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Χορός

καὶ μὴν πρὸ πυλῶν ἥδʼ Ἰσμήνη,

φιλάδελφα κάτω δάκρυʼ εἰβομένη·

νεφέλη δʼ ὀφρύων ὕπερ αἱματόεν

ῥέθος αἰσχύνει,

τέγγουσʼ εὐῶπα παρειάν.
530

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)) — 526 focus

καὶ μὴν πρὸ πυλῶν ¹ ἥδ᾽ Ἰσμήνη

φιλάδελφα κάτω δάκρυ᾽ εἰβομένη.

νεφέλη δ᾽ ὀφρύων ὕπερ αἱματόεν
525

ῥέθος αἰσχύνει,

τέγγουσ᾽ εὐῶπα παρειάν.

Κρέων

Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 526 focus

Χορός

καὶ μὴν πρὸ πυλῶν ἥδ᾽ Ἰσμήνη

φιλάδελφα κάτω δάκρυ᾽ εἰβομένη·

νεφέλη δ᾽ ὀφρύων ὕπερ αἱματόεν
515

ῥέθος αἰσχύνει,

τέγγουσ᾽ εὐῶπα παρειάν.

Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 526 focus

καὶ μὴν πρὸ πυλῶν ἥδ᾽ Ἰσμήνη

φιλάδελφα κάτω δάκρυ᾽ εἰβομένη·
520

νεφέλη δ᾽ ὀφρύων ὕπερ ἱμερτὸν

ῥέθος αἰσχύνει,

τέγγουσ᾽ εὐῶπα παρειάν.

Κρέων

Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879)) — 526 focus

καὶ μὴν πρὸ πυλῶν ἥδ᾽ Ἰσμήνη,

φιλάδελφα κάτω δάκρυʼ εἰβομένη·

νεφέλη δ᾽ ὀφρύων ὕπερ αἱματόεν

ῥέθος αἰσχύνει,

τέγγουσ᾽ εὐῶπα παρειάν.
530

Κρέων

Greek (A. Colonna, 1978) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Colonna, 1978)) — 526 focus

καὶ μὴν πρὸ πυλῶν ἥδ᾽ Ἰσμήνη,

φιλάδελφα κάτω δάκρυ᾽ εἰβομένη·

νεφέλη δ᾽ ὀφρύων ὕπερ αἱματόεν

ῥέθος αἰσχύνει,

τέγγουσ᾽ εὐῶπα παρειάν.
530

Κρέων

Greek (A. Dain, 1955) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Dain, 1955)) — 526 focus

καὶ μὴν πρὸ πυλῶν ἥδ’ Ἰσμήνη,

φιλάδελφα κάτω δάκρυ᾽ εἰβομένη·

νεφέλη δ’ ὀφρύων ὕπερ αἱματόεν

ῥέθος αἰσχύνει,

τέγγουσ’ εὐῶπα παρειάν.
530

Κρέων

Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979)) — 526 focus

καὶ μὴν πρὸ πυλῶν ἥδ᾽ Ἰσμήνη,

φιλάδελφα κάτω δάκρυ᾽ εἰβομένη·

νεφέλη δ᾽ ὀφρύων ὕπερ αἱματόεν

ῥέθος αἰσχύνει

τέγγουσ᾽ εὐῶπα παρειάν.
530

Κρέων

Greek (G. Hermann, 1830) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (G. Hermann, 1830)) — 526 focus

καὶ μὴν πρὸ πυλῶν ἥδ᾽ Ἰσμήνη

φιλάδελφα κάτω δάκρυ᾽ εἰβομένη·

νεφέλη δ᾽ ὀφρύων ὕπερ αἱματόεν

ῥέθος αἰσχύνει,
525

τέγγουσ᾽ εὐῶπα παρειάν.

Κρέων

Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906)) — 526 focus

καὶ μὴν πρὸ πυλῶν ἥδ᾽ Ἰσμήνη,

φιλάδελφα κάτω δάκρυ᾽ εἰβομένη·

νεφέλη δ᾽ ὀφρύων ὕπερ αἱματόεν

ῥέθος αἰσχύνει,

τέγγουσ᾽ εὐῶπα παρειάν.
530

Κρέων

Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924)) — 526 focus

καὶ μὴν πρὸ πυλῶν ἥδ᾽ Ἰσμήνη,

φιλάδελφα κάτω δάκρυ᾽ εἰβομένη·

νεφέλη δ᾽ ὀφρύων ὕπερ αἱματόεν

ῥέθος αἰσχύνει,

τέγγουσ᾽ εὐῶπα παρειάν.
530

Κρέων

Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949)) — 526 focus

καὶ μὴν πρὸ πυλῶν ἥδ᾽ Ἰσμήνη,

φιλάδελφα κάτω δάκρυ᾽ εἰβομένη·

νεφέλη δ᾽ ὀφρύων ὕπερ αἱματόεν

ῥέθος αἰσχύνει,

τέγγουσ᾽ εὐῶπα παρειάν.
530

Κρέων

Translations (11)

German (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 526 focus

CHOR

Sieh dort vor dem Thor Ismene'n sich nahn,

die Thränen der Lieb' um die Schwester vergiefst;

ein düster Gewölk um die Brauen entstellt
515

ihr glühend Gesicht,

und benetzet die liebliche Wange.

(Ismene kommt.)

Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921)) — 526 focus

Ya en la puerta tienes a Ismena derramando lágrimas de amor por su hermana; la nube de dolor que le oprime los ojos ensombrece su encendida cara, bañándole las hermosas mejillas.

CREONTE

Latin (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Latin (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 526 focus

Sed ecce pro foribus Ismena, sororis ob desiderium fundens lacrimas, nube vero frontem obducta, amabilem deformat vultum, venustas irrigans genas.

Creon

English (Lewis Campbell, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Lewis Campbell, 1906)) — 526 focus

Now comes Ismenè forth. Ah, see,

From clouds above her brow

The sister-loving tear

Is falling wet on her fair cheek,

Distaining all her passion-crimson’d face!
530

CR
Enter ISMENE .

German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review)) — 526 focus

Dort tritt vor das Thor Ismene heraus,

Die Thränen der Lieb' um die Schwester vergießt:
525

Ein Gewölk um die Brauen entstellt ihr Gesicht,

Rothglühend im Schmerz,

Und bethaut liebreizende Wangen.

Ismene (die von Dienern Kreons herbeigeführt wird). Die Vorigen.

Kreon.

English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759)) — 526 focus

Lo ! At the portal stands the fair Ismene,

Tears in her lovely eyes, a cloud of grief

Sits on her brow, wetting her beauteous cheek

With pious sorrow for a sister's fate.

Ismene
Scene VI.

Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889)) — 526 focus

Ved ahí á Ismena en el dintel del Palacio: viene llorando de compasión por su hermana; una nube cubre su frente y desfigura su rostro ruborizado, regando de lágrimas sus hermosas mejillas.

Los Mismos é Ismena

CREONTE

German (F. Hölderlin, 1804) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (F. Hölderlin, 1804)) — 526 focus

CHOR

Aber jezt kommt aus dem Thor’ Ismene,

Friedlich, schwesterliche Thränen vergiefsend.

Ein Geist über den Augenbraunen das blutige Gesicht dekt,
550

Waschet rege von den Schläfen die Wangen.

English (Sir Richard Jebb1, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb1, 1904)) — 526 focus

Lo, yonder Ismene comes forth, shedding such tears as fond sisters weep; a cloud upon her brow casts 530 its shadow over her darkly-flushing face, and breaks in rain on her fair cheek.

Creon

English (Robert Potter, 1788) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Robert Potter, 1788)) — 531 focus

Thou, like a viper creeping through my house

Ismene

With wily secrecy to drain my blood,

(For little did I think that two such pests

I nurtured, to subvert my throne combined).

Tell me, with her didst thou prepare this tomb

Will thou confess it, or abjure the deed?
540

I did it, with my sister in the deedivi
540

Consorting, and with her partake the blame.

Juctice allows not this: thou hadst no will

To aid; nor with thee did I share the act.

Yet in thy danger I am not ashamed

To make myself a partner of thy fate.
545

Whose deed this is the dead and Pluto know."
545

Love shown in words alone contents not me.

Yet scorn me not, disdain not that I diese

With thee, and pay that reverence to the dead.
550

Die not with me, nor thine make thou a deed
550

Thou didst not: it sufficeth that I die.

Deprived of thee, my sister, how can life:

Be dear to me?

Antigone

Ask Creon: thy regard
555

Is paid to him.
555

Ismene

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.
600

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,
605

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.
610

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.
615

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.
620

But for the briefest moment such a man fares free of destruction.
625

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-301-1 καὶ μὴν ¹

mvp-comment-301-2 εἰβομένη ² κάτω ³

mvp-comment-301-3 with

εἴβειν

, for Homer never says

κατὰ δάκρυα λείβειν

. Nothing is more natural than that

εἰβομένη

should have become

λειβομένη

in the MSS., the latter word being much the commoner.

mvp-comment-301-4 κάτω ⁴

mvp-comment-302-1 νεφέλη δ’ ὀφρύων ὕπερ ⁵

mvp-comment-302-2 αἱματόεν ⁶

mvp-comment-302-3 ῥέθος ⁷

mvp-comment-302-4 αἰσχύνει ⁸

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

526-530. mvp-comment-308-1 Here comes Ismene forth, shedding sisterly tears; from clouds above her brow, that moisten her fair cheek, doing disgrace unto her flushed countenance. Cp. Sh Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream, 1. 1, Lys. Why is your cheek so pale? | How chance the roses there do fade so fast? | Herm. Belike, for want of rain, which I could well | Beteem them from the tempest of mine eyes. Ant. and Cleo. 3. 2. 52. Il. 17. 591, ἄχεος νεφέλη: Eur. Hipp. 173, ὀφρύων νέφος: Aesch. Prom. 144-145, ὀμίχλα .. πλήρης δακρύων.

527. mvp-comment-309-1 δάκρυ᾽ εἰβομένη is the Triclinian reading for δάκρυα λειβόμενα. δάκρυ λειβομένη has been conjectured. But the construction, with φιλάδελφα adverbial, is less simple and therefore less pathetic. δάκρυα εἰβομένη is read in M³.

529. mvp-comment-310-1 ῥέθος Eur. Η. F. 1204, πάρες ἀπ᾿ ὀμμάτων | πέπλον . . ῥέθος ἀελίῳ δεῖξον.

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Χορός καὶ μὴν πρὸ πυλῶν ἥδʼ Ἰσμήνη, φιλάδελφα κάτω δάκρυʼ εἰβομένη· νεφέλη δʼ ὀφρύων ὕπερ αἱματόεν ῥέθος αἰσχύνει, τέγγουσʼ εὐῶπα παρειάν. 530

Current edition Experimental

καὶ μὴν πρὸ πυλῶν 1 ἥδ᾽ Ἰσμήνη φιλάδελφα κάτω δάκρυ᾽ εἰβομένη. νεφέλη δ᾽ ὀφρύων ὕπερ αἱματόεν 525 ῥέθος αἰσχύνει, τέγγουσ᾽ εὐῶπα παρειάν.

Κρέων

Χορός καὶ μὴν πρὸ πυλῶν ἥδ᾽ Ἰσμήνη φιλάδελφα κάτω δάκρυ᾽ εἰβομένη· νεφέλη δ᾽ ὀφρύων ὕπερ αἱματόεν 515 ῥέθος αἰσχύνει, τέγγουσ᾽ εὐῶπα παρειάν.

καὶ μὴν πρὸ πυλῶν ἥδ᾽ Ἰσμήνη φιλάδελφα κάτω δάκρυ᾽ εἰβομένη· 520 νεφέλη δ᾽ ὀφρύων ὕπερ ἱμερτὸν ῥέθος αἰσχύνει, τέγγουσ᾽ εὐῶπα παρειάν.

Κρέων

καὶ μὴν πρὸ πυλῶν ἥδ᾽ Ἰσμήνη, φιλάδελφα κάτω δάκρυʼ εἰβομένη· νεφέλη δ᾽ ὀφρύων ὕπερ αἱματόεν ῥέθος αἰσχύνει, τέγγουσ᾽ εὐῶπα παρειάν. 530

Κρέων

καὶ μὴν πρὸ πυλῶν ἥδ᾽ Ἰσμήνη, φιλάδελφα κάτω δάκρυ᾽ εἰβομένη· νεφέλη δ᾽ ὀφρύων ὕπερ αἱματόεν ῥέθος αἰσχύνει, τέγγουσ᾽ εὐῶπα παρειάν. 530

Κρέων

καὶ μὴν πρὸ πυλῶν ἥδ’ Ἰσμήνη, φιλάδελφα κάτω δάκρυ᾽ εἰβομένη· νεφέλη δ’ ὀφρύων ὕπερ αἱματόεν ῥέθος αἰσχύνει, τέγγουσ’ εὐῶπα παρειάν. 530

Κρέων

καὶ μὴν πρὸ πυλῶν ἥδ᾽ Ἰσμήνη, φιλάδελφα κάτω δάκρυ᾽ εἰβομένη· νεφέλη δ᾽ ὀφρύων ὕπερ αἱματόεν ῥέθος αἰσχύνει τέγγουσ᾽ εὐῶπα παρειάν. 530

Κρέων

καὶ μὴν πρὸ πυλῶν ἥδ᾽ Ἰσμήνη φιλάδελφα κάτω δάκρυ᾽ εἰβομένη· νεφέλη δ᾽ ὀφρύων ὕπερ αἱματόεν ῥέθος αἰσχύνει, 525 τέγγουσ᾽ εὐῶπα παρειάν.

Κρέων

καὶ μὴν πρὸ πυλῶν ἥδ᾽ Ἰσμήνη, φιλάδελφα κάτω δάκρυ᾽ εἰβομένη· νεφέλη δ᾽ ὀφρύων ὕπερ αἱματόεν ῥέθος αἰσχύνει, τέγγουσ᾽ εὐῶπα παρειάν. 530

Κρέων

καὶ μὴν πρὸ πυλῶν ἥδ᾽ Ἰσμήνη, φιλάδελφα κάτω δάκρυ᾽ εἰβομένη· νεφέλη δ᾽ ὀφρύων ὕπερ αἱματόεν ῥέθος αἰσχύνει, τέγγουσ᾽ εὐῶπα παρειάν. 530

Κρέων

καὶ μὴν πρὸ πυλῶν ἥδ᾽ Ἰσμήνη, φιλάδελφα κάτω δάκρυ᾽ εἰβομένη· νεφέλη δ᾽ ὀφρύων ὕπερ αἱματόεν ῥέθος αἰσχύνει, τέγγουσ᾽ εὐῶπα παρειάν. 530

Κρέων

CHOR Sieh dort vor dem Thor Ismene'n sich nahn, die Thränen der Lieb' um die Schwester vergiefst; ein düster Gewölk um die Brauen entstellt 515 ihr glühend Gesicht, und benetzet die liebliche Wange.

CREONTE

Creon

Now comes Ismenè forth. Ah, see, From clouds above her brow The sister-loving tear Is falling wet on her fair cheek, Distaining all her passion-crimson’d face! 530

CR Enter ISMENE .

Dort tritt vor das Thor Ismene heraus, Die Thränen der Lieb' um die Schwester vergießt: 525 Ein Gewölk um die Brauen entstellt ihr Gesicht, Rothglühend im Schmerz, Und bethaut liebreizende Wangen. Ismene (die von Dienern Kreons herbeigeführt wird). Die Vorigen.

Kreon.

Lo ! At the portal stands the fair Ismene, Tears in her lovely eyes, a cloud of grief Sits on her brow, wetting her beauteous cheek With pious sorrow for a sister's fate.

Ismene Scene VI.

Los Mismos é Ismena

CREONTE

CHOR Aber jezt kommt aus dem Thor’ Ismene, Friedlich, schwesterliche Thränen vergiefsend. Ein Geist über den Augenbraunen das blutige Gesicht dekt, 550 Waschet rege von den Schläfen die Wangen.

Creon

Thou, like a viper creeping through my house

Antigone Ask Creon: thy regard 555 Is paid to him. 555

Ismene

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

Stable identifiers

Χορός

καὶ μὴν πρὸ πυλῶν ἥδʼ Ἰσμήνη,

φιλάδελφα κάτω δάκρυʼ εἰβομένη·

νεφέλη δʼ ὀφρύων ὕπερ αἱματόεν

ῥέθος αἰσχύνει,

τέγγουσʼ εὐῶπα παρειάν.
530

καὶ μὴν πρὸ πυλῶν ¹ ἥδ᾽ Ἰσμήνη

φιλάδελφα κάτω δάκρυ᾽ εἰβομένη.

νεφέλη δ᾽ ὀφρύων ὕπερ αἱματόεν
525

ῥέθος αἰσχύνει,

τέγγουσ᾽ εὐῶπα παρειάν.

Χορός

καὶ μὴν πρὸ πυλῶν ἥδ᾽ Ἰσμήνη

φιλάδελφα κάτω δάκρυ᾽ εἰβομένη·

νεφέλη δ᾽ ὀφρύων ὕπερ αἱματόεν
515

ῥέθος αἰσχύνει,

τέγγουσ᾽ εὐῶπα παρειάν.

καὶ μὴν πρὸ πυλῶν ἥδ᾽ Ἰσμήνη

φιλάδελφα κάτω δάκρυ᾽ εἰβομένη·
520

νεφέλη δ᾽ ὀφρύων ὕπερ ἱμερτὸν

ῥέθος αἰσχύνει,

τέγγουσ᾽ εὐῶπα παρειάν.

καὶ μὴν πρὸ πυλῶν ἥδ᾽ Ἰσμήνη,

φιλάδελφα κάτω δάκρυʼ εἰβομένη·

νεφέλη δ᾽ ὀφρύων ὕπερ αἱματόεν

ῥέθος αἰσχύνει,

τέγγουσ᾽ εὐῶπα παρειάν.
530

καὶ μὴν πρὸ πυλῶν ἥδ᾽ Ἰσμήνη,

φιλάδελφα κάτω δάκρυ᾽ εἰβομένη·

νεφέλη δ᾽ ὀφρύων ὕπερ αἱματόεν

ῥέθος αἰσχύνει,

τέγγουσ᾽ εὐῶπα παρειάν.
530

καὶ μὴν πρὸ πυλῶν ἥδ’ Ἰσμήνη,

φιλάδελφα κάτω δάκρυ᾽ εἰβομένη·

νεφέλη δ’ ὀφρύων ὕπερ αἱματόεν

ῥέθος αἰσχύνει,

τέγγουσ’ εὐῶπα παρειάν.
530

καὶ μὴν πρὸ πυλῶν ἥδ᾽ Ἰσμήνη,

φιλάδελφα κάτω δάκρυ᾽ εἰβομένη·

νεφέλη δ᾽ ὀφρύων ὕπερ αἱματόεν

ῥέθος αἰσχύνει

τέγγουσ᾽ εὐῶπα παρειάν.
530

καὶ μὴν πρὸ πυλῶν ἥδ᾽ Ἰσμήνη

φιλάδελφα κάτω δάκρυ᾽ εἰβομένη·

νεφέλη δ᾽ ὀφρύων ὕπερ αἱματόεν

ῥέθος αἰσχύνει,
525

τέγγουσ᾽ εὐῶπα παρειάν.

καὶ μὴν πρὸ πυλῶν ἥδ᾽ Ἰσμήνη,

φιλάδελφα κάτω δάκρυ᾽ εἰβομένη·

νεφέλη δ᾽ ὀφρύων ὕπερ αἱματόεν

ῥέθος αἰσχύνει,

τέγγουσ᾽ εὐῶπα παρειάν.
530

καὶ μὴν πρὸ πυλῶν ἥδ᾽ Ἰσμήνη,

φιλάδελφα κάτω δάκρυ᾽ εἰβομένη·

νεφέλη δ᾽ ὀφρύων ὕπερ αἱματόεν

ῥέθος αἰσχύνει,

τέγγουσ᾽ εὐῶπα παρειάν.
530

καὶ μὴν πρὸ πυλῶν ἥδ᾽ Ἰσμήνη,

φιλάδελφα κάτω δάκρυ᾽ εἰβομένη·

νεφέλη δ᾽ ὀφρύων ὕπερ αἱματόεν

ῥέθος αἰσχύνει,

τέγγουσ᾽ εὐῶπα παρειάν.
530

CHOR

Sieh dort vor dem Thor Ismene'n sich nahn,

die Thränen der Lieb' um die Schwester vergiefst;

ein düster Gewölk um die Brauen entstellt
515

ihr glühend Gesicht,

und benetzet die liebliche Wange.

Now comes Ismenè forth. Ah, see,

From clouds above her brow

The sister-loving tear

Is falling wet on her fair cheek,

Distaining all her passion-crimson’d face!
530

CR
Enter ISMENE .

Dort tritt vor das Thor Ismene heraus,

Die Thränen der Lieb' um die Schwester vergießt:
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Ein Gewölk um die Brauen entstellt ihr Gesicht,

Rothglühend im Schmerz,

Und bethaut liebreizende Wangen.

Ismene (die von Dienern Kreons herbeigeführt wird). Die Vorigen.

Lo ! At the portal stands the fair Ismene,

Tears in her lovely eyes, a cloud of grief

Sits on her brow, wetting her beauteous cheek

With pious sorrow for a sister's fate.

Ismene
Scene VI.

CHOR

Aber jezt kommt aus dem Thor’ Ismene,

Friedlich, schwesterliche Thränen vergiefsend.

Ein Geist über den Augenbraunen das blutige Gesicht dekt,
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Waschet rege von den Schläfen die Wangen.

Antigone

Ask Creon: thy regard
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Is paid to him.
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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?
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