Sophocles Antigone 80

Robert Potter (Translator)

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Creon
My son
With a base woman I disdain to wed.

Antigone. Sophocles. Robert Potter (Translator). London. 1820.

Current edition Experimental

English (Robert Potter, 1788) (OCR draft) (English) (English (Robert Potter, 1788))

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Editions (12)
Greek (L. Benloew, 1858) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (L. Benloew, 1858)) — 80 focus
σὺ μὲν τάδ᾽ ἂν προὔχοι᾽· ἐγὼ δὲ δὴ τάφον
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Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 80 focus
σὺ μὲν τάδ᾽ ἂν προὔχοι᾽ · ἐγὼ δὲ δὴ τάφον
80
Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 80 focus
σὺ μὲν τάδ᾽ ἂν προὔχοι᾽ · ἐγὼ δὲ δὴ τάφον
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Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879)) — 80 focus
σὺ μὲν τάδ᾽ ἂν προὔχοιʼ· ἐγὼ δὲ δὴ τάφον
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Greek (A. Colonna, 1978) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Colonna, 1978)) — 80 focus
σὺ μὲν τάδ᾽ ἂν προὔχοι᾽, ἐγὼ δὲ δὴ τάφον
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Greek (A. Dain, 1955) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Dain, 1955)) — 80.mvp-line-80 focus
σὺ μὲν τάδ’ ἂν προὔχοι', ἐγὼ δὲ δὴ τάφον
80
Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979)) — 80 focus
σὺ μὲν τάδ᾽ ἂν προύχοι᾽, ἐγὼ δὲ δὴ τάφον
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Greek (G. Hermann, 1830) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (G. Hermann, 1830)) — 80 focus
σὺ μὲν τάδ᾽ ἂν προὔχοι᾽· ἐγὼ δὲ δὴ τάφον
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Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906)) — 80 focus
σὺ μὲν τάδ᾽ ἂν προὔχοι᾽· ἐγὼ δὲ δὴ τάφον
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Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924)) — 80.mvp-line-80 focus
σὺ μὲν τάδ᾽ ἂν προύχοι᾽ — ἐγὼ δὲ δὴ τάφον
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Antigone (OCR draft) Experimental (Antigone) — 80 focus
σὺ μὲν τάδʼ ἂν προὔχοιʼ· ἐγὼ δὲ δὴ τάφον
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Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949)) — 80 focus
σὺ μὲν τάδ᾽ ἂν προύχοι᾽· ἐγὼ δὲ δὴ τάφον
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Translations (10)
German (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 80 focus
KREON
Du magst von hinnen gehen nun, wohin du willst,
befreit und ledig von des Frevels schwerer Schuld;
Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921)) — 80 focus
ANTIGONA
¿Quieres algo más que matarme, después de haberme cogido?
Latin (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Latin (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 80 focus
Antigone
Vin' amplius aliquid, quam me captam occidere ?
English (Lewis Campbell, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Lewis Campbell, 1906)) — 80 focus
ANT
Wouldst thou aught more of me than merely death?
German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review)) — 69 focus
Nicht mehr verlang' ich's, möchte dich zur Helferin
Nicht mehr, erklärtest du dich auch bereit dazu.
70
Nein, wähle deinem Sinne nach: ihn werd' ich selbst
Bestatten; ruhmvoll ist der Tod für diese That.
Bei ihm, dem Lieben, werd' ich ruh'n, die Liebende,
Die frommen Frevel übte; muß ich länger doch
Den Todten dort gefallen, als den Lebenden.
75
Denn dort ja ruh' ich ewig; du, wenn dir's gefällt,
Entehre, was in Ehre selbst bei Göttern steht.
Ich acht' es auch der Ehre werth; indeß der Stadt
Zum Troz zu handeln, fühl ich mich nicht stark genug.
English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759)) — 80 focus
Antigone
499
Why this delay then, when thou knowst my
To thee as hateful are as thine to me? \ [words
500
Therefore dispatch ; I cannot live to do
A deed more glorious ; and so these would all
Confess, were not their tongues restrained by fear ;
It is the tyrant's privilege, we know.
505
To speak and act whate'er he please, uncensured.
Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889)) — 80 focus
CREONTE
Tú, dirigiéndose al centinela márchate de aquí: quedas libre de la tremenda sospecha que sobre ti pesaba. ( Se marcha el guardia. Pero tú á Antigona sin rodeos y en pocas palabras, contéstame: ¿conocías el edicto que yo había hecho publicar, prohibiendo ejecutar un acto semejante?
German (F. Hölderlin, 1804) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (F. Hölderlin, 1804)) — 80 focus
KREON
Nichts will ich. Hab’ ich diess, so hab’ ich Alles.
520
English (Sir Richard Jebb1, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb1, 1904)) — 80 focus
Antigone
Wouldst thou do more than take and slay me?
English (Sir Richard Jebb2, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb2, 1904)) — 100-160 focus

Commentary

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

mvp-comment-333-1 υἱέσι 1 υἱάσιν 2

mvp-comment-333-2

υἷα, υἷε, υἷες, υἷας
: cp. Monro Hom. Gr. § 107.—The dat. of interest goes with κακὰς γυναῖκας 3 στυγῶ 4

mvp-comment-334-1 It is not of much moment that L, like the later MSS., gives this verse to Ismene. Errors as to the persons occur not seldom in L (see, e.g., cr. n. to O. C. 837 , and cp. ib. 1737 ); and here a mistake would have been peculiarly easy, as the dialogue from v. 561 onwards has been between Creon and Ismene. To me it seems certain that the verse is Antigone's, and that one of the finest touches in the play is effaced by giving it to Ismene. The taunt,

κακὰς γυναῖκας υἱέσι
, moves Antigone to break the silence which she has kept since v. 560: in all this scene she has not spoken to Creon, nor does she now address him: she is thinking of Haemon,—of the dishonour to him implied in the charge of having made such a choice, —
ὡς αἰεὶ τὸν ὁμοῖον ἄγει θεὸς ὡς τὸν ὁμοῖον
. How little does his father know the heart which was in sympathy with her own. This solitary reference to her love heightens in a wonderful degree our sense of her unselfish devotion to a sacred duty. If Ismene speaks this verse, then
τὸ σὸν λέχος
in 573 must be, ‘the marriage of which you talk’ (like El. 1110
οὐκ οἶδα τὴν σὴν κλῄδον
'), which certainly is not its natural sense.

mvp-comment-334-2 Αἷμον 5

mvp-comment-335-1 ἄγαν γε λυπεῖς 6

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

571. mvp-comment-338-1 The plural generalizes the expression.

571. mvp-comment-338-2 υἱέσι Dative of the person interested.

572. mvp-comment-339-1 *AN. The MSS. have ΙΣ. But Böckh has given strong reasons for following Aldus in assigning the line to Antigone. The last speech of Creon might well move her to break silence, which she does naturally by resenting the words not for herself, but for Haemon. There is also greater bitterness in this line than in any speech of Ismene. Then, granting that τὸ σὸν λέχος, addressed to Ismene, might mean The marriage you prate of, the words express a much deeper feeling as addressed to Antigone. Outwardly a mere expression of impatience, they convey the only touch of natural feeling which Creon betrays. 574 and 576 are then most naturally given to the chorus. The act of Creon in sacrificing his son's happiness is more solemnly marked when his words are addressed to the coryphaeus. While adhering to this view I am bound to add that some of the best critics prefer the other arrangement of the persons.