Sophocles Antigone 265

καὶ πῦρ διέρπειν, καὶ θεοὺς ὁρκωμοτεῖν
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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)) — 265 focus
τὸ μήτε δρᾶσαι, μήτε τῳ ξυνειδέναι
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Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 265 focus
λέγει τις εἷς, ὃς πάντας ἐς πέδον κάρα
265
Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 265 focus
τὸ πρᾶγμα βουλεύσαντι, μήτ᾽ εἰργασμένῳ.
265
Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879)) — 265 focus
καὶ πῦρ διέρπειν, καὶ θεοὺς ὁρκωμοτεῖν
265
Greek (A. Colonna, 1978) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Colonna, 1978)) — 265 focus
καὶ πῦρ διέρπειν, καὶ θεοὺς ὁρκωμοτεῖν
265
Greek (A. Dain, 1955) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Dain, 1955)) — 265.mvp-line-265 focus
καὶ πῦρ διέρπειν, καὶ θεοὺς ὁρκωμοτεῖν
265
Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979)) — 265 focus
καὶ πῦρ διέρπειν, καὶ θεοὺς ὁρκωμοτεῖν
265
Greek (G. Hermann, 1830) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (G. Hermann, 1830)) — 265 focus
καὶ πῦρ διέρπειν, καὶ θεοὺς ὁρκωμοτεῖν,
265
Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924)) — 265.mvp-line-265 focus
καὶ πῦρ διέρπειν, καὶ θεοὺς ὁρκωμοτεῖν
265
Antigone (OCR draft) Experimental (Antigone) — 265 focus
καὶ πῦρ διέρπειν καὶ θεοὺς ὁρκωμοτεῖν,
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Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949)) — 265 focus
καὶ πῦρ διέρπειν καὶ θεοὺς ὁρκωμοτεῖν,
265
Translations (10)
German (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 265 focus
HAUSDIENER.
(tritt auf)
O Herr, wie einer, der so recht im Erbbesitz
der Übel wäre, trägst du dieses hier im Arm,
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und kommst, im Hause gleich zu schaun das andere.
Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921)) — 265 focus
EL MENSAJERO
Como que fuiste acusado por la difunta de tener tú la culpa de la muerte de ella y de la de aquél.
Latin (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Latin (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 265 focus
Creon
Quomodo autem, ut clarius mihi dicas, vita soluta est?
English (Lewis Campbell, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Lewis Campbell, 1906)) — 265 focus
CH
Thou sayest the best, if there be best in woe.
Briefest is happiest in calamity.
German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review)) — 278 focus
Schon lang, o König, überlegt mein Inneres,
Ob eine Gottheit diese That nicht angeregt.
English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759)) — 265 focus
Messenger
She accused thee oft.
1315
And said the guilt of both their deaths was thine,
Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889)) — 265 focus
EL CORO
No sé... pero lo mismo el dolor mudo que el que estalla en gritos violentos, me parecen de funesto augurio.
German (F. Hölderlin, 1804) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (F. Hölderlin, 1804)) — 265 focus
CHOR
Ist Vortheil noch im Unglük, trifst du Vortheil;
Denn kurz ist vor den Fülsen grofses Uebel
English (Sir Richard Jebb1, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb1, 1904)) — 265 focus
Messenger
Her own hand struck her to the heart, when she had learned her son’s sorely lamented fate. 4
English (Sir Richard Jebb2, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb2, 1904)) — 332-380 focus

Commentary

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

mvp-comment-144-1 πῦρ διέρπειν 1

mvp-comment-144-2 θεοὺς ὁρκ. 3

mvp-comment-144-3 τὸ μήτε δρ 4

mvp-comment-144-4 μήτ’ είργασμένῳ 5 μηδ 6

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

223-330. mvp-comment-136-1 The half-comic or rustic character of the watchman in this play is an extension of the common character of the messenger, whose natural rudeness of speech and thought brings into greater prominence the horror or pathos of the events he describes. The grotesqueness disappears when he speaks of the action of Antigone in 407-440. The employment of this artifice by Sophocles arises from the same motive to which Shakespeare gave a far wider range in such creations as the gravediggers in Hamlet, and the rural fellow in Antony and Cleopatra. The Messenger in the Trachiniae, the Corinthian in the Oedipus Tyrannus, Menelaus in the Ajax, the pretended Shipmaster in the Philoctetes, afford the same sort of contrast to the more tragic personages: and the superstition of the Coloniatae may be compared with the cowardice of the Phrygian slave in the Orestes of Euripides.

223-330. mvp-comment-136-2 The vulgarity of the common-place Athenian of the fifth century в.с. takes the form of misplaced subtlety of wit. Cp. Shak. Hamlet, 5. 1 ,

We must speak by the card, or equivocation will undo us. The age is grown so picked, that the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier, he galls his kibe.