Sophocles Antigone 583

ed. Francis Storr

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Antigone. Sophocles. ed. Francis Storr. London. 1912.

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Current edition Experimental

Ἀντιγόνη (Greek) (Sophocles, Volume 1. Storr, Francis, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann Ltd.; The Macmillan Company, 1912.)

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Editions (11)
Greek (L. Benloew, 1858) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (L. Benloew, 1858)) — 583 focus
εὐδαίμονες, οἷσι κακῶν
ἄγευστος αἰών. οἷς γὰρ ἂν
580
σεισθῇ θεόθεν δόμος, ἄτας
οὐδὲν ἐλλείπει, γενεᾶς
ἐπὶ 1 πλῆθος ἕρπον·
ὁμοῖον ὥστε ποντίαις
οἶδμα δυσπνόοις ὅταν
585
Θρήσσῃσιν ἔρεβος ὕφαλον ἐπιδράμῃ πνοαῖς,
κυλίνδει βυσσόθεν κελαινὰν
θῖνα καὶ δυσάνεμον·
στόνῳ βρέμουσι δ᾽ ἀντιπλῆγες ἀκταί.
a
Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 583 focus
Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 583 focus
εὐδαίμονες, οἷσι κακῶν
575
ἄγευστος αἰών! οἷς γὰρ ἂν
σεισθῇ θεόθεν δόμος, ἄτας
οὐδὲν ἐλλείπει, γενεᾶς
ἐπὶ πλῆθος ἕρπον, ὥστε ποντίας ἁλὸς
οἶδμα, δυσπνόοις ὅταν
580
Θρήσσῃσιν ἔρεβος ὕφαλον ἐπιδράμῃ πνοαῖς,
κυλίνδει βυσσόθεν
κελαινὰν θῖνα καὶ δυσάνεμον,
στόνῳ βρέμουσι δ᾽ ἀντιπλῆγες ἀκταί.
1
Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879)) — 583 focus
εὐδαίμονες οἶσι κακῶν ἄγευστος αἰών.
οἷς γὰρ ἂν σεισθῇ θεόθεν δόμος, ἄτας
οὐδὲν ἐλλείπει γενεᾶς ἐπὶ πλῆθος ἕρπον·
585
ὅμοιον ὥστε ποντίαις
οἶδμα δυσπνόοις ὅταν
Θρῄσσαισιν ἔρεβος ὕφαλον ἐπιδράμῃ πνοαῖς,
κυλίνδει βυσσόθεν κελαινὰν
590
θῖνα καὶ δυσάνεμον,
στόνῳ βρέμουσι δ᾽ ἀντιπλῆγες ἀκταί.
α
Greek (A. Colonna, 1978) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Colonna, 1978)) — 583 focus
εὐδαίμονες οἷσι κακῶν ἄγευστος αἰών·
οἷς γὰρ ἂν σεισθῇ θεόθεν δόμος, ἄτας
οὐδὲν ἐλλείπει γενεᾶς ἐπὶ πλῆθος ἕρπον·
585
ὅμοιον ὥστε πόντιον
οἶδμα, δυσπνόοις ὅταν
Θρήσσῃσιν ἔρεβος ὕφαλον ἐπιδράμῃ πνοαῖς,
κυλίνδει βυσσόθεν
590
κελαινὰν θῖνα καὶ δυσάνεμοι
στόνῳ βρέμουσιν ἀντιπλῆγες ἀκταί.
1
Greek (A. Dain, 1955) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Dain, 1955)) — 583 focus
εὐδαίμονες οἷσι κακῶν ἄγευστος αἰών·
οἷς γὰρ ἂν σεισθῇ θεόθεν δόμος, ἄτας
οὐδὲν ἐλλείπει γενεᾶς ἐπὶ πλῆθος ἕρπον·
585
ὅμοιον ὥστε ποντίας
οἶδμα, δυσπνόοις ὅταν
Θρῄσσῃσιν ἔρεβος ὕφαλον ἐπιδράμῃ πνοαῖς,
κυλίνδει βυσσόθεν
590
κελαινὰν θῖνα καὶ δυσάνεμοι
στόνῳ βρέμουσιν ἀντιπλῆγες ἀκταί.
1
Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979)) — 583 focus
εὐδαίμονες οἷσι κακῶν ἄγευστος αἰών·
οἷς γὰρ ἂν σεισθῆι θεόθεν δόμος, ἄτας
οὐδὲν ἐλλείπει, γενεᾶς ἐπὶ πλῆθος ἕρπον·
585
ὅμοιον ὥστε † ποντίας ἁλὸς †
οἶδμα, δυσπνόοις ὅταν
Θρήισσηισιν ἔρεβος ὕφαλον ἐπιδράμηι πνοαῖς,
κυλίνδει βυσσόθεν
590
κελαινὰν θῖνα, καὶ δυσανέμωι
στόνωι βρέμουσιν ἀντιπλῆγες ἀκταί.
1
Greek (G. Hermann, 1830) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (G. Hermann, 1830)) — 583 focus
εὐδαίμονες, οἷσι κακῶν ἄγευστος αἰών.
οἷς γὰρ ἂν σεισθῇ θεόθεν δόμος, ἄτας
580
οὐδὲν ἐλλείπει, γενεᾶς
ἐπὶ πλῆθος ἕρπον·
ὅμοιον ὥστε ποντίαις
οἶδμα δυσπνόοις ὅταν
θρήσσῃσιν ἔρεβος ὕφαλον ἐπιδράμῃ πνοαῖς,
585
κυλίνδει βυσσόθεν κελαινὰν
θῖνα καὶ δυσάνεμον,
στόνῳ βρέμουσι δ᾽ ἀντιπλῆγες ἀκταί.
1
Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906)) — 583 focus
εὐδαίμονες οἷσι κακῶν ἄγευστος αἰών. 1
οἷς γὰρ ἂν σεισθῇ θεόθεν δόμος, ἄτας 2
οὐδὲν ἐλλείπει, γενεᾶς ἐπὶ πλῆθος ἕρπον· 3
585
ὅμοιον ὥστε ποντίαις οἶδμα δυσπνόοις ὅταν 4
Θρῄσσαισιν ἔρεβος ὕφαλον ἐπιδράμῃ πνοαῖς, 5
κυλίνδει βυσσόθεν κελαινὰν θῖνα, καὶ 6
590
δυσάνεμοι στόνῳ βρέμουσιν ἀντιπλῆγες ἀκταί. 7
1
Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924)) — 583 focus
εὐδαίμονες οἷσι κακῶν ἄγευστος αἰών.
οἷς γὰρ ἂν σεισθῇ θεόθεν δόμος, ἄτας
οὐδὲν ἐλλείπει γενεᾶς ἐπὶ πλῆθος ἕρπον·
585
ὁμοῖον ὥστε πόντιον
οἶδμα δυσπνόοις ὅταν
Θρῄσσαισιν ἔρεβος ὕφαλον ἐπιδράμῃ πνοαῖς,
κυλίνδει βυσσόθεν κελαινὰν
590
θῖνα καὶ δυσάνεμοι
στόνῳ βρέμουσιν ἀντιπλῆγες ἀκταί.
Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949)) — 583 focus
εὐδαίμονες οἷσι κακῶν ἄγευστος αἰών.
οἷς γὰρ ἂν σεισθῆι θεόθεν δόμος, ἄτας
οὐδὲν ἐλλείπει γενεᾶς ἐπὶ πλῆθος ἕρπον··
585
ὅμοιον ὥστε πόντιον
οἶδμα, δυσπνόοις ὅταν
Θρήισσαισιν ἔρεβος ὕφαλον ἐπιδράμηι πνοαῖς,
κυλίνδει βυσσόθεν
590
κελαινὰν θῖνα, καὶ
δυσάνεμοι στόνωι βρέμουσιν ἀντιπλῆγες ἀκταί.
Translations (11)
German (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 583 focus
Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921)) — 583 focus
¡Dichosos todos los que pasan la vida sin probar un infortunio! Porque aquellos cuya casa recibe una sacudida de los dioses, no queda calamidad que no caiga sobre toda su descendencia, al modo que cuando el oleaje, hinchado por los impetuosos vientos marinos de la Tracia, se rompe en el negro abismo del mar y revuelve desde su fondo el negro y turbulento limo y retumban con estruendo las orillas que lo rechazan.
Latin (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Latin (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 583 focus
Felices, quibus malorum immune labitur aevum! Quibus enim divinitus quassatur domus, horum vita nulla vacat calamitate, ad omnem posteritatem proserpente , haud secus ac maris fluctus , si quando Boreae vehemens flatus in salsam incurrit caliginem, ab imo atram evolvit, ventis infestatam , arenam, plangoribusque percussa resonant litora.
English (Lewis Campbell, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Lewis Campbell, 1906)) — 583 focus
Blest is the life that never tasted woe.
When once the blow
Hath fallen upon a house with Heaven-sent doom,
585
Trouble descends in ever-widening gloom
Through all the number of the tribe to flow;
As when the briny surge
That Thrace-born tempests urge
590
(The big wave ever gathering more and more)
Runs o’er the darkness of the deep,
German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review)) — 583 focus
Ihr Seligen, deren Geschick kein Leid gekostet!
580
Wem sein Wohnhaus Götter erschütterten, niemals
Läßt der Fluch ihn, fort von Geschlecht zu Geschlecht sich wälzend:
Gleichwie das aufgeschwoll'ne Meer,
Wann, vom Thrakersturm erregt,
Es mächtig in die düstere Tiefe hinab sich wälzt,
585
Vom Abgrund auf den schwarzen Meersand
Wühlt und dumpf im stöhnenden
Orkan die flutgeschlag'nen Ufer tosen.
Erste Gegenstrophe.
English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759)) — 583 focus
Behold, O king ! thy youngest hope appear
Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889)) — 583 focus
¡Dichosos los que jamás han probado el infortunio! Porque cuando los dioses dejan caer su airada diestra sobre una familia, las desgracias se suceden en ella sin cesar y avanzan toda su posteridad: cual la ola que recorre el oscuro abismo del mar de Tracia, impelida por furioso vendaval, levanta del fondo negra turbulenta arena, y viene á estrellarse allá en la playa con hórrido gemido.
German (F. Hölderlin, 1804) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (F. Hölderlin, 1804)) — 583 focus
Gsiüxseelige solcher Zeit, da man nicht schmeket das Uebel;
Denn, wenn sich reget von Himmlischen
605
Einmal ein Haus, fehlts dem an Wahnsinn nicht,
In der Folge, wenn es
Sich mehrt. Denn gleich, wenn unten,
Auf Pontischer See, bei übelwehenden
Thrazischen Winden, die Nacht unter dem Salze
610
Eine Hüpte befallen;
Von Grund aus wälzt sie das dunkle
Gestad’ um, das zersauste,
Und von Gestöhne rauschen die geschlagnen Ufer,
English (Sir Richard Jebb1, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb1, 1904)) — 583 focus
Blest are they whose days have not tasted of evil. For when a house hath once been shaken from heaven, there the curse fails nevermore, passing from life to life of the race; even as, when the surge is driven over the darkness of the deep by the fierce breath of 590 Thracian sea-winds, it rolls up the black sand from the depths, and there is a sullen roar from wind-vexed headlands that front the blows of the storm.
English (Robert Potter, 1788) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Robert Potter, 1788)) — 583 focus
Glide smoothly on, untaught to taste of woe!
But when (heav'n-sent) sfflictions flow,
Wide-wasting the impetuous torrent pours;
The house from its foundations shakes,
And ruin all its sons o'ertakes.
English (Sir Richard Jebb2, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb2, 1904)) — 583 focus

Commentary

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

mvp-comment-344-1 σεισθῇ θεόθεν 1

mvp-comment-344-2 ἄτας οὐδὲν ἐλλείπει 2 ἐλλείπει 3

mvp-comment-344-3 γενεᾶς ἐπὶ πλῆθος 4 γενεᾶς 5

mvp-comment-345-1 ὅμοιον 6

mvp-comment-345-2 ποντίαις 7 πνοαῖς 8 ὅταν οἶδμα 9 ποντίαις δυσπν. Θρ. πνοαῖς 10 ἐπιδράμῃ ἔρεβος ὕφαλον 11 Θρῄσσαισιν 12

mvp-comment-346-1 κελαινὰν θῖνα 13

mvp-comment-346-2 δυσάνεμοι 14 δυσάνεμον 15

mvp-comment-346-3 στόνῳ βρ.· 16

mvp-comment-346-4 ἀντιπλῆγες 17 ἀκταί 18

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

582. mvp-comment-342-1 The fate of Antigone is sealed, and the chorus moralize over the power of fate and of Zeus, as shown in the continued calamities of the race of Labdacus, and the infatuation ('quem Deus vult perdere, prius dementat ') of Antigone. The spectator is left free to apply the same reflections to the case of Creon.

582. mvp-comment-342-2 'Calamity is like a storm that stirs the lowest depths and sounds afar. The race once touched is never free. Each generation as it rises is struck down.

582. mvp-comment-342-3 'The house of Labdacus has sorrow upon sorrow. Amidst the ruined grove one root was springing, only to be swept under by the cruel dues of Hades in a frenzy of infatuation.

582. mvp-comment-342-4 Who can restrain the power of Zeus? Unchecked by sleep or age he ever dwells in the light of Olympus. This was and shall be now and evermore, a truth that spareth not the lives of men, whom hope deceives, giving comfort indeed, but also inspiring passionate folly, till disappointment comes, before the man hath seen that he is treading on fire. Wise was he who said that evil seemeth good to one whom God is drawing to perdition. Few are the days of his exemption from that dark lot.

582. mvp-comment-342-5 The 1st strophe opens solemnly with three dactylo-epitritic or Doric lines, which are followed by iambic and trochaic rhythms. The 2nd strophe is logaoedic, with syncope of thesis in ll. 3, 5, 7, 11 a'. β'. ILCCICcl alcl- LullLCClcclcla 10101010 51-1 CLL下​CICLI ト​CICICI CCICCICLI 1101007ID トトー CCCII 100II

582. mvp-comment-342-6 οἶσι .. αἰών Whose life is free from taste of misery. Blessed, because of the rarity of their lot, and because of the unsparing persistence of calamity when it comes to any. For κακῶν ἄγευστος, cp. Ο. Τ. 969, ἄψαυστος ἔγχους.

583. mvp-comment-343-1 θεόθεν The adverb of place supports the metaphor of a storm coming from a certain quarter. Cp. Aesch. Prom. 1089, ῥιπὴ Διόθεν.

583-584. mvp-comment-344-1 ἄτας | οὐδὲν ἐλλείπει Cp. l. 2, ff.

585. mvp-comment-345-1 ἔρπον The real subject of this is πᾶσα ἄτη (or τὸ πᾶν ἄτης) implied in the preceding words, the positive being educed from the negative. Calamity stints not, but goes on till it fulfils the number of the race.

586-589. mvp-comment-346-1 ὅμοιον.. πνοαῖς Like as when the billow courses over the darkening deep before fell Thracian blasts from the Euxine sea. Some interpreters make ἔρεβος subj, and οἶδμα obj. of ἐπιδράμῃ, when the darkening wave courses over the main. But οἶδμα elsewhere in Sophocles is not the expanse (aequor) but the swelling of the sea, and ἔρεβος ὕφαλον can hardly be anything else than the nether darkness of the deep. For the accumulation of adjectives, see Essay on Language § 23. p. 37. Seyffert reads ὡς προποντίδος. 589 ff. It rolls from depths below the black tempestuous drift. 591. And the cliffs, returning the shock, groaningly resound.'

586-589. mvp-comment-346-2 δυσάνεμον A sign of tempest, 'Associated with bad winds, because only seen when the wind has been blowing hard on shore. Ventorum vehementiorum comitem.' Musgr. 593, foll. From of old I see with pain' (ὁρῶμαι, ethical middle, Essay on Language § 31. p. 52) 'the calamities of the house of Labdacus accumulating on the calamities of those that are gone; nor does one generation free another, but some god casts them down; nor is there hope of redemption.'

586-589. mvp-comment-346-3 ἀρχαῖα has the stress as suppl. predicate. Essay on Language § 23. p. 38.