ἄγων ἔρημος ἔνθ᾽ ἂν ᾖ βροτῶν στίβος
Antigone. Sophocles. Cambridge, UK. 1906.
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Current edition Experimental
Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906) (OCR draft) (Greek) (Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906))
Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.
Editions (11)
Greek (L. Benloew, 1858) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (L. Benloew, 1858)) — 773 focus
ὅπως μίασμα πᾶσ᾽ ὑπεκφύγῃ πόλις.
Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 773 focus
τὸν παγκοίταν ὅθ᾽ ὁρῶ θάλαμον
Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 773 focus
Ἔρως, ὃς οὐ κτήμασι πίπτεις,
Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879)) — 773 focus
ἄγων ἔρημος ἔνθ᾽ ἂν ᾖ βροτῶν στίβος
Greek (A. Colonna, 1978) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Colonna, 1978)) — 773 focus
ἄγων ἔρημος ἔνθ᾽ ἂν ᾖ βροτῶν στίβος,
Greek (A. Dain, 1955) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Dain, 1955)) — 773.mvp-line-766 focus
ἄγων ἔρημος ἔνθ’ ἂν ᾖ βροτῶν στίβος,
Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979)) — 773 focus
ἄγων ἔρημος ἔνθ᾽ ἂν ἦι βροτῶν στίβος
Greek (G. Hermann, 1830) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (G. Hermann, 1830)) — 773 focus
κἀκεῖ τὸν Ἅιδην, ὃν μόνον σέβει θεῶν,
Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924)) — 773.mvp-line-766 focus
ἄγων ἐρῆμος ἔνθ᾽ ἂν ᾖ βροτῶν στίβος
Antigone (OCR draft) Experimental (Antigone) — 773 focus
ἄγων ἔρημος ἔνθʼ ἂν ᾖ βροτῶν στίβος
Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949)) — 773 focus
ἄγων ἔρημος ἔνθ᾽ ἂν ἦι βροτῶν στίβος
Translations (2)
German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review)) — 781 focus
Eros, Allsieger im Kampf!
775
Du, der bestürmt, wen er bezwungen,
Der Nachts auf schlummernder Jungfrau'n
Zartblühenden Wangen webet:
Hin über's Meer schweisst du, besuchst
Hirtliche Wohnstätten;
780
Und kein ewiger Gott kann dir entrinnen,
Kein sterblicher Mensch, des Tages Sohn;
Und ergriffen rast er.
Erste Gegenstrophe.
Eros, Allsieger im Kampf!
775
Du, der bestürmt, wen er bezwungen,
Der Nachts auf schlummernder Jungfrau'n
Zartblühenden Wangen webet:
Hin über's Meer schweisst du, besuchst
Hirtliche Wohnstätten;
780
Und kein ewiger Gott kann dir entrinnen,
Kein sterblicher Mensch, des Tages Sohn;
Und ergriffen rast er.
English (Sir Richard Jebb2, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb2, 1904)) — 781-805 focus
Chorus
Love, the unconquered in battle, Love, you who descend upon riches, and watch the night through on a girl’s soft cheek,
you roam over the sea and among the homes of men in the wilds. Neither can any immortal escape you,
785
nor any man whose life lasts for a day. He who has known you is driven to madness.
790
Love, the unconquered in battle, Love, you who descend upon riches, and watch the night through on a girl’s soft cheek,
you roam over the sea and among the homes of men in the wilds. Neither can any immortal escape you,
785
nor any man whose life lasts for a day. He who has known you is driven to madness.
790
Chorus
You seize the minds of just men and drag them to injustice, to their ruin. You it is who have incited this conflict of men whose flesh and blood are one.
But victory belongs to radiant Desire swelling from the eyes of the sweet-bedded bride. Desire sits enthroned in power beside the mighty laws.
795
For in all this divine Aphrodite plays her irresistible game.
800
You seize the minds of just men and drag them to injustice, to their ruin. You it is who have incited this conflict of men whose flesh and blood are one.
But victory belongs to radiant Desire swelling from the eyes of the sweet-bedded bride. Desire sits enthroned in power beside the mighty laws.
795
For in all this divine Aphrodite plays her irresistible game.
800
Enter Antigone under guard from the palace.
Chorus
But now, witnessing this, I too am carried beyond the bounds of loyalty. The power fails me to keep back my streaming tears any longer, when I see Antigone making her way to the chamber where all are laid to rest,
now her bridal chamber.
805
But now, witnessing this, I too am carried beyond the bounds of loyalty. The power fails me to keep back my streaming tears any longer, when I see Antigone making her way to the chamber where all are laid to rest,
now her bridal chamber.
805
Commentary
Commentary (R. C. Jebb) (OCR draft) (Commentary (R. C. Jebb))
mvp-comment-250-1 μῆκος 1
Commentary (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) (Commentary (Lewis Campbell, 1879)) focus
446. mvp-comment-256-1 μήκος Adverbial, cp. O. С. 92, κέρδη μὲν οἰκήσαντα τοῖς δεδεγμένοις.
446. mvp-comment-256-2 'Tell us, no long tale, but briefly, knew you of the edict that forbade this deed? I knew; 'twas plain enough. How could I fail to know? And were you, then, so hardy as to transgress our law? That edict came not to me from the mouth of Zeus, nor from the Right, whose throne is with the Gods below. They also have appointed unto men a law. Methought your edict could not so prevail, as that a mortal should overleap the silent irrefragable ordinances of heaven. Their life is not of to-day or yesterday. They are eternal. None knoweth of a time when they began. I feared not so the mind of any man, as to incur before the Gods the penalty of that law. I knew, forsooth, without your edict, that I was to die. And if I am to die before the time, I count it gain. For he must surely gain by death who lives, as I do, midst abounding woes. And so for me to meet this doom is a grief I reck not of. If I had borne to leave unburied the corpse, fallen in carnage, of my mother's son, that had been a grief to me, but this is no grief. And if I seem to you to be now doing foolishly, it comes to this;-I am condemned of folly by a fool.'