Sophocles Antigone 264

ed. Francis Storr

ἦμεν δʼ ἕτοιμοι καὶ μύδρους αἴρειν χεροῖν

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)) — 264 focus
καὶ πῦρ διέρπειν, καὶ θεοὺς ὁρκωμοτεῖν,
Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 264 focus
τέλος δ᾽, ὅτ᾽ οὐδὲν ἦν ἐρευνῶσιν πλέον,
Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 264 focus
τὸ μήτε δρᾶσαι, μήτε τῳ ξυνειδέναι
Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879)) — 264 focus
ἦμεν δ᾽ ἕτοιμοι καὶ μύδρους αἴρειν χεροῖν,
Greek (A. Colonna, 1978) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Colonna, 1978)) — 264 focus
ἦμεν δ᾽ ἑτοῖμοι καὶ μύδρους αἴρειν χεροῖν,
Greek (A. Dain, 1955) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Dain, 1955)) — 264.mvp-line-264 focus
ἦμεν δ’ ἑτοῖμοι καὶ μύδρους αἴρειν χεροῖν,
Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979)) — 264 focus
ἦμεν δ᾽ ἕτοιμοι καὶ μύδρους αἴρειν χεροῖν
Greek (G. Hermann, 1830) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (G. Hermann, 1830)) — 264 focus
ἦμεν δ᾽ ἕτοιμοι καὶ μύδρους αἴρειν χεροῖν,
Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906)) — 264 focus
ἦμεν δ᾽ ἕτοιμοι καὶ μύδρους αἴρειν χεροῖν,
Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924)) — 264.mvp-line-264 focus
ἦμεν δ᾽ ἑτοῖμοι καὶ μύδρους αἴρειν χεροῖν,
Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949)) — 264 focus
ἦμεν δ᾽ ἕτοιμοι καὶ μύδρους αἴρειν χεροῖν
Translations (10)
German (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 264 focus
KREON.
Str. 2.
Weh mir!
Ich hab's gelernt, ich Armer! Schwer belastend traf
mir damals im Zorn ein Gott dieses Haupt,
1215
und schlug's, und warf in wilde Pfade mich hinein;
weh mir! niederstürzt' er mein zertretnes Glück!
Ach ach! o der Menschen leidvolles Leid!
Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921)) — 264 focus
CREONTE
1306 ¡Ayay, ayay! Estoy pasmado de horror. ¿Por qué no me matáis matais con espada de dos filos? ¡Qué miserable soy! ¡Ayay! ¡Estoy envuelto en fatal calamidad!
Latin (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Latin (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 264 focus
Verna
1312 Nempe tamquam caussa utriusque exitii ab hac defuncta obiurgabare.
English (Lewis Campbell, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Lewis Campbell, 1906)) — 264 focus
CR
1317
O me! This crime can come
On no man else, exempting me.
I slew thee—I, O misery!
I say the truth, ’twas I! My followers,
1320
Take me with speed—take me away, away!
Me, who am nothing now.
1325
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)) — 264 focus
Creon
I shudder at it? Will no friendly hand
Destroy me quickly? For oh ! I am most wretched —
I>eset with miseries !
Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889)) — 264 focus
EL MENSAJERO
Yo mismo me he quedado también estupe facto; abrigo, sin embargo, la esperanza de que ella, enterada ya de las desgracias de su hijo, no habrá querido ofrecer á los thebanos el espectáculo de su dolor, y se habrá ido á palacio á comunicar el triste caso á sus siervas para hacer el duclo. La juzgo demasiado prudente para cometer ningún atentado.
German (F. Hölderlin, 1804) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (F. Hölderlin, 1804)) — 264 focus
KREON
O mir! mir! das gehöret keinem andern
Der Menschen an. Mein ist die Schuld in diesem.
Ich habe dich getödtet ich. Io! ihr Diener!
Führt eilig mich hinweg! führt Schritt vor Schritt,
1375
Mich, der nun nichts mehr Anders ist, als Niemand.
English (Sir Richard Jebb1, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb1, 1904)) — 264 focus
Creon
And what was the manner of the violent deed by which she passed away?
English (Sir Richard Jebb2, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb2, 1904)) — 332-380 focus

Commentary

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

mvp-comment-143-1 μύδρους 1

mvp-comment-143-2 a red-hot mass of metal, and that the custom was symbolical of an older use of the

μύδρος
in ordeals by fire. This would explain how the Alexandrian poets of the 3rd cent. B.C. (Lycophron, Callimachus) came to use the word
μύδρος
, in defiance of its etymology, as simply ‘a lump’ (or even ‘a stone’). They supposed that the
μύδροι
had been cold masses.

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.