος: Aesch. Prom. 144-145, ὀμίχλα .. πλήρης δακρύων.

527. mvp-comment-309-1 δάκρυ᾽ εἰβομένη is the Triclinian reading for δάκρυα λειβόμενα. δάκρυ λειβομένη has been conjectured. But the construction, with φιλάδελφα adverbial, is less simple and therefore less pathetic. δάκρυα εἰβομένη is read in M³.

529. mvp-comment-310-1 ῥέθος Eur. Η. F. 1204, πάρες ἀπ᾿ ὀμμάτων | πέπλον . . ῥέθος ἀελίῳ δεῖξον.

Sophocles Antigone 100

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Chorus

526 Lo, yonder Ismene comes forth, shedding such tears as fond sisters weep; a cloud upon her brow casts 530 its shadow over her darkly-flushing face, and breaks in rain on her fair cheek.

Current edition Experimental

ANTIGONE

Nicht Knecht ja, sondern Bruder ihm, fand er den Tod.

CORO

526 Ya en la puerta tienes a Ismena derramando lágrimas de amor por su hermana; la nube de dolor que le oprime los ojos ensombrece su encendida cara, bañándole las hermosas mejillas.

Chorus

526 Sed ecce pro foribus Ismena, sororis ob desiderium fundens lacrimas, nube vero frontem obducta, amabilem deformat vultum, venustas irrigans genas.

CH
526

Now comes Ismenè forth. Ah, see,

From clouds above her brow

The sister-loving tear

Is falling wet on her fair cheek,

Distaining all her passion-crimson’d face!
530

Ismene

I do acknowledge it, if she permit me ;
540

I w^as accomplice, and the crime was mine.

ANTÍGONA

Plutón, sin embargo, pide iguales ritos para todos.

KREON

Ja! du! die du drin hokst, daheim, wie Schlangen,

Geborgen und mich aussaugst! hat nicht einer mir

Berichtet, dafsich zwei Einbildungen hab’anmir

Und Feinde des Throns? geh, sage, hast du mitgemacht
555

Am Grabe, oder hast du’s mit der Unschuld?

Haemon

To lord it o'er his rulers, shall from me T

Chorus

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

with a mass of weapons and crested helmets.
115

Chorus

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

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

Chorus

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

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

Commentary

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Chorus 526 Lo, yonder Ismene comes forth, shedding such tears as fond sisters weep; a cloud upon her brow casts 530 its shadow over her darkly-flushing face, and breaks in rain on her fair cheek.

Current edition Experimental

ANTIGONE Nicht Knecht ja, sondern Bruder ihm, fand er den Tod.

CORO 526 Ya en la puerta tienes a Ismena derramando lágrimas de amor por su hermana; la nube de dolor que le oprime los ojos ensombrece su encendida cara, bañándole las hermosas mejillas.

Chorus 526 Sed ecce pro foribus Ismena, sororis ob desiderium fundens lacrimas, nube vero frontem obducta, amabilem deformat vultum, venustas irrigans genas.

CH 526 Now comes Ismenè forth. Ah, see, From clouds above her brow The sister-loving tear Is falling wet on her fair cheek, Distaining all her passion-crimson’d face! 530

Ismene I do acknowledge it, if she permit me ; 540 I w^as accomplice, and the crime was mine.

ANTÍGONA Plutón, sin embargo, pide iguales ritos para todos.

KREON Ja! du! die du drin hokst, daheim, wie Schlangen, Geborgen und mich aussaugst! hat nicht einer mir Berichtet, dafsich zwei Einbildungen hab’anmir Und Feinde des Throns? geh, sage, hast du mitgemacht 555 Am Grabe, oder hast du’s mit der Unschuld?

Haemon To lord it o'er his rulers, shall from me T

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

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

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

Commentary

Stable identifiers

Chorus

526 Lo, yonder Ismene comes forth, shedding such tears as fond sisters weep; a cloud upon her brow casts 530 its shadow over her darkly-flushing face, and breaks in rain on her fair cheek.

ANTIGONE

Nicht Knecht ja, sondern Bruder ihm, fand er den Tod.

CORO

526 Ya en la puerta tienes a Ismena derramando lágrimas de amor por su hermana; la nube de dolor que le oprime los ojos ensombrece su encendida cara, bañándole las hermosas mejillas.

Chorus

526 Sed ecce pro foribus Ismena, sororis ob desiderium fundens lacrimas, nube vero frontem obducta, amabilem deformat vultum, venustas irrigans genas.

CH
526

Now comes Ismenè forth. Ah, see,

From clouds above her brow

The sister-loving tear

Is falling wet on her fair cheek,

Distaining all her passion-crimson’d face!
530

Ismene

I do acknowledge it, if she permit me ;
540

I w^as accomplice, and the crime was mine.

ANTÍGONA

Plutón, sin embargo, pide iguales ritos para todos.

KREON

Ja! du! die du drin hokst, daheim, wie Schlangen,

Geborgen und mich aussaugst! hat nicht einer mir

Berichtet, dafsich zwei Einbildungen hab’anmir

Und Feinde des Throns? geh, sage, hast du mitgemacht
555

Am Grabe, oder hast du’s mit der Unschuld?

Haemon

To lord it o'er his rulers, shall from me T

Chorus

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

with a mass of weapons and crested helmets.
115

Chorus

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

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

Chorus

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

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