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Creon

Enough, enough of thee and of thy marriage!

Antigone. Sophocles. Cambridge, UK. 1904.

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Funding provided by Tufts University.

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)) — 130 focus

χρυσοῦ, καναχῆς, ὑπεροπτείας ¹,

130

Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 130 focus

ἐπ’ ἄκρων ἤδη

130

Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 130 focus

χρυσοῦ καναχῆς ὑπεροπλίαις,

130

Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879)) — 130 focus

χρυσοῦ καναχῆς ὑπερόπτης,

130

Greek (A. Colonna, 1978) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Colonna, 1978)) — 130 focus

χρυσοῦ καναχῆς ὑπεροπλίαις.

130

Greek (A. Dain, 1955) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Dain, 1955)) — 130.mvp-line-130 focus

χρυσοῦ καναχῆς ὑπεροπλίαις,

130

Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979)) — 130 focus

χρυσοῦ καναχῆς ὑπεροπλίαις,

130

Greek (G. Hermann, 1830) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (G. Hermann, 1830)) — 130 focus

χρυσοῦ καναχῆς ὑπερόπτας,

130

Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906)) — 130 focus

χρυσοῦ καναχῆς ὑπεροπλίαις,

130

Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924)) — 130.mvp-line-129 focus

πολλῷ ῥεύματι προσνισομένους,

130

χρυσοῦ καναχῆς ὑπερόπτας,

130

Antigone (OCR draft) Experimental (Antigone) — 130 focus

χρυσοῦ καναχῆς ὑπεροπλίαις,

130

Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949)) — 130 focus

χρυσοῦ καναχῆς ὑπεροπλίαις,

130

Translations (10)

German (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 130 focus

KREON

Von dir gewiſs, als Böses du mit Bösen thatst!

Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921)) — 130 focus

CREONTE

Demasiado me molestais ya tú y tus bodas.

Latin (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Latin (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 130 focus

Creon

Odiosa es tuque tuusque tinnitus.

English (Lewis Campbell, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Lewis Campbell, 1906)) — 130 focus

CR

Thou and thy marriage are a torment to me.

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

Denn schwer haßt Zeus der vermessenen Zung'

Hochfahrenden Stolz; und als er ihr Heer,

Den heranwogenden Strom, schimmernd in Gold,

Im Geräusch unbändigen Trozes ersah,
130

Da traf er den Mann mit geschwungenem Strahl,¹

Der schon an die Höh'n,

Siegsruf anstimmend, empordrang.

Zweite Strophe.

English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759)) — 130 focus

Ismene

She then must perish ?
575

Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889)) — 130 focus

CREONTE

No me vuelvas á decir... ella, porque ella ya no existe.

German (F. Hölderlin, 1804) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (F. Hölderlin, 1804)) — 130 focus

KREON

Die Höll’ ist da, derlei Zuwachs zu scheiden.

English (Robert Potter, 1788) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Robert Potter, 1788)) — 130 focus

Chorus
STRO. ANTIS. 781

O Love, resistless in thy might,

Triumphant o'er the pow'r of gold,

In youth's soft cheek with beauty bright

Joying thy sweet domain to hold,

Thou rulest o'er th' extended main,

791

The rural hut, the pastoral plain;

Thy pow'r th' immortal gods obey,

And mortal men confess thy sway

But all, who feel thy piercing darts,

801

Feel madness rankling in their hearts.

By thee the virtuous mind beguil'd

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-79-1 χρυσοῦ καναχῆς ὑπεροπλίαις ¹

mvp-comment-79-2

μέγας

. In post-Homeric poetry

ὑπέροπλος

is a freq. epith. of overweening strength (

ἠνορέη, βίη, ἥβη

, etc.).—Other readings are:—(1)

χρυσοῦ καναχῇ θ’ ὑπερόπτας

, ‘and haughty in the clang of gold.’ This involves an improbable change; the subst.

ὑπερόπτης

, too, is unsuitable here, and cannot be defended by Theocr. 22. 58

πρὸς πάντα παλίγκοτος ἠδ’ ὑπερόπτης

. Wecklein, reading

ὑπερόπτας

, keeps

καναχῆς

in the sense, hoffärtig auf: but a genit. after

ὑπερόπτης

could not denote that in which one takes pride. (2)

χρυσοῦ καναχῆς ὑπερόπτης

, or

‐όπτα

, i.e., ‘Zeus, a despiser of the clang of gold.’ (3)

χρυσοῦ καναχῆς ὑπέροπτα

, adv. neut. plur. (as O. T. 883 ), ‘advancing haughtily in a great stream of clanging gold.’ But the adv. comes weakly at the end, and

χρυσοῦ κ

. is harshly joined with

π. ῥεύματι

.—Aesch. , too, gives prominence to gold in picturing the Argive chiefs: Capaneus has golden letters on his shield ( Aesch. Th. 434 ), Polyneices has the image of a warrior in golden armour, with a golden legend (644, Aesch. Th. 660 ).

mvp-comment-79-3 καναχῆς ²

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

130. mvp-comment-78-1 χρυσοῦ καναχῆς ὑπερόπτης] Despiser of the clank of gold. Cp. Aesch. Agam. 776, τὰ χρυσόπαστα δ᾽ ἐσθλὰ σὺν πίνῳ χερῶν | παλιντρόποις ὄμμασιν | λιπούσ', ὅσια προσέβα: S. c. T. 481-485. The Scholiast, who wrote καὶ τὴν τοῦ χρυσοῦ φαντασίαν ὑπερβεβηκότας τῇ ἰδίᾳ ὑπεροψίᾳ, seems to have read ὑπερόπτας, which appears in the margin of some copies. The ὑπεροψία of his interpretation may have given rise to ὑπεροπτίας, as in conjunction with this it has suggested ὑπεροπλίαις, (Vauvillers, who compares II. 1. 205). Musgr. and Böckh are contented with ὑπεροπτείας, abstr. noun of ὑπερόπτης, gen. with ῥεύματι, In floods of supercilious pride.

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Creon

Enough, enough of thee and of thy marriage!

Current edition Experimental

KREON

Von dir gewiſs, als Böses du mit Bösen thatst!

CREONTE

Demasiado me molestais ya tú y tus bodas.

Creon

Odiosa es tuque tuusque tinnitus.

CR

Thou and thy marriage are a torment to me.

Ismene

She then must perish ?
575

CREONTE

No me vuelvas á decir... ella, porque ella ya no existe.

KREON

Die Höll’ ist da, derlei Zuwachs zu scheiden.

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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Creon Enough, enough of thee and of thy marriage!

Current edition Experimental

KREON Von dir gewiſs, als Böses du mit Bösen thatst!

CREONTE Demasiado me molestais ya tú y tus bodas.

Creon Odiosa es tuque tuusque tinnitus.

CR Thou and thy marriage are a torment to me.

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

Ismene She then must perish ? 575

CREONTE No me vuelvas á decir... ella, porque ella ya no existe.

KREON Die Höll’ ist da, derlei Zuwachs zu scheiden.

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

Creon

Enough, enough of thee and of thy marriage!

KREON

Von dir gewiſs, als Böses du mit Bösen thatst!

CREONTE

Demasiado me molestais ya tú y tus bodas.

Creon

Odiosa es tuque tuusque tinnitus.

CR

Thou and thy marriage are a torment to me.

Ismene

She then must perish ?
575

CREONTE

No me vuelvas á decir... ella, porque ella ya no existe.

KREON

Die Höll’ ist da, derlei Zuwachs zu scheiden.

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