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Creon

What worse suffering is still to follow upon these sufferings?

Messenger

Your wife is dead, true mother of that corpse, poor lady, by wounds newly cut.

Antigone. Sophocles. Richard Jebb (Translator). Cambridge. 1891.

Funding provided by The Annenberg CPB/Project.

Current edition Experimental

Antigone (English) (Sophocles the plays and fragments, Part 3: The Antigone. Jebb, Richard Claverhouse, Sir, translator. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1891. (Modernized by Perseus.))

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Editions (12)

Greek (L. Benloew, 1858) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (L. Benloew, 1858)) — 1281 focus

τί δ᾽ ἔστιν αὖ κάκιον ἐκ κακῶν ἔτι;

Ἐξάγγελος

γυνὴ τέθνηκε, τοῦδε ¹ παμμήτωρ νεκροῦ,
1275

δύστηνος, ἄρτι νεοτόμοισι πλήγμασιν.

Κρέων

a

Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 1281 focus

Κρέων

τί δ᾽ ἔστιν αὖ κάκιον, ἢ κακῶν ἔτι;

Ἐξάγγελος

γυνὴ τέθνηκε, τοῦδε παμμήτωρ νεκροῦ,

δύστηνος, ἄρτι νεοτόμοισι πλήγμασιν.

Κρέων

1

ἰὼ
1225

Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 1281 focus

τί δ᾽ ἔστιν αὖ κάκιον ἐκ κακῶν ἔτι;

Ἐξάγγελος

γυνὴ τέθνηκε, τοῦδε παμμήτωρ νεκροῦ
1255

δύστηνος, ἄρτι νεοτόμοισι πλήγμασιν.

Κρέων

1

Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879)) — 1281 focus

τί δ᾽ ἔστιν αὖ κάκιον ἢ κακῶν ἔτι;

Ἐξάγγελος

γυνὴ τέθνηκε, τοῦδε παμμήτωρ νεκροῦ,

δύστηνος, ἄρτι νεοτόμοισι πλήγμασιν.

Κρέων
α

Greek (A. Colonna, 1978) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Colonna, 1978)) — 1281 focus

τί δ᾽ ἔστιν αὖ κάκιον ἐκ κακῶν ἔτι;

Ἐξάγγελος

γυνὴ τέθνηκεν, τοῦδε παμμήτωρ νεκροῦ,

δύστηνος, ἄρτι νεοτόμοισι πλήγμασιν.

Κρέων
1

Greek (A. Dain, 1955) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Dain, 1955)) — 1281 focus

τί δ’ ἔστιν αὖ κάκιον ἐκ κακῶν ἔτι;

Ἐξάγγελος

γυνὴ τέθνηκεν, τοῦδε παμμήτωρ νεκροῦ,

δύστηνος, ἄρτι νεοτόμοισι πλήγμασιν.

Κρέων
1

Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979)) — 1281 focus

τί δ᾽ ἔστιν αὖ κάκιον ἐκ κακῶν ἔτι;

Ἐξάγγελος

γυνὴ τέθνηκε, τοῦδε παμμήτωρ νεκροῦ,

δύστηνος ἄρτι νεοτόμοισι πλήγμασιν.

Κρέων
1

Greek (G. Hermann, 1830) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (G. Hermann, 1830)) — 1281 focus

τί δ᾽ ἔστιν αὖ κάκιον ἐκ κακῶν ἔτι;

Ἐξάγγελος

γυνὴ τέθνηκε, τοῦδε παμμήτωρ νεκροῦ,

δύστηνος, ἄρτι νεοτόμοισι πλήγμασιν.

Κρέων

1

Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906)) — 1281 focus

τί δ᾽ ἔστιν αὖ κάκιον ἐκ κακῶν ἔτι;

Ἐξάγγελος

γυνὴ τέθνηκε, τοῦδε παμμήτωρ νεκροῦ,

δύστηνος, ἄρτι νεοτόμοισι πλήγμασιν.

Κρέων
1

Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924)) — 1281 focus

τί δ᾽; ἔστιν αὖ κάκιον ἦ κακῶν ἔτι;

Ἐξάγγελος

γυνὴ τέθνηκε, τοῦδε παμμήτωρ νεκροῦ,

δύστηνος, ἄρτι νεοτόμοισι πλήγμασιν.

Κρέων

Antigone (OCR draft) Experimental (Antigone) — 1281 focus

Κρέων

τί δʼ ἔστιν αὖ κάκιον ἐκ κακῶν ἔτι;

Ἐξάγγελος

γυνὴ τέθνηκε, τοῦδε παμμήτωρ νεκροῦ,

δύστηνος, ἄρτι νεοτόμοισι πλήγμασιν.

Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949)) — 1281 focus

τί δ᾽ ἔστιν αὖ; κάκιον ἦ κακῶν ἔτι;

Ἄγγελος

γυνὴ τέθνηκε, τοῦδε παμμήτωρ νεκροῦ,

δύστηνος, ἄρτι νεοτόμοισι πλήγμασιν.

Κρέων

Translations (10)

German (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 1281 focus

KREON.

Was giebt es wieder Schlimmes? was ist noch mir schlimm?

HAUSDIENER.

Dein Weib erlag unselig, diesem Todten hier

ganz Mutter sie, von frisch geschlagner Wunden Streich.

KREON.
Gegenstr. 1.

O weh!
1225

Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921)) — 1281 focus

¿Qué hay, pues, peor que el mismo mal?

EL MENSAJERO

Tu mujer ha muerto; la infeliz, madre amantísima de ese cadáver, se acaba de inferir herida mortal.

CREONTE

Latin (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Latin (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 1281 focus

Quaenam alia calamitas hac maior denuo accedit?

Verna

Occidit uxor tua, vera mater huius mortui infelix, inflicto recens vulmere.

Creon

English (Lewis Campbell, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Lewis Campbell, 1906)) — 1281 focus

What more of woe,

Or what more woeful, sounds anew from thee?

2ND MESS

The honoured mother of that corse, thy queen,

Is dead, and bleeding with a new-given wound.

CR

German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review)) — 1281 focus

Was gibt es wieder? Schlimm'res als das Schlimme noch?

Der Diener.

Dein Weib, die treue Mutter dieses Todten hier,

Starb eben, ach! an frischgeschlagnen Wunden hin.

Erste Gegenstrophe.

Kreon.

English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759)) — 1281 focus

And can there be more woes? Is aught to

come

More horrible than this ?

Messenger

The queen is dead ;

Her wounds yet fresh. Eager, alas ! to show

A mother's love, she followed hfer lost child.

Creon

Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889)) — 1281 focus

¿Qué mayores desgracias puedo esperar aún que las que estoy sufriendo?

EL MENSAJERO

Tu esposa, la madre de ese hijo que lloras, ha muerto. ¡Infortunadal herida mortalmente, acaba de espirar.

Antistrofa 1.a

CREONTE

German (F. Hölderlin, 1804) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (F. Hölderlin, 1804)) — 1281 focus

KREON

Was ist denn schlimmer noch, als das, was schlimm ist?

BOTE

Die Frau ist todt; ganz Mutter dieses Todten.

Noch krümmt sie sich von neugeschlagnen Schlägen.

English (Sir Richard Jebb1, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb1, 1904)) — 1281 focus

Creon

And what worse ill is yet to follow upon ills?

Messenger

Thy queen hath died, true mother of yon corpse—ah, hapless lady !—by blows newly dealt. 1

Creon

English (Robert Potter, 1788) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Robert Potter, 1788)) — 1284 focus

These are my unblest counsels! Omy son,

My son! Untimely is thy fate, cut off

Commentary

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

mvp-comment-774-1 τί δ’ ἔστιν ¹ ἦ ²

mvp-comment-774-2 (2) Transposing αὖ ³ ἤ ⁴ ἦ ⁵

mvp-comment-774-3 (3) Canter gave,

τί δ’ ἔστιν αὖ κάκιον ἐκ κακῶν ἔτι

; The change of

ἐκ

ἢ

would have been peculiarly easy before initial

(KAKIONEKAKON for KAKIONEKKAKON). For ἐκ ⁶

mvp-comment-774-4 reading. The comparat. κάκιον ⁷

mvp-comment-775-1 παμμήτωρ ⁸

mvp-comment-775-2 νεοτόμ ⁹ ἄρτι ¹⁰

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

1281. mvp-comment-717-1 And what worse evil is there? or what more of evil?' Some would read τί δ᾽ ἔστιν; ἢ κάκιον αὖ κακῶν ἔτι;

1282. mvp-comment-718-1 παμμήτωρ The royal mother. For this use of παν in composition, see Essay on Language § 55. p. 101; and cp. O. Τ. 930, παντελὴς δάμαρ.

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Creon What worse suffering is still to follow upon these sufferings?

Messenger Your wife is dead, true mother of that corpse, poor lady, by wounds newly cut.

Current edition Experimental

τί δ᾽ ἔστιν αὖ κάκιον ἐκ κακῶν ἔτι;

Ἐξάγγελος γυνὴ τέθνηκε, τοῦδε 1 παμμήτωρ νεκροῦ, 1275 δύστηνος, ἄρτι νεοτόμοισι πλήγμασιν.

Κρέων a

Κρέων τί δ᾽ ἔστιν αὖ κάκιον, ἢ κακῶν ἔτι;

Ἐξάγγελος γυνὴ τέθνηκε, τοῦδε παμμήτωρ νεκροῦ, δύστηνος, ἄρτι νεοτόμοισι πλήγμασιν.

Κρέων 1 ἰὼ 1225

τί δ᾽ ἔστιν αὖ κάκιον ἐκ κακῶν ἔτι;

Ἐξάγγελος γυνὴ τέθνηκε, τοῦδε παμμήτωρ νεκροῦ 1255 δύστηνος, ἄρτι νεοτόμοισι πλήγμασιν.

Κρέων 1

τί δ᾽ ἔστιν αὖ κάκιον ἢ κακῶν ἔτι;

Ἐξάγγελος γυνὴ τέθνηκε, τοῦδε παμμήτωρ νεκροῦ, δύστηνος, ἄρτι νεοτόμοισι πλήγμασιν.

Κρέων α

τί δ᾽ ἔστιν αὖ κάκιον ἐκ κακῶν ἔτι;

Ἐξάγγελος γυνὴ τέθνηκεν, τοῦδε παμμήτωρ νεκροῦ, δύστηνος, ἄρτι νεοτόμοισι πλήγμασιν.

Κρέων 1

τί δ’ ἔστιν αὖ κάκιον ἐκ κακῶν ἔτι;

Ἐξάγγελος γυνὴ τέθνηκεν, τοῦδε παμμήτωρ νεκροῦ, δύστηνος, ἄρτι νεοτόμοισι πλήγμασιν.

Κρέων 1

τί δ᾽ ἔστιν αὖ κάκιον ἐκ κακῶν ἔτι;

Ἐξάγγελος γυνὴ τέθνηκε, τοῦδε παμμήτωρ νεκροῦ, δύστηνος ἄρτι νεοτόμοισι πλήγμασιν.

Κρέων 1

τί δ᾽ ἔστιν αὖ κάκιον ἐκ κακῶν ἔτι;

Ἐξάγγελος γυνὴ τέθνηκε, τοῦδε παμμήτωρ νεκροῦ, δύστηνος, ἄρτι νεοτόμοισι πλήγμασιν.

Κρέων 1

τί δ᾽ ἔστιν αὖ κάκιον ἐκ κακῶν ἔτι;

Ἐξάγγελος γυνὴ τέθνηκε, τοῦδε παμμήτωρ νεκροῦ, δύστηνος, ἄρτι νεοτόμοισι πλήγμασιν.

Κρέων 1

τί δ᾽; ἔστιν αὖ κάκιον ἦ κακῶν ἔτι;

Ἐξάγγελος γυνὴ τέθνηκε, τοῦδε παμμήτωρ νεκροῦ, δύστηνος, ἄρτι νεοτόμοισι πλήγμασιν.

Κρέων

Κρέων τί δʼ ἔστιν αὖ κάκιον ἐκ κακῶν ἔτι;

Ἐξάγγελος γυνὴ τέθνηκε, τοῦδε παμμήτωρ νεκροῦ, δύστηνος, ἄρτι νεοτόμοισι πλήγμασιν.

τί δ᾽ ἔστιν αὖ; κάκιον ἦ κακῶν ἔτι;

Ἄγγελος γυνὴ τέθνηκε, τοῦδε παμμήτωρ νεκροῦ, δύστηνος, ἄρτι νεοτόμοισι πλήγμασιν.

Κρέων

KREON. Was giebt es wieder Schlimmes? was ist noch mir schlimm?

HAUSDIENER. Dein Weib erlag unselig, diesem Todten hier ganz Mutter sie, von frisch geschlagner Wunden Streich.

KREON. Gegenstr. 1. O weh! 1225

EL MENSAJERO Tu mujer ha muerto; la infeliz, madre amantísima de ese cadáver, se acaba de inferir herida mortal.

CREONTE

Verna Occidit uxor tua, vera mater huius mortui infelix, inflicto recens vulmere.

Creon

What more of woe, Or what more woeful, sounds anew from thee?

2ND MESS The honoured mother of that corse, thy queen, Is dead, and bleeding with a new-given wound.

CR

Was gibt es wieder? Schlimm'res als das Schlimme noch?

Der Diener. Dein Weib, die treue Mutter dieses Todten hier, Starb eben, ach! an frischgeschlagnen Wunden hin. Erste Gegenstrophe.

Kreon.

And can there be more woes? Is aught to come More horrible than this ?

Messenger The queen is dead ; Her wounds yet fresh. Eager, alas ! to show A mother's love, she followed hfer lost child.

Creon

EL MENSAJERO Tu esposa, la madre de ese hijo que lloras, ha muerto. ¡Infortunadal herida mortalmente, acaba de espirar.

Antistrofa 1.a

CREONTE

KREON Was ist denn schlimmer noch, als das, was schlimm ist?

BOTE Die Frau ist todt; ganz Mutter dieses Todten. Noch krümmt sie sich von neugeschlagnen Schlägen.

Creon And what worse ill is yet to follow upon ills?

Messenger Thy queen hath died, true mother of yon corpse—ah, hapless lady !—by blows newly dealt. 1

Creon

These are my unblest counsels! Omy son, My son! Untimely is thy fate, cut off

Commentary

Stable identifiers

Creon

What worse suffering is still to follow upon these sufferings?

Messenger

Your wife is dead, true mother of that corpse, poor lady, by wounds newly cut.

Ἐξάγγελος

γυνὴ τέθνηκε, τοῦδε ¹ παμμήτωρ νεκροῦ,
1275

δύστηνος, ἄρτι νεοτόμοισι πλήγμασιν.

Κρέων

a

Κρέων

τί δ᾽ ἔστιν αὖ κάκιον, ἢ κακῶν ἔτι;

Ἐξάγγελος

γυνὴ τέθνηκε, τοῦδε παμμήτωρ νεκροῦ,

δύστηνος, ἄρτι νεοτόμοισι πλήγμασιν.

Κρέων

1

ἰὼ
1225

Ἐξάγγελος

γυνὴ τέθνηκε, τοῦδε παμμήτωρ νεκροῦ
1255

δύστηνος, ἄρτι νεοτόμοισι πλήγμασιν.

Κρέων

1

Ἐξάγγελος

γυνὴ τέθνηκε, τοῦδε παμμήτωρ νεκροῦ,

δύστηνος, ἄρτι νεοτόμοισι πλήγμασιν.

Κρέων
α

Ἐξάγγελος

γυνὴ τέθνηκεν, τοῦδε παμμήτωρ νεκροῦ,

δύστηνος, ἄρτι νεοτόμοισι πλήγμασιν.

Κρέων
1

Ἐξάγγελος

γυνὴ τέθνηκεν, τοῦδε παμμήτωρ νεκροῦ,

δύστηνος, ἄρτι νεοτόμοισι πλήγμασιν.

Κρέων
1

Ἐξάγγελος

γυνὴ τέθνηκε, τοῦδε παμμήτωρ νεκροῦ,

δύστηνος ἄρτι νεοτόμοισι πλήγμασιν.

Κρέων
1

Ἐξάγγελος

γυνὴ τέθνηκε, τοῦδε παμμήτωρ νεκροῦ,

δύστηνος, ἄρτι νεοτόμοισι πλήγμασιν.

Κρέων

1

Ἐξάγγελος

γυνὴ τέθνηκε, τοῦδε παμμήτωρ νεκροῦ,

δύστηνος, ἄρτι νεοτόμοισι πλήγμασιν.

Κρέων
1

Ἐξάγγελος

γυνὴ τέθνηκε, τοῦδε παμμήτωρ νεκροῦ,

δύστηνος, ἄρτι νεοτόμοισι πλήγμασιν.

Κρέων

τί δʼ ἔστιν αὖ κάκιον ἐκ κακῶν ἔτι;

Ἐξάγγελος

γυνὴ τέθνηκε, τοῦδε παμμήτωρ νεκροῦ,

δύστηνος, ἄρτι νεοτόμοισι πλήγμασιν.

Ἄγγελος

γυνὴ τέθνηκε, τοῦδε παμμήτωρ νεκροῦ,

δύστηνος, ἄρτι νεοτόμοισι πλήγμασιν.

KREON.

Was giebt es wieder Schlimmes? was ist noch mir schlimm?

HAUSDIENER.

Dein Weib erlag unselig, diesem Todten hier

ganz Mutter sie, von frisch geschlagner Wunden Streich.

KREON.
Gegenstr. 1.

O weh!
1225

EL MENSAJERO

Tu mujer ha muerto; la infeliz, madre amantísima de ese cadáver, se acaba de inferir herida mortal.

Verna

Occidit uxor tua, vera mater huius mortui infelix, inflicto recens vulmere.

What more of woe,

Or what more woeful, sounds anew from thee?

2ND MESS

The honoured mother of that corse, thy queen,

Is dead, and bleeding with a new-given wound.

Der Diener.

Dein Weib, die treue Mutter dieses Todten hier,

Starb eben, ach! an frischgeschlagnen Wunden hin.

Erste Gegenstrophe.

And can there be more woes? Is aught to

come

More horrible than this ?

Messenger

The queen is dead ;

Her wounds yet fresh. Eager, alas ! to show

A mother's love, she followed hfer lost child.

EL MENSAJERO

Tu esposa, la madre de ese hijo que lloras, ha muerto. ¡Infortunadal herida mortalmente, acaba de espirar.

KREON

Was ist denn schlimmer noch, als das, was schlimm ist?

BOTE

Die Frau ist todt; ganz Mutter dieses Todten.

Noch krümmt sie sich von neugeschlagnen Schlägen.

Creon

And what worse ill is yet to follow upon ills?

Messenger

Thy queen hath died, true mother of yon corpse—ah, hapless lady !—by blows newly dealt. 1

These are my unblest counsels! Omy son,

My son! Untimely is thy fate, cut off