Sophocles Antigone 260

ed. Francis Storr

φύλαξ ἐλέγχων φύλακα, κἂν ἐγίγνετο
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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)) — 260 focus
πληγὴ τελευτῶσ᾽, οὐδ᾽ ὁ κωλύσων παρῆν·
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Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 260 focus
ἦμεν δ᾽ ἕτοιμοι καὶ μύδρους αἴρειν χεροῖν,
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Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 260 focus
εἷς γάρ τις ἦν ἕκαστος οὑξειργασμένος,
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Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879)) — 260 focus
φύλαξ ἐλέγχων φύλακα, κἂν ἐγίγνετο
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Greek (A. Colonna, 1978) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Colonna, 1978)) — 260 focus
φύλαξ ἐλέγχων φύλακα, κἂν ἐγίγνετο
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Greek (A. Dain, 1955) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Dain, 1955)) — 260.mvp-line-260 focus
φύλαξ ἐλέγχων φύλακα, κἂν ἐγίγνετο
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Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979)) — 260 focus
φύλαξ ἐλέγχων φύλακα, κἂν ἐγίγνετο
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Greek (G. Hermann, 1830) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (G. Hermann, 1830)) — 260 focus
φύλαξ ἐλέγχων φύλακα. κἂν ἐγίγνετο
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Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906)) — 260 focus
φύλαξ ἐλέγχων φύλακα· κἂν ἐγίγνετο
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Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924)) — 260.mvp-line-260 focus
φύλαξ ἐλέγχων φύλακα, κἂν ἐγίγνετο
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Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949)) — 260 focus
φύλαξ ἐλέγχων φύλακα, κἂν ἐγίγνετο
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Translations (10)
German (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 260 focus
BOTE.
Bald werden wir erfahren, ob nicht heimlich sie
verhaltnes Weh in tief empörtem Herzen birgt,
indem ans Haus ich trete: denn wahr sprachest du,
auch allzu tiefes Schweigen drohet Schweres oft.
Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921)) — 260 focus
CREONTE
1284 ¡Ay, ay, implacable puerto del infierno! ¿Por qué, pues, a mí, por qué me arruinas? ¡Oh tú, que vienes con tan fatales y funestas noticias! ¿Qué es lo que dices? ¡Ayay! A un hombre muerto ya, has rematado. ¿Qué dices, hombre? ¿Esa nueva noticia que me anuncias, ¡ayay, ayay!, es la cruel muerte de mi mujer sobre la de mi hijo?
Latin (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Latin (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 260 focus
Verna
1293 Intueri licet: non enim in penetrali amplius retinetur.
English (Lewis Campbell, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Lewis Campbell, 1906)) — 260 focus
CR
1306
Ay me! Ay me!
I am rapt with terror. Is there none to strike me
With doubly sharpened blade a mortal blow?
Ah! I am plunged in fathomless distress.
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)) — 260 focus
Creon
1294
Didst thou not say a fresh calamity
Had fallen upon mel Didst thou not say my wife
Was dead, alas ! for grief of Hsemon's fate?
Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889)) — 260 focus
EL CORO
Pero veo que se acerca la infortunada Eurydice, esposa de Creonte. Ella sale de palacio: ¿la trac la casualidad, ó se ha enterado de la desgracia de su hijo?
German (F. Hölderlin, 1804) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (F. Hölderlin, 1804)) — 260 focus
KREON
Weh! Weh! Weh! Weh!
Mich beflügelt die Furcht. Warum
Hat nicht mich einer erschlagen
Mit entgegengestelltem Schwert’?
Ich Feiger! ach! ach!
1365
In feiger Noth gemenget.
English (Sir Richard Jebb1, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb1, 1904)) — 260 focus
Creon
1294 me,—yonder I behold a new, a second woe! What destiny, ah what, can yet await me? I have but now raised my son in my arms,—and there, again, I see 1300 a corpse before me! Alas, alas, unhappy mother! Alas, my child!
English (Sir Richard Jebb2, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb2, 1904)) — 332-380 focus

Commentary

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.

260. mvp-comment-162-1 φύλαξ ἐλέγχων φύλακα On the nominative out of construction in the clause in apposition, see Essay on Language § 33. p. 57. § 15. p. 21.

260. mvp-comment-162-2 κἂν ἐγίγνετο And it was threatening to come to blows at last. The combination of the imperfect with av here is peculiar, having a force intermediate between ἐγίγνετο and ἐγένετο ἄv; i. e. it was coming to this, that we should have come to blows.