Sophocles Antigone 872

Richard Jebb (Translator)

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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)) — 872 focus
σέβειν 1 μὲν, εὐσέβειά τις·
κράτος δ᾽, ὅτῳ κράτος μέλει,
παραβατὸν οὐδαμῇ πέλει·
σὲ δ᾽ αὐτόγνωτος ὥλεσ᾽ ὀργά.
870
Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 872 focus
Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 872 focus
σέβειν νὶν, εὐσέβειά τις·
κράτος δ᾽, ὅτῳ κράτος μέλει,
παραβατὸν οὐδαμῇ πέλει.
σὲ δ᾽ αὐτόγνωτος ὤλεσ᾽ ὀργά.
860
Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879)) — 872 focus
σέβειν μὲν εὐσέβειά τις,
κράτος δ᾽ ὅτῳ κράτος μέλει
παραβατὸν οὐδαμῆ πέλει·
σὲ δ᾽ αὐτόγνωτος ὤλεσ᾽ ὀργά.
875
Greek (A. Colonna, 1978) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Colonna, 1978)) — 872 focus
σέβειν μὲν εὐσέβειά τις,
κράτος δ᾽ ὅτῳ κράτος μέλει
παραβατὸν οὐδαμᾷ πέλει,
σὲ δ᾽ αὐτόγνωτος ὤλεσ᾽ ὀργά.
875
Greek (A. Dain, 1955) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Dain, 1955)) — 872 focus
σέβειν μὲν εὐσέβειά τις,
κράτος δ’ ὅτῳ κράτος μέλει
παραβατὸν οὐδαμᾷ πέλει,
σὲ δ’ αὐτόγνωτος ὤλεσ’ ὀργά.
875
Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979)) — 872 focus
σέβειν μὲν εὐσέβειά τις,
κράτος δ᾽, ὅτωι κράτος μέλει,
παραβατὸν οὐδαμᾶι πέλει·
σὲ δ᾽ αὐτόγνωτος ὤλεσ᾽ ὀργά.
875
Greek (G. Hermann, 1830) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (G. Hermann, 1830)) — 872 focus
σέβειν μὲν εὐσέβειά τις·
κράτος δ᾽, ὅτῳ κράτος μέλει,
865
παραβατὸν οὐδαμῇ πέλει,
σὲ δ᾽ αὐτόγνωτος ὤλεσ᾽ ὀργά.
Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906)) — 872 focus
σέβειν μὲν εὐσέβειά τις, 1
κράτος δ᾽, ὅτῳ κράτος μέλει, 2
παραβατὸν οὐδαμᾷ πέλει· 3
σὲ δ᾽ αὐτόγνωτος ὤλεσ᾽ ὀργά. 4
875
Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924)) — 872 focus
σέβειν μὲν εὐσέβειά τις,
κράτος δ᾽, ὅτῳ κράτος μέλει,
παραβατὸν οὐδαμᾷ πέλει,
σὲ δ᾽ αὐτόγνωτος ὤλεσ᾽ ὀργά.
875
Antigone (OCR draft) Experimental (Antigone) — 872 focus
Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949)) — 872 focus
σέβειν μὲν εὐσέβειά τις,
κράτος δ᾽ ὅτωι κράτος μέλει
παραβατὸν οὐδαμᾶι πέλει·
σὲ δ᾽ αὐτόγνωτος ὤλεσ᾽ ὀργά.
875
Translations (10)
German (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 872 focus
Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921)) — 872 focus
Respetar a los muertos, es piedad; y el imperio, sea cualquiera en quien resida, nunca debe conculcarse. Tu independiente carácter te ha perdido.
Latin (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Latin (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 872 focus
Illum colere, pium est;
sed nequaquam iussa transgredi licet eorum, penes quos est imperium. Te vero, quod se ipso monitore utebatur , perdidit ingenium.
English (Lewis Campbell, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Lewis Campbell, 1906)) — 872 focus
’Twas pious, we confess,
Thy fervent deed. But he, who power would show,
Must let no soul of all he rules transgress.
A self-willed passion was thine overthrow.
875
German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review)) — 872 focus
Fromm handelt, wer die Todten ehrt;
Doch dessen Macht, dem Macht gebührt,
Zu verachten, ziemt sich nimmermehr :
Ja, dich stürzt' eigner Troz in's Unheil!
865
Schlußgesang.
English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759)) — 872 focus
Thy piety demands our praise ; but know,
Authority is not to be despised ;
'Twas thy own rashness brought destruction on thee.
Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889)) — 872 focus
Honrar á los difuntos es ciertamente un acto de piedad; pero la autoridad de los que mandan debe también ser acatada. La fiereza de tu carácter te ha perdido.
German (F. Hölderlin, 1804) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (F. Hölderlin, 1804)) — 872 focus
English (Sir Richard Jebb1, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb1, 1904)) — 872 focus
Reverent action claims a certain praise for reverence; but an offence against power cannot be brooked by him who hath power in his keeping. Thy self-willed temper hath wrought thy ruin,
English (Robert Potter, 1788) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Robert Potter, 1788)) — 872 focus
To act with piety denotes a soul

Commentary

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

mvp-comment-519-1 σέβειν 1

mvp-comment-519-2 sense,

εὐσέβεια
’: i.e. though it is not complete
εὐσέβεια
—which the Chorus regard as including loyalty to the State's laws— yet, so far as it goes, it deserves praise of the same kind. Cp. 924
τὴν δυσσέβειαν εὐσεβοῦσ’ ἐκτησάμην
: by practising
εὐσέβεια
towards the dead, she had come to be thought, on the whole,
δυσσεβής
—as a law-breaker. The Chorus is here the apologist of Creon, and this concession is meant to emphasise the next sentence. Hence the purposed vagueness of σέβειν 2

mvp-comment-520-1 κράτος δὲ 3 ὅτῳ 4

mvp-comment-520-2 οὐδαμᾷ 5 μέλει 6

mvp-comment-521-1 αὐτόγνωτος 7 αὐτὴ γιγνώσκουσα 8

mvp-comment-521-2 ὀργά 9

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

872-875. mvp-comment-499-1 There is some piety in pious action; but, as towards him who wieldeth it, authority must in no wise be transgressed. A self-determined impulse hath undone thee.' Cp. Phil. 138, τέχνα γὰρ τέχνας ἑτέρας προὔχει | καὶ γνώμα παρ' ὅτῳ τὸ θεῖον | Διὸς σκῆπτρον ἀνάσσεται, where there is a similar ellipse of the antecedent. The meaning is, He who has authority must not suffer authority to be thwarted. This may be made clearer by supplying ἐκείνῳ, as dative of the person interested, for the antecedent to ὅτῳ. He must not have it (i.e. suffer it to be) transgressed.