Sophocles Antigone 484

ed. Francis Storr

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ἦ νῦν ἐγὼ μὲν οὐκ ἀνήρ, αὕτη δʼ ἀνήρ,

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

Sponsored by Perseus Project, Tufts University.

Funding provided by The Annenberg CPB/Project.

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)) — 484 focus

τοῦ παντὸς ἡμῖν Ζηνὸς Ἑρκείου κυρεῖ,

Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 484 focus

θέλεις τι μεῖζον ἢ κατακτεῖναί μ' ἑλών;

Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 484 focus

καί νιν καλεῖτ᾽ ! ἔσω γὰρ εἶδον ἀρτίως

Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879)) — 484 focus

ἦ νῦν ἐγὼ μὲν οὐκ ἀνήρ, αὕτη δ᾽ ἀνήρ,

Greek (A. Colonna, 1978) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Colonna, 1978)) — 484 focus

ἦ νῦν ἐγὼ μὲν οὐκ ἀνήρ, αὕτη δ᾽ ἀνήρ,

Greek (A. Dain, 1955) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Dain, 1955)) — 484.mvp-line-481 focus

ἦ νῦν ἐγὼ μὲν οὐκ ἀνήρ, αὕτη δ’ ἀνήρ,

Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979)) — 484 focus

ἦ νῦν ἐγὼ μὲν οὐκ ἀνήρ, αὕτη δ᾽ ἀνήρ,

Greek (G. Hermann, 1830) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (G. Hermann, 1830)) — 484 focus

αὐτή τε χἠ ξύναιμος οὐκ ἀλύξετον

Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906)) — 484 focus

ἦ νῦν ἐγὼ μὲν οὐκ ἀνήρ, αὕτη δ᾽ ἀνήρ,

Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924)) — 484.mvp-line-481 focus

ἦ νῦν ἐγὼ μὲν οὐκ ἀνήρ, αὕτη δ᾽ ἀνήρ,

Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949)) — 484 focus

ἦ νῦν ἐγὼ μὲν οὐκ ἀνήρ, αὕτη δ᾽ ἀνήρ,

Translations (2)

German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review)) — 471 focus

Wild tritt des wilden Vaters Art am Kind hervor:

Dem Mißgeschick sich fügen hat sie nicht gelernt.
470

Kreon.

Doch wisse nur, des Sinnes allzustarrer Troz

Beugt sich am ersten; kannst du doch den stärksten Stahl,

Der allzuspröd gehärtet kam aus Feuers Glut,

Am ehsten immer brechen und zersplittern seh'n.

Auch weiß ich, daß der Rosse zornentbrannten Muth
475

Ein kleiner Zügel meistert; nie ja ziemt es dem,

Sich groß zu dünken, der ein Knecht der Andern ist.

Doch die verstand sich schon zuvor auf frechen Troz,

Indem sie frevelnd mein Gebot mißachtete;

Und dieses ist nun, nach der That, der zweite Troz,
480

Darob zu prahlen und mit Hohn sich aufzubläh'n.

Jezt wahrlich wär' ich nicht ein Mann, sie wär' ein Mann,

Geläng' ihr ungezüchtigt solch ein Uebermuth.

Drum, sei sie meiner Schwester Kind, sei näher uns

Verwandt, denn Alle, die der Zeus des Hauses schirmt,
485

Doch soll dem schlimmsten Loose nicht sie selbst entgeh'n,

Noch ihre Schwester; denn auch diese klag' ich an,

Daß sie, mit ihr im Bunde, solche That ersann.

Ruft sie daher mir; denn ich sah sie eben noch

Im Hause rasen, ihrer Sinne nicht bewußt.
490

So wird die Seele selbst zuvor Verrätherin

Des Argen, das im Dunkel ausgesonnen ward;

Doch hass' ich den auch, der in unheilvoller That

Betroffen, nachher diese noch beschönen will.

Antigone.

Verlangst du Größ'res, als den Tod mir anzuthun?
495

Kreon.

Nichts weiter; Alles hab' ich, so mir dieses wird.

Antigone.

English (Sir Richard Jebb2, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb2, 1904)) — 583-630 focus

Chorus

Blest are those whose days have not tasted of evil. For when a house has once been shaken by the gods,

no form of ruin is lacking, but it spreads over the bulk of the race, just as, when the surge is driven over the darkness of the deep by the fierce breath of Thracian sea-winds,
585

it rolls up the black sand from the depths, and the wind-beaten headlands that front the blows of the storm give out a mournful roar.
590

593

Chorus

I see that the ancient sorrows of the house of the Labdacids

are heaped upon the sorrows of the dead. Each generation does not set its race free, but some god hurls it down and the race has no release. For now that dazzling ray of hope that had been spread
595

over the last roots in the house of Oedipus—that hope, in its turn, the blood-stained dust of the gods infernal and mindlessness in speech and frenzy at the mind cuts down.
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605

Chorus

Your power, great Zeus—what human overstepping can check it? Yours is power that neither Sleep, the all-ensnaring, nor the untiring months of the gods can defeat. Unaged through time,
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you rule by your power and dwell thereby in the brilliant splendor of Olympus . And through the future, both near and distant, as through the past, shall this law prevail: nothing that is vast comes to the life of mortals without ruin.
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615

Chorus

See how that hope whose wanderings are so wide truly is a benefit to many men, but to an equal number it is a false lure of light-headed desires. The deception comes to one who is wholly unawares until he burns his foot on a hot fire.
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For with wisdom did someone once reveal the maxim, now famous, that evil at one time or another seems good, to him whose mind a god leads to ruin.
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But for the briefest moment such a man fares free of destruction.
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626

Enter Haemon.

Chorus

But here is Haemon, the last of your offspring. Does he come grieving for the doom of Antigone, his promised bride,

and bitter for the deceived hope of their marriage?
630

Commentary

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

mvp-comment-274-1 νῦν ¹

mvp-comment-274-2 εἰ ταῦτα … κράτη ² κράτη ³ κείσεται ⁴ πείσεται ⁵ ἀνατί ⁶ ταῦτα ⁷

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

484. mvp-comment-281-1 Cp. Eur. I. Α. 952 ff., ἢ Σίπυλος ἔσται πόλις, ὅρισμα βαρβάρων, κ.τ.λ.