mvp-comment-101-1 ἐγὼ γάρ ¹ γάρ ² τοῦτο γιγνώσκων ³ ἴστω ⁴

mvp-comment-102-1 οὔτ’ ἂν σιωπήσαιμι ⁵

mvp-comment-103-1 στείχουσαν ἀστοῖς ⁶ ὁμοῦ ⁷

mvp-comment-103-2 ἀντὶ τῆς σωτηρίας ⁸ τῆς ⁹

mvp-comment-104-1 ἄνδρα δυσμενῆ χθονός ¹⁰

mvp-comment-104-2 ἐμαυτῷ ¹¹ φίλον ¹² θείμην ¹³

mvp-comment-105-1 ἡ σῴζουσα ¹⁴

mvp-comment-105-2 ταύτης ¹⁵ ὀρθῆς ¹⁶

mvp-comment-105-3 τοὺς φίλους ποιούμεθα ¹⁷

mvp-comment-105-4

. ‘Pericles Thucydidis 11. 60 Sophoclem videtur respexisse, vel eum Sophocles,’ is Dobree's remark ( Adv. 2. 37 ); but there is no adequate ground for such a view. The verbal coincidence of with may well have been accidental. What is really common to poet and historian is the general sentiment of Periclean Athens. For another example of this, cp. O. C. 116 n.

mvp-comment-106-1 νόμοισι ¹⁸

mvp-comment-106-2 αὔξω ¹⁹

mvp-comment-107-1 ἀδελφὰ τῶνδε ²⁰

mvp-comment-107-2 τῶν ἀπ’ Οἰδίπου ²¹

mvp-comment-108-1 δορί ²² δόρει ²³

mvp-comment-109-1 τὰ πάντ’ ἐφαγνίσαι ²⁴ ἐπί ²⁵ ἐφαγνίσαι ²⁶ ἀφαγνίσαι ²⁷ ἀπό ²⁸

mvp-comment-110-1 τοῖς ἀρίστοις ²⁹

mvp-comment-110-2 ἔρχεται κάτω ³⁰

mvp-comment-111-1 L has Πολυνείκην ³¹

mvp-comment-111-2 λέγω ³²

mvp-comment-112-1 γτ=ν πατρῴαν . . καὶ θεοὺς . . πρῆσαι ³³

mvp-comment-112-2 θ. τοὺς ἐγγενεῖς ³⁴

mvp-comment-112-3 κατελθών ³⁵

mvp-comment-112-4 γ)θέλησε μέν … ἠθέλ. δέ ³⁶ ἠθέλησε μὲν ³⁷

mvp-comment-112-5 πρῆσαι ³⁸

mvp-comment-112-6 κατ’ ἄκρας ³⁹

mvp-comment-112-7 αἵματος κ. πάσασθαι ⁴⁰

mvp-comment-112-8 τοὺς δὲ … ἄγειν ⁴¹

mvp-comment-113-1 The traditional ἐκκεκηρῦχθαι τάφῳ ⁴² ἐκκεκήρυκται τάφῳ ⁴³ ἐκκεκηρῦχθαι λέγω ⁴⁴ τάφῳ ⁴⁵ κτερίζειν ⁴⁶ τάφῳ ⁴⁷ κτερίζειν ⁴⁸ μήτε ⁴⁹ κωκῦσαι ⁵⁰ τάφῳ ⁵¹ λέγω ⁵² τάφῳ ⁵³ ἐκκεκ ⁵⁴

mvp-comment-114-1 ἐᾶν δ ⁵⁵ ἄθαπτον, αἰκισθέντ’ ἰδεῖν ⁵⁶ δέμας καὶ πρὸς οἰωνῶν καὶ πρὸς κυνῶν ἐδεστόν ⁵⁷ αἰκισθέντ ⁵⁸ αἰκισθέντ ⁵⁹ ἐδεστόν ⁶⁰ αἰκισθέν τ’, δέμας ⁶¹

mvp-comment-114-2 δέμας ⁶²

mvp-comment-114-3 ἰδεῖν ⁶³

mvp-comment-115-1 φρόνημα ⁶⁴

mvp-comment-115-2 ἔκ γ’ ἐμοῦ ⁶⁵

mvp-comment-116-1 The MSS. have τιμὴν προέξουσ’ ..τῶν ἐνδ. ⁶⁶ τιμήν ⁶⁷ τιμῆ ⁶⁸ προσέξους ⁶⁹

mvp-comment-117-1 τιμήσεται ⁷⁰

mvp-comment-118-1 I print Dindorf's κἀς ⁷¹ καὶ ⁷² σοὶ ταῦτ’ ἀρέσκει ⁷³ Κρέον ⁷⁴ ταὔτ ⁷⁵ ταῦτ’ ⁷⁶

mvp-comment-119-1 In παντί πού γ’ ⁷⁷ σοί γ’ … που ⁷⁸ ἔνεστι ⁷⁹ χὡπόσοι ζῶμεν ⁸⁰ πέρι ⁸¹

mvp-comment-120-1 ὡς ἂν … ἦτε ⁸² πῶς ἂν … εἶτε ⁸³

mvp-comment-120-2 σκοποί ⁸⁴

mvp-comment-120-3 νυν ⁸⁵ νῦν ⁸⁶

mvp-comment-120-4 τῶν εἰρ ⁸⁷

mvp-comment-121-1 πρόθες τοῦτο ⁸⁸ βαστάζειν ⁸⁹

mvp-comment-121-2 τοῦ νεκροῦ γ’ ⁹⁰

mvp-comment-122-1 τί δῆτ’ ἂν … ἐπεντέλλοις ⁹¹

mvp-comment-122-2 The reading ἄλλῳ ⁹² τοῦτο ⁹³

mvp-comment-122-3 ἐπιχωρεῖν ⁹⁴

mvp-comment-122-4 ἀπιστοῦσιν ⁹⁵

mvp-comment-122-5 τάδε, ⁹⁶

mvp-comment-123-1 ὃς ⁹⁷ ἐρᾷ ⁹⁸

mvp-comment-123-2 καὶ μὴν ⁹⁹ γε ¹⁰⁰ μισθός ¹⁰¹

mvp-comment-123-3 requital of disobedience is that.’ For

so used, cp. O. T. 836 , 1004 f., El. 556 .

mvp-comment-123-4 τὸ κέρδος ¹⁰²

mvp-comment-123-5 διώλεσεν ¹⁰³

mvp-comment-124-1 ἐρῶ μὲν οὐχ ¹⁰⁴

mvp-comment-124-2 ὅπως ¹⁰⁵

mvp-comment-124-3 τάχους ὕπο ¹⁰⁶ τάχους ¹⁰⁷

mvp-comment-125-1 ἐξάρας ¹⁰⁸

mvp-comment-125-2 φροντίδων ¹⁰⁹ ἐπιστάσεις ¹¹⁰

mvp-comment-125-3 ὁδοῖς ¹¹¹

mvp-comment-125-4 κυκλῶν ¹¹²

mvp-comment-126-1 ψυχὴ γὰρ ηὔδα ¹¹³ πολλὰ ¹¹⁴ μυθουμένη ¹¹⁵

mvp-comment-127-1 τάλας … τλήμων ¹¹⁶

mvp-comment-127-2 μένεις ¹¹⁷ μενεῖς ¹¹⁸ αὖ ¹¹⁹

mvp-comment-127-3 πῶς … οὐκ ¹²⁰

mvp-comment-127-4 ἀλγυνεῖ ¹²¹

mvp-comment-128-1 ἑλίσσων ¹²²

mvp-comment-128-2 ἤνυτον ¹²³

mvp-comment-128-3 σχολῇ βραδύς ¹²⁴

mvp-comment-129-1 τέλος γε μέντοι ¹²⁵

mvp-comment-129-2 ἐνίκησεν ¹²⁶

mvp-comment-129-3

. That should not be regarded as the subject to , is shown by such an example as Her. 8.9

ἐνίκα τὴν ἡμέρην ἐκείνην αὐτοῦ μείναντάς τε καὶ αὐλισθέντας μετέπειτα νύκτα μέσην παρέντας πορεύεσθαι

, where the length of the interval excludes such a view. The personal constr. occurs below, 274; cp. Thuc. 2.12

ἦν...Περικλέους γνώμη...νενικηκυῖα

.

mvp-comment-130-1 σοί ¹²⁷ μολεῖν ¹²⁸ σοί ¹²⁹ φράσων ¹³⁰ φράσω δ ¹³¹ κεἰ ¹³² κεἴ σοι ¹³³ σοί. ¹³⁴

mvp-comment-130-2 τὸ μηδέν ¹³⁵

mvp-comment-131-1 τῆς ἐλπίδος ¹³⁶

mvp-comment-131-2 δεδραγμένος ¹³⁷ πεφραγμένος ¹³⁸ πεπραγμένος ¹³⁹

mvp-comment-131-3 τὸ μὴ παθεῖν ἄν ¹⁴⁰

mvp-comment-131-4

, depending on . as= : for the art. with infin., cp. 78 n.

mvp-comment-131-5 τὸ μόρσιμον ¹⁴¹

mvp-comment-132-1 ἀνθ’ οὗ ¹⁴²

mvp-comment-132-2 τὸ γὰρ | πρᾶγμ’ ¹⁴³ γάρ ¹⁴⁴

mvp-comment-133-1 εὖ γε στοχάζει ¹⁴⁵ στοχάζει ¹⁴⁶ ἀποφράγνυσαι ¹⁴⁷ στοχάζομαι ¹⁴⁸

mvp-comment-133-2 κἀποφράγνυσαι ¹⁴⁹

mvp-comment-133-3 τὸ πρᾶγμα ¹⁵⁰

mvp-comment-134-1 δηλοῖς δ’ ὥς τι ς. ¹⁵¹

mvp-comment-135-1 τὰ δεινά ¹⁵² γάρ ¹⁵³

mvp-comment-135-2 ποτ ¹⁵⁴

mvp-comment-135-3 ἀπαλλαχθείς ¹⁵⁵

mvp-comment-136-1 καὶ δή ¹⁵⁶

mvp-comment-136-2 θάψας ¹⁵⁷ κἀπί ¹⁵⁸

mvp-comment-136-3 διψίαν ¹⁵⁹

mvp-comment-136-4 κἀφαγιστεύσας ¹⁶⁰ ἃ χρή ¹⁶¹

mvp-comment-137-1 ἀνδρῶν ¹⁶²

mvp-comment-137-2 οὔτε του γενῇδος … οὐ δικέλλης ¹⁶³ οὔτε … οὐ ¹⁶⁴ γενῄς ¹⁶⁵ γενῄς ¹⁶⁶ δίκελλα ¹⁶⁷

mvp-comment-137-3 δικ. ἐκβολή ¹⁶⁸ ἐκβ. ¹⁶⁹ στύφλος ¹⁷⁰ χέρσος ¹⁷¹ ἀρρώξ ¹⁷²

mvp-comment-137-4 ἐπημαξευμένη ¹⁷³ ἐπ‐ ¹⁷⁴ ἐφ‐ ¹⁷⁵

mvp-comment-137-5 ἀλλ’ ὁ ἐργάτης ἄσημός τις ἦν ¹⁷⁶

mvp-comment-138-1 It is still the early morning of the day on which the drama opens. The Argives having fled in the night, Creon had published his edict shortly before dawn. Antigone had done her deed in the short interval between the publication of the edict and the beginning of the watch over the corpse. ὁ πρῶτος ἡμεροσκόπος ¹⁷⁷ ἡμεροσκ. ¹⁷⁸

mvp-comment-138-2 δείκνυσι … παρῆν ¹⁷⁹

mvp-comment-138-3 δυσχερές ¹⁸⁰

mvp-comment-139-1 ὁ μὲν ¹⁸¹

mvp-comment-139-2 τυμβήρης μὲν οὔ ¹⁸² τυμβ. ¹⁸³ λεπτὴ δ’ … ἐπῆν ¹⁸⁴

mvp-comment-139-3 ἄγος φεύγοντος ὥς ¹⁸⁵ ἄγος ¹⁸⁶

mvp-comment-140-1 θηρός ¹⁸⁷

mvp-comment-140-2 του ¹⁸⁸ θηρός ¹⁸⁹

mvp-comment-140-3 οὐ σπάσαντος ¹⁹⁰ οὐ ¹⁹¹ σπάσαντος ¹⁹² σπάσαντος οὐδ’ ἐλθόντος ¹⁹³

mvp-comment-141-1 λόγοι δ’ … φύλακα ¹⁹⁴ λόγοι κακοὶ ἐρρόθουν ¹⁹⁵ ἐρρόθουν ¹⁹⁶

mvp-comment-141-2

, of an unintelligible jargon.

mvp-comment-141-3 ἐλέγχων ¹⁹⁷

mvp-comment-141-4 κἂν ἐγίγνετο ¹⁹⁸

mvp-comment-141-5 τελευτῶς ¹⁹⁹

mvp-comment-141-6 ὁ κωλύσων ²⁰⁰

mvp-comment-142-1 ἦν … οὑξειργ. ²⁰¹

mvp-comment-142-2 ἐναργής ²⁰²

mvp-comment-142-3 ἀλλ’ ²⁰³

mvp-comment-142-4 ἕφευγε μὴ εἰδέναι ²⁰⁴

mvp-comment-142-5 μὴ ²⁰⁵ εἰδέναι ²⁰⁶

mvp-comment-143-1 μύδρους ²⁰⁷

mvp-comment-143-2 a red-hot mass of metal, and that the custom was symbolical of an older use of the

in ordeals by fire. This would explain how the Alexandrian poets of the 3rd cent. B.C. (Lycophron, Callimachus) came to use the word , in defiance of its etymology, as simply ‘a lump’ (or even ‘a stone’). They supposed that the had been cold masses.

mvp-comment-144-1 πῦρ διέρπειν ²⁰⁸

mvp-comment-144-2 θεοὺς ὁρκ. ²¹⁰

mvp-comment-144-3 τὸ μήτε δρ ²¹¹

mvp-comment-144-4 μήτ’ είργασμένῳ ²¹² μηδ ²¹³

mvp-comment-145-1 πλέον ²¹⁴

mvp-comment-145-2 λέγει ²¹⁵

mvp-comment-145-3 τις εἷς ²¹⁶

mvp-comment-146-1 προὔτρεψεν ²¹⁷

mvp-comment-146-2 οὐ γὰρ εἴχομεν ²¹⁸

mvp-comment-146-3 As ἀντιφωνεῖν ²¹⁹ δρῶντες ²²⁰ ὅπως δρῶντες ²²¹ εἴχομεν ²²²

mvp-comment-147-1 σοί ²²³

mvp-comment-147-2 ταῦτ’ ἐνίκα ²²⁴

mvp-comment-147-3 πάλος ²²⁵ καθαιρεῖ ²²⁶

mvp-comment-147-4 τἀγαθόν ²²⁷ —ἄκων οὐχ ἑκοῦσιν ²²⁸

mvp-comment-148-1 ἐμοί ²²⁹ βουλεύει ²³⁰ μή ²³¹

mvp-comment-148-2 τι ²³²

mvp-comment-148-3 θεήλατον, ²³³

mvp-comment-148-4 ἡ ξύννοια ²³⁴

mvp-comment-148-5 πάλαι ²³⁵

mvp-comment-149-1 πρὶν ὀργῆς καί με μεστῶσαι ²³⁶ καί ²³⁷ πρίν ²³⁸ μεστῶσαι ²³⁹ καί ²⁴⁰ με ²⁴¹

mvp-comment-149-2 κἀμέ ²⁴²

mvp-comment-149-3 μεστῶσαι ²⁴³

mvp-comment-150-1 πότερον ²⁴⁴ ἔκρυπτον ²⁴⁵

mvp-comment-150-2 ἀμφικίονας ναούς ²⁴⁶

mvp-comment-150-3 κἀναθήματα ²⁴⁷

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

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

mvp-comment-150-5 γῆν ἐκείνων ²⁴⁸ πυρώσων ²⁴⁹

mvp-comment-150-6 νόμους διασκεδῶν ²⁵⁰

mvp-comment-150-7 διασκεδῶν ²⁵¹

mvp-comment-151-1 τοὺς κακοὺς τιμῶντας … θεούς; ²⁵²

mvp-comment-152-1 ταῦτα ²⁵³ μόλις φέροντες ²⁵⁴ καὶ πάλαι ²⁵⁵

mvp-comment-152-2 πόλεως ἄνδρες ²⁵⁶

mvp-comment-152-3 ἐρρόθουν ²⁵⁷

mvp-comment-152-4 ἐμοί ²⁵⁸

mvp-comment-152-5 κάρα σείοντες ²⁵⁹

mvp-comment-152-6 ὑπὸ ζυγῷ ²⁶⁰

mvp-comment-152-7 λόφον ²⁶¹

mvp-comment-152-8 δικαίως ²⁶²

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

( O. T. 84 ): στέργειν ²⁶³

mvp-comment-153-1 τῶνδε ²⁶⁴ ἐκ ²⁶⁵

mvp-comment-153-2 τούτους, ²⁶⁶

mvp-comment-153-3 εἰργάσθαι ²⁶⁷ ἐξεπίσταμαι ²⁶⁸ παρηγμένους ²⁶⁹

mvp-comment-154-1 νόμισμ’ ²⁷⁰

mvp-comment-154-2 ἔβλαστε ²⁷¹

mvp-comment-154-3 πορθεῖ ²⁷²

mvp-comment-154-4 τόδ’ ²⁷³ ἄνδρας ²⁷⁴

mvp-comment-155-1 τόδ’ ἐκδ. καὶ παραλλάσσει ²⁷⁵ ἵστασθαι ²⁷⁶ καὶ παραλλάσσει ²⁷⁷

mvp-comment-155-2 ἵστασθαι πρός τι ²⁷⁸

mvp-comment-156-1 πανουργίας … ἔχειν ²⁷⁹

mvp-comment-156-2 εἰδέναι ²⁸⁰ παντὸς ἔργου δυσσέβ. ²⁸¹ παντὸς ἔργ ²⁸² πανουργίας ²⁸³

mvp-comment-157-1 ἤνυσαν ²⁸⁴

mvp-comment-157-2 χρόνῳ ποτέ ²⁸⁵ δοῦναι δίκην ²⁸⁶

mvp-comment-157-3 ἐξέπραξαν ὡς ²⁸⁷

mvp-comment-158-1 Ζεύς ²⁸⁸

mvp-comment-158-2 ὅρκιος ²⁸⁹

mvp-comment-158-3 τὸν αὐτόχειρα ²⁹⁰ τάφου = ταφῆς ²⁹¹

mvp-comment-159-1 μοῦνος ²⁹² πρὶν ἂν . . δηλώσητε ²⁹³ κρεμαστοί ²⁹⁴ ζῶντες κρεμαστοί ²⁹⁵

mvp-comment-159-2 δηλώσηθ’ ²⁹⁶

mvp-comment-159-3 ὕβριν ²⁹⁷

mvp-comment-160-1 ἵν’ … ἁρπάζητε ²⁹⁸

mvp-comment-160-2 τὸ κέρδος ²⁹⁹ ἔνθεν οἰστέον ³⁰⁰

mvp-comment-160-3 μάθηθ’ ³⁰¹

mvp-comment-160-4 ἐξ ἅπαντος ³⁰² τὸ κερδαίνειν ³⁰³

mvp-comment-160-5

. In O. C. 807

ἑξ ἅπαντος εὖ λέγει

=speaks well on any theme (starting from anything).

mvp-comment-161-1 τι ³⁰⁴

mvp-comment-161-2 δέ ³⁰⁵ δώσεις ³⁰⁶

mvp-comment-161-3 οὕτως ³⁰⁷

mvp-comment-161-4 ἴω ³⁰⁸

mvp-comment-161-5 καὶ νῦν ὡς ³⁰⁹ ἀνιαρῶς ³¹⁰ ι— ³¹¹

mvp-comment-162-1 ἐν ³¹² ὠσίν ³¹³

mvp-comment-162-2 ἐπί ³¹⁴

mvp-comment-163-1 τί δὲ ³¹⁵ τί δαὶ ³¹⁶

mvp-comment-163-2 ῥυθμίζεις ³¹⁷ ὅπου ³¹⁸ ὅπου ³¹⁹

mvp-comment-164-1 τὰς φρένας...τὰ δ’ ὦτ’ ³²⁰ σε ³²¹

mvp-comment-164-2 οἴμ’ ὡς ³²²

mvp-comment-164-3 λάλημα ³²³ ἄλημα ³²⁴ ἄλημα ³²⁵

mvp-comment-164-4 δῆλον, ³²⁶

mvp-comment-165-1 ‘At any rate (

—babbler or not) I certainly have not done this deed.’ εἰμί ³²⁷ οὔκουν … γε ³²⁸

mvp-comment-166-1 ‘Yes, (you have done it,) and that, too, at the cost of betraying,’ etc. The particle γε ³²⁹ καὶ ταῦτα ³³⁰ προδούς ³³¹

mvp-comment-167-1 ἦ δεινόν ³³² καὶ ³³³ γε ³³⁴

mvp-comment-168-1 κόμψευε . . τὴν δόξαν ³³⁵

mvp-comment-168-2 τὴν δόξαν ³³⁶

mvp-comment-168-3

(the of which you speak), not merely, ‘the word .’ If the v. l. (see cr. n.) was intended to mean the latter, it should have been

mvp-comment-168-4 νυν ³³⁷ νῦν ³³⁸ ταῦτα … τοὺς δρῶντας = τοὺς ταῦτα δρῶντας ³³⁹

mvp-comment-169-1 δειλά ³⁴⁰

mvp-comment-169-2 δεινά ³⁴¹ ν ³⁴²

mvp-comment-170-1 ἀλλ’ ³⁴³ εὑρεθείη ³⁴⁴ καὶ ³⁴⁵

mvp-comment-171-1 καὶ ³⁴⁶ γάρ ³⁴⁷

mvp-comment-171-2 γνώμης ³⁴⁸

mvp-comment-173-1 πολλὰ … κοὐδέν ³⁴⁹

mvp-comment-173-2 καί ³⁵⁰

mvp-comment-173-3 τὰ δεινά ³⁵¹

mvp-comment-174-1 τοῦτο ³⁵² πέραν ³⁵³ πέρα ³⁵⁴

mvp-comment-175-1 χειμερίῳ νότῳ ³⁵⁵

mvp-comment-176-1 περιβρ … ὑπ’ οἴδμασιν ³⁵⁶

mvp-comment-177-1 ὑπερτάταν ³⁵⁷

mvp-comment-178-1 ἀκαμάταν ³⁵⁸

mvp-comment-178-2 ἀποτρύεται ³⁵⁹

mvp-comment-179-1 ἰλλομένων ἀρότρων, ³⁶⁰ ἀρότων ³⁶¹

mvp-comment-179-2 ἔτος εἰς ἔτος ³⁶² εἰς ³⁶³

mvp-comment-180-1 ἱππείῳ γένει ³⁶⁴

mvp-comment-180-2 πολεύων ³⁶⁵ τοῦτο ³⁶⁶

mvp-comment-181-1 Man's conquests over the animal world are here taken in two groups. First, those of which the primary aim is to kill or to capture. Here the means is netting (

), in its threefold sporting use, as applied to fowling ( ), hunting ( ), and fishing ( ). Secondly, those conquests which aim at reducing wild animals to man's service. These are effected by (349),— arts of taming and training. And their result is aptly expressed by the word

mvp-comment-181-2

: here, man is not merely the slayer or captor; he becomes the master of docile toilers. The horse and the bull are types.

mvp-comment-181-3 Thus, in this ode, the scale of achievement ever ascends: man (1) conquers inanimate nature: (2) makes animals his captives: (3) trains them to be his servants: (4) develops his own social and intellectual life.

mvp-comment-181-4 κουφονόων ³⁶⁷

mvp-comment-181-5 ἀμφιβαλὼν ³⁶⁸

mvp-comment-182-1 πόντου … εἰναλίαν φύσιν ³⁶⁹

mvp-comment-183-1 περιφραδής ³⁷⁰

mvp-comment-184-1 μηχαναῖς ³⁷¹ ἀγραύλου ³⁷² ὀρεσσιβάτα ³⁷³

mvp-comment-185-1 λασιαύχενά θ’ ³⁷⁴

mvp-comment-186-1 ὀχμάζεται ³⁷⁵ ἀμφὶ λόφον ζυγῶν ³⁷⁶

mvp-comment-186-2 Rhod. 1. 743

. The midd. voice does not occur elsewhere; but this cannot be regarded as an objection, when we remember how many rare middle forms occur in the dramatists. Thus in O. C. 244 is a solitary example of that verb in the midd., and if the license could be taken with so common a word, much more might it be allowed with a comparatively rare one. Blaydes writes : but the Ms. indicates that the verb, whatever it was, was of the midd. form. was published by G. Schöne in 1833, and by Franz in 1846: they appear to have made the conjecture independently. Donaldson (1848) printed , and seems to ascribe to Franz and Schöne; though Franz, at least, proposed has been revived (seemingly without knowledge of a predecessor) by H. Schütz (1886). Sophocles would write , and thus changes no letter. Aesch. used the fut. (fr. 110), and Soph. has the verbal ( El. 702 ). To it may be objected that, being clear, it was not likely to become - : but, when had once been written, (or ) would easily become . As to the schol. on ,—it cannot fairly be urged for (or for any partic.), since it may be merely a paraphrase of .—Schütz's ἐφέζεται ³⁷⁷

mvp-comment-187-1 φθέγμα ³⁷⁸

mvp-comment-187-2 beginnings of speech...Speech is the development, through imitation, of a capacity of man—the capacity of making a noise.’ This is quite compatible with

mvp-comment-187-3 ἀνεμόεν φρόνημα ³⁷⁹

mvp-comment-188-1 ἀστυνόμους ὀργάς ³⁸⁰

mvp-comment-189-1 ἐδιδάξατο ³⁸¹

mvp-comment-190-1 πάγων ³⁸²

mvp-comment-190-2 ἐναίθρεια ³⁸³

mvp-comment-190-3 βέλη ³⁸⁵

mvp-comment-191-1 παντοπόρος ³⁸⁶

mvp-comment-191-2

( ), nothing that is to be (cp. the absolute ). So Plat. Lach. 197 A . This negative form is as correct as (though actually rarer than) the positive ( Plat. Rep. 381A ) for . Donaldson took adverbially: ‘in regard to the future, he comes to nothing without resources.’ Cp. 728 , , where is subst., not adv.

mvp-comment-192-1 μόνον ³⁸⁷ μόνου ³⁸⁸ φεῦξιν — ἐπάξεται ³⁸⁹

mvp-comment-193-1 ἀμηχάνων ³⁹⁰

mvp-comment-193-2 φυγάς ³⁹¹

mvp-comment-193-3 ξυμπέφρασται ³⁹²

mvp-comment-194-1 The ode closes with a more direct reference to the incident which suggested its theme. The daring ingenuity shown by the unknown breaker of Creon's edict is an instance of the subtlety which leads to ruin. The implied contrast with Creon—

by his care for the laws—is effective in view of the destined .

mvp-comment-194-2 σοφόν τι … ἔχων ³⁹³

mvp-comment-194-3 τὸ μηχανόεν τ ³⁹⁴

mvp-comment-195-1 τοτὲ μὲν … ἄλλοτ’ ³⁹⁵

mvp-comment-195-2 ἐπ’ ³⁹⁶

mvp-comment-196-1 γεραίρων ³⁹⁷

mvp-comment-196-2 5. 67

. Ar. Th. 960 .

mvp-comment-197-1 θεῶν τ’ ἔνορκον δίκαν ³⁹⁸

mvp-comment-198-1 ὑψίπολις ³⁹⁹

mvp-comment-198-2 ἄπολις ⁴⁰⁰

mvp-comment-198-3 τὸ μὴ καλόν ⁴⁰¹ τόλμας χάριν ⁴⁰²

mvp-comment-199-1 παρέστιος ⁴⁰³

mvp-comment-199-2 ἴσον φρονῶν ⁴⁰⁴

mvp-comment-200-1 ἔρδει ⁴⁰⁵ ἔρδοι ⁴⁰⁶

mvp-comment-202-1 The choral ode has closed with an allusion to the unknown man ( ὅς ⁴⁰⁷ ἀμφινοῶ ⁴⁰⁸ ἐς ⁴⁰⁹

mvp-comment-202-2 δαιμόνιον τέρας ⁴¹⁰

mvp-comment-203-1 πῶς εἰδὼς ⁴¹¹

mvp-comment-203-2 ἀντιλογήσω ⁴¹²

mvp-comment-204-1 ὦ δύστηνος ⁴¹³

mvp-comment-204-2 δ. πατρός ⁴¹⁴

mvp-comment-204-3 Οἰδιπόδα— ⁴¹⁵

mvp-comment-205-1 τί ποτ’ ⁴¹⁶

mvp-comment-205-2 οὐ δή που ⁴¹⁷

mvp-comment-205-3 ἀπιστοῦσαν ⁴¹⁸

mvp-comment-205-4 ἄγουσι ⁴¹⁹

mvp-comment-205-5 colloquialism, it would be nearly as bad as, ‘Have they taken you up?’

mvp-comment-205-6 καὶ ⁴²⁰ ἀπιστοῦσαν ⁴²¹ καθελόντες ⁴²²

mvp-comment-206-1 Second

. Antigone, brought before Creon, avows and justifies her deed. Creon declares that she shall die. Ismene, when led in (531), associates herself with the act, but is not permitted by her sister to claim any part in it. Creon orders that both sisters shall be kept prisoners.

mvp-comment-206-2 ἐκείνη ⁴²³

mvp-comment-206-3 τοὔργον ἡ ’ξειργ ⁴²⁴

mvp-comment-207-1 ἐς δέον ⁴²⁵

mvp-comment-208-1 ξύμμετρος ⁴²⁶

mvp-comment-209-1 ἀπώμοτον ⁴²⁷

mvp-comment-210-1 ψεύδει ⁴²⁸

mvp-comment-210-2 ἡ ’πίνοια ⁴²⁹

mvp-comment-211-1 ἐξηύχουν ἄν ⁴³⁰ σχολῇ ἥξειν ποτὲ δεῦρο ⁴³¹

mvp-comment-211-2 σχολῇ ⁴³²

mvp-comment-212-1 ταῖς σαῖς ἀπειλαῖς ⁴³³

mvp-comment-212-2 ἐχειμάσθην ⁴³⁴

mvp-comment-213-1 ἡ...ἐκτὸς ⁴³⁵ ἐκτός ⁴³⁶

mvp-comment-214-1 οὐδὲν ἔοικε μῆκος ⁴³⁷ α+λλῃ ἡδονῇ ⁴³⁸ οὐδέν ⁴³⁹ μῆκος ⁴⁴⁰ ἔοικε ⁴⁴¹

mvp-comment-215-1 δῑ ὅρκων … ἀπώμοτος ⁴⁴²

mvp-comment-216-1 καθῃρέθη ⁴⁴³

mvp-comment-216-2 τάφον κοσμοῦσα ⁴⁴⁴

mvp-comment-216-3 ἐπάλλετο ⁴⁴⁵ ἕρμαιον ⁴⁴⁶

mvp-comment-217-1 κρῖνε ⁴⁴⁷

mvp-comment-217-2 δίκαιός εἰμι ⁴⁴⁸

mvp-comment-217-3 ἀπηλλάχθαι ⁴⁴⁹

mvp-comment-218-1 Observe the order of the words as marking his amazement. For the double interrog. cp. Il. 21.150

; Ph. 243

mvp-comment-218-2 πάντ’ ἐπίστασαι ⁴⁵⁰

mvp-comment-219-1 ἦ καὶ ⁴⁵¹

mvp-comment-219-2 ὀρθῶς ⁴⁵²

mvp-comment-219-3 mean to say? (Not, merely, ‘truly,’ i.e. in accordance with the fact: cp. 99 n.)

mvp-comment-220-1 τὸν νεκρόν ⁴⁵³

mvp-comment-221-1 ἆρ’ ἔνδηλα ⁴⁵⁴

mvp-comment-222-1 ὁρᾶται...ᾑρέθη ⁴⁵⁵

mvp-comment-222-2 ἐπίληπτος ⁴⁵⁶

mvp-comment-223-1 ἥκομεν ⁴⁵⁸

mvp-comment-224-1 τὰ δείν’ ἐκεῖν’ ⁴⁵⁹

mvp-comment-224-2 τὸν | νέκυν ⁴⁶⁰

mvp-comment-225-1 καθήμεθ’ ⁴⁶¹

mvp-comment-225-2 ἄκρων ἐκ πάγων ⁴⁶²

mvp-comment-225-3

. Here, goes with : but , however much may have influenced it, at least cannot be disjoined from . (2) Eur. Phoen. 1009

ἀλλ’ εἶμι καὶ στὰς ἐξ ἐπάλξεων ἄκρων | σφάξας ἐμαυτὸν σηκὸν εἰς μελαμβαθῆ | δράκοντος, ἔνθ’ ὁ μάντις ἐξηγήσατο, | ἐλευθερώσω γαῖαν

. It is impossible to sever from , even if we partly explain by . (3) ib. 1224

Ἐτεοκλέης δ’ ὑπῆρξ’ ἀπ’ ὀρθίου σταθεὶς | πύργου κελεύσας σῖγα κηρῦξαι στρατῷ

. The position of forbids us to sever it from , even though or is used to explain . (4) Eur. Tro. 522

ἀνὰ δ’ ἐβόασεν λεὼς | Τρῳάδος ἀπὸ πέτρας σταθείς

. A similar case. In all these passages, a picture is presented, and we have to glance from a remoter to a nearer object. The mental eye is required to measure the space between Hera on the peak of Olympus, and Poseidon on the plain of Troy; between Megareus on the walls of Thebes, and the cavern into which his corpse is to fall. And, in each case, or denotes the quarter in which the remoter object is to be looked for. This, which might be called the ‘surveying’ use, is distinct from that in which the prep. has a pregnant force, as being directly suggestive of motion ( ); but it springs from the same mental tendency,—viz., to take a rapid glance over the dividing interval. Cp. (‘on his side’). So here: in the foreground of the picture is the corpse, which they have just laid bare. Now look to the hillocks behind it; in that quarter you will see the guards at their post.—I have not cited Od. 21.419

τόν ῥ’ ἐπὶ πήχει ἑλὼν ἕλκεν νευρὴν γλυφίδας τε | αὐτόθεν ἐκ δίφροιο καθήμενος

, because there goes with , not with (he drew the bow, just from the chair, where he sat).

mvp-comment-225-4 ὑπήνεμοι ⁴⁶³

mvp-comment-226-1 βάλῃ ⁴⁶⁴

mvp-comment-227-1 ἐγερτί ⁴⁶⁵

mvp-comment-227-2 κινῶν ⁴⁶⁶

mvp-comment-227-3 ἐπιρρόθοις κακοῖσιν ⁴⁶⁷

mvp-comment-227-4 the adj. expressing the loud, continuous noise of tongues. The

- does not mean ‘bandied to and fro’: see Tr. 263

πολλὰ μὲν λόγοις | ἐπερρόθησε

. In fr. 521 =‘open to reproach.’ Elsewhere (as with Aesch.) = ‘helper’ ( , to come with shouts to the rescue). Cp. 259 n., Aesch. 290.

mvp-comment-228-1 ἀκηδήσοι ⁴⁶⁸ ἀφειδήσοι ⁴⁶⁹

mvp-comment-229-1 The incident of the storm was a dramatic necessity, to account for Antigone reaching the corpse unobserved. A powerful picture is compressed into seven lines. (Cp. O. C. 1315 ff. for a like instance of self-restraint in description.)

mvp-comment-230-1 κατέστη ⁴⁷⁰

mvp-comment-230-2 χθονὸς ⁴⁷¹

mvp-comment-231-1 τυφώς ⁴⁷² σκηπτός ⁴⁷³

mvp-comment-231-2 οὐράνιον ἄχος ⁴⁷⁴

mvp-comment-232-1 πίμπλησι ⁴⁷⁵ αἰκίζων ⁴⁷⁶

mvp-comment-232-2 ἐν δ’ ἐμεστ ⁴⁷⁷

mvp-comment-233-1 μύσαντες ⁴⁷⁸

mvp-comment-233-2 νόσον ⁴⁷⁹

mvp-comment-233-3 ἐν χρ. μακρ ⁴⁸⁰

mvp-comment-234-1 πικρᾶς ⁴⁸¹

mvp-comment-235-1 εὐνῆς...λέχος ⁴⁸²

mvp-comment-236-1 οὕτω δέ ⁴⁸³

mvp-comment-236-2 ψιλόν ⁴⁸⁴

mvp-comment-237-1 γόοισιν ἐξῴμωξεν ⁴⁸⁵

mvp-comment-237-2 ἐκ δ’ … ἠρᾶτο ⁴⁸⁶

mvp-comment-237-3 διψίαν ⁴⁸⁷

mvp-comment-238-1 φέρει κόνιν ⁴⁸⁸

mvp-comment-239-1 The πρόχους ⁴⁸⁹

mvp-comment-239-2 εὐκρότητος ⁴⁹⁰

mvp-comment-239-3 ἄρδην ⁴⁹¹

mvp-comment-240-1 χοαῖσι ⁴⁹²

mvp-comment-240-2 τρισπόνδ. ⁴⁹³ στέφει ⁴⁹⁴

mvp-comment-241-1 ἱέμεσθα ⁴⁹⁵

mvp-comment-241-2 σὺν δὲ … θηρώμεθ’ ⁴⁹⁶

mvp-comment-242-1 ἠλέγχομεν ⁴⁹⁷

mvp-comment-242-2 ἄπαρνος … οὐδενός ⁴⁹⁸

mvp-comment-242-3 καθίστατο ⁴⁹⁹

mvp-comment-243-1 ἅμ’ ⁵⁰⁰

mvp-comment-244-1 φίλους ⁵⁰¹

mvp-comment-245-1 πάντα ταῦθ’ ⁵⁰² λαβεῖν ⁵⁰³

mvp-comment-246-1 σὲ δή, ⁵⁰⁴

mvp-comment-247-1 φὴς δεδρακέναι, ἢ καταρνεῖ μὴ δεδρ ⁵⁰⁵ καταρνεῖ ⁵⁰⁶

mvp-comment-248-1 καὶ......κοὐκ ⁵⁰⁷

mvp-comment-248-2 τὸ μή ⁵⁰⁸

mvp-comment-249-1 σὺ μέν ⁵⁰⁹ κομίζοις ἂν ς ⁵¹⁰

mvp-comment-249-2 ἔξω ⁵¹¹ β. αἰτίας ⁵¹² ἐλεύθερον ⁵¹³

mvp-comment-250-1 μῆκος ⁵¹⁴

mvp-comment-251-1 ᾔδησθα ⁵¹⁵ ᾔδης τὰ ⁵¹⁶ σθα ⁵¹⁷

mvp-comment-251-2 κηρυχθέντα ⁵¹⁸

mvp-comment-252-1 ᾔδη ⁵¹⁹

mvp-comment-252-2 τί δ’ οὐκ ἔμελλον ⁵²⁰

mvp-comment-252-3 ἐμφανῆ ⁵²¹ ἐκφανῆ ⁵²²

mvp-comment-253-1 καὶ δῆτ’ ⁵²³

mvp-comment-254-1 Ζεύς ⁵²⁴

mvp-comment-255-1 τῶν κάτω θεῶν ⁵²⁵ ξύνοικος ⁵²⁶ τοιούσδ’ … ὥρισεν ⁵²⁷ οἳ τούσδ’ … ὥρισαν ⁵²⁸ τάδε ⁵²⁹

mvp-comment-256-1 ἄγραπτα … νόμιμα ⁵³⁰

mvp-comment-256-2 quotes vv. 456 f.) Cp. O.T. 865 ff.

, with notes there. Thuc. 2.37 ( ) . When ‘the unwritten laws’ are thus called , the latter word is used figuratively. νόμιμα ⁵³¹

mvp-comment-256-3 ἀσφαλῆ ⁵³²

mvp-comment-256-4 θνητὸν ὄντ’ ⁵³³

mvp-comment-256-5 ὑπερδραμεῖν ⁵³⁴

mvp-comment-257-1 νῦν γε κἀχθές ⁵³⁵

mvp-comment-257-2 ζῇ ⁵³⁶

mvp-comment-257-3 ’φάνη ⁵³⁷

mvp-comment-258-1 τούτων ⁵³⁸ τὴν δίκην ⁵³⁹ τούτων ⁵⁴⁰

mvp-comment-258-2 shows that, like

just before, it refers to the : we cannot, therefore, render, ‘the penalty of such an act’ ( sc. ).

mvp-comment-258-3 ἐν θεοῖσι ⁵⁴¹

mvp-comment-259-1 δώσειν ⁵⁴²

mvp-comment-259-2 θανουμένη γάρ ⁵⁴³

mvp-comment-259-3 τί δ’ οὔ ⁵⁴⁴

mvp-comment-260-1 κεἰ μὴ σὺ προὐκήρυξας ⁵⁴⁵

mvp-comment-260-2 τοῦ χρόνου ⁵⁴⁶

mvp-comment-260-3 αὔτ’ ⁵⁴⁷

mvp-comment-261-1 φέρει ⁵⁴⁸

mvp-comment-262-1 Kvičala and Wecklein reject these four verses, despairing of the difficulties found in vv. 466, 467, which have been variously amended; see Appendix. The alleged difficulties are, (1)

: (2) the mention of the mother only: (3) the position of , which might suggest the sense, ‘slain by my mother’: (4) (as L has it). Before dealing with these points, I would call attention to a trait which the impugners of these verses have overlooked, and which speaks strongly for the genuineness of the passage as a whole, corrupt though it be in certain words. That trait is the clause τοῖσδε δ’ οὐκ ἀλγύνομαι ⁵⁴⁹

mvp-comment-263-1 ἄλγος ⁵⁵⁰ παρ’ οὐδέν ⁵⁵¹

mvp-comment-263-2 adv.: ‘is a pain in no appreciable degree,’ is a pain not worth a thought: as he might have said,

. The normal use of , ‘of no account,’ is either ( a) with the verb , as O. T. 982

ταῦθ’ ὅτῳ | παρ’ οὐδέν ἐστι

, or ( b) with a verb meaning ‘to esteem,’ as above, v. 34, . The only peculiarity here is that, instead of a word in the general sense, ‘ is esteemed’ ( ), we have a virtual equivalent, tinged with the special thought of the moment, viz., ‘ is a pain.’ Exactly so in El. 1327 we have , instead of . Thus the suspicions as to the genuineness of are illusory.

mvp-comment-263-3 ἀλλ’ ἄν ⁵⁵²

mvp-comment-264-1 ἄθαπτον ἠνσχόμην νέκυν ⁵⁵³ ηἰσχόμην ⁵⁵⁴ ἠνσχόμην ⁵⁵⁵

mvp-comment-264-2 In my first edition I placed in the text the emendation of Semitelos (1887) ᾔσχυναν κύνες ⁵⁵⁶

mvp-comment-264-3 Other emendations will be found in the Appendix. Most of them assume that we must have

(or ), and therefore alter the words and in various ways, —usu. omitting . The verses produced by these processes are wretched, while, from a palaeographical point of view, they are pure conjectures, which do not attempt to account for the tradition in L.—Two points remain. (1) τὸν ἐξ ἐμῆς | μητρός ⁵⁵⁷

mvp-comment-264-4 or

(Meineke). (2) τὸν ἐξ ἐμ. | μητρος θανόντ’ ⁵⁵⁸

mvp-comment-265-1 σχεδόν τι ⁵⁵⁹

mvp-comment-265-2 μώρῳ μωρίαν ⁵⁶⁰

mvp-comment-265-3 ὀφλισκάνω ⁵⁶¹

mvp-comment-266-1 These two verses give a moment of stillness before the storm breaks forth. So at O. T. 404 four verses of the chorus divide the angry speech of Oedipus from the retort of Teiresias.

mvp-comment-266-2 τὸ γέννημα τῆς παιδός ⁵⁶² δηλοῖ ⁵⁶³ ὠμόν ⁵⁶⁴ ἐξ ὠμοῦ πατρός ⁵⁶⁵ γέννημα ⁵⁶⁶

mvp-comment-267-1 εἴκειν … κακοῖς ⁵⁶⁷

mvp-comment-268-1 ἀλλ’ ἴσθι τοι ⁵⁶⁸

mvp-comment-268-2 πίπτειν ⁵⁶⁹

mvp-comment-269-1 ὀπτὸν … περισκελῆ ⁵⁷⁰

mvp-comment-269-2 περισκελής ⁵⁷¹

mvp-comment-269-3 ἐκ πυρός ⁵⁷²

mvp-comment-270-1 θραυσθέντα καὶ ῥαγέντα ⁵⁷³

mvp-comment-271-1 χαλινῷ δ’ ⁵⁷⁴ σμικρῷ ⁵⁷⁵

mvp-comment-271-2 καταρτυθέντας ⁵⁷⁶

mvp-comment-272-1 Suspicion has fallen on ἐκπέλει ⁵⁷⁷

mvp-comment-272-2 ὅστις ⁵⁷⁸

mvp-comment-272-3 τῶν πέλας ⁵⁷⁹

mvp-comment-273-1 αὕτη δ’ ⁵⁸⁰ ὑβρίζειν μὲν … ὕβρις δ’ ⁵⁸¹ ἐξηπίστατο ⁵⁸² τότ’ ⁵⁸³

mvp-comment-273-2 τούτοις ⁵⁸⁴

mvp-comment-273-3 δεδρακυῖαν γελᾶν ⁵⁸⁵

mvp-comment-274-1 νῦν ⁵⁸⁶

mvp-comment-274-2 εἰ ταῦτα … κράτη ⁵⁸⁷ κράτη ⁵⁸⁸ κείσεται ⁵⁸⁹ πείσεται ⁵⁹⁰ ἀνατί ⁵⁹¹ ταῦτα ⁵⁹²

mvp-comment-275-1 ἀδελφῆς ⁵⁹³

mvp-comment-275-2 εἴθ’ ὁμαιμονεστέρα ⁵⁹⁴

mvp-comment-275-3 Hyperbole is congenial to Creon's excitement; cp. 1040 . But the addition,

, ill suits this, while, on the other hand, it agrees well with the nom. . On the whole, then, I incline to prefer the nom.; but the point is a nice one, and the gen. is quite tenable.

mvp-comment-275-4 κυρεῖ ⁵⁹⁵

mvp-comment-276-1 τοῦ παντὸς Ζηνὸς ἑρκείου ⁵⁹⁶

mvp-comment-277-1 ἀλύξετον ⁵⁹⁷ μόρου ⁵⁹⁸

mvp-comment-278-1 καὶ γὰρ οὖν ⁵⁹⁹

mvp-comment-278-2 ἐπαιτιῶμαι κείνην ⁶⁰⁰ βουλεῦσαι ἴσον τοῦδε τάφου ⁶⁰¹ ἴσον ⁶⁰²

mvp-comment-278-3 βουλεῦσαι ⁶⁰³

mvp-comment-279-1 καί νιν καλεῖτ’ ⁶⁰⁴

mvp-comment-280-1 λυσσῶσαν … οὐδ’ ἐπ ⁶⁰⁵

mvp-comment-280-2 ἐπήβολον ⁶⁰⁶

mvp-comment-281-1 ὁ θυμὸς τῶν … τεχνωμένων ⁶⁰⁷ φιλεῖ κλοπεὺς ᾑρῆσθαι ⁶⁰⁸ πρόσθεν ⁶⁰⁹ κλοπεύς ⁶¹⁰ ᾑρῆσθαι κλοπεύς ⁶¹¹

mvp-comment-281-2 τεχνωμένων ⁶¹²

mvp-comment-282-1 γε μέντοι ⁶¹³

mvp-comment-282-2 Ismene's guilty terror is contrasted with Antigone's impudent hardihood,—as Creon deems it. μισῶ … ὅταν ⁶¹⁴

mvp-comment-282-3 ἔπειτα ⁶¹⁵

mvp-comment-282-4 καλλύνειν ⁶¹⁶

mvp-comment-283-1 θέλεις τι μεῖζον ⁶¹⁷

mvp-comment-283-2 ἑλών ⁶¹⁸

mvp-comment-283-3 ἐγὼ μὲν οὐδέν ⁶¹⁹

mvp-comment-283-4 ἅπαντ’ ἔχω ⁶²⁰

mvp-comment-284-1 ἀρεστὸν οὐδέν ⁶²¹

mvp-comment-284-2 μηδ’ ἀρεσθείη ⁶²² ἀρεσθείην ⁶²³ ἀρέστ’ εἴη ⁶²⁴

mvp-comment-285-1 τἀμά ⁶²⁵

mvp-comment-285-2 ἔφυ ⁶²⁶

mvp-comment-286-1 καίτοι ⁶²⁷ κλέος … εὐκλεέστερον ⁶²⁸

mvp-comment-287-1 ἐν τάφῳ τιθεῖσα ⁶²⁹ τούτοις πᾶσι λέγοιτο ἄν ⁶³⁰ τοῦτο ἁνδάνειν ⁶³¹ ἐγκλῄοι ⁶³²

mvp-comment-288-1 ἀλλ’ ἡ τυραννίς ⁶³³

mvp-comment-289-1 μούνη ⁶³⁴

mvp-comment-289-2 τοῦτο … ὁρᾷς ⁶³⁵

mvp-comment-289-3 ὑπίλλουσιν ⁶³⁶

mvp-comment-290-1 σὺ δ’ οὐκ ἐπαιδεῖ ⁶³⁸

mvp-comment-291-1 ὅμαιμος ⁶³⁹

mvp-comment-291-2 ἐκ μιᾶς τε ⁶⁴⁰ τε ⁶⁴¹

mvp-comment-292-1 πῶς δῆτ’ ⁶⁴²

mvp-comment-292-2 ἐκείνῳ ⁶⁴³

mvp-comment-292-3 χάριν ⁶⁴⁴ τιμᾷς ⁶⁴⁵ ὁ κατθανὼν νέκυς ⁶⁴⁶

mvp-comment-293-1 εἴ τοι ⁶⁴⁷ σφε ⁶⁴⁸

mvp-comment-293-2 ἐξ ἴσου ⁶⁴⁹

mvp-comment-294-1 οὐ γάρ τι δοῦλος ⁶⁵⁰

mvp-comment-294-2 cannot complain, for Polyneices was not his slave—his natural inferior—but his brother, and had the same claim on me that he had. Creon insists on the difference between the loyal man and the disloyal. Antigone dwells on the fact that both men had the same claim on her natural piety, and (519) on her sense of religious duty.

mvp-comment-295-1 πορθῶν δέ ⁶⁵¹

mvp-comment-295-2 ὁ δ’ ⁶⁵² ὕπερ ⁶⁵³

mvp-comment-296-1 τούτους ⁶⁵⁴ ἴσους ⁶⁵⁵ ἴσους ⁶⁵⁶ ὅμως ⁶⁵⁷ ἴσους ⁶⁵⁸ τούτους ⁶⁵⁹ ἴσους ⁶⁶⁰

mvp-comment-297-1 The MS. λαχεῖν ἴσος ⁶⁶¹ ἴσους ⁶⁶²

mvp-comment-298-1 κάτωθεν ⁶⁶³ κάτω ’στὶν ⁶⁶⁴

mvp-comment-298-2 εὐαγῆ ⁶⁶⁵

mvp-comment-299-1 οὔτοι συνέχθειν ⁶⁶⁶

mvp-comment-300-1 νυ^ν ⁶⁶⁷

mvp-comment-301-1 καὶ μὴν ⁶⁶⁸

mvp-comment-301-2 εἰβομένη ⁶⁶⁹ κάτω ⁶⁷⁰

mvp-comment-301-3 with

, for Homer never says . Nothing is more natural than that should have become in the MSS., the latter word being much the commoner.

mvp-comment-301-4 κάτω ⁶⁷¹

mvp-comment-302-1 νεφέλη δ’ ὀφρύων ὕπερ ⁶⁷²

mvp-comment-302-2 αἱματόεν ⁶⁷³

mvp-comment-302-3 ῥέθος ⁶⁷⁴

mvp-comment-302-4 αἰσχύνει ⁶⁷⁵

mvp-comment-303-1 σὺ δ’ ⁶⁷⁶ ὑφειμένη ⁶⁷⁷

mvp-comment-303-2 ἔχιδνα ⁶⁷⁸

mvp-comment-303-3

. (Cp. Shaksp. Per. 1. 1. 64

I am no viper, yet I feed On mother's flesh.

)

mvp-comment-304-1 λήθουσά μ’ ἐξέπινες ⁶⁷⁹

mvp-comment-305-1 ἄτα κἀπαναστάσεις ⁶⁸⁰

mvp-comment-305-2 ἐπαναστάσεις ⁶⁸¹ θρόνων ⁶⁸²

mvp-comment-306-1 τὸ μὴ ⁶⁸³

mvp-comment-307-1 ὁμορροθεῖ ⁶⁸⁴

mvp-comment-308-1 τῆς αἰτίας ⁶⁸⁵ ξυμμετίσχω ⁶⁸⁶ φέρω ⁶⁸⁷

mvp-comment-309-1 ἀλλ’ οὐκ ἐάσει σ’ ⁶⁸⁸

mvp-comment-309-2 ’κοινωσάμην ⁶⁸⁹

mvp-comment-310-1 ξύμπλουν ⁶⁹⁰

mvp-comment-311-1 Cp. Ph. 1293

mvp-comment-311-2 λόγοις ⁶⁹¹

mvp-comment-312-1 μή μ’ ἀτιμάσῃς ⁶⁹² τὸ μὴ οὐ ⁶⁹³ ἁγνίσαι τὸν θ ⁶⁹⁴

mvp-comment-313-1 μή μοι ⁶⁹⁵ κοινά ⁶⁹⁶

mvp-comment-313-2 μηδ’ ἃ μὴ ’θιγες ⁶⁹⁷ ἅ ⁶⁹⁸ ἅ ⁶⁹⁹

mvp-comment-314-1 ποιοῦ σεαυτῆς ⁷⁰⁰

mvp-comment-314-2 ἀρκέσω ⁷⁰²

mvp-comment-315-1 σοῦ λελειμμένῃ ⁷⁰³

mvp-comment-315-2 φίλος ⁷⁰⁴

mvp-comment-316-1 κηδεμών ⁷⁰⁵

mvp-comment-317-1 ἀλγοῦσα μὲν δῆτ’ ⁷⁰⁶ δῆτα ⁷⁰⁷

mvp-comment-317-2 ἐν σοί ⁷⁰⁸

mvp-comment-317-3 Heath's εἰ γελῶ γ’ ⁷⁰⁹

mvp-comment-318-1 ἀλλὰ νῦν ⁷¹⁰

mvp-comment-319-1 κἀμπλάκω ⁷¹¹

mvp-comment-319-2 fate? i.e. to be dissociated from it: delib. aor. subj., which can be used, not only in asking what one is to do, but also in expressions of despair as to what one must suffer ( Tr. 973

;). For cp. 910 , 1234.

mvp-comment-320-1 εἵλου ⁷¹²

mvp-comment-320-2 ζῆν ⁷¹³

mvp-comment-321-1 ἐπ’ ἀρρήτοις … τοῖς ἐμ. λ. ⁷¹⁴

mvp-comment-322-1 σὺ μὲν τοῖς ⁷¹⁵

mvp-comment-323-1 καὶ μήν ⁷¹⁶

mvp-comment-324-1 θάρσει ⁷¹⁷

mvp-comment-324-2 ἡ ἐμὴ ψυχή ⁷¹⁸

mvp-comment-324-3 πάλαι ⁷¹⁹

mvp-comment-324-4 ὥστε τοῖς θ. ὠφελεῖν ⁷²⁰

mvp-comment-325-1 L gives τὼ παῖδε φημὶ ⁷²¹

mvp-comment-325-2 τὼ παῖδε … τὴν μὲν … τὴν δέ ⁷²²

mvp-comment-325-3 ἀρτίως ⁷²³

mvp-comment-326-1 The apology is for her sister as well as for herself: even such prudence ( cp. 68

) as may have been inborn forsakes the unfortunate under the stress of their misfortunes.

mvp-comment-326-2 βλάστῃ ⁷²⁴

mvp-comment-326-3 τοῖς κ. πράσσουσιν ⁷²⁵

mvp-comment-326-4 ἐξίσταται ⁷²⁶

mvp-comment-327-1 σοὶ γοῦν ⁷²⁷

mvp-comment-327-2 κακοῖς ⁷²⁸

mvp-comment-328-1 τῆσδ’ ἄτερ ⁷²⁹ μόνῃ ⁷³⁰

mvp-comment-328-2 βιώσιμον ⁷³¹ τί ⁷³²

mvp-comment-329-1 ἀλλὰ … μέντοι ⁷³³

mvp-comment-329-2 ἥδε μὴ λέγε ⁷³⁴

mvp-comment-330-1 νυμφεῖα ⁷³⁵

mvp-comment-331-1 ἀρώσιμοι ⁷³⁶

mvp-comment-332-1 οὐχ ὥς γ’ ⁷³⁷ ἡρμοσμένα ἦν ⁷³⁸

mvp-comment-333-1 υἱέσι ⁷³⁹ υἱάσιν ⁷⁴⁰

mvp-comment-333-2

: cp. Monro Hom. Gr. § 107.—The dat. of interest goes with κακὰς γυναῖκας ⁷⁴¹ στυγῶ ⁷⁴²

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,

, 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, — . 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 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 ⁷⁴³

mvp-comment-335-1 ἄγαν γε λυπεῖς ⁷⁴⁴

mvp-comment-336-1 The MSS. give this verse to Ismene; but Boeckh is clearly right in giving it to the Chorus. Ismene asked this question in 568, and Creon answered: she rejoined to this answer (570), and Creon replied still more bitterly. She could not now ask her former question over again. But there is no unfitness in the question being repeated by a new intercessor, since to ask it thus is a form of mild remonstrance.

mvp-comment-337-1 ἐμοί ⁷⁴⁵ ἔφυ ⁷⁴⁶

mvp-comment-338-1 This verse clearly belongs to the Chorus, to whom L assigns it. The first words of the next verse show this. Hermann objected that in similar situations the Chorus usually has two verses. It is true that this is usually the case. But O. T. 1312 is enough to show that there was no rigid rule; why, indeed, should there be? And, here, surely,

mvp-comment-338-2 δεδογμένα ⁷⁴⁷

mvp-comment-339-1 καὶ σοί γε κἀμοί ⁷⁴⁸

mvp-comment-339-2 μὴ τριβάς ⁷⁴⁹

mvp-comment-339-3 νιν ⁷⁵⁰

mvp-comment-340-1 ἐκ δὲ τοῦδε ⁷⁵¹ γυναικας ⁷⁵² ἀνειμένας ⁷⁵³

mvp-comment-341-1 χοἱ θρασεῖς ⁷⁵⁴ πέλας ⁷⁵⁵ εἰσορῶσι ⁷⁵⁶

mvp-comment-343-1 κακῶν ἄγευστος ⁷⁵⁷

mvp-comment-344-1 σεισθῇ θεόθεν ⁷⁵⁸

mvp-comment-344-2 ἄτας οὐδὲν ἐλλείπει ⁷⁵⁹ ἐλλείπει ⁷⁶⁰

mvp-comment-344-3 γενεᾶς ἐπὶ πλῆθος ⁷⁶¹ γενεᾶς ⁷⁶²

mvp-comment-345-1 ὅμοιον ⁷⁶³

mvp-comment-345-2 ποντίαις ⁷⁶⁴ πνοαῖς ⁷⁶⁵ ὅταν οἶδμα ⁷⁶⁶ ποντίαις δυσπν. Θρ. πνοαῖς ⁷⁶⁷ ἐπιδράμῃ ἔρεβος ὕφαλον ⁷⁶⁸ Θρῄσσαισιν ⁷⁶⁹

mvp-comment-346-1 κελαινὰν θῖνα ⁷⁷⁰

mvp-comment-346-2 δυσάνεμοι ⁷⁷¹ δυσάνεμον ⁷⁷²

mvp-comment-346-3 στόνῳ βρ.· ⁷⁷³

mvp-comment-346-4 ἀντιπλῆγες ⁷⁷⁴ ἀκταί ⁷⁷⁵

mvp-comment-347-1 ἀρχαῖα ⁷⁷⁶

mvp-comment-347-2 ὁρῶμαι ⁷⁷⁷ οἴκων ⁷⁷⁸ φθι^τῶν ⁷⁷⁹

mvp-comment-348-1 ἀπαλλάσσει ⁷⁸⁰

mvp-comment-348-2 γενεὰν γένος ⁷⁸¹ ἔχει ⁷⁸²

mvp-comment-348-3 λύσιν ⁷⁸³

mvp-comment-349-1 νῦν γὰρ ἐσχάτας ⁷⁸⁴ ὃ τέτατο ⁷⁸⁵ ἐτέτατο ⁷⁸⁶ κατ’ αὖ ⁷⁸⁷ ὑπέρ ⁷⁸⁸ ὅπερ ⁷⁸⁹ ὃ τέτατο ⁷⁹⁰ νιν ⁷⁹¹ φάος ⁷⁹² ἐσχάτη ῥίζα ⁷⁹³ φάος ⁷⁹⁴ νιν ⁷⁹⁵ φάος ⁷⁹⁶ θάλος ⁷⁹⁷ τέτατο ⁷⁹⁸ ῥίζας ⁷⁹⁹

mvp-comment-350-1 κατ’ αὖ … ἀμᾷ, ⁸⁰⁰ κοπίς ⁸⁰¹ κόνις ⁸⁰² κόνις ⁸⁰³

mvp-comment-350-2 (1) If κόνις ⁸⁰⁴ καταμᾷ ⁸⁰⁵

mvp-comment-350-3 (2) If we read κοπίς ⁸⁰⁶

mvp-comment-350-4 It has further been urged against

that the word is too homely. This may be so; but we lack proof. seems to have been a large curved knife, known to the Greeks chiefly as ( a) a butcher's or cook's implement, ( b) an oriental military weapon. It does not follow, however, that the effect here would be like that of ‘chopper,’ or of ‘scimitar,’ in English. The dignity of a word may be protected by its simplicity; and is merely ‘that which cuts.’ Pindar was not afraid of homeliness when he described a chorus-master as a , or an inspiring thought as an (cp. O. C. 1052 n.). Nicander could say, of the scorpion, ( Ther. 780 ). If be right, the change to may have been caused, not by a misreading of letters, but by mere inadvertence,—the copyist having the word in his thoughts at the moment: it has already occurred frequently ( 247 , 256 , 409 , 429 ).—See Appendix.

mvp-comment-351-1 λόγου … ἄνοια ⁸⁰⁷ φρενῶν ἐρινύς ⁸⁰⁸

mvp-comment-352-1 τεάν ⁸⁰⁹

mvp-comment-352-2 δύνα^σιν ⁸¹⁰

mvp-comment-352-3 κατάσχοι ⁸¹¹

mvp-comment-353-1 The MS. παντογήρως ⁸¹² παντοθήρας ⁸¹³ παντόθηρος ⁸¹⁴ πάντ’ ἀγρεύων ⁸¹⁵

mvp-comment-354-1 The MS. οὔτ’ ἀκάματοι θεῶν ⁸¹⁶

mvp-comment-354-2

. Far the best emendation is οὔτε θεῶν ἄκματοι ⁸¹⁷ θεῶν ⁸¹⁸ θεῶν μῆνες ⁸¹⁹ θεῶν ⁸²⁰ οὔτε ⁸²¹

mvp-comment-354-3 ἄκματοι ⁸²²

mvp-comment-355-1 I doubt whether the dat. χρόνῳ ⁸²³

mvp-comment-355-2 μαρμαρόεσσαν ⁸²⁴

mvp-comment-356-1 τό τ’ ἔπειτα ⁸²⁵ τὸ μέλλον ⁸²⁶

mvp-comment-356-2 καὶ τὸ πρίν ⁸³⁰ ἐπαρκέσει ⁸³¹

mvp-comment-357-1 πάμπολύ γ’ ⁸³²

mvp-comment-357-2 ἕρπει ⁸³³ ἕρπειν ⁸³⁴ ἕρπει ⁸³⁵

mvp-comment-357-3 πάμπολις ⁸³⁶

mvp-comment-358-1 ἁ γὰρ δή ⁸³⁷ γάρ ⁸³⁸ πολύπλαγκτος ⁸³⁹

mvp-comment-358-2 oft tossed up and down, ploughing a sea of vain deceits.’—

might also be act., ‘causing men to err greatly’; but this is less fitting here.

mvp-comment-359-1 πολλοῖς μὲν ὄνασις ⁸⁴⁰

mvp-comment-360-1 ἀπάτα … ἐρώτων ⁸⁴¹

mvp-comment-360-2 κουφονόων ⁸⁴²

mvp-comment-361-1 The

, or final frustration of his desires, ἕρπει ⁸⁴³ οὐδὲν εἰδότι ⁸⁴⁴

mvp-comment-362-1 πρὶν … προσαύσῃ ⁸⁴⁵

mvp-comment-362-2 προσαύσῃ ⁸⁴⁶

mvp-comment-362-3 πόδα ⁸⁴⁷ προσαύσῃ ⁸⁴⁸

mvp-comment-363-1 σοφίᾳ ⁸⁴⁹

mvp-comment-363-2 ἔκ του ⁸⁵⁰

mvp-comment-363-3 πεφάνται ⁸⁵¹

mvp-comment-364-1 τὸ κακὸν δοκεῖν ποτ’ ⁸⁵² ποτέ ⁸⁵³

mvp-comment-364-2 1676 Among them he a spirit of phrenzy sent, Who hurt their minds. Cp.

. Il. 19.137

ἀλλ’ ἐπεὶ ἀασάμην, καί μευ φρένας ἐξέλετο Ζεύς

. Theognis 403 . Lycurgus in Leocr. § 92 . The schol. on our verse quotes an unknown poet's lines, . (‘Quem Iuppiter vult perdere, dementat prius.’ See n. in Appendix.)— The epic ἔμμεν ⁸⁵⁴

mvp-comment-365-1 ὀλίγιστον ⁸⁵⁵ ὀλιγοστόν ⁸⁵⁶ πράσσει … ἐκτὸς ἄτας ⁸⁵⁷ ἄτας ⁸⁵⁸

mvp-comment-366-1 μήν ⁸⁵⁹

mvp-comment-366-2 νέατον ⁸⁶⁰

mvp-comment-366-3 to a person,

could not be said of a sole survivor unless he was also the latest-born.

γέννημ’

: cp. 471 n.

mvp-comment-366-4 ἀχνύμενος ⁸⁶¹ μόρον ⁸⁶²

mvp-comment-367-1 In the MS. reading (see cr. n.)

is a gloss on τάλιδος ⁸⁶³ τῆς μελλογάμου ⁸⁶⁴ τῆς μελλογάμου ⁸⁶⁵ τάλιδος ⁸⁶⁶

mvp-comment-368-1 ἀπάτας ⁸⁶⁷ λεχέων ⁸⁶⁸

mvp-comment-370-1 μάντεων ὑπέρτερον ⁸⁶⁹

mvp-comment-371-1 τελείαν ⁸⁷⁰

mvp-comment-371-2 ψῆφο<*> ⁸⁷¹

mvp-comment-371-3 ἆρα μή ⁸⁷²

mvp-comment-371-4 τῆς μελλονύμφου ⁸⁷³

mvp-comment-371-5 λυσσαίνων ⁸⁷⁴ σοὶ μέν ⁸⁷⁵ θυμαίνων ⁸⁷⁶

mvp-comment-372-1 σοὶ μέν ⁸⁷⁷

mvp-comment-372-2 πανταχῇ δρῶντες ⁸⁷⁸

mvp-comment-373-1 σός ⁸⁷⁹

mvp-comment-373-2 γνώμας ἔχων χρηστάς ⁸⁸⁰ ἀπορθοῖς ⁸⁸¹ μοι ⁸⁸²

mvp-comment-374-1 ἀξιώσεται ⁸⁸⁴ ἀξ. μείζων φέρεσθαι ⁸⁸⁵ ἀξίως ἔσται ⁸⁸⁶

mvp-comment-374-2 σοῦ καλῶς ἡγουμ. ⁸⁸⁷ μείζων ⁸⁸⁸

mvp-comment-375-1 γάρ ⁸⁸⁹

mvp-comment-375-2 διὰ στέρνων ἔχειν ⁸⁹⁰ διά ⁸⁹¹ ἔχειν ⁸⁹² οὕτω ⁸⁹³ ἔχειν ⁸⁹⁴

mvp-comment-376-1 (One ought to think thus),—that is, ὄπισθεν ἑστάναι πατρ. γνώμης ⁸⁹⁵ πάντα ⁸⁹⁶ ἑστάναι ⁸⁹⁷

mvp-comment-377-1 ὡς ⁸⁹⁸

mvp-comment-377-2 ἀνταμύνωνται ⁸⁹⁹ κακοῖς ⁹⁰⁰

mvp-comment-378-1 ἄλλο ⁹⁰¹ φῦσαι ⁹⁰² πλήν ⁹⁰³ ἄλλο ⁹⁰⁴ εἴποις ⁹⁰⁵

mvp-comment-378-2 πόνους ⁹⁰⁶

mvp-comment-378-3 γέλων ⁹⁰⁷

mvp-comment-379-1 τὰς φρένας γ’ ⁹⁰⁸ γε ⁹⁰⁹ φρένας σύ γ’ ἡδονῇ ⁹¹⁰

mvp-comment-379-2 φρένας … ἐκβάλῃς ⁹¹¹

mvp-comment-379-3 ὑφ’ ἡδονῆς ⁹¹²

mvp-comment-380-1 ψυχρόν ⁹¹³

mvp-comment-380-2 παραγκάλισμα ⁹¹⁴

mvp-comment-381-1 δόμοις ⁹¹⁵

mvp-comment-381-2 ἕλκος ⁹¹⁶

mvp-comment-381-3 φίλος ⁹¹⁷

mvp-comment-382-1 πτύσας ⁹¹⁸

mvp-comment-382-2 ὠσεί τε δυσμενῆ ⁹¹⁹ τε ⁹²⁰

mvp-comment-383-1 νυμφεύειν ⁹²¹

mvp-comment-384-1 ἀπιστήσασαν ⁹²² ψευδῆ ⁹²³

mvp-comment-385-1 κτενῶ ⁹²⁴

mvp-comment-385-2 πρὸς ταῦτ ⁹²⁵

mvp-comment-385-3 ἐφυμνείτω ⁹²⁶

mvp-comment-385-4 Δία ξύναιμον ⁹²⁷

mvp-comment-386-1 τά γ’ ἐγγ. φύσει ⁹²⁸

mvp-comment-386-2 ἄκοσμα ⁹²⁹

mvp-comment-386-3 θρέψω ⁹³⁰

mvp-comment-386-4 κάρτα τοὺς ἔξω γ. ⁹³¹

mvp-comment-387-1 Seidler transposes vv. 663—667, placing them after 671. The object is to bring vv. 668—671 into immediate connection with 662. In this there is one slight grammatical gain; since, as the vv. stand in the MSS.,

(668) means, ‘the man who acts thus’ (viz., as described in vv. 666 f.). But the order given in the MSS. is right. The transposition obliterates one of the finest touches in the speech. Creon demands that the obedience of the citizens to the ruler shall be absolute (666 f.). And then he supplements this demand with a remark on the dignity of such obedience. The man who so obeys gives the best proof that he could also rule (668 ff.). Seidler destroys the point of vv. 668 ff. by placing them after 662.

mvp-comment-387-2 The connection of thought in the whole passage—which is slightly obscured by compression—may be most clearly shown by taking the verses in small consecutive groups. (1) 659 f. If I tolerate disloyalty

mvp-comment-387-3 in my own relatives, I shall encourage it in other citizens. (2) 661 f. For (

) only a man who is firm ( ) where his own relatives are concerned will be found to uphold justice in the State (i.e. will have the authority necessary for doing so). (3) 663 f. Now, I recognise disloyalty in any one who breaks the law and defies the government, as Antigone has done. (4) 666 f. Instead of so doing, the citizen is bound to obey the government in everything. (5) 668—671. There is nothing slavish in that; on the contrary, it shows that the citizen is not only a good subject, but would, if required, be a good ruler;—as he would also be a good soldier.—Then comes the general censure on unruliness (672—676). And then the conclusion:—I must vindicate my authority, and punish Antigone (677 —680).

mvp-comment-388-1 ὑπερβάς ⁹³²

mvp-comment-388-2 τοὐπιτάσσειν ⁹³³

mvp-comment-388-3 νοεῖ ⁹³⁴

mvp-comment-389-1 στήσειε ⁹³⁵

mvp-comment-389-2 καὶ τἀναντία ⁹³⁶

mvp-comment-390-1 τοῦτον … τὸν ἄνδρα ⁹³⁷

mvp-comment-390-2 καλῶς...εὖ ⁹³⁸

mvp-comment-390-3 ἄν ⁹³⁹ ἄρχειν ⁹⁴⁰ θέλειν ⁹⁴¹

mvp-comment-391-1 δορὸς … χειμῶνι ⁹⁴²

mvp-comment-391-2 προστεταγμένον ⁹⁴³

mvp-comment-391-3 παραστάτην ⁹⁴⁴

mvp-comment-392-1 πόλεις ὄλλυσιν, ἥδ’ ⁹⁴⁵ πόλεις τ’ … ἥδ’ ⁹⁴⁶

mvp-comment-393-1 συμμάχου ⁹⁴⁷ συμμάχηι ⁹⁴⁸ σὺν μάχῃ ⁹⁴⁹

mvp-comment-393-2 τροπὰς καταρρήγνυσι ⁹⁵⁰

mvp-comment-393-3 τῶν δ’ ὀρθουμένων ⁹⁵¹ τὰ πολλὰ σώματα ⁹⁵²

mvp-comment-393-4 ἡ πειθαρχία ⁹⁵³

mvp-comment-394-1 ἀμυντέ’ ⁹⁵⁴

mvp-comment-394-2 τοῖς κοσμουμένοις ⁹⁵⁵ τοῖς κ. ⁹⁵⁷

mvp-comment-395-1 κοὔτοι … ἡσσητέα ⁹⁵⁸

mvp-comment-396-1 δεῖ ⁹⁵⁹ ἐκπεσεῖν ⁹⁶⁰

mvp-comment-396-2 thrust out: oft. of dethronement (

, Aesch. ), or of exile ( , O. C. 766 ).

mvp-comment-396-3 κοὐκ ἂν...καλοίμεθ’ ἄν ⁹⁶¹

mvp-comment-397-1 μέν ⁹⁶²

mvp-comment-397-2 τῷ χρόνῳ ⁹⁶³

mvp-comment-397-3 κεκλέμμεθα ⁹⁶⁴

mvp-comment-398-1 δοκεῖς λέγειν φρονούντως περὶ ⁹⁶⁵

mvp-comment-399-1 θεοί ⁹⁶⁶

mvp-comment-399-2 κτημάτων ⁹⁶⁷

mvp-comment-400-1 ἐγὼ δ’ ὅπως ⁹⁶⁸

mvp-comment-400-2 μὴ ⁹⁶⁹ ὅπως ⁹⁷⁰ μή ⁹⁷¹ ὀρθῶς ⁹⁷²

mvp-comment-400-3 μήτ’ ἐπισταίμην ⁹⁷³

mvp-comment-401-1 καλῶς ἔχον ⁹⁷⁴ γένοιτο ἂν καὶ ἑτέρῳ ⁹⁷⁵

mvp-comment-402-1 σοῦ δ’ οὖν ⁹⁷⁶ σοῦ ⁹⁷⁷ σοί ⁹⁷⁸ σὺ δ’ οὐ πέφυκας ⁹⁷⁹ τις ⁹⁸⁰ μῆνίν τιν’ ἢ κότον τιν ⁹⁸¹

mvp-comment-403-1 τὸ γὰρ σόν ⁹⁸² ὄμμα ⁹⁸³

mvp-comment-403-2 δημότῃ ⁹⁸⁴

mvp-comment-404-1 λόγοις τοιούτοις ⁹⁸⁵ λόγοις τοιούτοις ⁹⁸⁶

mvp-comment-404-2 οἷς ⁹⁸⁷ τέρψει ⁹⁸⁸ κλύων ⁹⁸⁹ μή ⁹⁹⁰ τέρψῃ ⁹⁹¹

mvp-comment-405-1 ὑπὸ σκότον ⁹⁹² ἀκούειν ⁹⁹³ ὀδύρεται ⁹⁹⁴

mvp-comment-406-1 κάκιστ’ … εὐκλεεστάτων ⁹⁹⁵

mvp-comment-406-2 ἀπ’ ἔργων ⁹⁹⁶

mvp-comment-407-1 ἥτις ⁹⁹⁷ μήθ’ … μήθ’ ⁹⁹⁸ εἴασε ⁹⁹⁹ ὀλέσθαι ¹⁰⁰⁰

mvp-comment-407-2 αὐτάδελφον ¹⁰⁰¹

mvp-comment-407-3 ἐνφοναῖς ¹⁰⁰²

mvp-comment-408-1 χρυσῆς ¹⁰⁰³

mvp-comment-408-2 λαχεῖν ¹⁰⁰⁴ ἀξία ¹⁰⁰⁵

mvp-comment-409-1 ἐπέρχεται ¹⁰⁰⁶

mvp-comment-410-1 θάλλοντος ¹⁰⁰⁷

mvp-comment-410-2 μεῖζον εὐκλείας ¹⁰⁰⁸

mvp-comment-410-3 πρὸς παίδων ¹⁰⁰⁹ εὐκλεία ¹⁰¹⁰

mvp-comment-411-1 νυν ¹⁰¹¹

mvp-comment-411-2 φόρει ¹⁰¹²

mvp-comment-411-3 ἦθος ¹⁰¹³ ὡς φὴς σύ ¹⁰¹⁴

mvp-comment-411-4 κοὐδέν ¹⁰¹⁵

mvp-comment-411-5 τοῦτο ¹⁰¹⁶

mvp-comment-412-1 μόνος ¹⁰¹⁷ φρονεῖν ¹⁰¹⁸ ψυχήν ¹⁰¹⁹

mvp-comment-412-2

(devices) . Isocr. or. 3 § 43 joins Theognis, Hesiod and Phocylides as . They were read in schools.

mvp-comment-413-1 οὗτοι ¹⁰²⁰

mvp-comment-413-2 διαπτυχθέντες ¹⁰²¹

mvp-comment-413-3 κενοί ¹⁰²²

mvp-comment-414-1 ἄνδρα ¹⁰²³ μανθάνειν ¹⁰²⁴ τό ¹⁰²⁵

mvp-comment-414-2 κεἰ … ᾖ ¹⁰²⁶

mvp-comment-414-3 τείνειν ¹⁰²⁷

mvp-comment-414-4 παρὰ ῥείθρ. ¹⁰²⁸

mvp-comment-414-5 χειμάρροις ¹⁰²⁹

mvp-comment-415-1 ὑπείκει ¹⁰³⁰

mvp-comment-415-2 αὐτόπρεμνα ¹⁰³¹

mvp-comment-416-1 αὔτως ¹⁰³²

mvp-comment-416-2 ναός ¹⁰³³

mvp-comment-416-3 ἐγκρατῆ ¹⁰³⁴

mvp-comment-416-4 πόδα ¹⁰³⁵

mvp-comment-417-1 μηδέν ¹⁰³⁶

mvp-comment-417-2 κάτω στρέψας ¹⁰³⁷ τὸ πλοῖον ¹⁰³⁸ τὸ λοιπόν ¹⁰³⁹

mvp-comment-417-3 σέλμασιν ¹⁰⁴⁰ ὑπτίοις ¹⁰⁴¹

mvp-comment-418-1 εἶκε θυμοῦ ¹⁰⁴²

mvp-comment-418-2 καὶ μετάστασιν δίδου ¹⁰⁴³

mvp-comment-418-3 δίδου ¹⁰⁴⁴ εἶκε ¹⁰⁴⁵ καί ¹⁰⁴⁶ καί ¹⁰⁴⁷

mvp-comment-419-1 εἴ τις γνώμη πρόσεστι καὶ ἀπ’ ἐμοῦ ν. ¹⁰⁴⁸ καί ¹⁰⁴⁹

mvp-comment-419-2 πρεσβεύειν ¹⁰⁵⁰

mvp-comment-420-1 φῦναι ¹⁰⁵¹

mvp-comment-420-2 πάντ’ ¹⁰⁵²

mvp-comment-421-1 εἰ δ’ οὖν ¹⁰⁵³ φιλεῖ γάρ ¹⁰⁵⁴

mvp-comment-421-2 τοῦτο … ταύτῃ ¹⁰⁵⁵ ταύτῃ ¹⁰⁵⁶

mvp-comment-421-3 ῥέπειν ¹⁰⁵⁷

mvp-comment-422-1 καὶ τὸ τῶν εὖ λεγόντων μανθάνειν καλόν ¹⁰⁵⁸

mvp-comment-423-1 σέ τ’ ¹⁰⁵⁹ διπλᾶι ¹⁰⁶⁰ διπλᾶ ¹⁰⁶¹ διπλῇ ¹⁰⁶² διπλᾶ ¹⁰⁶³

mvp-comment-423-2 On the other hand, διπλῇ ¹⁰⁶⁴

mvp-comment-424-1 καὶ ¹⁰⁶⁵ διδαξ. ¹⁰⁶⁶

mvp-comment-424-2 δή ¹⁰⁶⁷

mvp-comment-424-3 τὴν φύσιν ¹⁰⁶⁸

mvp-comment-425-1 μηδέν ¹⁰⁶⁹ τὸ μὴ δίκ. ¹⁰⁷⁰

mvp-comment-425-2 τὸν χρόνον ¹⁰⁷¹ τἄργα ¹⁰⁷²

mvp-comment-426-1 ἔργον ¹⁰⁷³

mvp-comment-426-2 τοὺς ἀκοσμοῦντας ¹⁰⁷⁴

mvp-comment-426-3 σέβειν ¹⁰⁷⁵

mvp-comment-427-1 οὐδ’ ¹⁰⁷⁶

mvp-comment-428-1 τοιᾷδε … νοσῳ ¹⁰⁷⁷

mvp-comment-428-2 ἐπείληπται ¹⁰⁷⁸

mvp-comment-429-1 Θήβης ¹⁰⁷⁹ ὁμόπτολις ¹⁰⁸⁰

mvp-comment-430-1 ἡμῖν ¹⁰⁸¹ ἐμέ ¹⁰⁸²

mvp-comment-431-1 ὡς ἄγαν νέος ¹⁰⁸³

mvp-comment-432-1 Dobree's με ¹⁰⁸⁴ γε ¹⁰⁸⁵ χρή ¹⁰⁸⁶ ἄλλῳ ἢ ’μοί ¹⁰⁸⁷ ἐμοί ¹⁰⁸⁸ χρή γε ¹⁰⁸⁹

mvp-comment-433-1 πόλις γὰρ οὐκ ἔσθ’ ¹⁰⁹⁰

mvp-comment-433-2

is , Rep. 544 C. de Rep. 3. 31

mvp-comment-434-1 νομίζεται ¹⁰⁹¹

mvp-comment-435-1 καλῶς ἐρήμης γ’ ¹⁰⁹²

mvp-comment-436-1 Though at least one late MS. (Paris E) has

, it is needless to assume here the same mixed constr. as Tr. 1238

ἁνὴρ δ’ ὅδ’, ὡς ἔοικεν, οὐ νεμεῖν ἐμοὶ | φθίνοντι μοῖραν

.

mvp-comment-437-1 οὖν ¹⁰⁹³ προκήδομαι ¹⁰⁹⁴

mvp-comment-438-1 ὦ παγκάκιστε ¹⁰⁹⁵

mvp-comment-438-2 διὰ δίκης ἰὼν πατρί ¹⁰⁹⁶

mvp-comment-439-1 ἀρχάς ¹⁰⁹⁷

mvp-comment-440-1 οὐ γὰρ σέβεις ¹⁰⁹⁸

mvp-comment-440-2 τιμάς ¹⁰⁹⁹

mvp-comment-441-1 ὦ μιαρόν ¹¹⁰⁰ γυναικὸς ὕστερον ¹¹⁰¹

mvp-comment-442-1 ‘I may be inferior to a woman, but at least you will never find me yielding to base temptations.’ It would have been

if he had allowed fear or self-interest to deter him from pleading this cause. ( Cp. 509 .) Cp. Tr. 489

ἔρωτος...ἥσσων

: fr. 844

mvp-comment-442-2 οὔ τἄν ¹¹⁰²

mvp-comment-442-3 γε ¹¹⁰³

mvp-comment-443-1 γοῦν ¹¹⁰⁴

mvp-comment-444-1 καὶ σοῦ γε ¹¹⁰⁵

mvp-comment-445-1 Objections have been made to the traditional order of these verses, chiefly in two respects. (1) 755

is—it is argued—the strongest thing said by Haemon, and ought therefore to come immediately before Creon's final outburst, ; (758). How could it be followed by merely so mild a phrase as ?—We may reply:— Haemon says that, if Creon were not his father, he would have thought him mad. It is to this that refers, meaning, ‘Do not seek to deceive me by an affectation of filial deference.’ (2) 757 is too mild a remark—it is said—to form the climax of provocation to Creon's anger. We may reply:—It is in substance, if not in form, such a climax, —for a father who holds that unquestioning obedience (640) is a son's first duty. It asserts Haemon's right to maintain his own views against his father's,— , as Creon put it (742). The traditional order seems, therefore, to be right.

mvp-comment-445-2 Three modes of transposition have been proposed. (1) Enger puts 756 and 757 after 749. Then

(756) refers to Haemon's plea that he has his father's cause, and that of religion, at heart. We lose nothing by such a transposition; but neither do we gain.

mvp-comment-445-3 (2) Donner (in his transl., ed. 1863) simply transposed verses 755 and 757, leaving the rest as they stand. For this it may fairly be said that 757 comes very fitly after 754. On the other hand it seems to me that 756 does not aptly follow 757.

mvp-comment-445-4 (3) Pallis arranges thus:—749, 756, 755, 754, 757, 750—753. Thus

(753) becomes the last sting.— The fact is that, in a stormy altercation, we do not look for a closely logical texture and a delicately graduated crescendo. The MS. order is (to my mind) the best; but other arrangements are possible, and would be nearly as good.

mvp-comment-445-5 Creon, instead of replying to v. 749, abruptly repeats his resolve.

(fut.) , it cannot be that you shall ever wed her while she yet lives; i.e. she is to die at once, and can become your bride, if ever, only (654). Cp. 1240 .— ὡς ¹¹⁰⁶ ποτέ ¹¹⁰⁷ ταύτην ¹¹⁰⁸

mvp-comment-446-1 ἥδ’ ¹¹⁰⁹ ὀλεῖ τινά ¹¹¹⁰

mvp-comment-447-1 ἦ ἐπεξέρχει και ἐπαπειλῶν ὧδε θρασύς; ¹¹¹¹ καί ¹¹¹²

mvp-comment-448-1 κλαίων ¹¹¹³

mvp-comment-448-2 φρενώσεις ¹¹¹⁴

mvp-comment-449-1 οὐκ εὖ φρονεῖν ¹¹¹⁵

mvp-comment-450-1 δούλευμα ¹¹¹⁶

mvp-comment-450-2 μὴ κωτιλλέ με ¹¹¹⁷

mvp-comment-450-3 Cp. Theognis 363

(cajole)' : id. 851 .

mvp-comment-451-1 λέγειν … κλύειν; ¹¹¹⁸ λέγειν τι ¹¹¹⁹

mvp-comment-452-1 ἄληθες; ¹¹²⁰

mvp-comment-452-2 οὐ τόνδ’ Ὄλ. ¹¹²¹

mvp-comment-452-3 ἴσθ’ ὅτι ¹¹²²

mvp-comment-453-1 χαίρων ¹¹²³

mvp-comment-453-2 ἐπὶ ψόγοισι δεννάσεις ¹¹²⁴ ἐπί ¹¹²⁵ ἔτι ¹¹²⁶

mvp-comment-454-1 ἄγετε ¹¹²⁷ ἄγ’ ἄγε ¹¹²⁸ ἄγαγε ¹¹²⁹

mvp-comment-454-2 τὸ μῖσος ¹¹³⁰

mvp-comment-454-3 κατ’ ὄμματ’ ¹¹³¹

mvp-comment-454-4 παρόντι … πλησία ¹¹³²

mvp-comment-455-1 ἔμοιγε ¹¹³³ οὔτε ¹¹³⁴ τε ¹¹³⁵

mvp-comment-455-2 οὐδαμά ¹¹³⁶

mvp-comment-455-3 ἐν ὀφθαλμοῖς ¹¹³⁷

mvp-comment-456-1 ὡς ¹¹³⁸

mvp-comment-456-2 τοῖς θέλουσι ¹¹³⁹

mvp-comment-457-1 ἐξ ὀργῆς ταχύς ¹¹⁴⁰

mvp-comment-457-2 βαρύς ¹¹⁴¹

mvp-comment-458-1 μεῖζον ἢ κατ’ ἄνδρα ¹¹⁴²

mvp-comment-458-2 ἰών ¹¹⁴³

mvp-comment-458-3

: Ai. 304

ὅσην κατ’ αὐτῶν ὕβριν ἐκτίσαιτ’ ἰών

. So here it scornfully suggests some daring enterprise.

mvp-comment-459-1 For δ’ οὖν ¹¹⁴⁴

mvp-comment-459-2 τὼ … τώδε ¹¹⁴⁵

mvp-comment-459-3 καί ¹¹⁴⁶ κατακτ. νοεῖς ¹¹⁴⁷ κατακτ ¹¹⁴⁸

mvp-comment-460-1 θιγοῦσαν ¹¹⁴⁹

mvp-comment-460-2 γὰρ οὖν ¹¹⁵⁰

mvp-comment-461-1 καί ¹¹⁵¹ βουλεύει ¹¹⁵²

mvp-comment-461-2 σφε ¹¹⁵³

mvp-comment-462-1 ἔνθα ¹¹⁵⁴

mvp-comment-463-1 πετρώδει … ἐν κατώρυχι ¹¹⁵⁵

mvp-comment-464-1 ὡς ἄγος μόνον ¹¹⁵⁶ ὡς ¹¹⁵⁷ ὅσον ¹¹⁵⁸

mvp-comment-464-2 ἄγος ¹¹⁵⁹

mvp-comment-464-3 Creon's edict had announced that the transgressor would be publicly stoned to death (36). It is to this that the anxious question of the Chorus alludes (772). Creon had already said that Antigone's doom was to be

(489). But now, at least, he feels that he cannot inflict such a death on the maiden, his kinswoman. She shall die, not by stoning, but by starvation. The choice is not prompted by cruelty, but simply by the desire to avoid physical violence.

mvp-comment-464-4 The danger of a

—to be avoided by a dole of food—has no relation to the special circumstances,—Antigone's royal birth, and the nature of her offence. In the ancient belief, that danger existed whenever a person was put to death by starvation. Two notions were probably blended; ( a) that, if a little food was given, the death was nature's work, not man's; ( b) that the claimed an indemnity for the usual . So the Greeks put Philoctetes ashore on desolate Lemnos, — ( Ph. 274 ). So, too, when a Vestal was to be buried alive, the small vault in the Campus Sceleratus was furnished with a couch, a burning lamp, and a small table, on which the dole was placed,—bread, olives, milk, and a jug of water ( Plut. Num. 10 ).

mvp-comment-465-1 πᾶσ’ ¹¹⁶⁰

mvp-comment-466-1 ὃν μόνον σέβει ¹¹⁶¹

mvp-comment-466-2

(199). By honouring him, and Hades (519), she has dishonoured those other gods.

mvp-comment-467-1 τὸ μὴ θανεῖν ¹¹⁶² τεύξεται ¹¹⁶³

mvp-comment-468-1 ἀλλὰ τηνικαῦτα ¹¹⁶⁴ τἀν ¹¹⁶⁵

mvp-comment-470-1 ἀνίκατε μάχαν ¹¹⁶⁶

mvp-comment-471-1 ἐν κτήμασι πίπτεις, ¹¹⁶⁷

mvp-comment-472-1 ἐν μαλακαῖς παρειαῖς ¹¹⁶⁸

mvp-comment-472-2 ἐννυχεύεις ¹¹⁶⁹

mvp-comment-473-1 ὑπερπόντιος ¹¹⁷⁰

mvp-comment-473-2 ἔν τ’ ἀγρ. αὐλαῖς ¹¹⁷¹

mvp-comment-474-1 οὔτ’ ἀθανάτων ¹¹⁷²

mvp-comment-474-2 σὲ … φύξιμός ἐστι ¹¹⁷³

mvp-comment-475-1 σέ γ’ ¹¹⁷⁴

mvp-comment-475-2 ὁ δ’ ἔχων ¹¹⁷⁵

mvp-comment-476-1 ἀδίκους ¹¹⁷⁶ παρασπᾷς ¹¹⁷⁷

mvp-comment-477-1 ξύναιμον ¹¹⁷⁸

mvp-comment-477-2 ἔχεις ¹¹⁷⁹

mvp-comment-477-3 ταράξας ¹¹⁸⁰

mvp-comment-478-1 ἐναργής ¹¹⁸¹

mvp-comment-478-2 βλεφάρωνἵμερος ¹¹⁸² εὐλέκτρου νύμφας ¹¹⁸³

mvp-comment-478-3 εὐλέκτρου ¹¹⁸⁴

mvp-comment-479-1 πάρεδρος ἐν ἀρχαῖς ¹¹⁸⁵ πάρεδρος ¹¹⁸⁶ ἐν ἀρχαῖς ¹¹⁸⁷

mvp-comment-479-2 The words answer metrically to

(788). The first two syllables of therefore represent a resolved long syllable. Pindar affords some instances of such resolution (see Appendix), and there is a probable example below (970 , where see n.). But it is rare, and certainly unpleasing. As

mvp-comment-479-3 a whole, too, the phrase

is suspicious. A yet stronger objection is the strangeness of describing the power which is in conflict with the as their assessor, or peer, in sway; an expression which would seem appropriate only if that power was working in harmony with them; as when Eur. ( Eur. Med. 843 ) speaks of ,—‘the loves that sit with wisdom, co-workers of all excellence,’—those aspirations of the soul which assist intellectual effort.

mvp-comment-479-4 The best line of emendation yet suggested is that of Semitelos, who writes ὥστε πέρα δρᾶν ¹¹⁸⁸

mvp-comment-480-1 ἐμπαίζει ¹¹⁸⁹ νικᾷ ¹¹⁹⁰

mvp-comment-481-1 καὐτὸς θεσμῶν ἔξω ¹¹⁹¹

mvp-comment-481-2 φέρομαι ¹¹⁹²

mvp-comment-481-3 ἴσχειν δ’ ¹¹⁹³

mvp-comment-482-1 πηγάς ¹¹⁹⁴

mvp-comment-483-1 παγκοίτην ¹¹⁹⁵

mvp-comment-483-2 of Antigone are brought into finer relief by the different tone of the choral anapaests. Cp. 822 , and see Appendix on 110.—Cp. O. C. 1578 (Death)

. The word θάλαμον ¹¹⁹⁶

mvp-comment-483-3 ἀνύτουσαν ¹¹⁹⁷

mvp-comment-485-1 νεάταν … νέατον δέ ¹¹⁹⁸

mvp-comment-485-2 νέατον ¹¹⁹⁹

mvp-comment-485-3 κοὔποτ’ αὖθις ¹²⁰⁰

mvp-comment-486-1 παγκοίτας ¹²⁰¹ πάγκοινος ¹²⁰²

mvp-comment-487-1 ἄγει … ἀκτάν ¹²⁰³

mvp-comment-488-1 οὔθ’ ὑμεναίων … οὔτ’ ἐπινύμφειος … ὕμνος ¹²⁰⁴

mvp-comment-488-2 οὔτε … ἔγκληρον, … οὔτε … ὕμνησεν ¹²⁰⁶

mvp-comment-488-3 ἐπινύμφειος ¹²⁰⁷ ἐπινυμφίδιος ¹²⁰⁸ ἐπὶ νυμφείοις ¹²⁰⁹ ἐπινυμφίδιος ¹²¹⁰

mvp-comment-489-1 Ἀχέροντι νυμφεύσω ¹²¹¹

mvp-comment-490-1 ξιφέων ¹²¹² ἐπίχειρα ¹²¹³

mvp-comment-491-1 αὐτόνομος ¹²¹⁴

mvp-comment-491-2 δή ¹²¹⁵ μόνη ¹²¹⁶ Ἀΐδην ¹²¹⁷ Ἅιδην ¹²¹⁸

mvp-comment-492-1 ἤκουσα δή ¹²¹⁹

mvp-comment-492-2 λυγροτάταν ¹²²⁰

mvp-comment-492-3 ξέναν ¹²²¹

mvp-comment-493-1 Ταντάλου ¹²²²

mvp-comment-493-2 Σιπύλῳ ¹²²³

mvp-comment-494-1 ἀτενής ¹²²⁴

mvp-comment-494-2 πετραία βλάστα δάμασεν ¹²²⁵ αι^ ¹²²⁶

mvp-comment-495-1 καί νιν ὄμρροι ¹²²⁷ τέγγει δ’ ¹²²⁸ ὄμβρῳ ¹²²⁹ τακομέναν ¹²³⁰ τέγγει … δειράδας ¹²³¹ ὄμβροι ¹²³² ὄμβρῳ ¹²³³

mvp-comment-495-2 χιών ¹²³⁴

mvp-comment-495-3 οὐδαμά ¹²³⁵

mvp-comment-496-1 τέγγει δ’ ὑπ’ ὀφρύσι … δειράδας ¹²³⁶

mvp-comment-496-2 The Niobe of Sipylus has usually been identified with a colossal rock-image on the N. side of the range. It is rudely carved in relief, within a rectangular niche on the face of a limestone cliff, and represents a woman seated on a throne. (See Stark, Niobe, pl. 1, Leips. 1863: cp. Baumeister, Denkm. p. 1029). Prof. W. M. Ramsay, however, holds that this image is the ‘very ancient’

of Cybele mentioned by Paus. 3.22.4 . In two respects it differs from the ancient accounts of the Niobe (quoted below): ( a) it does not ‘weep,’—for the rainwater drops from the front of the niche, clear of the figure; and ( b) the likeness to a human form grows, instead of vanishing, as one approaches. ( Journ. Hellen. Studies III. 61 ff., 1882.) This has been confirmed by another traveller, Herr Schweisthal (as reported in the Berl. Phil. Wochenschr., May 28, 1887, p. 704). He finds the true Niobe at no great distance from the Cybele, but nearer Magnesia, and in the vicinity of a stream (the Jarikkaia) which Humann, in his ‘Excursion into Sipylus’ (1881), had already identified with the Achelous of Il. 24.616 . It is a natural phenomenon,—the semblance—as seen from a distance—of a draped woman, seated high on the rocks; she looks towards the right, and lifts her right arm, as if in lament.

mvp-comment-496-3 The best ancient description is by a poet whose native place was in that neighbourhood,—Quintus Smyrnaeus (1. 293— 306):—‘Her streaming tears still fall from the heights of the rugged cliff; and in sympathy with her the sounding waters of the Hermus make lament, and the lofty peaks of Sipylus, over which the mist that shepherds dread floats evermore. A great marvel is she to passers by, because she is like a sorrowful woman, who mourns some cruel grief, and weeps without stint. Such verily seems the figure, when thou gazest at it from afar; but when thou drawest near, lo, 'tis but a sheer rock, a cliff of Sipylus’ (

).

mvp-comment-496-4 Nonnus was thinking of the effect from the road, when he wrote (2. 160),

. Pausanias, too, says that, at a certain distance from the cliff, , but that the illusion vanishes on a nearer approach (1. 21 § 3).

mvp-comment-497-1 ὁμοιοτάταν ¹²³⁷

mvp-comment-498-1 ἀλλὰ … θανοῦσαν ¹²³⁸ καίτοι ¹²³⁹ ζῶσαν ¹²⁴⁰ θανοῦσαν ¹²⁴¹ οἴμοι γελῶμαι ¹²⁴²

mvp-comment-498-2 θεός ¹²⁴³

mvp-comment-498-3 θεογεννής ¹²⁴⁴ θειογενής ¹²⁴⁵

mvp-comment-499-1 καίτοι ¹²⁴⁶ φθιμένῃ ¹²⁴⁷

mvp-comment-499-2 κἀκοῦσαι ¹²⁴⁸ μέγ’ ἀκοῦσαι ¹²⁴⁹

mvp-comment-500-1 τοῖς ἰσοθέοις σύγκληρα ¹²⁵⁰ ἔγκληρα ¹²⁵¹

mvp-comment-500-2 Hipp. 1011 : or (2) pass., included in one's

, as H. F. 468 (‘by inheritance’). Here, was perh. partly due to a reminiscence of in 814.—The change of τοῖς ἰσοθέοις ¹²⁵² τοῖσι θεοῖσιν ¹²⁵³ ι— ¹²⁵⁴ α— ¹²⁵⁵ τοῖς ἰσοθέοις ἔγκληρα ¹²⁵⁶

mvp-comment-501-1 ζῶσαν … θανοῦσαν ¹²⁵⁷

mvp-comment-502-1 γελῶμαι ¹²⁵⁸

mvp-comment-503-1 πολυκτήμονες ¹²⁵⁹

mvp-comment-504-1 κρῆναι ¹²⁶⁰

mvp-comment-504-2 εὐαρμάτου ¹²⁶¹

mvp-comment-504-3 ἄλσος ¹²⁶²

mvp-comment-504-4 ἔμπας ¹²⁶³

mvp-comment-505-1 ὔμμ’ ¹²⁶⁴

mvp-comment-505-2 ἐπικτῶμαι ¹²⁶⁵ ἐπί ¹²⁶⁶

mvp-comment-506-1 οἵα ¹²⁶⁷

mvp-comment-506-2 φίλων ἄκλαυτος ¹²⁶⁸

mvp-comment-507-1 ἕργμα τυμβόχωστον ¹²⁶⁹ ἕρμα ¹²⁷⁰

mvp-comment-508-1 ποταινίου ¹²⁷¹

mvp-comment-509-1 Though every treatment of this verse must remain subject to doubt, far the most probable (to my mind) is Seyffert's modification of Boeckh's βροτοῖς οὔτ’ ἐν νεκροῖς κυροῦσα ¹²⁷² οὔτε ¹²⁷³ κυροῦσα ¹²⁷⁴ νεκροῖς ¹²⁷⁵

mvp-comment-510-1 μέτοικος ¹²⁷⁶

mvp-comment-511-1 προβᾶσ’ … πολύ ¹²⁷⁷ προσέπεσες ¹²⁷⁸

mvp-comment-511-2 πολύ ¹²⁷⁹ ἐσχάτου ¹²⁸⁰ προσέπεσες ¹²⁸¹

mvp-comment-512-1 πατρῷόν τινα … ἆθλον ¹²⁸² τινά ¹²⁸³

mvp-comment-512-2 ἐκτίνεις ¹²⁸⁴

mvp-comment-513-1 μερίμνας ¹²⁸⁵ οἶκτον ¹²⁸⁶ πατρός ¹²⁸⁷ πότμου ¹²⁸⁸ οἶκτον ¹²⁸⁹

mvp-comment-513-2 to taking

as acc. in apposition with is that this would imply ( ) : as Eur. Or. 1105

Ἑλένην κτάνωμεν, Μενέλεῳ λύπην πικράν

, implies, : Aesch. Ag. 224

ἔτλα δ’ οὖν | θυτὴρ γενέσθαι θυγατρός, γυναικοποίνων πολέμων ἀρωγάν

, implies, . Now, if we had, for instance, , it is conceivable that , as acc. in appos., should mean or . But when, as here, the subject of is distinct from the person who makes the lament, it seems impossible that should have this pregnant sense.

mvp-comment-513-3 ἀλγ. μερίμνας ¹²⁹⁰ οἶτον ¹²⁹¹

mvp-comment-513-4 τριπόλιστον ¹²⁹²

mvp-comment-513-5 κλεινοῖς Λαβδακίδαισιν ¹²⁹³ πότμου ¹²⁹⁴

mvp-comment-513-6 ἁμετέρου ¹²⁹⁵

mvp-comment-514-1 ματρῷαι λέκτρων ἆται ¹²⁹⁶ πατρῷαι ¹²⁹⁷

mvp-comment-514-2

; and ( b) with the explanation by , etc., would have been less needed.

mvp-comment-515-1 κοιμήματα . . αὐτογέννητα . . ματρός ¹²⁹⁸

mvp-comment-515-2 ἐμῷ πατρί ¹²⁹⁹

mvp-comment-515-3 δυσμόρου ¹³⁰⁰

mvp-comment-516-1 οἵων ¹³⁰¹ ποτέ ¹³⁰² οἵων ¹³⁰³ ποτέ ¹³⁰⁴ οὕς ¹³⁰⁵ οἵων ¹³⁰⁶ ματρός.—ἀραῖος ¹³⁰⁷

mvp-comment-516-2 μέτοικος ¹³⁰⁸

mvp-comment-517-1 κασίγνητε ¹³⁰⁹

mvp-comment-518-1 θανὼν ἔτ’ οὖσαν ¹³¹⁰

mvp-comment-518-2 κατήναρες ¹³¹¹

mvp-comment-519-1 σέβειν ¹³¹²

mvp-comment-519-2 sense,

’: i.e. though it is not complete —which the Chorus regard as including loyalty to the State's laws— yet, so far as it goes, it deserves praise of the same kind. Cp. 924 : by practising towards the dead, she had come to be thought, on the whole, —as a law-breaker. The Chorus is here the apologist of Creon, and this concession is meant to emphasise the next sentence. Hence the purposed vagueness of σέβειν ¹³¹³

mvp-comment-520-1 κράτος δὲ ¹³¹⁴ ὅτῳ ¹³¹⁵

mvp-comment-520-2 οὐδαμᾷ ¹³¹⁶ μέλει ¹³¹⁷

mvp-comment-521-1 αὐτόγνωτος ¹³¹⁸ αὐτὴ γιγνώσκουσα ¹³¹⁹

mvp-comment-521-2 ὀργά ¹³²⁰

mvp-comment-522-1 ἑτοίμαν ¹³²¹

mvp-comment-523-1 τόδε λ. ἱρὸν ὄμμα ¹³²²

mvp-comment-524-1 ἀδάκρυτον ¹³²³

mvp-comment-524-2 (and so it remains) unwept. Soph. has several instances of the predicative adj. thus added to a subst. which has the art. and possessive pron.; as O. T. 671

(n.): El. 1143

τῆς ἐμῆς πάλαι τροφῆς | ἀνωφελήτου

. Cp. 791 .

mvp-comment-525-1 ἆρ’ ἴστε ¹³²⁴ λέγειν ¹³²⁵ ἀοιδὰς καὶ γόους ¹³²⁶ ἴστε ¹³²⁷

mvp-comment-525-2 οὐδ’ ἂν εἷς ¹³²⁸

mvp-comment-526-1 οὐκ ἄξεθ’ ¹³²⁹ τάχιστα.—κατηρεφεῖ ¹³³⁰

mvp-comment-527-1 περιπτύξαντες ¹³³¹

mvp-comment-528-1 χρῇ ¹³³² ζῶσα ¹³³³ χρῇ ¹³³⁴

mvp-comment-528-2

; but the MSS. are supported by the testimony of Suidas and Hesychius to as= . In the other four places where these forms are usu. read, they are not indispensable, being possible; but in two, at least, they are much better than , viz. El. 606

κήρυσσέ μ’ εἰς ἅπαντας, εἴτε χρῇς κακήν, | εἴτε στόμαργον, κ.τ.λ.

: and Ai. 1373

σοὶ δὲ δρᾶν ἔξεσθ’ ἃ χρῇς

. In the other two, might well stand: Eur. fr. 910 : Cratinus fr. 2 . Except in Ach. 778 , the MSS. everywhere give : and the variants in the next v. (see cr. n.) show that was strange to the copyists, though known to the Scholiast.

mvp-comment-529-1 ζῶσα τυμβεύειν ¹³³⁵ νυμφεύειν ¹³³⁶

mvp-comment-529-2 στέγῃ ¹³³⁷

mvp-comment-530-1 ἁγνοί ¹³³⁸

mvp-comment-530-2 τοὐπὶ τήνδε ¹³³⁹

mvp-comment-531-1 μετοικίας ¹³⁴⁰

mvp-comment-531-2 δ’ οὖν ¹³⁴¹

mvp-comment-531-3 στερήσεται ¹³⁴²

mvp-comment-532-1 ὦ τύμβος ¹³⁴³

mvp-comment-532-2 νυμφεῖον ¹³⁴⁴

mvp-comment-532-3 κατασκαφής ¹³⁴⁵

mvp-comment-533-1 ἀριθμὸν … πλεϊστον ¹³⁴⁶

mvp-comment-533-2 ἐν νεκροῖς ¹³⁴⁷ δέδεκται ¹³⁴⁸

mvp-comment-533-3

to Hades ( O. C. 1569 f.). So Oedipus is led by ( ib. 1548 ). As she is associated with Hades ( ib. 1556 ).

mvp-comment-533-4 Φερσέφασσα ¹³⁴⁹ Φ ¹³⁵⁰

mvp-comment-534-1 κάκιστα ¹³⁵¹ δή ¹³⁵²

mvp-comment-534-2 μοῖραν … βίου ¹³⁵³ ἐξήκειν ¹³⁵⁴

mvp-comment-535-1 ἐν ἐλπίσιν τρέφω ¹³⁵⁵ φίλη μὲν … προσφιλὴς δέ ¹³⁵⁶

mvp-comment-536-1 κασίγνητον κάρα ¹³⁵⁷ νῦν δέ ¹³⁵⁸

mvp-comment-537-1 ὑμᾶς ¹³⁵⁹

mvp-comment-537-2 ἔλουσα κἀκόσμησα ¹³⁶⁰

mvp-comment-537-3 χοάς ¹³⁶¹

mvp-comment-537-4 περιστέλλουσα ¹³⁶²

mvp-comment-537-5 δέμας ¹³⁶³

mvp-comment-538-1 Few problems of Greek Tragedy have been more discussed than the question whether these vv., or some of them, are spurious. Arist. ( Arist. Rhet. 3. 16 § 9) quotes vv. 911, 912 , and certainly had the whole passage in his text of The Soph. interpolation, then, if such it be, must have been made soon after the poet's death; and has been imputed to his son Iophon (

), or some other sorry poet; or to the actors. I confess that, after long thought, I cannot bring myself to believe that Soph. wrote 905—912: with which 904 and 913—920 are in organic unity, and must now stand or fall. Some remarks will be found in the Appendix.

mvp-comment-538-2 The main points (to my mind) are briefly these. (1) The general validity of the divine law, as asserted in 450— 460, cannot be intelligibly reconciled with the limitation in vv. 905—907. (2) A still further limitation is involved in 911 f. She has buried her brother, not simply as such, but because, while he lived, he was an irreplaceable relative. Could she have hoped for the birth of another brother, she would not, then, have felt the duty to be so binding. (3) The composition of vv. 909—912 is unworthy of Sophocles.

mvp-comment-538-3 ’τίμησα ¹³⁶⁴ εὖ ¹³⁶⁵ τοῖς φρονοῦσιν ¹³⁶⁶

mvp-comment-539-1 ἐτήκετο ¹³⁶⁷

mvp-comment-540-1 βίᾳ πολιτῶν ¹³⁶⁸

mvp-comment-541-1 πρὸς χάριν ¹³⁶⁹

mvp-comment-542-1 Cp. Her. 3.119 , which clearly supplied, not merely the thought, but the form, of these verses:—

(3.119.6) . Arist. Rhet. 3.16 § 9 (if you introduce a trait of character which will seem improbable, the reason ofit should be added): [this=vv. 909, 910]: (he then quotes 911 f., with ,—a mere slip of memory: see on 223

).

mvp-comment-542-2 Three points in these vv. are strange. (1) The gen. abs. κατθανόντος ¹³⁷⁰ πόσις ¹³⁷¹ ἀπ’ ἄλλου φωτός ¹³⁷²

mvp-comment-543-1 ἐκπροτιμήσασ’ ¹³⁷³

mvp-comment-544-1 διὰ χερῶν … λαβών ¹³⁷⁴

mvp-comment-545-1 ἀνυμέναιον ¹³⁷⁵

mvp-comment-546-1 ἀλλ’ ¹³⁷⁶

mvp-comment-546-2 πρὸς φίλων ¹³⁷⁷ ἔρημος ¹³⁷⁸

mvp-comment-547-1 δαιμόνων δίκην ¹³⁷⁹

mvp-comment-548-1 If the gods allow her to suffer for obeying them, is it not vain for her to invoke them?

mvp-comment-548-2 βλέπειν ¹³⁸⁰

mvp-comment-548-3 τίνα … ξυμμάχων ¹³⁸¹

mvp-comment-548-4 ἐπεί γε δή ¹³⁸²

mvp-comment-548-5 τὴν δυσσέβειαν ¹³⁸³

mvp-comment-549-1 The gods are allowing her to perish. But it does not follow that they approve of her doom: for they are sometimes slow in punishing wrong ( O. C. 1536 ). Hence the dilemma, introduced

mvp-comment-549-2 by ἀλλ’ οὖν ¹³⁸⁴

mvp-comment-549-3 ἐν θεοῖς ¹³⁸⁵

mvp-comment-549-4 ξυγγνοῖμεν ¹³⁸⁶

mvp-comment-549-5 ἡμαρτηκότες ¹³⁸⁷ παθόντες ¹³⁸⁸

mvp-comment-550-1 οἵδε ¹³⁸⁹

mvp-comment-550-2 μὴ πλείω ¹³⁹⁰ μείω ¹³⁹¹

mvp-comment-551-1 ἀνέμων‐ῥιπαὶ ψυχῆς ¹³⁹²

mvp-comment-552-1 τούτων ¹³⁹³

mvp-comment-552-2 κλαύμαθ’ ¹³⁹⁴

mvp-comment-552-3 ὕπερ ¹³⁹⁵

mvp-comment-553-1 This threat (to the guards) ‘has come very near to death,’ i.e., ‘portends imminent death for me.’ The phrase is not fig., ‘is bitter as death to hear’ (being a prelude to death).

mvp-comment-554-1 Said by Creon, clearly—not by the Chorus. ‘I can give thee no encouragement ( οὐδέν ¹³⁹⁶

mvp-comment-554-2 the doom is not to be ratified on this wise’ (i.e., by death). μὴ οὐ ¹³⁹⁷

mvp-comment-554-3 κατακυροῦσθαι ¹³⁹⁸

mvp-comment-554-4 ταύτῃ ¹³⁹⁹ τάδε ¹⁴⁰⁰

mvp-comment-555-1 θεοὶ προγενεῖς ¹⁴⁰¹

mvp-comment-556-1 δή ¹⁴⁰²

mvp-comment-556-2 κοὐκέτι μέλλω ¹⁴⁰³

mvp-comment-557-1 οἱ κοιρανίδαι ¹⁴⁰⁴

mvp-comment-558-1 βασιλειδᾶν ¹⁴⁰⁵ βασιλίδα ¹⁴⁰⁶

mvp-comment-558-2 μούνην ¹⁴⁰⁷

mvp-comment-559-1 εὐσεβίαν ¹⁴⁰⁸ ια ¹⁴⁰⁹ εια ¹⁴¹⁰

mvp-comment-559-2

. The motive was metrical convenience. Such forms are not Ionic, as Triclinius called them (cr. n.): thus Herod. used , not : though there are other cases in which Ionic substitutes for (as , etc.).— σεβίσασα ¹⁴¹¹

mvp-comment-561-1 Acrisius, the father of Danaë, was king of Argos. The oracle at Delphi told him that he was to be slain by his daughter's son. He therefore immured the maiden in a chamber built for that purpose within the precincts of his house at Argos. Here Zeus visited her in the golden rain; she bore Perseus; and Acrisius sent mother and child adrift on the Aegean in a chest; but Zeus heard her prayer, and brought them safely to the island of Seriphus. Both Soph. and Eur. wrote a

: Soph. wrote also an .

mvp-comment-561-2 καὶ Δανάας δέμας ἔτλα ἀλλάξαι οὐράνιον φῶς ¹⁴¹² ἔτλα καί ¹⁴¹³

mvp-comment-561-3 δέμας ¹⁴¹⁴

mvp-comment-561-4 χαλκοδέτοις αὐλαῖς ¹⁴¹⁵

mvp-comment-562-1 τυμβήρει ¹⁴¹⁶

mvp-comment-562-2 κατεζεύχθη ¹⁴¹⁷

mvp-comment-563-1 τίμιος ¹⁴¹⁸

mvp-comment-564-1 ταμιεύεσκε ¹⁴¹⁹

mvp-comment-564-2 χρυσορύτους ¹⁴²⁰

mvp-comment-565-1 ἁ μοιριδία τις ¹⁴²¹ τις ¹⁴²²

mvp-comment-566-1 οὔτ’ … ὄλβος ¹⁴²³

mvp-comment-566-2

mvp-comment-566-3 πύργος ¹⁴²⁴

mvp-comment-566-4 οὔτ’ … οὔτ’ ¹⁴²⁵ οὐ … οὐχ ¹⁴²⁶

mvp-comment-567-1 ζεύχθη ¹⁴²⁷

mvp-comment-567-2 ὀξύχολος ¹⁴²⁸

mvp-comment-567-3 The

, or ( Thuc. 2.99 ), occupied in historical times the part of Thrace E. of the Strymon and W. of the Nestus. In earlier times they had dwelt further west, but had been driven eastward by the Macedonian conquest of Mygdonia.

mvp-comment-567-4 Dionysus, when he came from Asia with his new rites, was opposed by Lycurgus in Thrace, as by Pentheus at Thebes. The

of Aeschylus is known from the schol. on Ar. Th. 135. This trilogy consisted of , with as satyric drama. In Il. 6.130 ff. Dionysus, pursued by Lycurgus, dives beneath the sea; Thetis receives him; and Zeus blinds Lycurgus.

mvp-comment-568-1 κερτομίοις ὀργαῖς ¹⁴²⁹ ὀργαῖς ¹⁴³⁰ κερτομίοις ¹⁴³¹

mvp-comment-569-1 ἐκ Διονύσου ¹⁴³²

mvp-comment-569-2 πετρώδει … δεσμῷ ¹⁴³³

mvp-comment-569-3 κατάφαρκτος ¹⁴³⁴

mvp-comment-570-1 οὕτω ¹⁴³⁵

mvp-comment-570-2 ἀνθηρόν ¹⁴³⁶

mvp-comment-570-3 ἀποστάζει ¹⁴³⁷

mvp-comment-571-1 ἐπέγνω τὸν θεόν, μανίαις ψαύων ¹⁴³⁸

mvp-comment-571-2 μανίαις ¹⁴³⁹

mvp-comment-571-3 ψαύων ¹⁴⁴⁰

mvp-comment-571-4 ἐν ¹⁴⁴¹

mvp-comment-571-5 γλώσσαις ¹⁴⁴²

mvp-comment-572-1 παύεσκε ¹⁴⁴³

mvp-comment-572-2 ἐνθέους γυναῖκας ¹⁴⁴⁴

mvp-comment-572-3 εὔιον … πῦρ ¹⁴⁴⁵

mvp-comment-573-1 Μούσας ¹⁴⁴⁶

mvp-comment-573-2 save the nymph by changing her into a vine; and behind him stand his followers. At the extreme left are three Muses—Urania, with globe; Clio, with roll; Euterpè, prob. with flutes. (Zoega seems clearly right in thus explaining the three women: others have made them Moirae.)—The close relation of Dionysus with the Muses is marked by one of his Attic titles,

( Paus. 1.2.5 ), as conversely Apollo had the title (id. 1. 31.4). Muses were sometimes said to have nursed him. (Cp. Welcker, Götterl. 2. 611.)

mvp-comment-573-3 The monuments relating to the myth of Lycurgus have been critically treated by Michaelis ( Annal. Inst. 1872, pp. 248— 270). The Italian vase-paintings follow a version different from that of Soph. , viz. that the frenzy of Lycurgus was wreaked on his own son and wife. A large Neapolitan vase gives two pictures: in one, we see his murderous rage; in the other, Dionysus sits on his throne in calm majesty, stroking his panther.

mvp-comment-574-1 Cleopatra is the third example. Her father was the wind-god, Boreas: her mother, the Athenian Oreithyia, whom he carried off to his wild home in Thrace. Cleopatra married Phineus, king of the Thracian Salmydessus, on the W. coast of the Euxine, not far from the entrance to the Bosporus. She bore him two sons. He afterwards put her away, and imprisoned her. Her imprisonment is not directly mentioned here: but cp. Diod. 4. 44 , who says of Heracles, when serving with the Argonauts,

. Phineus then married Eidothea, sister of Cadmus. Eidothea put out the eyes of Cleopatra's two sons, and caused them also to be imprisoned.

mvp-comment-574-2 It is the fate of Cleopatra herself which Soph. means to compare with Antigone's: this is plain from 986. The fate of the sons is made so prominent only because nothing else could give us so strong a sense of the savage hatred which pursued the mother.

mvp-comment-574-3 Soph. supposes the outline of the story to be familiar. Cleopatra has already been divorced and imprisoned. The poet chooses the moment at which Cleopatra's sons are being blinded by Eidothea, with the sharp shuttle in her blood-stained hands. Ares, the god of cruel bloodshed, beholds with joy a deed so worthy of his Thracian realm.

mvp-comment-574-4 The name of Cleopatra (like that of Capaneus, 133) is not mentioned. Two strophes are given to this theme, partly, perh., as having an Attic interest (982). Soph. wrote two plays called

. We know only that Cleopatra's sons were there called (? H. Weil) and : and that the subsequent blindness of Phineus was represented as a punishment of his cruelty (schol. Apoll. Rhod. 2. 178). Eidothea was mentioned by Soph. in his (schol. on 980),—a play which perh. concerned the Dionysiac worship, since the (kettle-drum) was used in his as well as in those of Cybelè. Another version called her Idaea, daughter of Dardanus.

mvp-comment-574-5 παρὰ δὲ Κυανεᾶν πελάγει δ. ἁλός ¹⁴⁴⁷ πετρῶν ¹⁴⁴⁸

mvp-comment-574-6 of

into is also erroneous.

mvp-comment-574-7 L's accent, πελάγεων ¹⁴⁴⁹ πελάγει ¹⁴⁵⁰ παρά ¹⁴⁵¹ πελάγει ¹⁴⁵² Κυανεᾶν ¹⁴⁵³

mvp-comment-575-1 ἀκταὶ Βοσπόριαι ¹⁴⁵⁴ Θρῃκῶν ¹⁴⁵⁵ ἄξενος ¹⁴⁵⁶ κλῄζεται ¹⁴⁵⁷ ἠδ’ ¹⁴⁵⁸

mvp-comment-576-1 ἀγχίπολις Ἄρης ¹⁴⁵⁹ ἀγχίπτολις ¹⁴⁶⁰ Ἄρης ¹⁴⁶¹ ἀρχαιογόνων ¹⁴⁶²

mvp-comment-577-1 Φινεΐδαις ¹⁴⁶³

mvp-comment-577-2 ἀρατόν ¹⁴⁶⁴

mvp-comment-577-3 ἕλκος τυφλωθέν ¹⁴⁶⁵

mvp-comment-577-4 ἐξ ¹⁴⁶⁶

mvp-comment-578-1 ἀλαὸν … κύκλοις ¹⁴⁶⁷

mvp-comment-578-2 ἀλαστόροισιν ¹⁴⁶⁸

mvp-comment-579-1 ἀραχθέντων ¹⁴⁶⁹

mvp-comment-579-2 ὑπό ¹⁴⁷⁰

mvp-comment-580-1 κερκίδων ¹⁴⁷¹

mvp-comment-580-2 at the loom, will I send the shuttle flying across the warp’).—Cp. Eur. Hec. 1170 , where the women blind Polymestor with their brooches (

); and O. T. 1269 n.

mvp-comment-581-1 κατά ¹⁴⁷²

mvp-comment-581-2 μέλεοι μελέαν ¹⁴⁷³

mvp-comment-582-1 ματρὸς ἔχοντες ἀν. γονάν ¹⁴⁷⁴ γονάν ¹⁴⁷⁵ ματρός ¹⁴⁷⁶ ἀνύμφ. ¹⁴⁷⁷ ματρός ¹⁴⁷⁸ πάθαν ¹⁴⁷⁹ ματρὸς … γονάν ¹⁴⁸⁰

mvp-comment-583-1 σπέρμα ¹⁴⁸¹

mvp-comment-583-2 ἀρχαιογ. ¹⁴⁸²

mvp-comment-583-3 ἄντασ’ Ἐρ. ¹⁴⁸³

mvp-comment-584-1 τηλεπόροις ¹⁴⁸⁴

mvp-comment-585-1 ἅμιππος ¹⁴⁸⁵

mvp-comment-585-2 ὀρθόποδος ¹⁴⁸⁶

mvp-comment-586-1 κἀπ’ ἐκείνᾳ … ἔσχον ¹⁴⁸⁷ μακραίωνες ¹⁴⁸⁸

mvp-comment-588-1 ἄνακτες ¹⁴⁸⁹

mvp-comment-589-1 αὕτη κ. ¹⁴⁹⁰ πέλει ¹⁴⁹¹

mvp-comment-590-1 τί δ’ ἔστιν ¹⁴⁹²

mvp-comment-591-1 οὔκουν … γε ¹⁴⁹³

mvp-comment-591-2 δῑ ὀρθῆς ¹⁴⁹⁴

mvp-comment-591-3 ἐναυκλήρεις ¹⁴⁹⁵

mvp-comment-592-1 πεπονθὼς ὀνήσιμα, ἔχω μαρτυρεῖν ¹⁴⁹⁶

mvp-comment-593-1 φρόνει βεβώς ¹⁴⁹⁷

mvp-comment-593-2 τύχης ¹⁴⁹⁸

mvp-comment-594-1 ὡς ¹⁴⁹⁹

mvp-comment-595-1 θᾶκον ¹⁵⁰⁰

mvp-comment-595-2 λιμήν ¹⁵⁰¹

mvp-comment-596-1 κακῷ ¹⁵⁰²

mvp-comment-596-2 οἴστρῳ ¹⁵⁰³

mvp-comment-596-3 κλάζοντας ¹⁵⁰⁴

mvp-comment-596-4 βεβαρβαρωμένῳ ¹⁵⁰⁵

mvp-comment-597-1 ἐν χηλαῖσιν ¹⁵⁰⁶ φοναῖς ¹⁵⁰⁷

mvp-comment-598-1 The feuds and friendships of birds (

Aesch. PV 492 ) were among the signs noted by augurs. In this case there was a vague omen of bloodshed ( ), but no clear sign. The seer now sought further light by another mode of divination.

mvp-comment-598-2 ἐμπύρων ¹⁵⁰⁸

mvp-comment-598-3 ἐγευόμην ¹⁵⁰⁹

mvp-comment-599-1 παμφλέκτοισι ¹⁵¹⁰ θυμάτων ¹⁵¹¹

mvp-comment-600-1 Ἥφαιστος ¹⁵¹²

mvp-comment-600-2 a bad sign, if the fire was smothered in smoke, or played feebly around the flesh without consuming it. See Eur. Phoen. 1255

: the seers ‘were watching for points of flame, or for breaks in it,—such flickering as portends evil’; i.e., they were watching to see whether it would blaze up or die down. The is prob. the highest point of the fire, which, if towards the right side, meant victory; if towards the left, defeat. So Statius, Theb. 10. 599 , where Teiresias offers , and his daughter reports the signs to him (as the does here): (= ) (= ) | (‘as if creeping on its way without an aim, the fire played timidly around the offering’). In Seneca Oed. 307 Teiresias asks,

mvp-comment-601-1 The fat wrapped about the thigh-bones ought to have caught fire, when the flesh on the bones would have been burned, and the bones themselves calcined. But here there was no flame; the kindled fuel lay in smouldering embers (

). The heat caused a fatty moisture to exude from the covering of the thigh-bones. Trickling forth on the embers, this moisture emitted smoke, and sputtered as it threw particles of the fat upwards. The gall-bladder, too, which lay on the top of the thighbones, instead of catching fire, was gradually inflated by the heat, till it burst, scattering the gall into the air. And now the melting of the fat which covered the thigh-bones had gone so far that it was no longer a covering, but merely a liquid that was streaming off them, while they themselves were left naked and intact. So utterly had the gods refused the offering.

mvp-comment-601-2 μυδῶσα ¹⁵¹³

mvp-comment-601-3 κηκὶς μηρίων ¹⁵¹⁴

mvp-comment-601-4 ἐτήκετο ¹⁵¹⁵ ἐπὶ σποδῷ ¹⁵¹⁶

mvp-comment-601-5 ἀνέπτυε ¹⁵¹⁷

mvp-comment-602-1 χολαί ¹⁵¹⁸

mvp-comment-602-2 καταρρυεῖς ¹⁵¹⁹

mvp-comment-603-1 μηροί … μηρίων ¹⁵²⁰

mvp-comment-603-2 καλυπτῆς ¹⁵²¹

mvp-comment-603-3 πιμελῆς ¹⁵²² ἐξέκειντο ¹⁵²³

mvp-comment-604-1 τοιαῦτα ¹⁵²⁴

mvp-comment-604-2 ὀργίων μαντεύματα ¹⁵²⁵ φθίνοντα ¹⁵²⁶

mvp-comment-604-3 ἀσήμων ¹⁵²⁷

mvp-comment-605-1 ἡγεμών ¹⁵²⁸

mvp-comment-606-1 ἐκ ¹⁵²⁹

mvp-comment-606-2 φρενός ¹⁵³⁰

mvp-comment-606-3 νοσεῖ ¹⁵³¹

mvp-comment-607-1 βωμοί ¹⁵³²

mvp-comment-607-2 ἐσχάραι ¹⁵³³

mvp-comment-607-3 παντελεῖς ¹⁵³⁴

mvp-comment-608-1 πλήρεις ¹⁵³⁵ ὑπ’ οἰων. κ. κυνῶν ¹⁵³⁶ βορᾶς τοῦ...Οἰδ. γόνου ¹⁵³⁷ γόνου ¹⁵³⁸ δυσμόρου ¹⁵³⁹ πεπτῶτος ¹⁵⁴⁰ τοῦ … γόνου ¹⁵⁴¹ βορᾶς ¹⁵⁴² τοῦ … γόνου ¹⁵⁴³

mvp-comment-609-1 κᾆτ’ ¹⁵⁴⁴

mvp-comment-609-2 θυστάδας ¹⁵⁴⁵

mvp-comment-610-1 ὅρνι^ς ¹⁵⁴⁶

mvp-comment-610-2 εὐσήμους ¹⁵⁴⁷

mvp-comment-610-3 βεβρῶτες ¹⁵⁴⁸

mvp-comment-610-4 ἀνδροφθόρου ¹⁵⁴⁹

mvp-comment-611-1 ἐπεί ¹⁵⁵⁰

mvp-comment-611-2 ἄνολβος ¹⁵⁵¹

mvp-comment-612-1 ἀκεῖται ¹⁵⁵²

mvp-comment-612-2 ἀκίνητος ¹⁵⁵³

mvp-comment-613-1 αὐθαδία ¹⁵⁵⁴ ὀφλισκάνει ¹⁵⁵⁵

mvp-comment-614-1 εἶκε τῷ θανόντι ¹⁵⁵⁶

mvp-comment-614-2 κέντει ¹⁵⁵⁷

mvp-comment-615-1 ἐπικτανεῖν ¹⁵⁵⁸

mvp-comment-616-1 εὖ φρονήσας ¹⁵⁵⁹

mvp-comment-616-2 μανθάνειν δ ¹⁵⁶⁰

mvp-comment-616-3 εἰ … λέγοι ¹⁵⁶¹ ἥδιστον ¹⁵⁶²

mvp-comment-617-1 ὥστε ¹⁵⁶³ σκοποῦ ¹⁵⁶⁴

mvp-comment-618-1 κοὐδὲ μαντικῆς ¹⁵⁶⁵ ἄπρακτος ¹⁵⁶⁶ μαντικῆς ¹⁵⁶⁷ α ¹⁵⁶⁸ μαντικῇ ¹⁵⁶⁹ ἄπρατος ¹⁵⁷⁰

mvp-comment-618-2 τῶν δ’ ὑπαὶ γένους ¹⁵⁷¹ τῶν ¹⁵⁷²

mvp-comment-618-3 refer to ὑμῖν ¹⁵⁷³ μαντικῆς ¹⁵⁷⁴ μαντικοῖς ¹⁵⁷⁵

mvp-comment-618-4 ὑπαί ¹⁵⁷⁶

mvp-comment-618-5 γένους ¹⁵⁷⁷

mvp-comment-619-1 ἐξημπόλημαι ¹⁵⁷⁸ ἐμπεφόρτισμαι ¹⁵⁷⁹ ἐκπεφόρτισμαι ¹⁵⁸⁰

mvp-comment-620-1 τἀπὸ Σάρδεων ἤλεκτρον ¹⁵⁸¹

mvp-comment-620-2 τἀπὸ ¹⁵⁸²

mvp-comment-620-3 Ἰνδικὸν χρυσόν ¹⁵⁸³

mvp-comment-621-1 οἱ Ζηνὸς αἰετοί ¹⁵⁸⁴

mvp-comment-622-1 οὐδ’ ὥς ¹⁵⁸⁵

mvp-comment-623-1 θεοὺς μιαίνειν ¹⁵⁸⁶

mvp-comment-623-2 This view seems to do some injustice to the poet's dramatic psychology. I read the words quite differently. The most orthodox Greek piety held that ‘no mortal could pollute the gods.’ See, for example, H. F. 1232. Heracles, having recovered sanity after slaying his children, has covered his face, to hide it from the holy light of the sun. Theseus —who is a type of normal

— makes him uncover, saying,— . The sungod cannot be polluted by a mortal. The idea of religious was that a mortal had contracted some impurity which disqualified him for communion with the gods. The tainting of an altar cut off such communion by bringing uncleanness to the very place where men sought to be cleansed. Creon excitedly imagines a seemingly worse profanation, and then excuses his apparent impiety by a general maxim which all would admit:—‘no man can pollute the gods.’

mvp-comment-623-3 ‘The sky-throne of Zeus is still more sacred than his altar on earth: if defilement cannot reach him there, much less here.’ The sophism is of the kind with which an honest but stubborn and wrongheaded man might seek to quiet his conscience. Creon reveres Zeus (304): he feels for the majesty of the gods, and refuses to believe that they can honour the wicked (284 ff.). But his religious sense is temporarily confused by his anger.

mvp-comment-624-1 πολλά ¹⁵⁸⁷

mvp-comment-625-1 καλῶς ¹⁵⁸⁸

mvp-comment-626-1 ἆρ’ οἶδεν ¹⁵⁸⁹

mvp-comment-627-1 τί χρῆμα ¹⁵⁹⁰

mvp-comment-627-2 πάγκοινον ¹⁵⁹¹

mvp-comment-628-1 κτημάτων ¹⁵⁹²

mvp-comment-628-2 ὅσῳπερ ¹⁵⁹³ μὴ φρονεῖν ¹⁵⁹⁴

mvp-comment-629-1 νόσου ¹⁵⁹⁵ πλήρης ¹⁵⁹⁶

mvp-comment-630-1 In

qualifies the whole phrase: i.e., it means, ‘to revile in return,’ , as ( O. C. 1191 )= .

mvp-comment-631-1 καὶ μήν ¹⁵⁹⁷ λέγεις ¹⁵⁹⁸

mvp-comment-632-1 γένος ¹⁵⁹⁹

mvp-comment-633-1 τὸ δ’ ἐκ τυράννων ¹⁶⁰⁰ ἐκ ¹⁶⁰¹

mvp-comment-633-2 αἰσχροκέρδειαν ¹⁶⁰²

mvp-comment-634-1 ἆρ’ οἶσθα ¹⁶⁰³ ἃ ἂν λέγῃς ¹⁶⁰⁴ ταγούς ¹⁶⁰⁵

mvp-comment-635-1 ἐξ ἐμοῦ ¹⁶⁰⁶

mvp-comment-635-2 ἔχεις σώσας ¹⁶⁰⁷

mvp-comment-636-1 τἀκίνητα διὰ φρενῶν ¹⁶⁰⁸

mvp-comment-637-1 κίνει ¹⁶⁰⁹

mvp-comment-637-2 μόνον δέ ¹⁶¹⁰

mvp-comment-637-3 ἐπὶ κέρδεσιν ¹⁶¹¹

mvp-comment-638-1 οὕτω γὰρ ἤδη ¹⁶¹² τὸ σὸν μέρος ¹⁶¹³ καί ¹⁶¹⁴

mvp-comment-639-1 ἴσθι ὡς μὴ ἐμπ. ¹⁶¹⁵ ὡς ¹⁶¹⁶

mvp-comment-639-2 φρένα ¹⁶¹⁷

mvp-comment-640-1 ἀλλ’ εὺ= γέ τοι ¹⁶¹⁸

mvp-comment-640-2 μη … τελῶν ¹⁶¹⁹ ἥλιον τελεῖν ¹⁶²⁰ κάτισθι ¹⁶²¹ τελῶν ¹⁶²²

mvp-comment-640-3 τρόχους ¹⁶²³ τροχους ¹⁶²⁴

mvp-comment-640-4 ἁμιλλητῆρας ¹⁶²⁵

mvp-comment-641-1 ἐν οἷσι ¹⁶²⁶

mvp-comment-641-2 τῶν σῶν … ἐκ σπλάγχνων ἕνα ¹⁶²⁷

mvp-comment-642-1 νέκυν νεκρῶν ¹⁶²⁸ ἀντιδοὺς ἔσει ¹⁶²⁹

mvp-comment-643-1 ἀνθ’ ὧν ¹⁶³⁰

mvp-comment-643-2 ἔχεις βαλὼν κάτω τῶν ἄνω ¹⁶³¹

mvp-comment-644-1 Bothe, omitting τε ¹⁶³² ψυχήν ¹⁶³³ τῶν ἄνω ¹⁶³⁴ τῶν ἄνω ¹⁶³⁵ τῶν ἄνω … ψυχήν ¹⁶³⁶ ψυχήν τ’ … κατῴκισας ¹⁶³⁷ ἀνθ’ ὧν ¹⁶³⁸ τῶν ἄνω ¹⁶³⁹

mvp-comment-644-2 ἀτίμως ¹⁶⁴⁰

mvp-comment-645-1 ἔχεις δέ ¹⁶⁴¹ τῶν κάτωθεν θεῶν ¹⁶⁴² νέκυν ¹⁶⁴³

mvp-comment-645-2 ἄμοιρον ¹⁶⁴⁴

mvp-comment-645-3

with : ‘without a portion in the gods below,’ i.e., not admitted to communion with them. But the phrase is a strange one; and the leading thought here is that the are robbed of one who belongs to them.

mvp-comment-645-4 ἀκτέριστον ¹⁶⁴⁵

mvp-comment-645-5 ἀνόσιον ¹⁶⁴⁶

mvp-comment-646-1 ὧν ¹⁶⁴⁷

mvp-comment-646-2 βιάζονται ¹⁶⁴⁸

mvp-comment-647-1 τούτων ¹⁶⁴⁹

mvp-comment-647-2 λωβητῆρες ¹⁶⁵⁰

mvp-comment-647-3 ὑστεροφθόροι ¹⁶⁵¹

mvp-comment-648-1 λοχῶσιν ¹⁶⁵²

mvp-comment-648-2 Ἅιδου καὶ θεῶν ¹⁶⁵³

mvp-comment-648-3 ληφθῆναι ¹⁶⁵⁴

mvp-comment-649-1 κατηργ. ¹⁶⁵⁵ οὐ μακρ. χρόν. τριβή ¹⁶⁵⁶ φανεῖ ¹⁶⁵⁷

mvp-comment-650-1 The πόλεις ¹⁶⁵⁸ συνταράσσονται ¹⁶⁵⁹

mvp-comment-650-2 It has been objected that the play contains no hint of burial having been denied to any one except Polyneices. This is not exactly the case: the phrase

in v. 10 is such a hint. But it was unnecessary for the poet to state a fact which all his hearers would assume. Every one knew how Creon had refused burial to the Argives, and how Theseus had recovered their corpses by force of arms. In the Supplices of Eur. the Chorus consists of widows and mothers of the unburied warriors. No Athenian exploit was more famous ( Her. 9.27 ; Isocr. Paneg. § 52 , Encom. Helen. § 31, Panath. § 168; Plat. Menex. 244 ; [Lys. ] or. 2 §§ 4 ff. : [Dem. ] or. 60 §§ 7 ff. ). The war of the Epigoni, which was included in the epic Thebais ( Paus. 9. 9 § 5), was dramatised both by Aesch. and by Soph. ( ).

mvp-comment-650-3 Just as, in the O. C. (1410 n.), Soph. glances at the theme of his Antigone, so here he might naturally glance—however indirectly—at a later chapter of the Theban story,—whether his Epigoni already existed, or was still in the future. Dramatically, the reference is the more fitting, since the legend represented Teiresias as still living, and still zealous for Theban welfare, when the Epigoni came.—For other views of the passage, see Appendix.

mvp-comment-651-1 ὅσων ¹⁶⁶⁰ ὅσων ¹⁶⁶¹

mvp-comment-651-2 L's καθήγνισαν ¹⁶⁶² καθήγισαν ¹⁶⁶³ καθήγνισαν ¹⁶⁶⁴ καθήγισαν ¹⁶⁶⁵

mvp-comment-651-3 of

here. The Schol. read the latter ( ). But the fact that L has must be set against these doubtful testimonies.—For the irony, cp. El. 1487

πρόθες | ταφεῦσιν, ὧν τόνδ’ εἰκός ἐστι τυγχάνειν

(as Gorgias called vultures , 3 § 2): Aesch. Th. 1020 : Ennius Ann. 142 Lucr. 5. 993

viva videns vivo sepeliri viscera busto.

mvp-comment-652-1 ἑστιοῦχον … πόλιν ¹⁶⁶⁶

mvp-comment-653-1 σου ¹⁶⁶⁷ ἀφῆκα ¹⁶⁶⁸

mvp-comment-653-2 θυμῷ ¹⁶⁶⁹ καρδίας τοξεύματα ¹⁶⁷⁰

mvp-comment-654-1 ὦ παῖ ¹⁶⁷¹

mvp-comment-655-1 τρέφειν ¹⁶⁷²

mvp-comment-655-2 ἡσυχωτέραν ¹⁶⁷³ ω ¹⁶⁷⁴ αι ¹⁶⁷⁵ αι ¹⁶⁷⁶ ω ¹⁶⁷⁷ ω ¹⁶⁷⁸ αι ¹⁶⁷⁹ αι ¹⁶⁸⁰

mvp-comment-656-1 τὸν νοῦν … τῶν φρενῶν ἀμείνω ¹⁶⁸¹

mvp-comment-656-2 φέρει ¹⁶⁸² τῶν φρενῶν ¹⁶⁸³ ἀμείνω ¹⁶⁸⁴ ἢ ¹⁶⁸⁵ ὧν ¹⁶⁸⁶

mvp-comment-657-1 ἐξ ὅτου ¹⁶⁸⁷

mvp-comment-657-2 λευκὴν … ἐκ μελαίνης ¹⁶⁸⁸

mvp-comment-657-3 ἀμφιβάλλομαι ¹⁶⁸⁹

mvp-comment-658-1 μὴ ¹⁶⁹⁰

mvp-comment-658-2 λακεῖν ¹⁶⁹¹

mvp-comment-659-1 ἔγνωκα ¹⁶⁹²

mvp-comment-660-1 For τε … δέ ¹⁶⁹³ δέ ¹⁶⁹⁴ τ ¹⁶⁹⁵ τε … τε ¹⁶⁹⁶ τε … δέ ¹⁶⁹⁷ δέ ¹⁶⁹⁸

mvp-comment-661-1 ἄτῃ πατάξαι ¹⁶⁹⁹ θυμὸν ¹⁷⁰⁰ ἀντιστάντα ¹⁷⁰¹

mvp-comment-661-2 ἐν δεινῷ πάρα ¹⁷⁰² πάρα ¹⁷⁰³ ἓν δεινοῦ πέρα ¹⁷⁰⁴

mvp-comment-662-1 The question between L's λαβεῖν ¹⁷⁰⁵ Κρέον ¹⁷⁰⁶

mvp-comment-663-1 κατώρυχος ¹⁷⁰⁷

mvp-comment-664-1 I read the impers. δοκεῖ ¹⁷⁰⁸ δοκεῖς ¹⁷⁰⁹ δοκεῖς ¹⁷¹⁰

mvp-comment-664-2 παρεικαθεῖν ¹⁷¹¹

mvp-comment-665-1 συντέμνουσι … τοὺς κ. ¹⁷¹²

mvp-comment-665-2 ποδώκεις ¹⁷¹³

mvp-comment-665-3 βλάβαι ¹⁷¹⁴

mvp-comment-665-4 κακόφρονας ¹⁷¹⁵

mvp-comment-666-1 μόλις μέν ¹⁷¹⁶

mvp-comment-666-2 ἐξίσταμαι καρδίας ¹⁷¹⁷

mvp-comment-666-3 τὸ δρᾶν ¹⁷¹⁸

mvp-comment-666-4 δυσμαχητέον ¹⁷¹⁹

mvp-comment-667-1 ἐπ’ ἄλλ’. τρέπε ¹⁷²⁰

mvp-comment-668-1 ὡς ἔχω ¹⁷²¹

mvp-comment-668-2 στείχοιμ’ ἄν ¹⁷²²

mvp-comment-668-3 ἴτ’ ἴτ’ ¹⁷²³ εἶ’ ¹⁷²⁴

mvp-comment-669-1 οἵ τ’ ὄντες οἵ τ’ ἀπόντες ¹⁷²⁵

mvp-comment-669-2 ἀξίνας ¹⁷²⁶

mvp-comment-670-1 ἐπόψιον ¹⁷²⁷

mvp-comment-671-1 ἐγὼ δ’ ¹⁷²⁸ ἐπιστράφη ¹⁷²⁹ τῇδ’ ¹⁷³⁰

mvp-comment-672-1 αὐτός τ’ ἔδησα ¹⁷³¹

mvp-comment-673-1 δέδοικα μὴ … ᾖ ¹⁷³² τοὺς καθεστ. νόμους ¹⁷³³

mvp-comment-673-2 σῴζοντα … τὸν βίον τελεῖν ¹⁷³⁴

mvp-comment-675-1 πολυώνυμε ¹⁷³⁵

mvp-comment-675-2 Καδμείας ¹⁷³⁷

mvp-comment-675-3 ἄγαλμα ¹⁷³⁸

mvp-comment-675-4 νύμφας ¹⁷³⁹ βαρυβρεμέτα ¹⁷⁴⁰

mvp-comment-676-1 The traditional reading, Ἰταλίαν ¹⁷⁴¹

mvp-comment-676-2 The only worthy rival of

is the conjecture Ἰκαρίαν ¹⁷⁴² Ἰταλίαν ¹⁷⁴³

mvp-comment-677-1 παγκοίνοις ¹⁷⁴⁴

mvp-comment-677-2

(Olympia).

mvp-comment-677-3 κόλποις ¹⁷⁴⁵

mvp-comment-677-4 Ἐλευσι^νίας ¹⁷⁴⁶ ι^ ¹⁷⁴⁷

mvp-comment-678-1 Βακχεῦ ¹⁷⁴⁸ ὦ ¹⁷⁴⁹ ὁ ¹⁷⁵⁰ ματρόπολιν ¹⁷⁵¹

mvp-comment-678-2 ματρόπολιν ¹⁷⁵²

mvp-comment-679-1 L has ὑγρὸν … ῥέεθρον ¹⁷⁵³ ὑγρῶν … ῥεέθρων ¹⁷⁵⁴ ῥεῖθρον ¹⁷⁵⁵ ὑγρόν ¹⁷⁵⁶ παρά ¹⁷⁵⁷ ῥεῖθρον ¹⁷⁵⁸ ὑγρόν ¹⁷⁵⁹

mvp-comment-679-2 Ἰσμηνοῦ ¹⁷⁶⁰

mvp-comment-680-1 ἐπὶ σπορᾷ δρ. ¹⁷⁶¹

mvp-comment-681-1 The general sense is: ‘and on the heights of Parnassus thou holdest thy revels by night amid the Corycian Nymphs, who brandish torches.’

mvp-comment-681-2 διλόφου πέτρας ¹⁷⁶²

mvp-comment-681-3 By ὑπὲρ διλόφου πέτρας ¹⁷⁶³

mvp-comment-681-4 λιγνύς ¹⁷⁶⁴ στέροψ ¹⁷⁶⁵

mvp-comment-681-5 ὄπωπε ¹⁷⁶⁶

mvp-comment-681-6 Κωρύκιαι … Νύμφαι ¹⁷⁶⁷

mvp-comment-681-7 The simple transposition, στείχουσι νύμφαι ¹⁷⁶⁸

mvp-comment-682-1 Κασταλίας τε νᾶμα ¹⁷⁶⁹

mvp-comment-683-1 καί σε Νυσαίων ¹⁷⁷⁰

mvp-comment-684-1 κισσήρεις ὄχθαι ¹⁷⁷¹

mvp-comment-684-2 for the fact was noticed in antiquity (schol. on Aratus Phaenom. 33). Thus Pind. P. 1. 64

: Eur. Suppl. 655

Ἰσμήνιον πρὸς ὄχθον

.—The was to Dionysus what the was to Apollo. The crowning with ivy ( ) was a regular incident of his festivals: he was called . Cp. Alciphron Epist. 2. 3 § 10 . F. 3. 767

mvp-comment-685-1 πολυστάφυλος ¹⁷⁷²

mvp-comment-685-2 πέμπει ¹⁷⁷³

mvp-comment-686-1 The words ἀμβρότων ἐπέων ¹⁷⁷⁴

mvp-comment-686-2 εὐαζόντων ¹⁷⁷⁵

mvp-comment-687-1 τὰν ἐκ πασᾶν ¹⁷⁷⁶ τάν ¹⁷⁷⁷ ἐκ ¹⁷⁷⁸ ὑπερτάταν ¹⁷⁷⁹

mvp-comment-688-1 κεραυνίᾳ ¹⁷⁸⁰

mvp-comment-689-1 ἔχεται ἐπὶ βιαίας νόσου ¹⁷⁸¹ ὑπό ¹⁷⁸² ἔχεται ¹⁷⁸³ βιαι^ας ¹⁷⁸⁴ ἀμὰ ¹⁷⁸⁵ πόλις ¹⁷⁸⁶

mvp-comment-689-2 πάνδαμος ¹⁷⁸⁷

mvp-comment-690-1 μολεῖν ¹⁷⁸⁸

mvp-comment-690-2 καθαρσίῳ ¹⁷⁸⁹

mvp-comment-690-3 κλιτύν ¹⁷⁹⁰

mvp-comment-690-4 πορθμόν ¹⁷⁹¹

mvp-comment-690-5 στονόεντα ¹⁷⁹²

mvp-comment-691-1 πνειόντων ¹⁷⁹³ πνειόντων ¹⁷⁹⁴

mvp-comment-691-2 Other conjectures are: (1) ἰὼ πύρπνων ἄστρων χοραγὲ καὶ νυχίων ¹⁷⁹⁵ πῦρ πνεόντων χοραγὲ καὶ νυχίων ¹⁷⁹⁶ χοραγὲ ἄστρων ¹⁷⁹⁷

mvp-comment-691-3 originally preceded

. Neglect of elision is frequent in L: thus, to take one play only, the O. C. supplies these examples: 266 : 694 : 883 : 915 : 1026 : 1210 . The deletion of καί ¹⁷⁹⁸ νυχίων ¹⁷⁹⁹

mvp-comment-691-4 χοράγ’ ἄστρων ¹⁸⁰⁰

mvp-comment-691-5 νυχίων φθεγμάτων ¹⁸⁰¹

mvp-comment-692-1 παῖ Διὸς ¹⁸⁰²

mvp-comment-693-1 ὦναξ ¹⁸⁰³

mvp-comment-694-1 Θυίαισιν ¹⁸⁰⁴

mvp-comment-694-2 χορεύουσι ¹⁸⁰⁵

mvp-comment-695-1 ταμίαν ¹⁸⁰⁶

mvp-comment-695-2 Ἴακχον ¹⁸⁰⁷

mvp-comment-697-1 δόμων ¹⁸⁰⁸ Κάδμου ¹⁸⁰⁹ πάροικοι ¹⁸¹⁰ δόμων ¹⁸¹¹

mvp-comment-698-1 οὐκ ἔστι ¹⁸¹² στάντα ¹⁸¹³ στάντα ¹⁸¹⁴

mvp-comment-698-2 βίον ¹⁸¹⁵ ὁποίᾳ ¹⁸¹⁶

mvp-comment-699-1 μάντις … τῶν καθεστώτων ¹⁸¹⁷ ἐφεστώτων ¹⁸¹⁸

mvp-comment-700-1 ὡς ἐμοί ¹⁸¹⁹

mvp-comment-701-1 σώσας … ἐχθρῶν ¹⁸²⁰ δέ ¹⁸²¹ τε ¹⁸²² λαβών τε ¹⁸²³ ηὔθυνε ¹⁸²⁴ παντελῆ ¹⁸²⁵

mvp-comment-701-2 ηὔθυνε ¹⁸²⁶

mvp-comment-701-3 εὐγενεῖ ¹⁸²⁷

mvp-comment-702-1 ἀφεῖται πάντα ¹⁸²⁸

mvp-comment-703-1 προδῶσιν ¹⁸²⁹ προδῶσιν ¹⁸³⁰ ἀνδρὸς ¹⁸³¹ προδῶσιν ¹⁸³² ἄνδρες ¹⁸³³ ἀνδρός ¹⁸³⁴ τὰς γὰρ ἡδονάς ¹⁸³⁵

mvp-comment-703-2 οὐ τίθημι ¹⁸³⁶

mvp-comment-704-1 For

has been proposed: but the Epic and Ionic does not occur in

mvp-comment-704-2 τοῦτον ¹⁸³⁷

mvp-comment-704-3 ἔμψ. νεκρόν ¹⁸³⁸

mvp-comment-705-1 πλούτει … ζῆ ¹⁸³⁹

mvp-comment-705-2 εἰ βούλει ¹⁸⁴⁰ ζῆ ¹⁸⁴¹ σχῆμα ¹⁸⁴²

mvp-comment-706-1 τὸ χαίρειν ¹⁸⁴³

mvp-comment-706-2 καπνοῦ σκιᾶς ¹⁸⁴⁴

mvp-comment-707-1 πριαίμην ἀνδρί ¹⁸⁴⁵

mvp-comment-707-2 πρὸς τὴν ἡδ. ¹⁸⁴⁶

mvp-comment-708-1 βασιλέων ¹⁸⁴⁷ αἴτιοι θανεῖν ¹⁸⁴⁸

mvp-comment-709-1 φονεύει ¹⁸⁴⁹ ὁ κείμενος ¹⁸⁵⁰

mvp-comment-710-1 αὐτόχειρ ¹⁸⁵¹

mvp-comment-711-1 φόνου ¹⁸⁵²

mvp-comment-711-2 ὀρθὸν ἤνυσας ¹⁸⁵³

mvp-comment-712-1 ὡς ¹⁸⁵⁴ πάρεστι βουλ. τὰ ἄλλα ¹⁸⁵⁵ βουλεύειν ¹⁸⁵⁶ τὰ ἄλλα ¹⁸⁵⁷

mvp-comment-712-2 ὧδ’ ἐχόντων ¹⁸⁵⁸

mvp-comment-713-1 καὶ μήν ¹⁸⁵⁹

mvp-comment-713-2 Εὐρυδίκην ¹⁸⁶⁰

mvp-comment-714-1 κλύουσα παιδός ¹⁸⁶¹

mvp-comment-715-1 ὦ πάντες ἀστοί ¹⁸⁶²

mvp-comment-716-1 Παλλάδος προσήγορος εὐγμάτων ¹⁸⁶³

mvp-comment-717-1 τυγχάνω τε … καὶ … βάλλει ¹⁸⁶⁴

mvp-comment-717-2 the sound ( cp. 1172 f. n.). For the temporal parataxis with τε … καί ¹⁸⁶⁵

mvp-comment-717-3 κλῇθρα χαλῶσα πύλης ἀνασπαστοῦ ¹⁸⁶⁶

mvp-comment-717-4 κλῇθρα ¹⁸⁶⁷

mvp-comment-717-5 ἀνασπαστοῦ ¹⁸⁶⁸

mvp-comment-717-6 φθόγγος ¹⁸⁶⁹

mvp-comment-717-7 οἰκείου ¹⁸⁷⁰

mvp-comment-718-1 δῑ ὤτων ¹⁸⁷¹

mvp-comment-718-2 πρὸς δμωαῖσι ¹⁸⁷²

mvp-comment-718-3 ἀποπλήσσομαι ¹⁸⁷³

mvp-comment-719-1 καὶ παρὼν ἐρῶ, κοὐδὲν παρήσω ¹⁸⁷⁴ παρὠν ¹⁸⁷⁵

mvp-comment-720-1 ὧν ¹⁸⁷⁶

mvp-comment-720-2 ὧν ¹⁸⁷⁷ ψεῦσται ¹⁸⁷⁸ φανούμεθ’ ¹⁸⁷⁹

mvp-comment-720-3 ὀρθόν ¹⁸⁸⁰

mvp-comment-721-1 ποδαγός ¹⁸⁸¹ ἑσπόμην ¹⁸⁸²

mvp-comment-722-1 πεδίον … ἄκρον ¹⁸⁸³

mvp-comment-722-2 νηλεές ¹⁸⁸⁴

mvp-comment-723-1 κυνοσπάρακτον ¹⁸⁸⁵

mvp-comment-724-1 τὸν μέν ¹⁸⁸⁶

mvp-comment-724-2 ἐνοδίαν θεόν ¹⁸⁸⁷

mvp-comment-724-3 θεόν ¹⁸⁸⁸

mvp-comment-724-4 εὐμενεῖς ¹⁸⁸⁹

mvp-comment-724-5 κατασχεθεῖν ¹⁸⁹⁰

mvp-comment-725-1 λούσαντες ἁγν. λουτρόν ¹⁸⁹¹

mvp-comment-725-2 ἐν ¹⁸⁹² θαλλοῖς ¹⁸⁹³

mvp-comment-725-3 )λέλειπτο ¹⁸⁹⁴

mvp-comment-725-4 συγκατῄθομεν ¹⁸⁹⁵ εἰσεβαίνομεν ¹⁸⁹⁶

mvp-comment-726-1 τύμβον ¹⁸⁹⁷

mvp-comment-726-2 ὀρθόκρανον ¹⁸⁹⁸

mvp-comment-726-3 οἰκείας ¹⁸⁹⁹

mvp-comment-727-1 αὖθις ¹⁹⁰⁰

mvp-comment-727-2 For

as=‘afterwards,’ cp. Ai. 1283 , Tr. 270 .

mvp-comment-727-3 λιθόστρωτον ¹⁹⁰¹

mvp-comment-727-4 κόρης νυμφεῖον‐Ἅιδου ¹⁹⁰²

mvp-comment-728-1 κωκυμάτων ¹⁹⁰³

mvp-comment-729-1 ἀκτέριστον ἀμφὶ παστάδα ¹⁹⁰⁴

mvp-comment-730-1 ἀθλίας … ἄσημα βοῆς ¹⁹⁰⁵

mvp-comment-730-2 περιβαίνει ¹⁹⁰⁶

mvp-comment-731-1 μᾶλλον ἆσσον ¹⁹⁰⁷

mvp-comment-731-2 ἔπος ¹⁹⁰⁸ δυσθρήνητον ¹⁹⁰⁹

mvp-comment-731-3 ὦ τάλας ¹⁹¹⁰

mvp-comment-732-1 τῶν παρελθουσῶν ¹⁹¹¹

mvp-comment-732-2 σαίνει ¹⁹¹²

mvp-comment-733-1 ὠκεῖς ¹⁹¹³

mvp-comment-734-1 ἁρμὸν χώματος λιθοσπ. ¹⁹¹⁴

mvp-comment-734-2 ἁρμόν ¹⁹¹⁵ δύντες ¹⁹¹⁶

mvp-comment-735-1 στόμιον ¹⁹¹⁷

mvp-comment-735-2 The kind of tomb which the poet here imagines is perhaps best represented, in Greece, by the rock-tombs of Nauplia, and of Spata in Attica. These consist of chambers worked horizontally into the rock, and approached by a passage or

, answering to that which Creon's men have to traverse before they reach the of the tomb. The general type seems to have been determined by that of the more elaborate domed tombs, such as the so-called ‘Treasury of Atreus’ at Mycenae, which, like these ruder copies, were entered by a . Indeed, the Nauplia tombs indicate a rough attempt to reproduce the dome ( ). [See Helbig, Das Homer. Epos aus den Denkm. erläutert, p. 53, with the sources quoted there in nn. 5, 6.]

mvp-comment-735-3 The phrase

(1220) might suggest a recess within the principal chamber, like that in the ‘Treasury of Atreus’; but it is simpler to take it as merely ‘the furthest part of the tomb.’ We may observe that the words (774) and (891) are sufficiently explained if we suppose that the leading to the chamber sloped downwards from the entrance.

mvp-comment-736-1 θεοῖσι ¹⁹¹⁸

mvp-comment-736-2 κλέπτομαι ¹⁹¹⁹

mvp-comment-737-1 The simple correction, κελευσμάτων ¹⁹²⁰

mvp-comment-737-2 With κελεύσμασιν ¹⁹²¹

mvp-comment-737-3 (2) The alternative is to amend ἐξ ἀθύμου ¹⁹²² ὀξυθύμου ¹⁹²³

mvp-comment-737-4 Dindorf writes κελεύμασιν ¹⁹²⁴

mvp-comment-738-1 αὐχένος ¹⁹²⁵

mvp-comment-739-1 μιτώδει ¹⁹²⁶

mvp-comment-740-1 Haemon has thrown his arms around her waist ( ἀμφὶ μέσσῃ περιπετῆ ¹⁹²⁷ προσκείμενον ¹⁹²⁸

mvp-comment-740-2 μέσσῃ ¹⁹²⁹

mvp-comment-740-3 περιπετῆ ¹⁹³⁰

mvp-comment-741-1 εὐνῆς … τῆς κάτω ¹⁹³¹

mvp-comment-741-2 πατρὸς ἔργα ¹⁹³²

mvp-comment-741-3 λέχος ¹⁹³³

mvp-comment-742-1 σφε ¹⁹³⁴

mvp-comment-742-2 στυγνόν ¹⁹³⁵

mvp-comment-743-1 οἷον ἔργον ¹⁹³⁶ τίνα νοῦν ἔσχες ¹⁹³⁷

mvp-comment-743-2 ἐν τῷ συμφορᾶς ¹⁹³⁸

mvp-comment-743-3 διεφθάρης ¹⁹³⁹

mvp-comment-744-1 ἱκέσιος ¹⁹⁴⁰

mvp-comment-744-2 ὄσσοισι ¹⁹⁴¹

mvp-comment-744-3 παπτήνας ¹⁹⁴²

mvp-comment-745-1 πτύσας προσώπῳ ¹⁹⁴³

mvp-comment-746-1 διπλοῦς κνώδοντας ξίφους ¹⁹⁴⁴ διπλοῦς κνώδοντας ¹⁹⁴⁵

mvp-comment-746-2 ἐκ δ’ ὁρμ. ¹⁹⁴⁶

mvp-comment-746-3 φυγαῖσιν ¹⁹⁴⁷

mvp-comment-746-4 Haemon, in his madness, meant to kill his father. He had harboured no such purpose before ( see on 752

); and his frantic impulse is instantly followed by violent remorse. Arist. ( Arist. Poet. 14 ) observes that it is not conducive to a properly tragic effect ( ) if a person contemplates a dreadful act, and then desists from it, in the light of sober thought or fuller knowledge: (such incidents in Tragedy are rare), . It need not be assumed that Arist. meant to censure Sophocles; it is more natural to suppose that he cited the exception as one justified by the circumstances. But it should further be noticed that Aristotle was not accurate in taking this incident as the exception which illustrated his rule. For Haemon did not abandon his dreadful purpose; he was simply foiled by his father's flight. And then, in swift remorse, he actually did .

mvp-comment-747-1 ὥσπερ εἶχ’ ¹⁹⁴⁸ ἐπενταθείς ¹⁹⁴⁹

mvp-comment-747-2 πλευραῖς ¹⁹⁵⁰

mvp-comment-747-3 μέσσον ¹⁹⁵¹

mvp-comment-747-4 ἔγχος ¹⁹⁵²

mvp-comment-747-5 ἐς δ’ ὑγρὸν ἀγκῶν’ ¹⁹⁵³

mvp-comment-748-1 φυσιῶν ¹⁹⁵⁴

mvp-comment-748-2 ῥοὴν ¹⁹⁵⁵

mvp-comment-749-1 τέλη ¹⁹⁵⁶

mvp-comment-749-2 ἔν γ’ Ἅιδου ¹⁹⁵⁷ ἔν γ ¹⁹⁵⁸ γε ¹⁹⁵⁹ ἔν γε ¹⁹⁶⁰

mvp-comment-750-1 δείξας … τὴν ἀβουλίαν ¹⁹⁶¹

mvp-comment-751-1 πρόσκειται ¹⁹⁶²

mvp-comment-752-1 τί τοῦτ’ ἂν εἰκάς. ¹⁹⁶³

mvp-comment-752-2 ἐσθλὸν ἢ κακόν ¹⁹⁶⁴

mvp-comment-753-1 τεθάμβηκ’ ¹⁹⁶⁵

mvp-comment-753-2 βόσκομαι ¹⁹⁶⁶

mvp-comment-754-1 γόους … ἀξιώσειν ¹⁹⁶⁷

mvp-comment-754-2 ὑπὸ στέγης ¹⁹⁶⁸

mvp-comment-755-1 προθήσειν ¹⁹⁶⁹ στένειν ¹⁹⁷⁰

mvp-comment-755-2 them’ by making a lament, after which her handmaids, sitting around her, will wail in chorus. Il. 24.746 (Andromache has bewailed Hector,)

.

mvp-comment-756-1 γνώμης … οὐκ ἄπειρος ¹⁹⁷¹

mvp-comment-757-1 δ’ οὖν ¹⁹⁷² προσεῖναι ¹⁹⁷³

mvp-comment-758-1 εἰσόμεσθα, μή τι … καλύπτει ¹⁹⁷⁴

mvp-comment-758-2 καὶ ¹⁹⁷⁵ κατάσχετον … καλύπτει ¹⁹⁷⁶

mvp-comment-758-3 κατάσχετον ¹⁹⁷⁷

mvp-comment-759-1 δόμους παραστείχοντες ¹⁹⁷⁸

mvp-comment-760-1 καὶ μήν ¹⁹⁷⁹

mvp-comment-760-2 ἐφήκει ¹⁹⁸⁰

mvp-comment-761-1 μνῆμ ¹⁹⁸¹ ἐπίσημον ¹⁹⁸²

mvp-comment-761-2 διὰ χειρός ¹⁹⁸³

mvp-comment-762-1 εἰ θέμις εἰπεῖν ¹⁹⁸⁴ ἄτην ¹⁹⁸⁵ ἀλλοτρίαν ¹⁹⁸⁶

mvp-comment-762-2 ἁμαρτών ¹⁹⁸⁷

mvp-comment-763-1 This

is composed of four strophes and four antistrophes, which correspond as follows. (1) 1st strophe 1261—1269=1st antistr. 1284—1292. (2) 2nd str. 1271—1277 =2nd ant. 1294—1300. (3) 3rd str. 1306—1311=3rd ant. 1328—1333. (4) 4th str. 1317—1325=4th ant. 1339— 1347.

mvp-comment-763-2 The lyric strophes and antistrophes are divided from each other by iambic trimeters, spoken by the Chorus or by the Messenger.—See Metrical Analysis.

mvp-comment-763-3 φρενῶν δυσφρόνων ¹⁹⁸⁸

mvp-comment-763-4 στερεά ¹⁹⁸⁹

mvp-comment-764-1 ὦ … βλέποντες ¹⁹⁹⁰

mvp-comment-764-2 κτανόντας ¹⁹⁹¹ θανόντας ¹⁹⁹²

mvp-comment-764-3 ἐμφυλίους ¹⁹⁹³

mvp-comment-765-1 ἐμῶν ἄνολβα βουλευμάτων ¹⁹⁹⁴ ἄνολβα ¹⁹⁹⁵

mvp-comment-766-1 νέος νέῳ ξυν μόρῳ ¹⁹⁹⁶ νέῳ ¹⁹⁹⁷

mvp-comment-767-1 ἀπελύθης ¹⁹⁹⁸

mvp-comment-768-1 ἐμαῖς οὐδὲ σαῖσι ¹⁹⁹⁹

mvp-comment-769-1 ἔχω μαθὼν ²⁰⁰⁰ με ²⁰⁰¹ μέγα βάρος ἔχων ²⁰⁰² ἐν δ’ ἐμῷ κάρᾳ ²⁰⁰³ ἔπαισε ²⁰⁰⁴ με ²⁰⁰⁵ κάρᾳ ²⁰⁰⁶

mvp-comment-769-2 ἐν δ’ ἔσεισεν ²⁰⁰⁷

mvp-comment-769-3 ἀγρίαις ὁδοῖς ²⁰⁰⁸

mvp-comment-770-1 λακπάτητον ²⁰⁰⁹ κ ²⁰¹⁰ ξπ ²⁰¹¹ κ ²⁰¹²

mvp-comment-770-2 ἀντρέπων ²⁰¹³

mvp-comment-771-1 φεῦ φεῦ, ὦ ²⁰¹⁴

mvp-comment-771-2 πόνοι .. δύσπονοι ²⁰¹⁵

mvp-comment-772-1 ὡς ἔχων τε καὶ κεκτημένος ²⁰¹⁶ ἔχων ²⁰¹⁷ κεκτημένος ²⁰¹⁸

mvp-comment-773-1 πρὸ χειρῶν ²⁰¹⁹

mvp-comment-773-2 τάδε ²⁰²⁰

mvp-comment-773-3 τὰ δ’ ἐν δόμοις ²⁰²¹ τὰ μὲν … φέρων ²⁰²² ἔοικας ἥκειν ²⁰²³ καὶ τάχ’ ὄψεσθαι ²⁰²⁴

mvp-comment-773-4 Since τὰ δ’ ἐν δόμοις ²⁰²⁵ ἥκειν καὶ ²⁰²⁶

mvp-comment-773-5 (

) . Others, indeed, take καὶ τάχα ²⁰²⁷

mvp-comment-774-1 τί δ’ ἔστιν ²⁰²⁸ ἦ ²⁰²⁹

mvp-comment-774-2 (2) Transposing αὖ ²⁰³⁰ ἤ ²⁰³¹ ἦ ²⁰³²

mvp-comment-774-3 (3) Canter gave,

; The change of to would have been peculiarly easy before initial (KAKIONEKAKON for KAKIONEKKAKON). For ἐκ ²⁰³³

mvp-comment-774-4 reading. The comparat. κάκιον ²⁰³⁴

mvp-comment-775-1 παμμήτωρ ²⁰³⁵

mvp-comment-775-2 νεοτόμ ²⁰³⁶ ἄρτι ²⁰³⁷

mvp-comment-776-1 δυσκάθαρτος Ἅιδου λιμήν ²⁰³⁸ λιμήν ²⁰³⁹

mvp-comment-777-1 κακάγγελτα ²⁰⁴⁰

mvp-comment-777-2 προπέμψας ²⁰⁴¹

mvp-comment-778-1 ἐπεξειργάσω ²⁰⁴²

mvp-comment-779-1 ὦ παῖ ²⁰⁴³

mvp-comment-779-2

(instead of ), has not much palaeographical probability. It gives, indeed, a closer correspondence with 1266. But the form of dochmiac which the MS. reading gives here is equally correct. (See Analysis. Met.) Seidler was certainly right in omitting (see cr. n.): and that remedy suffices.

mvp-comment-779-3 Construe: τίνα νέον σφάγιον γυναικεῖον μόρον λέγεις ἀμφικεῖσθαί μοι ἐπ’ ὀλέθρῳ ²⁰⁴⁴

mvp-comment-779-4 But another version is possible, if

is taken with : ‘besetting me,’ , for (my) ruin. Cp. 1285 ; For , cp. Thuc. 4.86

οὐκ ἐπὶ κακῷ, ἐπ’ ἐλευθερώσει δέ

. The difficulty is that cannot well be said of one sorrow (Eurydicè's death), and that, therefore, we have to evolve from the epithet the notion of a circle of woes of which this is one. Thus the image would be much more obscurely expressed than that in Ai. 351 , , (‘behold what a surge hath but now burst around me and hemmed me in, under stress of a deadly storm,’) where Ajax is sitting in the midst of the carnage which he has wrought. It is altogether improbable that alludes to Eurydicè's corpse having been brought (by the ) into such a position that Creon stood between it and Haemon's. See 1298, where Creon speaks of her as being .

mvp-comment-780-1 ὁρᾶν πάρεστιν ²⁰⁴⁵

mvp-comment-780-2 three or four persons; and was low enough to admit of an actor stepping off it with ease. It was pushed on through the central stage entrance, and was usually brought sufficiently far forward to allow of actors entering or making their exit behind it. Here, the corpse of Eurydicè is evidently in full view of the house ( cp. 1299 ). Soph. has used the

in two other plays: El. 1458 (the corpse of Clytaemnestra, with Orestes and Pylades beside it); and in Ai. 344 (Ajax in his tent among his victims). See Albert Müller, Gr. Bühnenalterthümer, pp. 142 ff. (1886).

mvp-comment-780-3 Recent explorations in the Dionysiac theatre at Athens have given rise to a theory that there was no permanent raised stage or proscenium before the Roman age. Even if this could be proved, it would still, however, remain certain that some such expedient as the

was used in the fifth century. This is proved by the texts of Aesch. , Soph. , and Eur. , as well as by the two scenes of Ar. where the tragic is parodied ( Ar. Ach. 408 —479; Thesm. 95—238). Ar. has the words and . Wecklein thinks that the was employed when a part of the interior of the house was to be disclosed, but the when merely a single object was to be shown; and that the was used here ( N. Jahrb. 1870, vol. 101, p. 572: Philol. 31. 451). The meaning of is, however, doubtful.

mvp-comment-781-1 χείρεσσιν ²⁰⁴⁶

mvp-comment-782-1 ἔναντα ²⁰⁴⁷

mvp-comment-783-1 ἥδ’ ²⁰⁴⁸ βωμία ²⁰⁴⁹ βωμία ²⁰⁵⁰

mvp-comment-783-2 ξίφει ²⁰⁵¹

mvp-comment-783-3 Next to Arndt's, the best conjecture seems that of Blaydes, ἥδ’ ὀξυθήκτῳ σφαγίδι βωμίᾳ πέρι ²⁰⁵²

mvp-comment-784-1 λύει κελαινὰ βλέφαρα ²⁰⁵³ μύει ²⁰⁵⁴

mvp-comment-785-1 Μεγαρέως ²⁰⁵⁵

mvp-comment-785-2 κλεινὸν λάχος ²⁰⁵⁶ λάχος ²⁰⁵⁷ λέχος ²⁰⁵⁸

mvp-comment-786-1 κακὰς πράξεις ²⁰⁵⁹

mvp-comment-786-2 ἐφυμνής. ²⁰⁶⁰

mvp-comment-787-1 ἀνέπταν ²⁰⁶¹ φόβῳ ²⁰⁶²

mvp-comment-787-2 ἀνταίαν ²⁰⁶³

mvp-comment-788-1 δείλαι^ος ²⁰⁶⁴

mvp-comment-788-2

.—The following are a few among many instances of αι^ ²⁰⁶⁵ ο ²⁰⁶⁶

mvp-comment-788-3 συγκέκραμαι ²⁰⁶⁷

mvp-comment-789-1 ὡς αἰτίαν … ἔχων ²⁰⁶⁸

mvp-comment-789-2 τῶνδε … μόρων ²⁰⁶⁹ κἀκείνων ²⁰⁷⁰

mvp-comment-789-3 ἐπεσκήπτου ²⁰⁷¹

mvp-comment-790-1 κἀπελύσατ’ ²⁰⁷² καί ²⁰⁷³ ἐν φοναῖς ²⁰⁷⁴

mvp-comment-791-1 ὑφ’ ἦπαρ ²⁰⁷⁵

mvp-comment-791-2 ὀξυκώκυτον ²⁰⁷⁶