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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)) — 278 focus
ἄναξ, ἐμοί τοι, μή τι καὶ θεήλατον
τοὔργον τόδ᾽, ἡ ξύννοια βουλεύει πάλαι.
Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 278 focus
Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 278 focus
ἄναξ, ἐμοί τοι, μή τι καὶ θεήλατον
τοὖργον τόδ᾽, ἡ ξύννοια βουλεύει πάλαι.
Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879)) — 278 focus
ἄναξ, ἐμοί τοι, μή τι καὶ θεήλατον
τοὔργον τόδ᾽ *ᾖ, ξύννοια βουλεύει πάλαι.
Greek (A. Colonna, 1978) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Colonna, 1978)) — 278 focus
ἄναξ, ἐμοί τοι μή τι καὶ θεήλατον
τοὔργον τόδ᾽ ἡ ξύννοια βουλεύει πάλαι.
Greek (A. Dain, 1955) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Dain, 1955)) — 278 focus
ἄναξ, ἐμοί τοι μή τι καὶ θεήλατον
τοὔργον τόδ’ ἡ ξύννοια βουλεύει πάλαι.
Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979)) — 278 focus
ἄναξ, ἐμοί τοι μή τι καὶ θεήλατον
τοὖργον τόδ᾽ ἡ ξύννοια βουλεύει πάλαι.
Greek (G. Hermann, 1830) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (G. Hermann, 1830)) — 278 focus
ἄναξ, ἐμοί τοι, μή τι καὶ θεήλατον
τοὔργον τόδ᾽, ἡ ξύννοια βουλεύει πάλαι.
Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906)) — 278 focus
ἄναξ, ἐμοί τοι, μή τι καὶ θεήλατον
τοὔργον τόδ᾽, ἡ ξύννοια βουλεύει πάλαι.
Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924)) — 278 focus
ἄναξ, ἐμοί τοι μή τι καὶ θεήλατον
τοὔργον τόδ᾽ ἡ ξύννοια βουλεύει πάλαι.
Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949)) — 278 focus
ἄναξ, ἐμοί τοι, μή τι καὶ θεήλατον
τοὔργον τόδ᾽, ἡ ξύννοια βουλεύει πάλαι.
Translations (11)
German (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 278 focus
Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921)) — 278 focus
¡Rey!, a mí, en verdad, me brujulea el corazón hace ya rato, si ese hecho ha sido promovido por algún dios.
Latin (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Latin (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 278 focus
Dudum sane, o rex, tacitus mecum dispicio, anne divinitus haec res contigerit.
English (Lewis Campbell, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Lewis Campbell, 1906)) — 278 focus
My lord, a thought keeps whispering in my breast,
Some Power divine hath interposed in this.
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)) — 278 focus
To me it seems as if the hand of heaven \
Were in this deed. i
Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889)) — 278 focus
¡Basta! Si te sigues expresando en ese sentido, me harás estallar de furor, y descubrirás que eres tan insensato como viejo... ¡Qué cosas tan intolerables estás diciendo! ¿Con que los dioses habían de haber tomado al difunto bajo su amparo? ¿Con que ellos habían de haber dado sepultura como merecedor de tan alta honra al que vino á incendiar sus templos y sus ofrendas, á arrasar su patria y á derrocar sus leyes?... ¿Cuándo has visto tú que los dioses protejan á los malvados? No es eso, no; sino que estos ciudadanos de Thebas, descontentos de mis mandatos, no pudiendo soportar mi yugo, andan tiempo há sacudiendo la cabeza y murmurando secretamente: que me odian, sí, que me odian. Tengo la certeza de que ellos han inducido á los otros, mediante recompensa, á cometer el atentado. ¡Ay... el oro! ¡Cuán funesto es este metal para los hombres! Él causa la ruina de los pueblos, él saca de sus hogares á los ciudadanos, y corrompe y lleva hasta el crimen á las almas honradas; él ha enseñado á los hombres todas las perfidias y todas las impiedades... Pero ¡ah! los culpables que se han dejado ganar ya llevarán en su día el condigno castigo. Juro por el respeto con que miro al Supremo Júpiter, y tú al centinela oye bien mi juramento; que si no me descubrís y presentáis ante mi vista al que ha cavado esa sepultura con su propia mano, la muerte no será bastante suplicio para vosotros; os haré colgar vivos en castigo de vuestro atrevimiento para que así conozcáis por qué medios debéis en adelante de enriqueceros; para que sepáis el límite que debéis poner en vuestra codicia; para que aprendáis que las ganancias ilegítimas son con frecuencia más funestas que provechosas.
German (F. Hölderlin, 1804) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (F. Hölderlin, 1804)) — 278 focus
English (Sir Richard Jebb1, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb1, 1904)) — 278 focus
O king, my thoughts have long been whispering, can this deed, perchance, be e’en the work of gods? 280
English (Robert Potter, 1788) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Robert Potter, 1788)) — 278 focus
Long hath my mind, O king, been prone to think
That by the impulse of the gods this deed.........
Forbear, my anger ere thou raise, and show
Thy age unwise; it is not to be borne,
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-148-1 ἐμοί 1 βουλεύει 2 μή 3

mvp-comment-148-2 τι 4

mvp-comment-148-3 θεήλατον, 5

mvp-comment-148-4 ἡ ξύννοια 6

mvp-comment-148-5 πάλαι 7

mvp-comment-149-1 πρὶν ὀργῆς καί με μεστῶσαι 8 καί 9 πρίν 10 μεστῶσαι 11 καί 12 με 13

mvp-comment-149-2 κἀμέ 14

mvp-comment-149-3 μεστῶσαι 15

mvp-comment-150-1 πότερον 16 ἔκρυπτον 17

mvp-comment-150-2 ἀμφικίονας ναούς 18

mvp-comment-150-3 κἀναθήματα 19

mvp-comment-150-4 Her. 1.50 ; Thuc. 6.46 ; Isae. or. 7 § 41.) The wealth of Delphi in

ἀναθήματα
is already proverbial in Il. 9.404 ; at Thebes the
Ἰσμήνιον
( O. T. 21 ) also seems to have been rich in them. After
ἀνάθημα
the gen. denotes either
ὁ ἀναθείς
(as more oft.), or, as here, the divine owner.

mvp-comment-150-5 γῆν ἐκείνων 20 πυρώσων 21

mvp-comment-150-6 νόμους διασκεδῶν 22

mvp-comment-150-7 διασκεδῶν 23

mvp-comment-151-1 τοὺς κακοὺς τιμῶντας … θεούς; 24

mvp-comment-152-1 ταῦτα 25 μόλις φέροντες 26 καὶ πάλαι 27

mvp-comment-152-2 πόλεως ἄνδρες 28

mvp-comment-152-3 ἐρρόθουν 29

mvp-comment-152-4 ἐμοί 30

mvp-comment-152-5 κάρα σείοντες 31

mvp-comment-152-6 ὑπὸ ζυγῷ 32

mvp-comment-152-7 λόφον 33

mvp-comment-152-8 δικαίως 34

mvp-comment-152-9 equal poise’ ( New Crat. 371).—

ὡς = ὥστε
( O. T. 84 ): στέργειν 35

mvp-comment-153-1 τῶνδε 36 ἐκ 37

mvp-comment-153-2 τούτους, 38

mvp-comment-153-3 εἰργάσθαι 39 ἐξεπίσταμαι 40 παρηγμένους 41

mvp-comment-154-1 νόμισμ’ 42

mvp-comment-154-2 ἔβλαστε 43

mvp-comment-154-3 πορθεῖ 44

mvp-comment-154-4 τόδ’ 45 ἄνδρας 46

mvp-comment-155-1 τόδ’ ἐκδ. καὶ παραλλάσσει 47 ἵστασθαι 48 καὶ παραλλάσσει 49

mvp-comment-155-2 ἵστασθαι πρός τι 50

mvp-comment-156-1 πανουργίας … ἔχειν 51

mvp-comment-156-2 εἰδέναι 52 παντὸς ἔργου δυσσέβ. 53 παντὸς ἔργ 54 πανουργίας 55

mvp-comment-157-1 ἤνυσαν 56

mvp-comment-157-2 χρόνῳ ποτέ 57 δοῦναι δίκην 58

mvp-comment-157-3 ἐξέπραξαν ὡς 59

mvp-comment-158-1 Ζεύς 60

mvp-comment-158-2 ὅρκιος 61

mvp-comment-158-3 τὸν αὐτόχειρα 62 τάφου = ταφῆς 63

mvp-comment-159-1 μοῦνος 64 πρὶν ἂν . . δηλώσητε 65 κρεμαστοί 66 ζῶντες κρεμαστοί 67

mvp-comment-159-2 δηλώσηθ’ 68

mvp-comment-159-3 ὕβριν 69

mvp-comment-160-1 ἵν’ … ἁρπάζητε 70

mvp-comment-160-2 τὸ κέρδος 71 ἔνθεν οἰστέον 72

mvp-comment-160-3 μάθηθ’ 73

mvp-comment-160-4 ἐξ ἅπαντος 74 τὸ κερδαίνειν 75

mvp-comment-160-5

πιεῖν
. In O. C. 807
ἑξ ἅπαντος εὖ λέγει
 =speaks well on any theme (starting from anything).

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.

279. mvp-comment-167-1 *1 This is Nauck's emendation for ἡ. It involves a very slight change, and is extremely probable. Reflection suggests the fear that' (not 'the question whether') this may be some visitation from the gods. The conscience of the elders, which was stifled at first, begins to awaken in the presence of the mysterious fact. For the pause after the 2nd iambus, here and supr. 269, cp. Aj. 340, 342, 719, 791, 803, 988, 1050, 1077, 1140, 1332.

280. mvp-comment-168-1 Cease, ere you have quite filled me with wrath. καί, which is combined with πρίν, according to the common idiom (πρὶν καὶ..), is slightly displaced so as to emphasize the phrase ἐμὲ μεστῶσαι. The language is made clearer by the emendation καί με, but the emphatic ἐμέ is more suitable in the mouth of Creon. Cp. Phil. 1042.

281. mvp-comment-169-1 ἄνους τε καὶ γέρων Cp. О. С. 930-931, καί σ᾽ ὁ πληθύων χρόνος | γέρονθ' ὁμοῦ τίθησι καὶ τοῦ νοῦ κενόν. See Essay on Language § 41. p. 78. 285-286. Who came to burn their pillared shrines and offerings, and to break in pieces their land and laws. It seems more likely that the ἀναθήματα are joined in one expression with ναούς than with γῆν and νόμους, which are in a different category.

289-290. mvp-comment-170-1 ἀλλὰ ταῦτα.. ἐμοί But this explains the murmurs I have long been hearing from men in the city against me;' i. e. Those murmurs have become explicit in this act. Οη ταῦτα, see Essay on Language § 17. p. 25; and for the dative ἐμοί, at me, ib. § 12. p. 18. μόλις φέροντες, which some have connected with ταῦτα (ταῦτα μόλις φέροντες, 'Bearing my edict ill'), seems to be used absolutely, sc. τὸ ἐμὸν ζυγόν, with an allusion to the metaphor in what follows. Cp. Thuc. 5. 80, θυμῷ ἔφερον, sc. τὸν πόλεμον ἢ τὰ πράγματα.

291. mvp-comment-171-1 'Covertly shaking the head,' like an animal preparing to throw off the yoke.

292. mvp-comment-172-1 δικαίως Rightly; i. e. As I had a right to expect that they should.

292. mvp-comment-172-2 ὡς στέργειν ἐμέ So as to accept my sway. To this it has been objected that στέργω implies affectionate allegiance. But this notion, although inherent in the etymology of the word, is dropped in use. Cp. Phil. 538, ἐγὼ δ' ἀνάγκῃ προὔμαθον στέργειν κακά : Aesch. Prom. 11, τὴν Δίος τυραννίδα | στέργειν. What hope was there that Prometheus would be made loyal by loyal torments? The other interpretation, So that I should be content (cp. Phil. 458, τούτους ἐγὼ τοὺς ἄνδρας οὐ στέρξω ποτέ), would give but feeble expression to the self-will of Creon. The substitution for these words of εὐλόφως φέρειν from the citation of Eustathius, with the further change of νῶτον for λόφον, is rightly rejected by Dind., who points out that Eustathius, probably quoting from memory, has confused this passage with one of Lycophron.

293. mvp-comment-173-1 ἐκ τῶνδε By these malcontents. Supr. 290.

293. mvp-comment-173-2 τούτους (1) These guards. Infr. ll. 304 ff., supr. 260 ff.: or (2) simply τοὺς εἰργασμένους. The whole of this picture of discontent is the creation of Creon's anger from the hesitation of the chorus when told to see to the execution of the decree. Supr. 215 ff.

294. mvp-comment-174-1 There is a stress on μισθοῖσιν, preparing for what follows.

296. mvp-comment-175-1 νόμισμα, usually = Current coin, is here used in the more general sense which includes this. No such pestilent usance as money is, ever sprang up amongst mankind.

298. mvp-comment-176-1 The object of ἐκδιδάσκει, SC.

298. mvp-comment-176-2 χρηστοὺς αἰσχρά, is absorbed in the expansion of the sentence.

299. mvp-comment-177-1 πρὸς .. ἵστασθαι Το address themselves to shameful enterprizes.' Cp. Thuc. 6. 34. § 7, τῶν δ᾽ ἀνθρώπων πρὸς τὰ λεγόμενα καὶ αἱ γνῶμαι ἵστανται.

300. mvp-comment-178-1 πανουργίας The plural of the abstract noun gives the concrete notion.

300. mvp-comment-178-2 πανουργίας ἔχειν, like θήραν ἔχειν, Αj. 564: ὕβριν ἔχειν, Od. 1. 368, etc.

301. mvp-comment-179-1 παντὸς ἔργου δυσσέβειαν The impiety of every deed; i. e. Every kind of impiety in action. Cp. O.T. 864-865, εὔσεπτον ἁγνείαν λόγων | ἔργων τε πάντων.

303. mvp-comment-180-1 He implies, This cannot be their first act of disloyalty.' The unity of time is not to be pressed in the Antigone: see below, 11. 1064 ff. Else this suspicion of inveterate disaffection, against one who has reigned only for a few hours, would be too extravagant. The elders were selected for their loyalty. supr. 165 ff.

308-311. mvp-comment-181-1 οὐχ ὑμὶν ῞Αιδης.. ἁρπάζητε] Death shall not alone suffice for you, but first you shall be hung up alive to show the heinousness of this offence, that for the future, in your wrongful gettings, you may know better where to look for gain. See Essay on Language § 37. p. 64. There is a confusion of two constructions: (1) οὐχ ὑμὶν ῞Αιδης ἀρκέσει, τo which μοῦνος is added for emphasis, i. e. οὐ θανεῖσθε μόνον: and (2) οὐ θανεῖσθε πρίν, κ.τ.λ. Cp. 1064 ff., and see Aj. 106 ff., θανεῖν γὰρ αὐτὸν οὐτί πω θέλω, κ.τ.λ. The Φύλαξ is to take this message to his fellows.

313-314. mvp-comment-182-1 The sentence is redundant, either the article or ἢ σεσωσμένους being unnecessary. Weckl. reads σεσωμένους. For the article, cp. Eur. Phoen. 606, τοῦ μέρους ἔχων τὸ πλεῖον,