τὸ μαντικὸν γὰρ πᾶν φιλάργυρον γένος.
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Antigone. Sophocles. Cambridge, UK. 1906.
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Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906) (OCR draft) (Greek) (Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906))
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Editions (11)
Greek (L. Benloew, 1858) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (L. Benloew, 1858)) — 1055 focus
οὕτω γὰρ ἤδη καὶ δοκῶ, τὸ σὸν μέρος.
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Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 1055 focus
ἐλθὼν κόρην μὲν ἐκ κατώρυχος στέγης
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Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 1055 focus
θεοῖσιν, ἀλλ᾽ ἐκ σοῦ βιάζονται τάδε.
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Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879)) — 1055 focus
τὸ μαντικὸν γὰρ πᾶν φιλάργυρον γένος.
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Greek (A. Colonna, 1978) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Colonna, 1978)) — 1055 focus
τὸ μαντικὸν γὰρ πᾶν φιλάργυρον γένος.
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Greek (A. Dain, 1955) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Dain, 1955)) — 1055.mvp-line-1041 focus
τὸ μαντικὸν γὰρ πᾶν φιλάργυρον γένος.
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Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979)) — 1055 focus
τὸ μαντικὸν γὰρ πᾶν φιλάργυρον γένος.
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Greek (G. Hermann, 1830) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (G. Hermann, 1830)) — 1055 focus
ἀνθ᾽ ὧν ἔχεις μὲν τῶν ἄνω βαλὼν κάτω,
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Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924)) — 1055.mvp-line-1044 focus
τὸ μαντικὸν γὰρ πᾶν φιλάργυρον γένος.
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Antigone (OCR draft) Experimental (Antigone) — 1055 focus
τὸ μαντικὸν γὰρ πᾶν φιλάργυρον γένος.
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Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949)) — 1055 focus
τὸ μαντικὸν γὰρ πᾶν φιλάργυρον γένος.
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Translations (2)
German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review)) — 1064 focus
So wisse denn auch sicher, daß nicht viele mehr
Der raschen Sonnenkreise du vollenden wirst,
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Bis aus dem eignen Blute du den Leichnamen
Selbst einen Leichnam als Ersaz darbringen mußt,
Weil du, in Nacht verstoßend, was dem Licht gehört,
Ein Leben schmachvoll banntest in des Grabes Haus,
Hier oben aber, unbestattet, ungeweiht,
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Den Todesgöttern vorenthältst den todten Leib,
An dem ein Theil dir weder, noch den oberen
Gottheiten zukommt; ihnen zwingst du diesen auf.
Drum lauern unheilsinnend und verderbenschwer
Des Hades und der Götter Straferinnyen,
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Verstricken bald in gleiches Ungemach dich selbst.
Nun magst du sehen, ob ich als Bestochener
1
So spreche: zeigen wird es dir nach kurzer Frist
Der Frau'n, der Männer Klageruf in deinem Haus.
Und alle Städte raffen sich feindselig auf,
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Worin zeriss'ne Leichen hier ein Hund entweiht,
Raubthiere dort, ein raschbeschwingter Vogel hier,
Der nach der Heimat Herde trägt den Graungeruch.
Sieh, solche Pfeile sandt' ich (denn tief kränkst du mich!)
Im Zorne dir, dem Bogenschüzen gleich, in's Herz:
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Sie treffen tödtlich, ihrem Brand entrinnst du nicht!
Du, Knabe, führ' uns wiederum nach Haus zurück,
Daß der entlade seinen Zorn auf Jüngere,
Und seine Zunge zähmen lern' in klugem Rath,
Und weiser denken lerne, denn er jezo denkt.
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Kreon. Der Chor.
(ab mit dem Knaben.)
So wisse denn auch sicher, daß nicht viele mehr
Der raschen Sonnenkreise du vollenden wirst,
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Bis aus dem eignen Blute du den Leichnamen
Selbst einen Leichnam als Ersaz darbringen mußt,
Weil du, in Nacht verstoßend, was dem Licht gehört,
Ein Leben schmachvoll banntest in des Grabes Haus,
Hier oben aber, unbestattet, ungeweiht,
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Den Todesgöttern vorenthältst den todten Leib,
An dem ein Theil dir weder, noch den oberen
Gottheiten zukommt; ihnen zwingst du diesen auf.
Drum lauern unheilsinnend und verderbenschwer
Des Hades und der Götter Straferinnyen,
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Verstricken bald in gleiches Ungemach dich selbst.
Nun magst du sehen, ob ich als Bestochener
1
So spreche: zeigen wird es dir nach kurzer Frist
Der Frau'n, der Männer Klageruf in deinem Haus.
Und alle Städte raffen sich feindselig auf,
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Worin zeriss'ne Leichen hier ein Hund entweiht,
Raubthiere dort, ein raschbeschwingter Vogel hier,
Der nach der Heimat Herde trägt den Graungeruch.
Sieh, solche Pfeile sandt' ich (denn tief kränkst du mich!)
Im Zorne dir, dem Bogenschüzen gleich, in's Herz:
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Sie treffen tödtlich, ihrem Brand entrinnst du nicht!
Du, Knabe, führ' uns wiederum nach Haus zurück,
Daß der entlade seinen Zorn auf Jüngere,
Und seine Zunge zähmen lern' in klugem Rath,
Und weiser denken lerne, denn er jezo denkt.
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Der Chor.
English (Sir Richard Jebb2, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb2, 1904)) — 1115-1150 focus
Chorus
God of many names, glory of the Cadmeian bride and offspring of loud-thundering Zeus, you who watch over far-famed
Italy
and reign
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in the valleys of Eleusinian Deo where all find welcome! O Bacchus, denizen of
Thebes
, the mother-city of your Bacchants, dweller by the wet stream of Ismenus on the soil
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of the sowing of the savage dragon’s teeth!
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God of many names, glory of the Cadmeian bride and offspring of loud-thundering Zeus, you who watch over far-famed
Italy
and reign
1115
in the valleys of Eleusinian Deo where all find welcome! O Bacchus, denizen of
Thebes
, the mother-city of your Bacchants, dweller by the wet stream of Ismenus on the soil
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of the sowing of the savage dragon’s teeth!
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Chorus
The smoky glare of torches sees you above the cliffs of the twin peaks, where the Corycian nymphs move inspired by your godhead,
and Castalia’s stream sees you, too. The ivy-mantled slopes of
Nysa
’s hills and the shore green with many-clustered vines send you, when accompanied by the cries of your divine words,
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you visit the avenues of
Thebes
.
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The smoky glare of torches sees you above the cliffs of the twin peaks, where the Corycian nymphs move inspired by your godhead,
and Castalia’s stream sees you, too. The ivy-mantled slopes of
Nysa
’s hills and the shore green with many-clustered vines send you, when accompanied by the cries of your divine words,
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you visit the avenues of
Thebes
.
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Chorus
Thebes
of all cities you hold foremost in honor, together with your lightning-struck mother.
And now when the whole city is held subject to a violent plague, come, we ask, with purifying feet over steep
Parnassus
,
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or over the groaning straits!
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Thebes
of all cities you hold foremost in honor, together with your lightning-struck mother.
And now when the whole city is held subject to a violent plague, come, we ask, with purifying feet over steep
Parnassus
,
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or over the groaning straits!
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Chorus
O Leader of the chorus of the stars whose breath is fire, overseer of the chants in the night, son begotten of Zeus,
appear, my king, with your attendant Thyiads, who in night-long frenzy dance and sing you as Iacchus the Giver!
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O Leader of the chorus of the stars whose breath is fire, overseer of the chants in the night, son begotten of Zeus,
appear, my king, with your attendant Thyiads, who in night-long frenzy dance and sing you as Iacchus the Giver!
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Commentary
Commentary (R. C. Jebb) (OCR draft) (Commentary (R. C. Jebb))
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,
κακὰς γυναῖκας υἱέσι, 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, —
ὡς αἰεὶ τὸν ὁμοῖον ἄγει θεὸς ὡς τὸν ὁμοῖον. 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
τὸ σὸν λέχος 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 1
Commentary (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) (Commentary (Lewis Campbell, 1879)) focus
572. mvp-comment-339-1 *AN. The MSS. have ΙΣ. But Böckh has given strong reasons for following Aldus in assigning the line to Antigone. The last speech of Creon might well move her to break silence, which she does naturally by resenting the words not for herself, but for Haemon. There is also greater bitterness in this line than in any speech of Ismene. Then, granting that τὸ σὸν λέχος, addressed to Ismene, might mean The marriage you prate of, the words express a much deeper feeling as addressed to Antigone. Outwardly a mere expression of impatience, they convey the only touch of natural feeling which Creon betrays. 574 and 576 are then most naturally given to the chorus. The act of Creon in sacrificing his son's happiness is more solemnly marked when his words are addressed to the coryphaeus. While adhering to this view I am bound to add that some of the best critics prefer the other arrangement of the persons.