Creon
441
Thou—thou whose face is bent to earth—dost thou avow, or disavow, this deed ?
Antigone. Sophocles. Cambridge, UK. 1904.
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Antigone. Sophocles. Cambridge, UK. 1904.
Sponsored by Perseus Project, Tufts University.
Funding provided by Tufts University.
English (Sir Richard Jebb1, 1904) (OCR draft) (English) (English (Sir Richard Jebb1, 1904))
Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.
mvp-comment-246-1 σὲ δή, 1
441. mvp-comment-253-1 For σὲ δή, sc. λέγω, cp. Aesch. Prom. 944, σὲ τὸν σοφιστήν, κ.τ.λ.: Soph. El. 1445, σε τοι, σὲ κρίνω, κ.τ.λ.: Eur. Hel. 546. And for ἐς πέδον κάρα νεύειν, cp. supr. 269.
441. mvp-comment-253-2 Creon misinterprets the action of Antigone. She fixes her eyes upon the ground, not from fear or shame, but because she is out of sympathy with all present, and her thoughts are in the other world. The hidden fire flashes out in ll. 450, foll., which are certainly not spoken with averted eyes. Cp. Ο. Τ. 1121.