θερμὴν ἐπὶ ψυχροῖσι καρδίαν ἔχεις.
Antigone. Sophocles. ed. Francis Storr. London. 1912.
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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)) — 88 focus
θερμὴν ἐπὶ ψυχροῖσι καρδίαν ἔχεις.
Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 88 focus
θερμὴν ἐπὶ ψυχροῖσι καρδίαν ἔχεις.
Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 88 focus
θερμὴν ἐπὶ ψυχροῖσι καρδίαν ἔχεις.
Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879)) — 88 focus
θερμὴν ἐπὶ ψυχροῖσι καρδίαν ἔχεις.
Greek (A. Colonna, 1978) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Colonna, 1978)) — 88 focus
θερμὴν ἐπὶ ψυχροῖσι καρδίαν ἔχεις.
Greek (A. Dain, 1955) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Dain, 1955)) — 88.mvp-line-88 focus
θερμὴν ἐπὶ ψυχροῖσι καρδίαν ἔχεις.
Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979)) — 88 focus
θερμὴν ἐπὶ ψυχροῖσι καρδίαν ἔχεις.
Greek (G. Hermann, 1830) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (G. Hermann, 1830)) — 88 focus
θερμὴν ἐπὶ ψυχροῖσι καρδίαν ἔχεις.
Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906)) — 88 focus
θερμὴν ἐπὶ ψυχροῖσι καρδίαν ἔχεις.
Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924)) — 88.mvp-line-88 focus
θερμὴν ἐπὶ ψυχροῖσι καρδίαν ἔχεις.
Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949)) — 88 focus
θερμὴν ἐπὶ ψυχροῖσι καρδίαν ἔχεις.
Translations (11)
German (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 88 focus
ANTIGONE
Begehrst du Gröfsres, als den Tod mir anzuthun?
Begehrst du Gröfsres, als den Tod mir anzuthun?
Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921)) — 88 focus
ANTIGONA
Hermano de la misma madre y del mismo padre.
Hermano de la misma madre y del mismo padre.
Latin (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Latin (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 88 focus
Antigone
Ex una frater matre et ab eodem patre.
Ex una frater matre et ab eodem patre.
English (Lewis Campbell, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Lewis Campbell, 1906)) — 88 focus
ANT
My own true brother from both parents’ blood.
My own true brother from both parents’ blood.
German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review)) — 100 focus
Strahl des Helios, schönstes Licht,
1
100
Das der siebenthorigen Stadt
Thebe's nimmer zuvor erschien!
Du strahlst endlich, des gold'nen Tags
Aufblick, herrlich herauf,
Ueber Dirke's Fluten herüberwandelnd;
2
105
Und Ihn, der mit leuchtendem Schild
Kam von Argos in voller Wehr,
Triebest du flüchtig in eilendem Lauf
Fort mit hastigem Zügel:
Strahl des Helios, schönstes Licht,
1
100
Das der siebenthorigen Stadt
Thebe's nimmer zuvor erschien!
Du strahlst endlich, des gold'nen Tags
Aufblick, herrlich herauf,
Ueber Dirke's Fluten herüberwandelnd;
2
105
Und Ihn, der mit leuchtendem Schild
Kam von Argos in voller Wehr,
Triebest du flüchtig in eilendem Lauf
Fort mit hastigem Zügel:
English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759)) — 88 focus
Antigone
Perhaps that brother thinks not so.
515
Perhaps that brother thinks not so.
515
Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889)) — 88 focus
ANTÍGONA
¿Pues qué te detiene? Ningún discurso tuyo me es agradable, ni lo podría ser jamás, ni las palabras mías pueden ser gratas para tí. En cambio, ¿qué gloria más pura para mi que la de haber dado sepultura á un hermano? Todos cuantos me escuchan elogiarían mi proceder, si su lengua no estuviera encadenada por el terror. ¡Privilegio de los tiranos!: ellos pueden solos decir y hacer lo que les place.
¿Pues qué te detiene? Ningún discurso tuyo me es agradable, ni lo podría ser jamás, ni las palabras mías pueden ser gratas para tí. En cambio, ¿qué gloria más pura para mi que la de haber dado sepultura á un hermano? Todos cuantos me escuchan elogiarían mi proceder, si su lengua no estuviera encadenada por el terror. ¡Privilegio de los tiranos!: ellos pueden solos decir y hacer lo que les place.
German (F. Hölderlin, 1804) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (F. Hölderlin, 1804)) — 88 focus
KREON
Und du bringst doch Gottlosen einen Dank?
Und du bringst doch Gottlosen einen Dank?
English (Sir Richard Jebb1, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb1, 1904)) — 88 focus
Antigone
Brother by the same mother and the same sire.
Brother by the same mother and the same sire.
English (Robert Potter, 1788) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Robert Potter, 1788)) — 88 focus
Creon
STRO. 2.
ANTIS. 2.
631cont2
Shall man's presumptuous pride control
Thy pow'r, O sovereign ruler of the skies?
Enfeebling sleep ne'er closed thy eyes :
640
The months of gods of toil unconscious roll;
And time, that leads old age along
Withering the vigour of the strong,
Beholds thee, glorious in immortal might,
High-throned in heav'n's resplendent light.
But this firm law, ordain'd through ages past,
645
Is now, and will for ever last;
No state to mortals shall remain
From wasting ills secure, and sorrow's sickly train.
Yet Hope oft waves her wanton wings
And flattering dreams of distant joy inspires;
Oft o'er man's gay and light desires
650
The dreary gloom of blank illusion flings;
650
Forward with eager pace he goes;
He hath no sense of latent woes,
Till on the treacherous fires he treads aghast.
Well said the Sage in ages past,
Ills they misdeem as good, whose darkling mind
The god to misery hath assigned;...
655
Heedless awhile through life they stray,
But ruin couches close to spring upon its prey.
See Hæmon comes, the youngest of thy sons,
Oppress'd with sorrow for the virgin's fate,
And grieving of his bride to be deprived.
We soon shall know more certain than the Seers.
660
style its elevation, are represented as three persons cutting down this last
branch of the imperial stem.
Vid. Valckanaer. in Eurip. Phœniss.
Hearing the sentence we have firmly pass'd
On her that should have been thy bride, my son,
Enraged against thy father art thou come,
665
Or doing this am I still dear to thee?
665
My father, [ am thine: be thou my guide
Where honour calls; to follow shall be mine.
With me no nuptials ever shall be deem'd
Of higher import than thy just commands.
Thus it behoves thee from thy heart, my son,
A father more than all things to revere.
670
This is the pride, the glory of a man,
To train obedient children in his house,
Prompt on his enemies t' avenge his wrongs,
And with the father's zeal in honour high
To hold his friends. But he, who nurtures sons
That in the hour of trial from his aid
675
Shrink spiritless and weak, hath to himself
Engender'd grief, and slaughter to his foes.
Then do not for a woman now, my son,
Debase thy noble mind; be not a slave
To pleasure: cold is the embrace of her
Who shares thy nuptial bed, if baseness taint
680
Shall man's presumptuous pride control
Thy pow'r, O sovereign ruler of the skies?
Enfeebling sleep ne'er closed thy eyes :
640
The months of gods of toil unconscious roll;
And time, that leads old age along
Withering the vigour of the strong,
Beholds thee, glorious in immortal might,
High-throned in heav'n's resplendent light.
But this firm law, ordain'd through ages past,
645
Is now, and will for ever last;
No state to mortals shall remain
From wasting ills secure, and sorrow's sickly train.
Yet Hope oft waves her wanton wings
And flattering dreams of distant joy inspires;
Oft o'er man's gay and light desires
650
The dreary gloom of blank illusion flings;
650
Forward with eager pace he goes;
He hath no sense of latent woes,
Till on the treacherous fires he treads aghast.
Well said the Sage in ages past,
Ills they misdeem as good, whose darkling mind
The god to misery hath assigned;...
655
Heedless awhile through life they stray,
But ruin couches close to spring upon its prey.
See Hæmon comes, the youngest of thy sons,
Oppress'd with sorrow for the virgin's fate,
And grieving of his bride to be deprived.
We soon shall know more certain than the Seers.
660
style its elevation, are represented as three persons cutting down this last
branch of the imperial stem.
Vid. Valckanaer. in Eurip. Phœniss.
Hearing the sentence we have firmly pass'd
On her that should have been thy bride, my son,
Enraged against thy father art thou come,
665
Or doing this am I still dear to thee?
665
My father, [ am thine: be thou my guide
Where honour calls; to follow shall be mine.
With me no nuptials ever shall be deem'd
Of higher import than thy just commands.
Thus it behoves thee from thy heart, my son,
A father more than all things to revere.
670
This is the pride, the glory of a man,
To train obedient children in his house,
Prompt on his enemies t' avenge his wrongs,
And with the father's zeal in honour high
To hold his friends. But he, who nurtures sons
That in the hour of trial from his aid
675
Shrink spiritless and weak, hath to himself
Engender'd grief, and slaughter to his foes.
Then do not for a woman now, my son,
Debase thy noble mind; be not a slave
To pleasure: cold is the embrace of her
Who shares thy nuptial bed, if baseness taint
680
English (Sir Richard Jebb2, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb2, 1904)) — 100-160 focus
Enter the Chorus on the right.
110
Chorus
Shaft of the sun, fairest light of all that have dawned on
Thebes
of the seven gates, you have shone forth at last, eye of golden day, advancing over Dirce’s streams!
100
You have goaded with a sharper bit the warrior of the white shield, who came from
Argos
in full armor, driving him to headlong retreat.
105
Shaft of the sun, fairest light of all that have dawned on
Thebes
of the seven gates, you have shone forth at last, eye of golden day, advancing over Dirce’s streams!
100
You have goaded with a sharper bit the warrior of the white shield, who came from
Argos
in full armor, driving him to headlong retreat.
105
Chorus
He set out against our land because of the strife-filled claims of Polyneices, and like a screaming eagle he flew over into our land, covered by his snow-white wing,
110
with a mass of weapons and crested helmets.
115
He set out against our land because of the strife-filled claims of Polyneices, and like a screaming eagle he flew over into our land, covered by his snow-white wing,
110
with a mass of weapons and crested helmets.
115
Chorus
He paused above our dwellings; he gaped around our sevenfold portals with spears thirsting for blood; but he left
before his jaws were ever glutted with our gore, or before the Fire-god’s pine-fed flame had seized our crown of towers.
120
So fierce was the crash of battle swelling about his back, a match too hard to win for the rival of the dragon.
125
He paused above our dwellings; he gaped around our sevenfold portals with spears thirsting for blood; but he left
before his jaws were ever glutted with our gore, or before the Fire-god’s pine-fed flame had seized our crown of towers.
120
So fierce was the crash of battle swelling about his back, a match too hard to win for the rival of the dragon.
125
Chorus
For Zeus detests above all the boasts of a proud tongue. And when he saw them advancing in a swollen flood,
arrogant their clanging gold, he dashed with brandished fire one who was already starting to shout victory when he had reached our ramparts.
130
For Zeus detests above all the boasts of a proud tongue. And when he saw them advancing in a swollen flood,
arrogant their clanging gold, he dashed with brandished fire one who was already starting to shout victory when he had reached our ramparts.
130
Chorus
Staggered, he fell to the earth with a crash,
torch in hand, a man possessed by the frenzy of the mad attack, who just now was raging against us with the blasts of his tempestuous hate. But his threats did not fare as he had hoped, and to the other enemies mighty Ares dispensed each their own dooms with hard blows,
135
Ares, our mighty ally at the turning-point.
140
Staggered, he fell to the earth with a crash,
torch in hand, a man possessed by the frenzy of the mad attack, who just now was raging against us with the blasts of his tempestuous hate. But his threats did not fare as he had hoped, and to the other enemies mighty Ares dispensed each their own dooms with hard blows,
135
Ares, our mighty ally at the turning-point.
140
Chorus
For the seven captains, stationed against an equal number at the seven gates, left behind their brazen arms in tribute to Zeus the turner of battle—all but the accursed pair who, born of one father and one
mother, set against each other their spears, both victorious, and who now share in a common death.
145
For the seven captains, stationed against an equal number at the seven gates, left behind their brazen arms in tribute to Zeus the turner of battle—all but the accursed pair who, born of one father and one
mother, set against each other their spears, both victorious, and who now share in a common death.
145
Chorus
But since Victory whose name is glory has come to us, smiling in joy equal to the joy of chariot-rich
Thebes
,
let us make for ourselves forgetfulness after the recent wars, and visit all the temples of the gods with night-long dance and song. And may Bacchus, who shakes the earth of
Thebes
, rule our dancing!
150
But since Victory whose name is glory has come to us, smiling in joy equal to the joy of chariot-rich
Thebes
,
let us make for ourselves forgetfulness after the recent wars, and visit all the temples of the gods with night-long dance and song. And may Bacchus, who shakes the earth of
Thebes
, rule our dancing!
150
Chorus
But look, the king of the land is coming here, Creon, the son of Menoeceus, our new ruler in accordance with the new circumstances fated by the gods. What policy is he setting in motion,
155
that he has proposed this special conference of elders, and summoned it by a general mandate?
160
But look, the king of the land is coming here, Creon, the son of Menoeceus, our new ruler in accordance with the new circumstances fated by the gods. What policy is he setting in motion,
155
that he has proposed this special conference of elders, and summoned it by a general mandate?
160
Commentary
Commentary (R. C. Jebb) (OCR draft) (Commentary (R. C. Jebb))
Commentary (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) (Commentary (Lewis Campbell, 1879)) focus
88. mvp-comment-57-1 θερμὴν .. ἔχεις Your courage is hot upon a cold enterprize.
88. mvp-comment-57-2 ψυχροῖσι] Chilling, i.e. Causing a cold thrill of horror. Cp. Aesch. Prom. 691-693, οὐδ᾽ ὧδε δυσθέατα καὶ δυσοιστὰ ... ψύχειν ψυχὰν ἐμάν. Also with an association from the meaning fruitless; cp. Hdt. 9. 49, ἐπαρθεὶς ψυχρῇ νίκῃ.