mvp-comment-96-1 ἀμήχανον δέ ¹ δέ ² δέ ³

mvp-comment-96-2 Demosthenes, in his speech on the Embassy (343 B.C.), quotes this passage (vv. 175—190) as illustrating maxims

mvp-comment-96-3 which Aeschines had violated, though, accustomed as he had been to play tritagonists' parts, he ought to have known them by heart (or. 19 § 247).

mvp-comment-97-1 ψυχήν ⁴ φρόνημα ⁵ γνώμην ⁶

mvp-comment-98-1 ἀρχαῖς ⁷ νόμοισιν ⁸

mvp-comment-98-2 ἐντριβής ⁹

mvp-comment-98-3 φανῇ ¹⁰

mvp-comment-99-1 ἐμοὶ γάρ ¹¹ γάρ ¹² πᾶσαν … πόλιν ¹³

mvp-comment-99-2 μὴ … ἅπτεται ¹⁴ ὅστις μὴ ἅπτεται ¹⁵

mvp-comment-99-3 ἐκ φ. του ¹⁶

mvp-comment-99-4 ἐγκλῄσας ἔχει ¹⁷

mvp-comment-99-5 νῦν τε καὶ πάλαι ¹⁸

mvp-comment-100-1 μείζον’ ¹⁹ ἀντὶ τῆς...πάτρας ²⁰ ἤ ²¹ μεῖζον ²²

mvp-comment-100-2 οὐδαμοῦ λέγω ²³

mvp-comment-101-1 ἐγὼ γάρ ²⁴ γάρ ²⁵ τοῦτο γιγνώσκων ²⁶ ἴστω ²⁷

mvp-comment-102-1 οὔτ’ ἂν σιωπήσαιμι ²⁸

mvp-comment-103-1 στείχουσαν ἀστοῖς ²⁹ ὁμοῦ ³⁰

mvp-comment-103-2 ἀντὶ τῆς σωτηρίας ³¹ τῆς ³²

mvp-comment-104-1 ἄνδρα δυσμενῆ χθονός ³³

mvp-comment-104-2 ἐμαυτῷ ³⁴ φίλον ³⁵ θείμην ³⁶

mvp-comment-105-1 ἡ σῴζουσα ³⁷

mvp-comment-105-2 ταύτης ³⁸ ὀρθῆς ³⁹

mvp-comment-105-3 τοὺς φίλους ποιούμεθα ⁴⁰

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 ⁴¹

mvp-comment-106-2 αὔξω ⁴²

mvp-comment-107-1 ἀδελφὰ τῶνδε ⁴³

mvp-comment-107-2 τῶν ἀπ’ Οἰδίπου ⁴⁴

mvp-comment-108-1 δορί ⁴⁵ δόρει ⁴⁶

mvp-comment-109-1 τὰ πάντ’ ἐφαγνίσαι ⁴⁷ ἐπί ⁴⁸ ἐφαγνίσαι ⁴⁹ ἀφαγνίσαι ⁵⁰ ἀπό ⁵¹

mvp-comment-110-1 τοῖς ἀρίστοις ⁵²

mvp-comment-110-2 ἔρχεται κάτω ⁵³

mvp-comment-111-1 L has Πολυνείκην ⁵⁴

mvp-comment-111-2 λέγω ⁵⁵

mvp-comment-112-1 γτ=ν πατρῴαν . . καὶ θεοὺς . . πρῆσαι ⁵⁶

mvp-comment-112-2 θ. τοὺς ἐγγενεῖς ⁵⁷

mvp-comment-112-3 κατελθών ⁵⁸

mvp-comment-112-4 γ)θέλησε μέν … ἠθέλ. δέ ⁵⁹ ἠθέλησε μὲν ⁶⁰

mvp-comment-112-5 πρῆσαι ⁶¹

mvp-comment-112-6 κατ’ ἄκρας ⁶²

mvp-comment-112-7 αἵματος κ. πάσασθαι ⁶³

mvp-comment-112-8 τοὺς δὲ … ἄγειν ⁶⁴

mvp-comment-113-1 The traditional ἐκκεκηρῦχθαι τάφῳ ⁶⁵ ἐκκεκήρυκται τάφῳ ⁶⁶ ἐκκεκηρῦχθαι λέγω ⁶⁷ τάφῳ ⁶⁸ κτερίζειν ⁶⁹ τάφῳ ⁷⁰ κτερίζειν ⁷¹ μήτε ⁷² κωκῦσαι ⁷³ τάφῳ ⁷⁴ λέγω ⁷⁵ τάφῳ ⁷⁶ ἐκκεκ ⁷⁷

mvp-comment-114-1 ἐᾶν δ ⁷⁸ ἄθαπτον, αἰκισθέντ’ ἰδεῖν ⁷⁹ δέμας καὶ πρὸς οἰωνῶν καὶ πρὸς κυνῶν ἐδεστόν ⁸⁰ αἰκισθέντ ⁸¹ αἰκισθέντ ⁸² ἐδεστόν ⁸³ αἰκισθέν τ’, δέμας ⁸⁴

mvp-comment-114-2 δέμας ⁸⁵

mvp-comment-114-3 ἰδεῖν ⁸⁶

mvp-comment-115-1 φρόνημα ⁸⁷

mvp-comment-115-2 ἔκ γ’ ἐμοῦ ⁸⁸

mvp-comment-116-1 The MSS. have τιμὴν προέξουσ’ ..τῶν ἐνδ. ⁸⁹ τιμήν ⁹⁰ τιμῆ ⁹¹ προσέξους ⁹²

mvp-comment-117-1 τιμήσεται ⁹³

mvp-comment-118-1 I print Dindorf's κἀς ⁹⁴ καὶ ⁹⁵ σοὶ ταῦτ’ ἀρέσκει ⁹⁶ Κρέον ⁹⁷ ταὔτ ⁹⁸ ταῦτ’ ⁹⁹

mvp-comment-119-1 In παντί πού γ’ ¹⁰⁰ σοί γ’ … που ¹⁰¹ ἔνεστι ¹⁰² χὡπόσοι ζῶμεν ¹⁰³ πέρι ¹⁰⁴

mvp-comment-120-1 ὡς ἂν … ἦτε ¹⁰⁵ πῶς ἂν … εἶτε ¹⁰⁶

mvp-comment-120-2 σκοποί ¹⁰⁷

mvp-comment-120-3 νυν ¹⁰⁸ νῦν ¹⁰⁹

mvp-comment-120-4 τῶν εἰρ ¹¹⁰

mvp-comment-121-1 πρόθες τοῦτο ¹¹¹ βαστάζειν ¹¹²

mvp-comment-121-2 τοῦ νεκροῦ γ’ ¹¹³

mvp-comment-122-1 τί δῆτ’ ἂν … ἐπεντέλλοις ¹¹⁴

mvp-comment-122-2 The reading ἄλλῳ ¹¹⁵ τοῦτο ¹¹⁶

mvp-comment-122-3 ἐπιχωρεῖν ¹¹⁷

mvp-comment-122-4 ἀπιστοῦσιν ¹¹⁸

mvp-comment-122-5 τάδε, ¹¹⁹

mvp-comment-123-1 ὃς ¹²⁰ ἐρᾷ ¹²¹

mvp-comment-123-2 καὶ μὴν ¹²² γε ¹²³ μισθός ¹²⁴

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 ¹²⁵

mvp-comment-123-5 διώλεσεν ¹²⁶

mvp-comment-124-1 ἐρῶ μὲν οὐχ ¹²⁷

mvp-comment-124-2 ὅπως ¹²⁸

mvp-comment-124-3 τάχους ὕπο ¹²⁹ τάχους ¹³⁰

mvp-comment-125-1 ἐξάρας ¹³¹

mvp-comment-125-2 φροντίδων ¹³² ἐπιστάσεις ¹³³

mvp-comment-125-3 ὁδοῖς ¹³⁴

mvp-comment-125-4 κυκλῶν ¹³⁵

mvp-comment-126-1 ψυχὴ γὰρ ηὔδα ¹³⁶ πολλὰ ¹³⁷ μυθουμένη ¹³⁸

mvp-comment-127-1 τάλας … τλήμων ¹³⁹

mvp-comment-127-2 μένεις ¹⁴⁰ μενεῖς ¹⁴¹ αὖ ¹⁴²

mvp-comment-127-3 πῶς … οὐκ ¹⁴³

mvp-comment-127-4 ἀλγυνεῖ ¹⁴⁴

mvp-comment-128-1 ἑλίσσων ¹⁴⁵

mvp-comment-128-2 ἤνυτον ¹⁴⁶

mvp-comment-128-3 σχολῇ βραδύς ¹⁴⁷

mvp-comment-129-1 τέλος γε μέντοι ¹⁴⁸

mvp-comment-129-2 ἐνίκησεν ¹⁴⁹

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 ¹⁵⁰ μολεῖν ¹⁵¹ σοί ¹⁵² φράσων ¹⁵³ φράσω δ ¹⁵⁴ κεἰ ¹⁵⁵ κεἴ σοι ¹⁵⁶ σοί. ¹⁵⁷

mvp-comment-130-2 τὸ μηδέν ¹⁵⁸

mvp-comment-131-1 τῆς ἐλπίδος ¹⁵⁹

mvp-comment-131-2 δεδραγμένος ¹⁶⁰ πεφραγμένος ¹⁶¹ πεπραγμένος ¹⁶²

mvp-comment-131-3 τὸ μὴ παθεῖν ἄν ¹⁶³

mvp-comment-131-4

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

mvp-comment-131-5 τὸ μόρσιμον ¹⁶⁴

mvp-comment-132-1 ἀνθ’ οὗ ¹⁶⁵

mvp-comment-132-2 τὸ γὰρ | πρᾶγμ’ ¹⁶⁶ γάρ ¹⁶⁷

mvp-comment-133-1 εὖ γε στοχάζει ¹⁶⁸ στοχάζει ¹⁶⁹ ἀποφράγνυσαι ¹⁷⁰ στοχάζομαι ¹⁷¹

mvp-comment-133-2 κἀποφράγνυσαι ¹⁷²

mvp-comment-133-3 τὸ πρᾶγμα ¹⁷³

mvp-comment-134-1 δηλοῖς δ’ ὥς τι ς. ¹⁷⁴

mvp-comment-135-1 τὰ δεινά ¹⁷⁵ γάρ ¹⁷⁶

mvp-comment-135-2 ποτ ¹⁷⁷

mvp-comment-135-3 ἀπαλλαχθείς ¹⁷⁸

mvp-comment-136-1 καὶ δή ¹⁷⁹

mvp-comment-136-2 θάψας ¹⁸⁰ κἀπί ¹⁸¹

mvp-comment-136-3 διψίαν ¹⁸²

mvp-comment-136-4 κἀφαγιστεύσας ¹⁸³ ἃ χρή ¹⁸⁴

mvp-comment-137-1 ἀνδρῶν ¹⁸⁵

mvp-comment-137-2 οὔτε του γενῇδος … οὐ δικέλλης ¹⁸⁶ οὔτε … οὐ ¹⁸⁷ γενῄς ¹⁸⁸ γενῄς ¹⁸⁹ δίκελλα ¹⁹⁰

mvp-comment-137-3 δικ. ἐκβολή ¹⁹¹ ἐκβ. ¹⁹² στύφλος ¹⁹³ χέρσος ¹⁹⁴ ἀρρώξ ¹⁹⁵

mvp-comment-137-4 ἐπημαξευμένη ¹⁹⁶ ἐπ‐ ¹⁹⁷ ἐφ‐ ¹⁹⁸

mvp-comment-137-5 ἀλλ’ ὁ ἐργάτης ἄσημός τις ἦν ¹⁹⁹

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 ²⁰⁰ ἡμεροσκ. ²⁰¹

mvp-comment-138-2 δείκνυσι … παρῆν ²⁰²

mvp-comment-138-3 δυσχερές ²⁰³

mvp-comment-139-1 ὁ μὲν ²⁰⁴

mvp-comment-139-2 τυμβήρης μὲν οὔ ²⁰⁵ τυμβ. ²⁰⁶ λεπτὴ δ’ … ἐπῆν ²⁰⁷

mvp-comment-139-3 ἄγος φεύγοντος ὥς ²⁰⁸ ἄγος ²⁰⁹

mvp-comment-140-1 θηρός ²¹⁰

mvp-comment-140-2 του ²¹¹ θηρός ²¹²

mvp-comment-140-3 οὐ σπάσαντος ²¹³ οὐ ²¹⁴ σπάσαντος ²¹⁵ σπάσαντος οὐδ’ ἐλθόντος ²¹⁶

mvp-comment-141-1 λόγοι δ’ … φύλακα ²¹⁷ λόγοι κακοὶ ἐρρόθουν ²¹⁸ ἐρρόθουν ²¹⁹

mvp-comment-141-2

, of an unintelligible jargon.

mvp-comment-141-3 ἐλέγχων ²²⁰

mvp-comment-141-4 κἂν ἐγίγνετο ²²¹

mvp-comment-141-5 τελευτῶς ²²²

mvp-comment-141-6 ὁ κωλύσων ²²³

mvp-comment-142-1 ἦν … οὑξειργ. ²²⁴

mvp-comment-142-2 ἐναργής ²²⁵

mvp-comment-142-3 ἀλλ’ ²²⁶

mvp-comment-142-4 ἕφευγε μὴ εἰδέναι ²²⁷

mvp-comment-142-5 μὴ ²²⁸ εἰδέναι ²²⁹

mvp-comment-143-1 μύδρους ²³⁰

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 ²³¹

mvp-comment-144-2 θεοὺς ὁρκ. ²³³

mvp-comment-144-3 τὸ μήτε δρ ²³⁴

mvp-comment-144-4 μήτ’ είργασμένῳ ²³⁵ μηδ ²³⁶

mvp-comment-145-1 πλέον ²³⁷

mvp-comment-145-2 λέγει ²³⁸

mvp-comment-145-3 τις εἷς ²³⁹

mvp-comment-146-1 προὔτρεψεν ²⁴⁰

mvp-comment-146-2 οὐ γὰρ εἴχομεν ²⁴¹

mvp-comment-146-3 As ἀντιφωνεῖν ²⁴² δρῶντες ²⁴³ ὅπως δρῶντες ²⁴⁴ εἴχομεν ²⁴⁵

mvp-comment-147-1 σοί ²⁴⁶

mvp-comment-147-2 ταῦτ’ ἐνίκα ²⁴⁷

mvp-comment-147-3 πάλος ²⁴⁸ καθαιρεῖ ²⁴⁹

mvp-comment-147-4 τἀγαθόν ²⁵⁰ —ἄκων οὐχ ἑκοῦσιν ²⁵¹

mvp-comment-148-1 ἐμοί ²⁵² βουλεύει ²⁵³ μή ²⁵⁴

mvp-comment-148-2 τι ²⁵⁵

mvp-comment-148-3 θεήλατον, ²⁵⁶

mvp-comment-148-4 ἡ ξύννοια ²⁵⁷

mvp-comment-148-5 πάλαι ²⁵⁸

mvp-comment-149-1 πρὶν ὀργῆς καί με μεστῶσαι ²⁵⁹ καί ²⁶⁰ πρίν ²⁶¹ μεστῶσαι ²⁶² καί ²⁶³ με ²⁶⁴

mvp-comment-149-2 κἀμέ ²⁶⁵

mvp-comment-149-3 μεστῶσαι ²⁶⁶

mvp-comment-150-1 πότερον ²⁶⁷ ἔκρυπτον ²⁶⁸

mvp-comment-150-2 ἀμφικίονας ναούς ²⁶⁹

mvp-comment-150-3 κἀναθήματα ²⁷⁰

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 ²⁷¹ πυρώσων ²⁷²

mvp-comment-150-6 νόμους διασκεδῶν ²⁷³

mvp-comment-150-7 διασκεδῶν ²⁷⁴

mvp-comment-151-1 τοὺς κακοὺς τιμῶντας … θεούς; ²⁷⁵

mvp-comment-152-1 ταῦτα ²⁷⁶ μόλις φέροντες ²⁷⁷ καὶ πάλαι ²⁷⁸

mvp-comment-152-2 πόλεως ἄνδρες ²⁷⁹

mvp-comment-152-3 ἐρρόθουν ²⁸⁰

mvp-comment-152-4 ἐμοί ²⁸¹

mvp-comment-152-5 κάρα σείοντες ²⁸²

mvp-comment-152-6 ὑπὸ ζυγῷ ²⁸³

mvp-comment-152-7 λόφον ²⁸⁴

mvp-comment-152-8 δικαίως ²⁸⁵

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

( O. T. 84 ): στέργειν ²⁸⁶

mvp-comment-153-1 τῶνδε ²⁸⁷ ἐκ ²⁸⁸

mvp-comment-153-2 τούτους, ²⁸⁹

mvp-comment-153-3 εἰργάσθαι ²⁹⁰ ἐξεπίσταμαι ²⁹¹ παρηγμένους ²⁹²

mvp-comment-154-1 νόμισμ’ ²⁹³

mvp-comment-154-2 ἔβλαστε ²⁹⁴

mvp-comment-154-3 πορθεῖ ²⁹⁵

mvp-comment-154-4 τόδ’ ²⁹⁶ ἄνδρας ²⁹⁷

mvp-comment-155-1 τόδ’ ἐκδ. καὶ παραλλάσσει ²⁹⁸ ἵστασθαι ²⁹⁹ καὶ παραλλάσσει ³⁰⁰

mvp-comment-155-2 ἵστασθαι πρός τι ³⁰¹

mvp-comment-156-1 πανουργίας … ἔχειν ³⁰²

mvp-comment-156-2 εἰδέναι ³⁰³ παντὸς ἔργου δυσσέβ. ³⁰⁴ παντὸς ἔργ ³⁰⁵ πανουργίας ³⁰⁶

mvp-comment-157-1 ἤνυσαν ³⁰⁷

mvp-comment-157-2 χρόνῳ ποτέ ³⁰⁸ δοῦναι δίκην ³⁰⁹

mvp-comment-157-3 ἐξέπραξαν ὡς ³¹⁰

mvp-comment-158-1 Ζεύς ³¹¹

mvp-comment-158-2 ὅρκιος ³¹²

mvp-comment-158-3 τὸν αὐτόχειρα ³¹³ τάφου = ταφῆς ³¹⁴

mvp-comment-159-1 μοῦνος ³¹⁵ πρὶν ἂν . . δηλώσητε ³¹⁶ κρεμαστοί ³¹⁷ ζῶντες κρεμαστοί ³¹⁸

mvp-comment-159-2 δηλώσηθ’ ³¹⁹

mvp-comment-159-3 ὕβριν ³²⁰

mvp-comment-160-1 ἵν’ … ἁρπάζητε ³²¹

mvp-comment-160-2 τὸ κέρδος ³²² ἔνθεν οἰστέον ³²³

mvp-comment-160-3 μάθηθ’ ³²⁴

mvp-comment-160-4 ἐξ ἅπαντος ³²⁵ τὸ κερδαίνειν ³²⁶

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 ³²⁷

mvp-comment-161-2 δέ ³²⁸ δώσεις ³²⁹

mvp-comment-161-3 οὕτως ³³⁰

mvp-comment-161-4 ἴω ³³¹

mvp-comment-161-5 καὶ νῦν ὡς ³³² ἀνιαρῶς ³³³ ι— ³³⁴

mvp-comment-162-1 ἐν ³³⁵ ὠσίν ³³⁶

mvp-comment-162-2 ἐπί ³³⁷

mvp-comment-163-1 τί δὲ ³³⁸ τί δαὶ ³³⁹

mvp-comment-163-2 ῥυθμίζεις ³⁴⁰ ὅπου ³⁴¹ ὅπου ³⁴²

mvp-comment-164-1 τὰς φρένας...τὰ δ’ ὦτ’ ³⁴³ σε ³⁴⁴

mvp-comment-164-2 οἴμ’ ὡς ³⁴⁵

mvp-comment-164-3 λάλημα ³⁴⁶ ἄλημα ³⁴⁷ ἄλημα ³⁴⁸

mvp-comment-164-4 δῆλον, ³⁴⁹

mvp-comment-165-1 ‘At any rate (

—babbler or not) I certainly have not done this deed.’ εἰμί ³⁵⁰ οὔκουν … γε ³⁵¹

mvp-comment-166-1 ‘Yes, (you have done it,) and that, too, at the cost of betraying,’ etc. The particle γε ³⁵² καὶ ταῦτα ³⁵³ προδούς ³⁵⁴

mvp-comment-167-1 ἦ δεινόν ³⁵⁵ καὶ ³⁵⁶ γε ³⁵⁷

mvp-comment-168-1 κόμψευε . . τὴν δόξαν ³⁵⁸

mvp-comment-168-2 τὴν δόξαν ³⁵⁹

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 ³⁶⁰ νῦν ³⁶¹ ταῦτα … τοὺς δρῶντας = τοὺς ταῦτα δρῶντας ³⁶²

mvp-comment-169-1 δειλά ³⁶³

mvp-comment-169-2 δεινά ³⁶⁴ ν ³⁶⁵

mvp-comment-170-1 ἀλλ’ ³⁶⁶ εὑρεθείη ³⁶⁷ καὶ ³⁶⁸

mvp-comment-171-1 καὶ ³⁶⁹ γάρ ³⁷⁰

mvp-comment-171-2 γνώμης ³⁷¹

mvp-comment-173-1 πολλὰ … κοὐδέν ³⁷²

mvp-comment-173-2 καί ³⁷³

mvp-comment-173-3 τὰ δεινά ³⁷⁴

mvp-comment-174-1 τοῦτο ³⁷⁵ πέραν ³⁷⁶ πέρα ³⁷⁷

mvp-comment-175-1 χειμερίῳ νότῳ ³⁷⁸

mvp-comment-176-1 περιβρ … ὑπ’ οἴδμασιν ³⁷⁹

mvp-comment-177-1 ὑπερτάταν ³⁸⁰

mvp-comment-178-1 ἀκαμάταν ³⁸¹

mvp-comment-178-2 ἀποτρύεται ³⁸²

mvp-comment-179-1 ἰλλομένων ἀρότρων, ³⁸³ ἀρότων ³⁸⁴

mvp-comment-179-2 ἔτος εἰς ἔτος ³⁸⁵ εἰς ³⁸⁶

mvp-comment-180-1 ἱππείῳ γένει ³⁸⁷

mvp-comment-180-2 πολεύων ³⁸⁸ τοῦτο ³⁸⁹

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 ³⁹⁰

mvp-comment-181-5 ἀμφιβαλὼν ³⁹¹

mvp-comment-182-1 πόντου … εἰναλίαν φύσιν ³⁹²

mvp-comment-183-1 περιφραδής ³⁹³

mvp-comment-184-1 μηχαναῖς ³⁹⁴ ἀγραύλου ³⁹⁵ ὀρεσσιβάτα ³⁹⁶

mvp-comment-185-1 λασιαύχενά θ’ ³⁹⁷

mvp-comment-186-1 ὀχμάζεται ³⁹⁸ ἀμφὶ λόφον ζυγῶν ³⁹⁹

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 ⁴⁰⁰

mvp-comment-187-1 φθέγμα ⁴⁰¹

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 ⁴⁰²

mvp-comment-188-1 ἀστυνόμους ὀργάς ⁴⁰³

mvp-comment-189-1 ἐδιδάξατο ⁴⁰⁴

mvp-comment-190-1 πάγων ⁴⁰⁵

mvp-comment-190-2 ἐναίθρεια ⁴⁰⁶

mvp-comment-190-3 βέλη ⁴⁰⁸

mvp-comment-191-1 παντοπόρος ⁴⁰⁹

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 ⁴¹⁰ μόνου ⁴¹¹ φεῦξιν — ἐπάξεται ⁴¹²

mvp-comment-193-1 ἀμηχάνων ⁴¹³

mvp-comment-193-2 φυγάς ⁴¹⁴

mvp-comment-193-3 ξυμπέφρασται ⁴¹⁵

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 ⁴¹⁶

mvp-comment-194-3 τὸ μηχανόεν τ ⁴¹⁷

mvp-comment-195-1 τοτὲ μὲν … ἄλλοτ’ ⁴¹⁸

mvp-comment-195-2 ἐπ’ ⁴¹⁹

mvp-comment-196-1 γεραίρων ⁴²⁰

mvp-comment-196-2 5. 67

. Ar. Th. 960 .

mvp-comment-197-1 θεῶν τ’ ἔνορκον δίκαν ⁴²¹

mvp-comment-198-1 ὑψίπολις ⁴²²

mvp-comment-198-2 ἄπολις ⁴²³

mvp-comment-198-3 τὸ μὴ καλόν ⁴²⁴ τόλμας χάριν ⁴²⁵

mvp-comment-199-1 παρέστιος ⁴²⁶

mvp-comment-199-2 ἴσον φρονῶν ⁴²⁷

mvp-comment-200-1 ἔρδει ⁴²⁸ ἔρδοι ⁴²⁹

mvp-comment-202-1 The choral ode has closed with an allusion to the unknown man ( ὅς ⁴³⁰ ἀμφινοῶ ⁴³¹ ἐς ⁴³²

mvp-comment-202-2 δαιμόνιον τέρας ⁴³³

mvp-comment-203-1 πῶς εἰδὼς ⁴³⁴

mvp-comment-203-2 ἀντιλογήσω ⁴³⁵

mvp-comment-204-1 ὦ δύστηνος ⁴³⁶

mvp-comment-204-2 δ. πατρός ⁴³⁷

mvp-comment-204-3 Οἰδιπόδα— ⁴³⁸

mvp-comment-205-1 τί ποτ’ ⁴³⁹

mvp-comment-205-2 οὐ δή που ⁴⁴⁰

mvp-comment-205-3 ἀπιστοῦσαν ⁴⁴¹

mvp-comment-205-4 ἄγουσι ⁴⁴²

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

mvp-comment-205-6 καὶ ⁴⁴³ ἀπιστοῦσαν ⁴⁴⁴ καθελόντες ⁴⁴⁵

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 ⁴⁴⁶

mvp-comment-206-3 τοὔργον ἡ ’ξειργ ⁴⁴⁷

mvp-comment-207-1 ἐς δέον ⁴⁴⁸

mvp-comment-208-1 ξύμμετρος ⁴⁴⁹

mvp-comment-209-1 ἀπώμοτον ⁴⁵⁰

mvp-comment-210-1 ψεύδει ⁴⁵¹

mvp-comment-210-2 ἡ ’πίνοια ⁴⁵²

mvp-comment-211-1 ἐξηύχουν ἄν ⁴⁵³ σχολῇ ἥξειν ποτὲ δεῦρο ⁴⁵⁴

mvp-comment-211-2 σχολῇ ⁴⁵⁵

mvp-comment-212-1 ταῖς σαῖς ἀπειλαῖς ⁴⁵⁶

mvp-comment-212-2 ἐχειμάσθην ⁴⁵⁷

mvp-comment-213-1 ἡ...ἐκτὸς ⁴⁵⁸ ἐκτός ⁴⁵⁹

mvp-comment-214-1 οὐδὲν ἔοικε μῆκος ⁴⁶⁰ α+λλῃ ἡδονῇ ⁴⁶¹ οὐδέν ⁴⁶² μῆκος ⁴⁶³ ἔοικε ⁴⁶⁴

mvp-comment-215-1 δῑ ὅρκων … ἀπώμοτος ⁴⁶⁵

mvp-comment-216-1 καθῃρέθη ⁴⁶⁶

mvp-comment-216-2 τάφον κοσμοῦσα ⁴⁶⁷

mvp-comment-216-3 ἐπάλλετο ⁴⁶⁸ ἕρμαιον ⁴⁶⁹

mvp-comment-217-1 κρῖνε ⁴⁷⁰

mvp-comment-217-2 δίκαιός εἰμι ⁴⁷¹

mvp-comment-217-3 ἀπηλλάχθαι ⁴⁷²

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 ⁴⁷³

mvp-comment-219-1 ἦ καὶ ⁴⁷⁴

mvp-comment-219-2 ὀρθῶς ⁴⁷⁵

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 ⁴⁷⁶

mvp-comment-221-1 ἆρ’ ἔνδηλα ⁴⁷⁷

mvp-comment-222-1 ὁρᾶται...ᾑρέθη ⁴⁷⁸

mvp-comment-222-2 ἐπίληπτος ⁴⁷⁹

mvp-comment-223-1 ἥκομεν ⁴⁸¹

mvp-comment-224-1 τὰ δείν’ ἐκεῖν’ ⁴⁸²

mvp-comment-224-2 τὸν | νέκυν ⁴⁸³

mvp-comment-225-1 καθήμεθ’ ⁴⁸⁴

mvp-comment-225-2 ἄκρων ἐκ πάγων ⁴⁸⁵

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 ⁴⁸⁶

mvp-comment-226-1 βάλῃ ⁴⁸⁷

mvp-comment-227-1 ἐγερτί ⁴⁸⁸

mvp-comment-227-2 κινῶν ⁴⁸⁹

mvp-comment-227-3 ἐπιρρόθοις κακοῖσιν ⁴⁹⁰

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 ⁴⁹¹ ἀφειδήσοι ⁴⁹²

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 ⁴⁹³

mvp-comment-230-2 χθονὸς ⁴⁹⁴

mvp-comment-231-1 τυφώς ⁴⁹⁵ σκηπτός ⁴⁹⁶

mvp-comment-231-2 οὐράνιον ἄχος ⁴⁹⁷

mvp-comment-232-1 πίμπλησι ⁴⁹⁸ αἰκίζων ⁴⁹⁹

mvp-comment-232-2 ἐν δ’ ἐμεστ ⁵⁰⁰

mvp-comment-233-1 μύσαντες ⁵⁰¹

mvp-comment-233-2 νόσον ⁵⁰²

mvp-comment-233-3 ἐν χρ. μακρ ⁵⁰³

mvp-comment-234-1 πικρᾶς ⁵⁰⁴

mvp-comment-235-1 εὐνῆς...λέχος ⁵⁰⁵

mvp-comment-236-1 οὕτω δέ ⁵⁰⁶

mvp-comment-236-2 ψιλόν ⁵⁰⁷

mvp-comment-237-1 γόοισιν ἐξῴμωξεν ⁵⁰⁸

mvp-comment-237-2 ἐκ δ’ … ἠρᾶτο ⁵⁰⁹

mvp-comment-237-3 διψίαν ⁵¹⁰

mvp-comment-238-1 φέρει κόνιν ⁵¹¹

mvp-comment-239-1 The πρόχους ⁵¹²

mvp-comment-239-2 εὐκρότητος ⁵¹³

mvp-comment-239-3 ἄρδην ⁵¹⁴

mvp-comment-240-1 χοαῖσι ⁵¹⁵

mvp-comment-240-2 τρισπόνδ. ⁵¹⁶ στέφει ⁵¹⁷

mvp-comment-241-1 ἱέμεσθα ⁵¹⁸

mvp-comment-241-2 σὺν δὲ … θηρώμεθ’ ⁵¹⁹

mvp-comment-242-1 ἠλέγχομεν ⁵²⁰

mvp-comment-242-2 ἄπαρνος … οὐδενός ⁵²¹

mvp-comment-242-3 καθίστατο ⁵²²

mvp-comment-243-1 ἅμ’ ⁵²³

mvp-comment-244-1 φίλους ⁵²⁴

mvp-comment-245-1 πάντα ταῦθ’ ⁵²⁵ λαβεῖν ⁵²⁶

mvp-comment-246-1 σὲ δή, ⁵²⁷

mvp-comment-247-1 φὴς δεδρακέναι, ἢ καταρνεῖ μὴ δεδρ ⁵²⁸ καταρνεῖ ⁵²⁹

mvp-comment-248-1 καὶ......κοὐκ ⁵³⁰

mvp-comment-248-2 τὸ μή ⁵³¹

mvp-comment-249-1 σὺ μέν ⁵³² κομίζοις ἂν ς ⁵³³

mvp-comment-249-2 ἔξω ⁵³⁴ β. αἰτίας ⁵³⁵ ἐλεύθερον ⁵³⁶

mvp-comment-250-1 μῆκος ⁵³⁷

mvp-comment-251-1 ᾔδησθα ⁵³⁸ ᾔδης τὰ ⁵³⁹ σθα ⁵⁴⁰

mvp-comment-251-2 κηρυχθέντα ⁵⁴¹

mvp-comment-252-1 ᾔδη ⁵⁴²

mvp-comment-252-2 τί δ’ οὐκ ἔμελλον ⁵⁴³

mvp-comment-252-3 ἐμφανῆ ⁵⁴⁴ ἐκφανῆ ⁵⁴⁵

mvp-comment-253-1 καὶ δῆτ’ ⁵⁴⁶

mvp-comment-254-1 Ζεύς ⁵⁴⁷

mvp-comment-255-1 τῶν κάτω θεῶν ⁵⁴⁸ ξύνοικος ⁵⁴⁹ τοιούσδ’ … ὥρισεν ⁵⁵⁰ οἳ τούσδ’ … ὥρισαν ⁵⁵¹ τάδε ⁵⁵²

mvp-comment-256-1 ἄγραπτα … νόμιμα ⁵⁵³

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 ⁵⁵⁴

mvp-comment-256-3 ἀσφαλῆ ⁵⁵⁵

mvp-comment-256-4 θνητὸν ὄντ’ ⁵⁵⁶

mvp-comment-256-5 ὑπερδραμεῖν ⁵⁵⁷

mvp-comment-257-1 νῦν γε κἀχθές ⁵⁵⁸

mvp-comment-257-2 ζῇ ⁵⁵⁹

mvp-comment-257-3 ’φάνη ⁵⁶⁰

mvp-comment-258-1 τούτων ⁵⁶¹ τὴν δίκην ⁵⁶² τούτων ⁵⁶³

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 ⁵⁶⁴

mvp-comment-259-1 δώσειν ⁵⁶⁵

mvp-comment-259-2 θανουμένη γάρ ⁵⁶⁶

mvp-comment-259-3 τί δ’ οὔ ⁵⁶⁷

mvp-comment-260-1 κεἰ μὴ σὺ προὐκήρυξας ⁵⁶⁸

mvp-comment-260-2 τοῦ χρόνου ⁵⁶⁹

mvp-comment-260-3 αὔτ’ ⁵⁷⁰

mvp-comment-261-1 φέρει ⁵⁷¹

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 ⁵⁷²

mvp-comment-263-1 ἄλγος ⁵⁷³ παρ’ οὐδέν ⁵⁷⁴

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 ⁵⁷⁵

mvp-comment-264-1 ἄθαπτον ἠνσχόμην νέκυν ⁵⁷⁶ ηἰσχόμην ⁵⁷⁷ ἠνσχόμην ⁵⁷⁸

mvp-comment-264-2 In my first edition I placed in the text the emendation of Semitelos (1887) ᾔσχυναν κύνες ⁵⁷⁹

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 ⁵⁸⁰

mvp-comment-264-4 or

(Meineke). (2) τὸν ἐξ ἐμ. | μητρος θανόντ’ ⁵⁸¹

mvp-comment-265-1 σχεδόν τι ⁵⁸²

mvp-comment-265-2 μώρῳ μωρίαν ⁵⁸³

mvp-comment-265-3 ὀφλισκάνω ⁵⁸⁴

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 ⁵⁸⁵ δηλοῖ ⁵⁸⁶ ὠμόν ⁵⁸⁷ ἐξ ὠμοῦ πατρός ⁵⁸⁸ γέννημα ⁵⁸⁹

mvp-comment-267-1 εἴκειν … κακοῖς ⁵⁹⁰

mvp-comment-268-1 ἀλλ’ ἴσθι τοι ⁵⁹¹

mvp-comment-268-2 πίπτειν ⁵⁹²

mvp-comment-269-1 ὀπτὸν … περισκελῆ ⁵⁹³

mvp-comment-269-2 περισκελής ⁵⁹⁴

mvp-comment-269-3 ἐκ πυρός ⁵⁹⁵

mvp-comment-270-1 θραυσθέντα καὶ ῥαγέντα ⁵⁹⁶

mvp-comment-271-1 χαλινῷ δ’ ⁵⁹⁷ σμικρῷ ⁵⁹⁸

mvp-comment-271-2 καταρτυθέντας ⁵⁹⁹

mvp-comment-272-1 Suspicion has fallen on ἐκπέλει ⁶⁰⁰

mvp-comment-272-2 ὅστις ⁶⁰¹

mvp-comment-272-3 τῶν πέλας ⁶⁰²

mvp-comment-273-1 αὕτη δ’ ⁶⁰³ ὑβρίζειν μὲν … ὕβρις δ’ ⁶⁰⁴ ἐξηπίστατο ⁶⁰⁵ τότ’ ⁶⁰⁶

mvp-comment-273-2 τούτοις ⁶⁰⁷

mvp-comment-273-3 δεδρακυῖαν γελᾶν ⁶⁰⁸

mvp-comment-274-1 νῦν ⁶⁰⁹

mvp-comment-274-2 εἰ ταῦτα … κράτη ⁶¹⁰ κράτη ⁶¹¹ κείσεται ⁶¹² πείσεται ⁶¹³ ἀνατί ⁶¹⁴ ταῦτα ⁶¹⁵

mvp-comment-275-1 ἀδελφῆς ⁶¹⁶

mvp-comment-275-2 εἴθ’ ὁμαιμονεστέρα ⁶¹⁷

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 ⁶¹⁸

mvp-comment-276-1 τοῦ παντὸς Ζηνὸς ἑρκείου ⁶¹⁹

mvp-comment-277-1 ἀλύξετον ⁶²⁰ μόρου ⁶²¹

mvp-comment-278-1 καὶ γὰρ οὖν ⁶²²

mvp-comment-278-2 ἐπαιτιῶμαι κείνην ⁶²³ βουλεῦσαι ἴσον τοῦδε τάφου ⁶²⁴ ἴσον ⁶²⁵

mvp-comment-278-3 βουλεῦσαι ⁶²⁶

mvp-comment-279-1 καί νιν καλεῖτ’ ⁶²⁷

mvp-comment-280-1 λυσσῶσαν … οὐδ’ ἐπ ⁶²⁸

mvp-comment-280-2 ἐπήβολον ⁶²⁹

mvp-comment-281-1 ὁ θυμὸς τῶν … τεχνωμένων ⁶³⁰ φιλεῖ κλοπεὺς ᾑρῆσθαι ⁶³¹ πρόσθεν ⁶³² κλοπεύς ⁶³³ ᾑρῆσθαι κλοπεύς ⁶³⁴

mvp-comment-281-2 τεχνωμένων ⁶³⁵

mvp-comment-282-1 γε μέντοι ⁶³⁶

mvp-comment-282-2 Ismene's guilty terror is contrasted with Antigone's impudent hardihood,—as Creon deems it. μισῶ … ὅταν ⁶³⁷

mvp-comment-282-3 ἔπειτα ⁶³⁸

mvp-comment-282-4 καλλύνειν ⁶³⁹

mvp-comment-283-1 θέλεις τι μεῖζον ⁶⁴⁰

mvp-comment-283-2 ἑλών ⁶⁴¹

mvp-comment-283-3 ἐγὼ μὲν οὐδέν ⁶⁴²

mvp-comment-283-4 ἅπαντ’ ἔχω ⁶⁴³

mvp-comment-284-1 ἀρεστὸν οὐδέν ⁶⁴⁴

mvp-comment-284-2 μηδ’ ἀρεσθείη ⁶⁴⁵ ἀρεσθείην ⁶⁴⁶ ἀρέστ’ εἴη ⁶⁴⁷

mvp-comment-285-1 τἀμά ⁶⁴⁸

mvp-comment-285-2 ἔφυ ⁶⁴⁹

mvp-comment-286-1 καίτοι ⁶⁵⁰ κλέος … εὐκλεέστερον ⁶⁵¹

mvp-comment-287-1 ἐν τάφῳ τιθεῖσα ⁶⁵² τούτοις πᾶσι λέγοιτο ἄν ⁶⁵³ τοῦτο ἁνδάνειν ⁶⁵⁴ ἐγκλῄοι ⁶⁵⁵

mvp-comment-288-1 ἀλλ’ ἡ τυραννίς ⁶⁵⁶

mvp-comment-289-1 μούνη ⁶⁵⁷

mvp-comment-289-2 τοῦτο … ὁρᾷς ⁶⁵⁸

mvp-comment-289-3 ὑπίλλουσιν ⁶⁵⁹

mvp-comment-290-1 σὺ δ’ οὐκ ἐπαιδεῖ ⁶⁶¹

mvp-comment-291-1 ὅμαιμος ⁶⁶²

mvp-comment-291-2 ἐκ μιᾶς τε ⁶⁶³ τε ⁶⁶⁴

mvp-comment-292-1 πῶς δῆτ’ ⁶⁶⁵

mvp-comment-292-2 ἐκείνῳ ⁶⁶⁶

mvp-comment-292-3 χάριν ⁶⁶⁷ τιμᾷς ⁶⁶⁸ ὁ κατθανὼν νέκυς ⁶⁶⁹

mvp-comment-293-1 εἴ τοι ⁶⁷⁰ σφε ⁶⁷¹

mvp-comment-293-2 ἐξ ἴσου ⁶⁷²

mvp-comment-294-1 οὐ γάρ τι δοῦλος ⁶⁷³

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 ⁶⁷⁴

mvp-comment-295-2 ὁ δ’ ⁶⁷⁵ ὕπερ ⁶⁷⁶

mvp-comment-296-1 τούτους ⁶⁷⁷ ἴσους ⁶⁷⁸ ἴσους ⁶⁷⁹ ὅμως ⁶⁸⁰ ἴσους ⁶⁸¹ τούτους ⁶⁸² ἴσους ⁶⁸³

mvp-comment-297-1 The MS. λαχεῖν ἴσος ⁶⁸⁴ ἴσους ⁶⁸⁵

mvp-comment-298-1 κάτωθεν ⁶⁸⁶ κάτω ’στὶν ⁶⁸⁷

mvp-comment-298-2 εὐαγῆ ⁶⁸⁸

mvp-comment-299-1 οὔτοι συνέχθειν ⁶⁸⁹

mvp-comment-300-1 νυ^ν ⁶⁹⁰

mvp-comment-301-1 καὶ μὴν ⁶⁹¹

mvp-comment-301-2 εἰβομένη ⁶⁹² κάτω ⁶⁹³

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 ⁶⁹⁴

mvp-comment-302-1 νεφέλη δ’ ὀφρύων ὕπερ ⁶⁹⁵

mvp-comment-302-2 αἱματόεν ⁶⁹⁶

mvp-comment-302-3 ῥέθος ⁶⁹⁷

mvp-comment-302-4 αἰσχύνει ⁶⁹⁸

mvp-comment-303-1 σὺ δ’ ⁶⁹⁹ ὑφειμένη ⁷⁰⁰

mvp-comment-303-2 ἔχιδνα ⁷⁰¹

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 ⁷⁰²

mvp-comment-305-1 ἄτα κἀπαναστάσεις ⁷⁰³

mvp-comment-305-2 ἐπαναστάσεις ⁷⁰⁴ θρόνων ⁷⁰⁵

mvp-comment-306-1 τὸ μὴ ⁷⁰⁶

mvp-comment-307-1 ὁμορροθεῖ ⁷⁰⁷

mvp-comment-308-1 τῆς αἰτίας ⁷⁰⁸ ξυμμετίσχω ⁷⁰⁹ φέρω ⁷¹⁰

mvp-comment-309-1 ἀλλ’ οὐκ ἐάσει σ’ ⁷¹¹

mvp-comment-309-2 ’κοινωσάμην ⁷¹²

mvp-comment-310-1 ξύμπλουν ⁷¹³

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

mvp-comment-311-2 λόγοις ⁷¹⁴

mvp-comment-312-1 μή μ’ ἀτιμάσῃς ⁷¹⁵ τὸ μὴ οὐ ⁷¹⁶ ἁγνίσαι τὸν θ ⁷¹⁷

mvp-comment-313-1 μή μοι ⁷¹⁸ κοινά ⁷¹⁹

mvp-comment-313-2 μηδ’ ἃ μὴ ’θιγες ⁷²⁰ ἅ ⁷²¹ ἅ ⁷²²

mvp-comment-314-1 ποιοῦ σεαυτῆς ⁷²³

mvp-comment-314-2 ἀρκέσω ⁷²⁵

mvp-comment-315-1 σοῦ λελειμμένῃ ⁷²⁶

mvp-comment-315-2 φίλος ⁷²⁷

mvp-comment-316-1 κηδεμών ⁷²⁸

mvp-comment-317-1 ἀλγοῦσα μὲν δῆτ’ ⁷²⁹ δῆτα ⁷³⁰

mvp-comment-317-2 ἐν σοί ⁷³¹

mvp-comment-317-3 Heath's εἰ γελῶ γ’ ⁷³²

mvp-comment-318-1 ἀλλὰ νῦν ⁷³³

mvp-comment-319-1 κἀμπλάκω ⁷³⁴

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 ⁷³⁵

mvp-comment-320-2 ζῆν ⁷³⁶

mvp-comment-321-1 ἐπ’ ἀρρήτοις … τοῖς ἐμ. λ. ⁷³⁷

mvp-comment-322-1 σὺ μὲν τοῖς ⁷³⁸

mvp-comment-323-1 καὶ μήν ⁷³⁹

mvp-comment-324-1 θάρσει ⁷⁴⁰

mvp-comment-324-2 ἡ ἐμὴ ψυχή ⁷⁴¹

mvp-comment-324-3 πάλαι ⁷⁴²

mvp-comment-324-4 ὥστε τοῖς θ. ὠφελεῖν ⁷⁴³

mvp-comment-325-1 L gives τὼ παῖδε φημὶ ⁷⁴⁴

mvp-comment-325-2 τὼ παῖδε … τὴν μὲν … τὴν δέ ⁷⁴⁵

mvp-comment-325-3 ἀρτίως ⁷⁴⁶

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 ⁷⁴⁷

mvp-comment-326-3 τοῖς κ. πράσσουσιν ⁷⁴⁸

mvp-comment-326-4 ἐξίσταται ⁷⁴⁹

mvp-comment-327-1 σοὶ γοῦν ⁷⁵⁰

mvp-comment-327-2 κακοῖς ⁷⁵¹

mvp-comment-328-1 τῆσδ’ ἄτερ ⁷⁵² μόνῃ ⁷⁵³

mvp-comment-328-2 βιώσιμον ⁷⁵⁴ τί ⁷⁵⁵

mvp-comment-329-1 ἀλλὰ … μέντοι ⁷⁵⁶

mvp-comment-329-2 ἥδε μὴ λέγε ⁷⁵⁷

mvp-comment-330-1 νυμφεῖα ⁷⁵⁸

mvp-comment-331-1 ἀρώσιμοι ⁷⁵⁹

mvp-comment-332-1 οὐχ ὥς γ’ ⁷⁶⁰ ἡρμοσμένα ἦν ⁷⁶¹

mvp-comment-333-1 υἱέσι ⁷⁶² υἱάσιν ⁷⁶³

mvp-comment-333-2

: cp. Monro Hom. Gr. § 107.—The dat. of interest goes with κακὰς γυναῖκας ⁷⁶⁴ στυγῶ ⁷⁶⁵

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 ⁷⁶⁶

mvp-comment-335-1 ἄγαν γε λυπεῖς ⁷⁶⁷

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 ⁷⁶⁸ ἔφυ ⁷⁶⁹

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 ⁷⁷⁰

mvp-comment-339-1 καὶ σοί γε κἀμοί ⁷⁷¹

mvp-comment-339-2 μὴ τριβάς ⁷⁷²

mvp-comment-339-3 νιν ⁷⁷³

mvp-comment-340-1 ἐκ δὲ τοῦδε ⁷⁷⁴ γυναικας ⁷⁷⁵ ἀνειμένας ⁷⁷⁶

mvp-comment-341-1 χοἱ θρασεῖς ⁷⁷⁷ πέλας ⁷⁷⁸ εἰσορῶσι ⁷⁷⁹

mvp-comment-343-1 κακῶν ἄγευστος ⁷⁸⁰

mvp-comment-344-1 σεισθῇ θεόθεν ⁷⁸¹

mvp-comment-344-2 ἄτας οὐδὲν ἐλλείπει ⁷⁸² ἐλλείπει ⁷⁸³

mvp-comment-344-3 γενεᾶς ἐπὶ πλῆθος ⁷⁸⁴ γενεᾶς ⁷⁸⁵

mvp-comment-345-1 ὅμοιον ⁷⁸⁶

mvp-comment-345-2 ποντίαις ⁷⁸⁷ πνοαῖς ⁷⁸⁸ ὅταν οἶδμα ⁷⁸⁹ ποντίαις δυσπν. Θρ. πνοαῖς ⁷⁹⁰ ἐπιδράμῃ ἔρεβος ὕφαλον ⁷⁹¹ Θρῄσσαισιν ⁷⁹²

mvp-comment-346-1 κελαινὰν θῖνα ⁷⁹³

mvp-comment-346-2 δυσάνεμοι ⁷⁹⁴ δυσάνεμον ⁷⁹⁵

mvp-comment-346-3 στόνῳ βρ.· ⁷⁹⁶

mvp-comment-346-4 ἀντιπλῆγες ⁷⁹⁷ ἀκταί ⁷⁹⁸

mvp-comment-347-1 ἀρχαῖα ⁷⁹⁹

mvp-comment-347-2 ὁρῶμαι ⁸⁰⁰ οἴκων ⁸⁰¹ φθι^τῶν ⁸⁰²

mvp-comment-348-1 ἀπαλλάσσει ⁸⁰³

mvp-comment-348-2 γενεὰν γένος ⁸⁰⁴ ἔχει ⁸⁰⁵

mvp-comment-348-3 λύσιν ⁸⁰⁶

mvp-comment-349-1 νῦν γὰρ ἐσχάτας ⁸⁰⁷ ὃ τέτατο ⁸⁰⁸ ἐτέτατο ⁸⁰⁹ κατ’ αὖ ⁸¹⁰ ὑπέρ ⁸¹¹ ὅπερ ⁸¹² ὃ τέτατο ⁸¹³ νιν ⁸¹⁴ φάος ⁸¹⁵ ἐσχάτη ῥίζα ⁸¹⁶ φάος ⁸¹⁷ νιν ⁸¹⁸ φάος ⁸¹⁹ θάλος ⁸²⁰ τέτατο ⁸²¹ ῥίζας ⁸²²

mvp-comment-350-1 κατ’ αὖ … ἀμᾷ, ⁸²³ κοπίς ⁸²⁴ κόνις ⁸²⁵ κόνις ⁸²⁶

mvp-comment-350-2 (1) If κόνις ⁸²⁷ καταμᾷ ⁸²⁸

mvp-comment-350-3 (2) If we read κοπίς ⁸²⁹

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 ⁸³⁰ φρενῶν ἐρινύς ⁸³¹

mvp-comment-352-1 τεάν ⁸³²

mvp-comment-352-2 δύνα^σιν ⁸³³

mvp-comment-352-3 κατάσχοι ⁸³⁴

mvp-comment-353-1 The MS. παντογήρως ⁸³⁵ παντοθήρας ⁸³⁶ παντόθηρος ⁸³⁷ πάντ’ ἀγρεύων ⁸³⁸

mvp-comment-354-1 The MS. οὔτ’ ἀκάματοι θεῶν ⁸³⁹

mvp-comment-354-2

. Far the best emendation is οὔτε θεῶν ἄκματοι ⁸⁴⁰ θεῶν ⁸⁴¹ θεῶν μῆνες ⁸⁴² θεῶν ⁸⁴³ οὔτε ⁸⁴⁴

mvp-comment-354-3 ἄκματοι ⁸⁴⁵

mvp-comment-355-1 I doubt whether the dat. χρόνῳ ⁸⁴⁶

mvp-comment-355-2 μαρμαρόεσσαν ⁸⁴⁷

mvp-comment-356-1 τό τ’ ἔπειτα ⁸⁴⁸ τὸ μέλλον ⁸⁴⁹

mvp-comment-356-2 καὶ τὸ πρίν ⁸⁵³ ἐπαρκέσει ⁸⁵⁴

mvp-comment-357-1 πάμπολύ γ’ ⁸⁵⁵

mvp-comment-357-2 ἕρπει ⁸⁵⁶ ἕρπειν ⁸⁵⁷ ἕρπει ⁸⁵⁸

mvp-comment-357-3 πάμπολις ⁸⁵⁹

mvp-comment-358-1 ἁ γὰρ δή ⁸⁶⁰ γάρ ⁸⁶¹ πολύπλαγκτος ⁸⁶²

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 ⁸⁶³

mvp-comment-360-1 ἀπάτα … ἐρώτων ⁸⁶⁴

mvp-comment-360-2 κουφονόων ⁸⁶⁵

mvp-comment-361-1 The

, or final frustration of his desires, ἕρπει ⁸⁶⁶ οὐδὲν εἰδότι ⁸⁶⁷

mvp-comment-362-1 πρὶν … προσαύσῃ ⁸⁶⁸

mvp-comment-362-2 προσαύσῃ ⁸⁶⁹

mvp-comment-362-3 πόδα ⁸⁷⁰ προσαύσῃ ⁸⁷¹

mvp-comment-363-1 σοφίᾳ ⁸⁷²

mvp-comment-363-2 ἔκ του ⁸⁷³

mvp-comment-363-3 πεφάνται ⁸⁷⁴

mvp-comment-364-1 τὸ κακὸν δοκεῖν ποτ’ ⁸⁷⁵ ποτέ ⁸⁷⁶

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 ⁸⁷⁷

mvp-comment-365-1 ὀλίγιστον ⁸⁷⁸ ὀλιγοστόν ⁸⁷⁹ πράσσει … ἐκτὸς ἄτας ⁸⁸⁰ ἄτας ⁸⁸¹

mvp-comment-366-1 μήν ⁸⁸²

mvp-comment-366-2 νέατον ⁸⁸³

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 ⁸⁸⁴ μόρον ⁸⁸⁵

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

is a gloss on τάλιδος ⁸⁸⁶ τῆς μελλογάμου ⁸⁸⁷ τῆς μελλογάμου ⁸⁸⁸ τάλιδος ⁸⁸⁹

mvp-comment-368-1 ἀπάτας ⁸⁹⁰ λεχέων ⁸⁹¹

mvp-comment-370-1 μάντεων ὑπέρτερον ⁸⁹²

mvp-comment-371-1 τελείαν ⁸⁹³

mvp-comment-371-2 ψῆφο<*> ⁸⁹⁴

mvp-comment-371-3 ἆρα μή ⁸⁹⁵

mvp-comment-371-4 τῆς μελλονύμφου ⁸⁹⁶

mvp-comment-371-5 λυσσαίνων ⁸⁹⁷ σοὶ μέν ⁸⁹⁸ θυμαίνων ⁸⁹⁹

mvp-comment-372-1 σοὶ μέν ⁹⁰⁰

mvp-comment-372-2 πανταχῇ δρῶντες ⁹⁰¹

mvp-comment-373-1 σός ⁹⁰²

mvp-comment-373-2 γνώμας ἔχων χρηστάς ⁹⁰³ ἀπορθοῖς ⁹⁰⁴ μοι ⁹⁰⁵

mvp-comment-374-1 ἀξιώσεται ⁹⁰⁷ ἀξ. μείζων φέρεσθαι ⁹⁰⁸ ἀξίως ἔσται ⁹⁰⁹

mvp-comment-374-2 σοῦ καλῶς ἡγουμ. ⁹¹⁰ μείζων ⁹¹¹

mvp-comment-375-1 γάρ ⁹¹²

mvp-comment-375-2 διὰ στέρνων ἔχειν ⁹¹³ διά ⁹¹⁴ ἔχειν ⁹¹⁵ οὕτω ⁹¹⁶ ἔχειν ⁹¹⁷

mvp-comment-376-1 (One ought to think thus),—that is, ὄπισθεν ἑστάναι πατρ. γνώμης ⁹¹⁸ πάντα ⁹¹⁹ ἑστάναι ⁹²⁰

mvp-comment-377-1 ὡς ⁹²¹

mvp-comment-377-2 ἀνταμύνωνται ⁹²² κακοῖς ⁹²³

mvp-comment-378-1 ἄλλο ⁹²⁴ φῦσαι ⁹²⁵ πλήν ⁹²⁶ ἄλλο ⁹²⁷ εἴποις ⁹²⁸

mvp-comment-378-2 πόνους ⁹²⁹

mvp-comment-378-3 γέλων ⁹³⁰

mvp-comment-379-1 τὰς φρένας γ’ ⁹³¹ γε ⁹³² φρένας σύ γ’ ἡδονῇ ⁹³³

mvp-comment-379-2 φρένας … ἐκβάλῃς ⁹³⁴

mvp-comment-379-3 ὑφ’ ἡδονῆς ⁹³⁵

mvp-comment-380-1 ψυχρόν ⁹³⁶

mvp-comment-380-2 παραγκάλισμα ⁹³⁷

mvp-comment-381-1 δόμοις ⁹³⁸

mvp-comment-381-2 ἕλκος ⁹³⁹

mvp-comment-381-3 φίλος ⁹⁴⁰

mvp-comment-382-1 πτύσας ⁹⁴¹

mvp-comment-382-2 ὠσεί τε δυσμενῆ ⁹⁴² τε ⁹⁴³

mvp-comment-383-1 νυμφεύειν ⁹⁴⁴

mvp-comment-384-1 ἀπιστήσασαν ⁹⁴⁵ ψευδῆ ⁹⁴⁶

mvp-comment-385-1 κτενῶ ⁹⁴⁷

mvp-comment-385-2 πρὸς ταῦτ ⁹⁴⁸

mvp-comment-385-3 ἐφυμνείτω ⁹⁴⁹

mvp-comment-385-4 Δία ξύναιμον ⁹⁵⁰

mvp-comment-386-1 τά γ’ ἐγγ. φύσει ⁹⁵¹

mvp-comment-386-2 ἄκοσμα ⁹⁵²

mvp-comment-386-3 θρέψω ⁹⁵³

mvp-comment-386-4 κάρτα τοὺς ἔξω γ. ⁹⁵⁴

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 ⁹⁵⁵

mvp-comment-388-2 τοὐπιτάσσειν ⁹⁵⁶

mvp-comment-388-3 νοεῖ ⁹⁵⁷

mvp-comment-389-1 στήσειε ⁹⁵⁸

mvp-comment-389-2 καὶ τἀναντία ⁹⁵⁹

mvp-comment-390-1 τοῦτον … τὸν ἄνδρα ⁹⁶⁰

mvp-comment-390-2 καλῶς...εὖ ⁹⁶¹

mvp-comment-390-3 ἄν ⁹⁶² ἄρχειν ⁹⁶³ θέλειν ⁹⁶⁴

mvp-comment-391-1 δορὸς … χειμῶνι ⁹⁶⁵

mvp-comment-391-2 προστεταγμένον ⁹⁶⁶

mvp-comment-391-3 παραστάτην ⁹⁶⁷

mvp-comment-392-1 πόλεις ὄλλυσιν, ἥδ’ ⁹⁶⁸ πόλεις τ’ … ἥδ’ ⁹⁶⁹

mvp-comment-393-1 συμμάχου ⁹⁷⁰ συμμάχηι ⁹⁷¹ σὺν μάχῃ ⁹⁷²

mvp-comment-393-2 τροπὰς καταρρήγνυσι ⁹⁷³

mvp-comment-393-3 τῶν δ’ ὀρθουμένων ⁹⁷⁴ τὰ πολλὰ σώματα ⁹⁷⁵

mvp-comment-393-4 ἡ πειθαρχία ⁹⁷⁶

mvp-comment-394-1 ἀμυντέ’ ⁹⁷⁷

mvp-comment-394-2 τοῖς κοσμουμένοις ⁹⁷⁸ τοῖς κ. ⁹⁸⁰

mvp-comment-395-1 κοὔτοι … ἡσσητέα ⁹⁸¹

mvp-comment-396-1 δεῖ ⁹⁸² ἐκπεσεῖν ⁹⁸³

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

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

mvp-comment-396-3 κοὐκ ἂν...καλοίμεθ’ ἄν ⁹⁸⁴

mvp-comment-397-1 μέν ⁹⁸⁵

mvp-comment-397-2 τῷ χρόνῳ ⁹⁸⁶

mvp-comment-397-3 κεκλέμμεθα ⁹⁸⁷

mvp-comment-398-1 δοκεῖς λέγειν φρονούντως περὶ ⁹⁸⁸

mvp-comment-399-1 θεοί ⁹⁸⁹

mvp-comment-399-2 κτημάτων ⁹⁹⁰

mvp-comment-400-1 ἐγὼ δ’ ὅπως ⁹⁹¹

mvp-comment-400-2 μὴ ⁹⁹² ὅπως ⁹⁹³ μή ⁹⁹⁴ ὀρθῶς ⁹⁹⁵

mvp-comment-400-3 μήτ’ ἐπισταίμην ⁹⁹⁶

mvp-comment-401-1 καλῶς ἔχον ⁹⁹⁷ γένοιτο ἂν καὶ ἑτέρῳ ⁹⁹⁸

mvp-comment-402-1 σοῦ δ’ οὖν ⁹⁹⁹ σοῦ ¹⁰⁰⁰ σοί ¹⁰⁰¹ σὺ δ’ οὐ πέφυκας ¹⁰⁰² τις ¹⁰⁰³ μῆνίν τιν’ ἢ κότον τιν ¹⁰⁰⁴

mvp-comment-403-1 τὸ γὰρ σόν ¹⁰⁰⁵ ὄμμα ¹⁰⁰⁶

mvp-comment-403-2 δημότῃ ¹⁰⁰⁷

mvp-comment-404-1 λόγοις τοιούτοις ¹⁰⁰⁸ λόγοις τοιούτοις ¹⁰⁰⁹

mvp-comment-404-2 οἷς ¹⁰¹⁰ τέρψει ¹⁰¹¹ κλύων ¹⁰¹² μή ¹⁰¹³ τέρψῃ ¹⁰¹⁴

mvp-comment-405-1 ὑπὸ σκότον ¹⁰¹⁵ ἀκούειν ¹⁰¹⁶ ὀδύρεται ¹⁰¹⁷

mvp-comment-406-1 κάκιστ’ … εὐκλεεστάτων ¹⁰¹⁸

mvp-comment-406-2 ἀπ’ ἔργων ¹⁰¹⁹

mvp-comment-407-1 ἥτις ¹⁰²⁰ μήθ’ … μήθ’ ¹⁰²¹ εἴασε ¹⁰²² ὀλέσθαι ¹⁰²³

mvp-comment-407-2 αὐτάδελφον ¹⁰²⁴

mvp-comment-407-3 ἐνφοναῖς ¹⁰²⁵

mvp-comment-408-1 χρυσῆς ¹⁰²⁶

mvp-comment-408-2 λαχεῖν ¹⁰²⁷ ἀξία ¹⁰²⁸

mvp-comment-409-1 ἐπέρχεται ¹⁰²⁹

mvp-comment-410-1 θάλλοντος ¹⁰³⁰

mvp-comment-410-2 μεῖζον εὐκλείας ¹⁰³¹

mvp-comment-410-3 πρὸς παίδων ¹⁰³² εὐκλεία ¹⁰³³

mvp-comment-411-1 νυν ¹⁰³⁴

mvp-comment-411-2 φόρει ¹⁰³⁵

mvp-comment-411-3 ἦθος ¹⁰³⁶ ὡς φὴς σύ ¹⁰³⁷

mvp-comment-411-4 κοὐδέν ¹⁰³⁸

mvp-comment-411-5 τοῦτο ¹⁰³⁹

mvp-comment-412-1 μόνος ¹⁰⁴⁰ φρονεῖν ¹⁰⁴¹ ψυχήν ¹⁰⁴²

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 ¹⁰⁴³

mvp-comment-413-2 διαπτυχθέντες ¹⁰⁴⁴

mvp-comment-413-3 κενοί ¹⁰⁴⁵

mvp-comment-414-1 ἄνδρα ¹⁰⁴⁶ μανθάνειν ¹⁰⁴⁷ τό ¹⁰⁴⁸

mvp-comment-414-2 κεἰ … ᾖ ¹⁰⁴⁹

mvp-comment-414-3 τείνειν ¹⁰⁵⁰

mvp-comment-414-4 παρὰ ῥείθρ. ¹⁰⁵¹

mvp-comment-414-5 χειμάρροις ¹⁰⁵²

mvp-comment-415-1 ὑπείκει ¹⁰⁵³

mvp-comment-415-2 αὐτόπρεμνα ¹⁰⁵⁴

mvp-comment-416-1 αὔτως ¹⁰⁵⁵

mvp-comment-416-2 ναός ¹⁰⁵⁶

mvp-comment-416-3 ἐγκρατῆ ¹⁰⁵⁷

mvp-comment-416-4 πόδα ¹⁰⁵⁸

mvp-comment-417-1 μηδέν ¹⁰⁵⁹

mvp-comment-417-2 κάτω στρέψας ¹⁰⁶⁰ τὸ πλοῖον ¹⁰⁶¹ τὸ λοιπόν ¹⁰⁶²

mvp-comment-417-3 σέλμασιν ¹⁰⁶³ ὑπτίοις ¹⁰⁶⁴

mvp-comment-418-1 εἶκε θυμοῦ ¹⁰⁶⁵

mvp-comment-418-2 καὶ μετάστασιν δίδου ¹⁰⁶⁶

mvp-comment-418-3 δίδου ¹⁰⁶⁷ εἶκε ¹⁰⁶⁸ καί ¹⁰⁶⁹ καί ¹⁰⁷⁰

mvp-comment-419-1 εἴ τις γνώμη πρόσεστι καὶ ἀπ’ ἐμοῦ ν. ¹⁰⁷¹ καί ¹⁰⁷²

mvp-comment-419-2 πρεσβεύειν ¹⁰⁷³

mvp-comment-420-1 φῦναι ¹⁰⁷⁴

mvp-comment-420-2 πάντ’ ¹⁰⁷⁵

mvp-comment-421-1 εἰ δ’ οὖν ¹⁰⁷⁶ φιλεῖ γάρ ¹⁰⁷⁷

mvp-comment-421-2 τοῦτο … ταύτῃ ¹⁰⁷⁸ ταύτῃ ¹⁰⁷⁹

mvp-comment-421-3 ῥέπειν ¹⁰⁸⁰

mvp-comment-422-1 καὶ τὸ τῶν εὖ λεγόντων μανθάνειν καλόν ¹⁰⁸¹

mvp-comment-423-1 σέ τ’ ¹⁰⁸² διπλᾶι ¹⁰⁸³ διπλᾶ ¹⁰⁸⁴ διπλῇ ¹⁰⁸⁵ διπλᾶ ¹⁰⁸⁶

mvp-comment-423-2 On the other hand, διπλῇ ¹⁰⁸⁷

mvp-comment-424-1 καὶ ¹⁰⁸⁸ διδαξ. ¹⁰⁸⁹

mvp-comment-424-2 δή ¹⁰⁹⁰

mvp-comment-424-3 τὴν φύσιν ¹⁰⁹¹

mvp-comment-425-1 μηδέν ¹⁰⁹² τὸ μὴ δίκ. ¹⁰⁹³

mvp-comment-425-2 τὸν χρόνον ¹⁰⁹⁴ τἄργα ¹⁰⁹⁵

mvp-comment-426-1 ἔργον ¹⁰⁹⁶

mvp-comment-426-2 τοὺς ἀκοσμοῦντας ¹⁰⁹⁷

mvp-comment-426-3 σέβειν ¹⁰⁹⁸

mvp-comment-427-1 οὐδ’ ¹⁰⁹⁹

mvp-comment-428-1 τοιᾷδε … νοσῳ ¹¹⁰⁰

mvp-comment-428-2 ἐπείληπται ¹¹⁰¹

mvp-comment-429-1 Θήβης ¹¹⁰² ὁμόπτολις ¹¹⁰³

mvp-comment-430-1 ἡμῖν ¹¹⁰⁴ ἐμέ ¹¹⁰⁵

mvp-comment-431-1 ὡς ἄγαν νέος ¹¹⁰⁶

mvp-comment-432-1 Dobree's με ¹¹⁰⁷ γε ¹¹⁰⁸ χρή ¹¹⁰⁹ ἄλλῳ ἢ ’μοί ¹¹¹⁰ ἐμοί ¹¹¹¹ χρή γε ¹¹¹²

mvp-comment-433-1 πόλις γὰρ οὐκ ἔσθ’ ¹¹¹³

mvp-comment-433-2

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

mvp-comment-434-1 νομίζεται ¹¹¹⁴

mvp-comment-435-1 καλῶς ἐρήμης γ’ ¹¹¹⁵

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 ¹¹¹⁶ προκήδομαι ¹¹¹⁷

mvp-comment-438-1 ὦ παγκάκιστε ¹¹¹⁸

mvp-comment-438-2 διὰ δίκης ἰὼν πατρί ¹¹¹⁹

mvp-comment-439-1 ἀρχάς ¹¹²⁰

mvp-comment-440-1 οὐ γὰρ σέβεις ¹¹²¹

mvp-comment-440-2 τιμάς ¹¹²²

mvp-comment-441-1 ὦ μιαρόν ¹¹²³ γυναικὸς ὕστερον ¹¹²⁴

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 ¹¹²⁵

mvp-comment-442-3 γε ¹¹²⁶

mvp-comment-443-1 γοῦν ¹¹²⁷

mvp-comment-444-1 καὶ σοῦ γε ¹¹²⁸

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 ¹¹²⁹ ποτέ ¹¹³⁰ ταύτην ¹¹³¹

mvp-comment-446-1 ἥδ’ ¹¹³² ὀλεῖ τινά ¹¹³³

mvp-comment-447-1 ἦ ἐπεξέρχει και ἐπαπειλῶν ὧδε θρασύς; ¹¹³⁴ καί ¹¹³⁵

mvp-comment-448-1 κλαίων ¹¹³⁶

mvp-comment-448-2 φρενώσεις ¹¹³⁷

mvp-comment-449-1 οὐκ εὖ φρονεῖν ¹¹³⁸

mvp-comment-450-1 δούλευμα ¹¹³⁹

mvp-comment-450-2 μὴ κωτιλλέ με ¹¹⁴⁰

mvp-comment-450-3 Cp. Theognis 363

(cajole)' : id. 851 .

mvp-comment-451-1 λέγειν … κλύειν; ¹¹⁴¹ λέγειν τι ¹¹⁴²

mvp-comment-452-1 ἄληθες; ¹¹⁴³

mvp-comment-452-2 οὐ τόνδ’ Ὄλ. ¹¹⁴⁴

mvp-comment-452-3 ἴσθ’ ὅτι ¹¹⁴⁵

mvp-comment-453-1 χαίρων ¹¹⁴⁶

mvp-comment-453-2 ἐπὶ ψόγοισι δεννάσεις ¹¹⁴⁷ ἐπί ¹¹⁴⁸ ἔτι ¹¹⁴⁹

mvp-comment-454-1 ἄγετε ¹¹⁵⁰ ἄγ’ ἄγε ¹¹⁵¹ ἄγαγε ¹¹⁵²

mvp-comment-454-2 τὸ μῖσος ¹¹⁵³

mvp-comment-454-3 κατ’ ὄμματ’ ¹¹⁵⁴

mvp-comment-454-4 παρόντι … πλησία ¹¹⁵⁵

mvp-comment-455-1 ἔμοιγε ¹¹⁵⁶ οὔτε ¹¹⁵⁷ τε ¹¹⁵⁸

mvp-comment-455-2 οὐδαμά ¹¹⁵⁹

mvp-comment-455-3 ἐν ὀφθαλμοῖς ¹¹⁶⁰

mvp-comment-456-1 ὡς ¹¹⁶¹

mvp-comment-456-2 τοῖς θέλουσι ¹¹⁶²

mvp-comment-457-1 ἐξ ὀργῆς ταχύς ¹¹⁶³

mvp-comment-457-2 βαρύς ¹¹⁶⁴

mvp-comment-458-1 μεῖζον ἢ κατ’ ἄνδρα ¹¹⁶⁵

mvp-comment-458-2 ἰών ¹¹⁶⁶

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 ¹¹⁶⁷

mvp-comment-459-2 τὼ … τώδε ¹¹⁶⁸

mvp-comment-459-3 καί ¹¹⁶⁹ κατακτ. νοεῖς ¹¹⁷⁰ κατακτ ¹¹⁷¹

mvp-comment-460-1 θιγοῦσαν ¹¹⁷²

mvp-comment-460-2 γὰρ οὖν ¹¹⁷³

mvp-comment-461-1 καί ¹¹⁷⁴ βουλεύει ¹¹⁷⁵

mvp-comment-461-2 σφε ¹¹⁷⁶

mvp-comment-462-1 ἔνθα ¹¹⁷⁷

mvp-comment-463-1 πετρώδει … ἐν κατώρυχι ¹¹⁷⁸

mvp-comment-464-1 ὡς ἄγος μόνον ¹¹⁷⁹ ὡς ¹¹⁸⁰ ὅσον ¹¹⁸¹

mvp-comment-464-2 ἄγος ¹¹⁸²

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’ ¹¹⁸³

mvp-comment-466-1 ὃν μόνον σέβει ¹¹⁸⁴

mvp-comment-466-2

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

mvp-comment-467-1 τὸ μὴ θανεῖν ¹¹⁸⁵ τεύξεται ¹¹⁸⁶

mvp-comment-468-1 ἀλλὰ τηνικαῦτα ¹¹⁸⁷ τἀν ¹¹⁸⁸

mvp-comment-470-1 ἀνίκατε μάχαν ¹¹⁸⁹

mvp-comment-471-1 ἐν κτήμασι πίπτεις, ¹¹⁹⁰

mvp-comment-472-1 ἐν μαλακαῖς παρειαῖς ¹¹⁹¹

mvp-comment-472-2 ἐννυχεύεις ¹¹⁹²

mvp-comment-473-1 ὑπερπόντιος ¹¹⁹³

mvp-comment-473-2 ἔν τ’ ἀγρ. αὐλαῖς ¹¹⁹⁴

mvp-comment-474-1 οὔτ’ ἀθανάτων ¹¹⁹⁵

mvp-comment-474-2 σὲ … φύξιμός ἐστι ¹¹⁹⁶

mvp-comment-475-1 σέ γ’ ¹¹⁹⁷

mvp-comment-475-2 ὁ δ’ ἔχων ¹¹⁹⁸

mvp-comment-476-1 ἀδίκους ¹¹⁹⁹ παρασπᾷς ¹²⁰⁰

mvp-comment-477-1 ξύναιμον ¹²⁰¹

mvp-comment-477-2 ἔχεις ¹²⁰²

mvp-comment-477-3 ταράξας ¹²⁰³

mvp-comment-478-1 ἐναργής ¹²⁰⁴

mvp-comment-478-2 βλεφάρωνἵμερος ¹²⁰⁵ εὐλέκτρου νύμφας ¹²⁰⁶

mvp-comment-478-3 εὐλέκτρου ¹²⁰⁷

mvp-comment-479-1 πάρεδρος ἐν ἀρχαῖς ¹²⁰⁸ πάρεδρος ¹²⁰⁹ ἐν ἀρχαῖς ¹²¹⁰

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 ¹²¹¹

mvp-comment-480-1 ἐμπαίζει ¹²¹² νικᾷ ¹²¹³

mvp-comment-481-1 καὐτὸς θεσμῶν ἔξω ¹²¹⁴

mvp-comment-481-2 φέρομαι ¹²¹⁵

mvp-comment-481-3 ἴσχειν δ’ ¹²¹⁶

mvp-comment-482-1 πηγάς ¹²¹⁷

mvp-comment-483-1 παγκοίτην ¹²¹⁸

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 ¹²¹⁹

mvp-comment-483-3 ἀνύτουσαν ¹²²⁰

mvp-comment-485-1 νεάταν … νέατον δέ ¹²²¹

mvp-comment-485-2 νέατον ¹²²²

mvp-comment-485-3 κοὔποτ’ αὖθις ¹²²³

mvp-comment-486-1 παγκοίτας ¹²²⁴ πάγκοινος ¹²²⁵

mvp-comment-487-1 ἄγει … ἀκτάν ¹²²⁶

mvp-comment-488-1 οὔθ’ ὑμεναίων … οὔτ’ ἐπινύμφειος … ὕμνος ¹²²⁷

mvp-comment-488-2 οὔτε … ἔγκληρον, … οὔτε … ὕμνησεν ¹²²⁹

mvp-comment-488-3 ἐπινύμφειος ¹²³⁰ ἐπινυμφίδιος ¹²³¹ ἐπὶ νυμφείοις ¹²³² ἐπινυμφίδιος ¹²³³

mvp-comment-489-1 Ἀχέροντι νυμφεύσω ¹²³⁴

mvp-comment-490-1 ξιφέων ¹²³⁵ ἐπίχειρα ¹²³⁶

mvp-comment-491-1 αὐτόνομος ¹²³⁷

mvp-comment-491-2 δή ¹²³⁸ μόνη ¹²³⁹ Ἀΐδην ¹²⁴⁰ Ἅιδην ¹²⁴¹

mvp-comment-492-1 ἤκουσα δή ¹²⁴²

mvp-comment-492-2 λυγροτάταν ¹²⁴³

mvp-comment-492-3 ξέναν ¹²⁴⁴

mvp-comment-493-1 Ταντάλου ¹²⁴⁵

mvp-comment-493-2 Σιπύλῳ ¹²⁴⁶

mvp-comment-494-1 ἀτενής ¹²⁴⁷

mvp-comment-494-2 πετραία βλάστα δάμασεν ¹²⁴⁸ αι^ ¹²⁴⁹

mvp-comment-495-1 καί νιν ὄμρροι ¹²⁵⁰ τέγγει δ’ ¹²⁵¹ ὄμβρῳ ¹²⁵² τακομέναν ¹²⁵³ τέγγει … δειράδας ¹²⁵⁴ ὄμβροι ¹²⁵⁵ ὄμβρῳ ¹²⁵⁶

mvp-comment-495-2 χιών ¹²⁵⁷

mvp-comment-495-3 οὐδαμά ¹²⁵⁸

mvp-comment-496-1 τέγγει δ’ ὑπ’ ὀφρύσι … δειράδας ¹²⁵⁹

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 ¹²⁶⁰

mvp-comment-498-1 ἀλλὰ … θανοῦσαν ¹²⁶¹ καίτοι ¹²⁶² ζῶσαν ¹²⁶³ θανοῦσαν ¹²⁶⁴ οἴμοι γελῶμαι ¹²⁶⁵

mvp-comment-498-2 θεός ¹²⁶⁶

mvp-comment-498-3 θεογεννής ¹²⁶⁷ θειογενής ¹²⁶⁸

mvp-comment-499-1 καίτοι ¹²⁶⁹ φθιμένῃ ¹²⁷⁰

mvp-comment-499-2 κἀκοῦσαι ¹²⁷¹ μέγ’ ἀκοῦσαι ¹²⁷²

mvp-comment-500-1 τοῖς ἰσοθέοις σύγκληρα ¹²⁷³ ἔγκληρα ¹²⁷⁴

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 ¹²⁷⁵ τοῖσι θεοῖσιν ¹²⁷⁶ ι— ¹²⁷⁷ α— ¹²⁷⁸ τοῖς ἰσοθέοις ἔγκληρα ¹²⁷⁹

mvp-comment-501-1 ζῶσαν … θανοῦσαν ¹²⁸⁰

mvp-comment-502-1 γελῶμαι ¹²⁸¹

mvp-comment-503-1 πολυκτήμονες ¹²⁸²

mvp-comment-504-1 κρῆναι ¹²⁸³

mvp-comment-504-2 εὐαρμάτου ¹²⁸⁴

mvp-comment-504-3 ἄλσος ¹²⁸⁵

mvp-comment-504-4 ἔμπας ¹²⁸⁶

mvp-comment-505-1 ὔμμ’ ¹²⁸⁷

mvp-comment-505-2 ἐπικτῶμαι ¹²⁸⁸ ἐπί ¹²⁸⁹

mvp-comment-506-1 οἵα ¹²⁹⁰

mvp-comment-506-2 φίλων ἄκλαυτος ¹²⁹¹

mvp-comment-507-1 ἕργμα τυμβόχωστον ¹²⁹² ἕρμα ¹²⁹³

mvp-comment-508-1 ποταινίου ¹²⁹⁴

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 ¹²⁹⁵ οὔτε ¹²⁹⁶ κυροῦσα ¹²⁹⁷ νεκροῖς ¹²⁹⁸

mvp-comment-510-1 μέτοικος ¹²⁹⁹

mvp-comment-511-1 προβᾶσ’ … πολύ ¹³⁰⁰ προσέπεσες ¹³⁰¹

mvp-comment-511-2 πολύ ¹³⁰² ἐσχάτου ¹³⁰³ προσέπεσες ¹³⁰⁴

mvp-comment-512-1 πατρῷόν τινα … ἆθλον ¹³⁰⁵ τινά ¹³⁰⁶

mvp-comment-512-2 ἐκτίνεις ¹³⁰⁷

mvp-comment-513-1 μερίμνας ¹³⁰⁸ οἶκτον ¹³⁰⁹ πατρός ¹³¹⁰ πότμου ¹³¹¹ οἶκτον ¹³¹²

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 ¹³¹³ οἶτον ¹³¹⁴

mvp-comment-513-4 τριπόλιστον ¹³¹⁵

mvp-comment-513-5 κλεινοῖς Λαβδακίδαισιν ¹³¹⁶ πότμου ¹³¹⁷

mvp-comment-513-6 ἁμετέρου ¹³¹⁸

mvp-comment-514-1 ματρῷαι λέκτρων ἆται ¹³¹⁹ πατρῷαι ¹³²⁰

mvp-comment-514-2

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

mvp-comment-515-1 κοιμήματα . . αὐτογέννητα . . ματρός ¹³²¹

mvp-comment-515-2 ἐμῷ πατρί ¹³²²

mvp-comment-515-3 δυσμόρου ¹³²³

mvp-comment-516-1 οἵων ¹³²⁴ ποτέ ¹³²⁵ οἵων ¹³²⁶ ποτέ ¹³²⁷ οὕς ¹³²⁸ οἵων ¹³²⁹ ματρός.—ἀραῖος ¹³³⁰

mvp-comment-516-2 μέτοικος ¹³³¹

mvp-comment-517-1 κασίγνητε ¹³³²

mvp-comment-518-1 θανὼν ἔτ’ οὖσαν ¹³³³

mvp-comment-518-2 κατήναρες ¹³³⁴

mvp-comment-519-1 σέβειν ¹³³⁵

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 ¹³³⁶

mvp-comment-520-1 κράτος δὲ ¹³³⁷ ὅτῳ ¹³³⁸

mvp-comment-520-2 οὐδαμᾷ ¹³³⁹ μέλει ¹³⁴⁰

mvp-comment-521-1 αὐτόγνωτος ¹³⁴¹ αὐτὴ γιγνώσκουσα ¹³⁴²

mvp-comment-521-2 ὀργά ¹³⁴³

mvp-comment-522-1 ἑτοίμαν ¹³⁴⁴

mvp-comment-523-1 τόδε λ. ἱρὸν ὄμμα ¹³⁴⁵

mvp-comment-524-1 ἀδάκρυτον ¹³⁴⁶

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 ¹³⁴⁷ λέγειν ¹³⁴⁸ ἀοιδὰς καὶ γόους ¹³⁴⁹ ἴστε ¹³⁵⁰

mvp-comment-525-2 οὐδ’ ἂν εἷς ¹³⁵¹

mvp-comment-526-1 οὐκ ἄξεθ’ ¹³⁵² τάχιστα.—κατηρεφεῖ ¹³⁵³

mvp-comment-527-1 περιπτύξαντες ¹³⁵⁴

mvp-comment-528-1 χρῇ ¹³⁵⁵ ζῶσα ¹³⁵⁶ χρῇ ¹³⁵⁷

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 ¹³⁵⁸ νυμφεύειν ¹³⁵⁹

mvp-comment-529-2 στέγῃ ¹³⁶⁰

mvp-comment-530-1 ἁγνοί ¹³⁶¹

mvp-comment-530-2 τοὐπὶ τήνδε ¹³⁶²

mvp-comment-531-1 μετοικίας ¹³⁶³

mvp-comment-531-2 δ’ οὖν ¹³⁶⁴

mvp-comment-531-3 στερήσεται ¹³⁶⁵

mvp-comment-532-1 ὦ τύμβος ¹³⁶⁶

mvp-comment-532-2 νυμφεῖον ¹³⁶⁷

mvp-comment-532-3 κατασκαφής ¹³⁶⁸

mvp-comment-533-1 ἀριθμὸν … πλεϊστον ¹³⁶⁹

mvp-comment-533-2 ἐν νεκροῖς ¹³⁷⁰ δέδεκται ¹³⁷¹

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 ¹³⁷² Φ ¹³⁷³

mvp-comment-534-1 κάκιστα ¹³⁷⁴ δή ¹³⁷⁵

mvp-comment-534-2 μοῖραν … βίου ¹³⁷⁶ ἐξήκειν ¹³⁷⁷

mvp-comment-535-1 ἐν ἐλπίσιν τρέφω ¹³⁷⁸ φίλη μὲν … προσφιλὴς δέ ¹³⁷⁹

mvp-comment-536-1 κασίγνητον κάρα ¹³⁸⁰ νῦν δέ ¹³⁸¹

mvp-comment-537-1 ὑμᾶς ¹³⁸²

mvp-comment-537-2 ἔλουσα κἀκόσμησα ¹³⁸³

mvp-comment-537-3 χοάς ¹³⁸⁴

mvp-comment-537-4 περιστέλλουσα ¹³⁸⁵

mvp-comment-537-5 δέμας ¹³⁸⁶

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 ¹³⁸⁷ εὖ ¹³⁸⁸ τοῖς φρονοῦσιν ¹³⁸⁹

mvp-comment-539-1 ἐτήκετο ¹³⁹⁰

mvp-comment-540-1 βίᾳ πολιτῶν ¹³⁹¹

mvp-comment-541-1 πρὸς χάριν ¹³⁹²

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 ¹³⁹³ πόσις ¹³⁹⁴ ἀπ’ ἄλλου φωτός ¹³⁹⁵

mvp-comment-543-1 ἐκπροτιμήσασ’ ¹³⁹⁶

mvp-comment-544-1 διὰ χερῶν … λαβών ¹³⁹⁷

mvp-comment-545-1 ἀνυμέναιον ¹³⁹⁸

mvp-comment-546-1 ἀλλ’ ¹³⁹⁹

mvp-comment-546-2 πρὸς φίλων ¹⁴⁰⁰ ἔρημος ¹⁴⁰¹

mvp-comment-547-1 δαιμόνων δίκην ¹⁴⁰²

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 ¹⁴⁰³

mvp-comment-548-3 τίνα … ξυμμάχων ¹⁴⁰⁴

mvp-comment-548-4 ἐπεί γε δή ¹⁴⁰⁵

mvp-comment-548-5 τὴν δυσσέβειαν ¹⁴⁰⁶

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 ¹⁴⁰⁷

mvp-comment-549-3 ἐν θεοῖς ¹⁴⁰⁸

mvp-comment-549-4 ξυγγνοῖμεν ¹⁴⁰⁹

mvp-comment-549-5 ἡμαρτηκότες ¹⁴¹⁰ παθόντες ¹⁴¹¹

mvp-comment-550-1 οἵδε ¹⁴¹²

mvp-comment-550-2 μὴ πλείω ¹⁴¹³ μείω ¹⁴¹⁴

mvp-comment-551-1 ἀνέμων‐ῥιπαὶ ψυχῆς ¹⁴¹⁵

mvp-comment-552-1 τούτων ¹⁴¹⁶

mvp-comment-552-2 κλαύμαθ’ ¹⁴¹⁷

mvp-comment-552-3 ὕπερ ¹⁴¹⁸

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 ¹⁴¹⁹

mvp-comment-554-2 the doom is not to be ratified on this wise’ (i.e., by death). μὴ οὐ ¹⁴²⁰

mvp-comment-554-3 κατακυροῦσθαι ¹⁴²¹

mvp-comment-554-4 ταύτῃ ¹⁴²² τάδε ¹⁴²³

mvp-comment-555-1 θεοὶ προγενεῖς ¹⁴²⁴

mvp-comment-556-1 δή ¹⁴²⁵

mvp-comment-556-2 κοὐκέτι μέλλω ¹⁴²⁶

mvp-comment-557-1 οἱ κοιρανίδαι ¹⁴²⁷

mvp-comment-558-1 βασιλειδᾶν ¹⁴²⁸ βασιλίδα ¹⁴²⁹

mvp-comment-558-2 μούνην ¹⁴³⁰

mvp-comment-559-1 εὐσεβίαν ¹⁴³¹ ια ¹⁴³² εια ¹⁴³³

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 ¹⁴³⁴

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 ¹⁴³⁵ ἔτλα καί ¹⁴³⁶

mvp-comment-561-3 δέμας ¹⁴³⁷

mvp-comment-561-4 χαλκοδέτοις αὐλαῖς ¹⁴³⁸

mvp-comment-562-1 τυμβήρει ¹⁴³⁹

mvp-comment-562-2 κατεζεύχθη ¹⁴⁴⁰

mvp-comment-563-1 τίμιος ¹⁴⁴¹

mvp-comment-564-1 ταμιεύεσκε ¹⁴⁴²

mvp-comment-564-2 χρυσορύτους ¹⁴⁴³

mvp-comment-565-1 ἁ μοιριδία τις ¹⁴⁴⁴ τις ¹⁴⁴⁵

mvp-comment-566-1 οὔτ’ … ὄλβος ¹⁴⁴⁶

mvp-comment-566-2

mvp-comment-566-3 πύργος ¹⁴⁴⁷

mvp-comment-566-4 οὔτ’ … οὔτ’ ¹⁴⁴⁸ οὐ … οὐχ ¹⁴⁴⁹

mvp-comment-567-1 ζεύχθη ¹⁴⁵⁰

mvp-comment-567-2 ὀξύχολος ¹⁴⁵¹

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 ¹⁴⁵² ὀργαῖς ¹⁴⁵³ κερτομίοις ¹⁴⁵⁴

mvp-comment-569-1 ἐκ Διονύσου ¹⁴⁵⁵

mvp-comment-569-2 πετρώδει … δεσμῷ ¹⁴⁵⁶

mvp-comment-569-3 κατάφαρκτος ¹⁴⁵⁷

mvp-comment-570-1 οὕτω ¹⁴⁵⁸

mvp-comment-570-2 ἀνθηρόν ¹⁴⁵⁹

mvp-comment-570-3 ἀποστάζει ¹⁴⁶⁰

mvp-comment-571-1 ἐπέγνω τὸν θεόν, μανίαις ψαύων ¹⁴⁶¹

mvp-comment-571-2 μανίαις ¹⁴⁶²

mvp-comment-571-3 ψαύων ¹⁴⁶³

mvp-comment-571-4 ἐν ¹⁴⁶⁴

mvp-comment-571-5 γλώσσαις ¹⁴⁶⁵

mvp-comment-572-1 παύεσκε ¹⁴⁶⁶

mvp-comment-572-2 ἐνθέους γυναῖκας ¹⁴⁶⁷

mvp-comment-572-3 εὔιον … πῦρ ¹⁴⁶⁸

mvp-comment-573-1 Μούσας ¹⁴⁶⁹

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 ¹⁴⁷⁰ πετρῶν ¹⁴⁷¹

mvp-comment-574-6 of

into is also erroneous.

mvp-comment-574-7 L's accent, πελάγεων ¹⁴⁷² πελάγει ¹⁴⁷³ παρά ¹⁴⁷⁴ πελάγει ¹⁴⁷⁵ Κυανεᾶν ¹⁴⁷⁶

mvp-comment-575-1 ἀκταὶ Βοσπόριαι ¹⁴⁷⁷ Θρῃκῶν ¹⁴⁷⁸ ἄξενος ¹⁴⁷⁹ κλῄζεται ¹⁴⁸⁰ ἠδ’ ¹⁴⁸¹

mvp-comment-576-1 ἀγχίπολις Ἄρης ¹⁴⁸² ἀγχίπτολις ¹⁴⁸³ Ἄρης ¹⁴⁸⁴ ἀρχαιογόνων ¹⁴⁸⁵

mvp-comment-577-1 Φινεΐδαις ¹⁴⁸⁶

mvp-comment-577-2 ἀρατόν ¹⁴⁸⁷

mvp-comment-577-3 ἕλκος τυφλωθέν ¹⁴⁸⁸

mvp-comment-577-4 ἐξ ¹⁴⁸⁹

mvp-comment-578-1 ἀλαὸν … κύκλοις ¹⁴⁹⁰

mvp-comment-578-2 ἀλαστόροισιν ¹⁴⁹¹

mvp-comment-579-1 ἀραχθέντων ¹⁴⁹²

mvp-comment-579-2 ὑπό ¹⁴⁹³

mvp-comment-580-1 κερκίδων ¹⁴⁹⁴

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 ¹⁴⁹⁵

mvp-comment-581-2 μέλεοι μελέαν ¹⁴⁹⁶

mvp-comment-582-1 ματρὸς ἔχοντες ἀν. γονάν ¹⁴⁹⁷ γονάν ¹⁴⁹⁸ ματρός ¹⁴⁹⁹ ἀνύμφ. ¹⁵⁰⁰ ματρός ¹⁵⁰¹ πάθαν ¹⁵⁰² ματρὸς … γονάν ¹⁵⁰³

mvp-comment-583-1 σπέρμα ¹⁵⁰⁴

mvp-comment-583-2 ἀρχαιογ. ¹⁵⁰⁵

mvp-comment-583-3 ἄντασ’ Ἐρ. ¹⁵⁰⁶

mvp-comment-584-1 τηλεπόροις ¹⁵⁰⁷

mvp-comment-585-1 ἅμιππος ¹⁵⁰⁸

mvp-comment-585-2 ὀρθόποδος ¹⁵⁰⁹

mvp-comment-586-1 κἀπ’ ἐκείνᾳ … ἔσχον ¹⁵¹⁰ μακραίωνες ¹⁵¹¹

mvp-comment-588-1 ἄνακτες ¹⁵¹²

mvp-comment-589-1 αὕτη κ. ¹⁵¹³ πέλει ¹⁵¹⁴

mvp-comment-590-1 τί δ’ ἔστιν ¹⁵¹⁵

mvp-comment-591-1 οὔκουν … γε ¹⁵¹⁶

mvp-comment-591-2 δῑ ὀρθῆς ¹⁵¹⁷

mvp-comment-591-3 ἐναυκλήρεις ¹⁵¹⁸

mvp-comment-592-1 πεπονθὼς ὀνήσιμα, ἔχω μαρτυρεῖν ¹⁵¹⁹

mvp-comment-593-1 φρόνει βεβώς ¹⁵²⁰

mvp-comment-593-2 τύχης ¹⁵²¹

mvp-comment-594-1 ὡς ¹⁵²²

mvp-comment-595-1 θᾶκον ¹⁵²³

mvp-comment-595-2 λιμήν ¹⁵²⁴

mvp-comment-596-1 κακῷ ¹⁵²⁵

mvp-comment-596-2 οἴστρῳ ¹⁵²⁶

mvp-comment-596-3 κλάζοντας ¹⁵²⁷

mvp-comment-596-4 βεβαρβαρωμένῳ ¹⁵²⁸

mvp-comment-597-1 ἐν χηλαῖσιν ¹⁵²⁹ φοναῖς ¹⁵³⁰

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 ¹⁵³¹

mvp-comment-598-3 ἐγευόμην ¹⁵³²

mvp-comment-599-1 παμφλέκτοισι ¹⁵³³ θυμάτων ¹⁵³⁴

mvp-comment-600-1 Ἥφαιστος ¹⁵³⁵

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 ¹⁵³⁶

mvp-comment-601-3 κηκὶς μηρίων ¹⁵³⁷

mvp-comment-601-4 ἐτήκετο ¹⁵³⁸ ἐπὶ σποδῷ ¹⁵³⁹

mvp-comment-601-5 ἀνέπτυε ¹⁵⁴⁰

mvp-comment-602-1 χολαί ¹⁵⁴¹

mvp-comment-602-2 καταρρυεῖς ¹⁵⁴²

mvp-comment-603-1 μηροί … μηρίων ¹⁵⁴³

mvp-comment-603-2 καλυπτῆς ¹⁵⁴⁴

mvp-comment-603-3 πιμελῆς ¹⁵⁴⁵ ἐξέκειντο ¹⁵⁴⁶

mvp-comment-604-1 τοιαῦτα ¹⁵⁴⁷

mvp-comment-604-2 ὀργίων μαντεύματα ¹⁵⁴⁸ φθίνοντα ¹⁵⁴⁹

mvp-comment-604-3 ἀσήμων ¹⁵⁵⁰

mvp-comment-605-1 ἡγεμών ¹⁵⁵¹

mvp-comment-606-1 ἐκ ¹⁵⁵²

mvp-comment-606-2 φρενός ¹⁵⁵³

mvp-comment-606-3 νοσεῖ ¹⁵⁵⁴

mvp-comment-607-1 βωμοί ¹⁵⁵⁵

mvp-comment-607-2 ἐσχάραι ¹⁵⁵⁶

mvp-comment-607-3 παντελεῖς ¹⁵⁵⁷

mvp-comment-608-1 πλήρεις ¹⁵⁵⁸ ὑπ’ οἰων. κ. κυνῶν ¹⁵⁵⁹ βορᾶς τοῦ...Οἰδ. γόνου ¹⁵⁶⁰ γόνου ¹⁵⁶¹ δυσμόρου ¹⁵⁶² πεπτῶτος ¹⁵⁶³ τοῦ … γόνου ¹⁵⁶⁴ βορᾶς ¹⁵⁶⁵ τοῦ … γόνου ¹⁵⁶⁶

mvp-comment-609-1 κᾆτ’ ¹⁵⁶⁷

mvp-comment-609-2 θυστάδας ¹⁵⁶⁸

mvp-comment-610-1 ὅρνι^ς ¹⁵⁶⁹

mvp-comment-610-2 εὐσήμους ¹⁵⁷⁰

mvp-comment-610-3 βεβρῶτες ¹⁵⁷¹

mvp-comment-610-4 ἀνδροφθόρου ¹⁵⁷²

mvp-comment-611-1 ἐπεί ¹⁵⁷³

mvp-comment-611-2 ἄνολβος ¹⁵⁷⁴

mvp-comment-612-1 ἀκεῖται ¹⁵⁷⁵

mvp-comment-612-2 ἀκίνητος ¹⁵⁷⁶

mvp-comment-613-1 αὐθαδία ¹⁵⁷⁷ ὀφλισκάνει ¹⁵⁷⁸

mvp-comment-614-1 εἶκε τῷ θανόντι ¹⁵⁷⁹

mvp-comment-614-2 κέντει ¹⁵⁸⁰

mvp-comment-615-1 ἐπικτανεῖν ¹⁵⁸¹

mvp-comment-616-1 εὖ φρονήσας ¹⁵⁸²

mvp-comment-616-2 μανθάνειν δ ¹⁵⁸³

mvp-comment-616-3 εἰ … λέγοι ¹⁵⁸⁴ ἥδιστον ¹⁵⁸⁵

mvp-comment-617-1 ὥστε ¹⁵⁸⁶ σκοποῦ ¹⁵⁸⁷

mvp-comment-618-1 κοὐδὲ μαντικῆς ¹⁵⁸⁸ ἄπρακτος ¹⁵⁸⁹ μαντικῆς ¹⁵⁹⁰ α ¹⁵⁹¹ μαντικῇ ¹⁵⁹² ἄπρατος ¹⁵⁹³

mvp-comment-618-2 τῶν δ’ ὑπαὶ γένους ¹⁵⁹⁴ τῶν ¹⁵⁹⁵

mvp-comment-618-3 refer to ὑμῖν ¹⁵⁹⁶ μαντικῆς ¹⁵⁹⁷ μαντικοῖς ¹⁵⁹⁸

mvp-comment-618-4 ὑπαί ¹⁵⁹⁹

mvp-comment-618-5 γένους ¹⁶⁰⁰

mvp-comment-619-1 ἐξημπόλημαι ¹⁶⁰¹ ἐμπεφόρτισμαι ¹⁶⁰² ἐκπεφόρτισμαι ¹⁶⁰³

mvp-comment-620-1 τἀπὸ Σάρδεων ἤλεκτρον ¹⁶⁰⁴

mvp-comment-620-2 τἀπὸ ¹⁶⁰⁵

mvp-comment-620-3 Ἰνδικὸν χρυσόν ¹⁶⁰⁶

mvp-comment-621-1 οἱ Ζηνὸς αἰετοί ¹⁶⁰⁷

mvp-comment-622-1 οὐδ’ ὥς ¹⁶⁰⁸

mvp-comment-623-1 θεοὺς μιαίνειν ¹⁶⁰⁹

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 ¹⁶¹⁰

mvp-comment-625-1 καλῶς ¹⁶¹¹

mvp-comment-626-1 ἆρ’ οἶδεν ¹⁶¹²

mvp-comment-627-1 τί χρῆμα ¹⁶¹³

mvp-comment-627-2 πάγκοινον ¹⁶¹⁴

mvp-comment-628-1 κτημάτων ¹⁶¹⁵

mvp-comment-628-2 ὅσῳπερ ¹⁶¹⁶ μὴ φρονεῖν ¹⁶¹⁷

mvp-comment-629-1 νόσου ¹⁶¹⁸ πλήρης ¹⁶¹⁹

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 ¹⁶²⁰ λέγεις ¹⁶²¹

mvp-comment-632-1 γένος ¹⁶²²

mvp-comment-633-1 τὸ δ’ ἐκ τυράννων ¹⁶²³ ἐκ ¹⁶²⁴

mvp-comment-633-2 αἰσχροκέρδειαν ¹⁶²⁵

mvp-comment-634-1 ἆρ’ οἶσθα ¹⁶²⁶ ἃ ἂν λέγῃς ¹⁶²⁷ ταγούς ¹⁶²⁸

mvp-comment-635-1 ἐξ ἐμοῦ ¹⁶²⁹

mvp-comment-635-2 ἔχεις σώσας ¹⁶³⁰

mvp-comment-636-1 τἀκίνητα διὰ φρενῶν ¹⁶³¹

mvp-comment-637-1 κίνει ¹⁶³²

mvp-comment-637-2 μόνον δέ ¹⁶³³

mvp-comment-637-3 ἐπὶ κέρδεσιν ¹⁶³⁴

mvp-comment-638-1 οὕτω γὰρ ἤδη ¹⁶³⁵ τὸ σὸν μέρος ¹⁶³⁶ καί ¹⁶³⁷

mvp-comment-639-1 ἴσθι ὡς μὴ ἐμπ. ¹⁶³⁸ ὡς ¹⁶³⁹

mvp-comment-639-2 φρένα ¹⁶⁴⁰

mvp-comment-640-1 ἀλλ’ εὺ= γέ τοι ¹⁶⁴¹

mvp-comment-640-2 μη … τελῶν ¹⁶⁴² ἥλιον τελεῖν ¹⁶⁴³ κάτισθι ¹⁶⁴⁴ τελῶν ¹⁶⁴⁵

mvp-comment-640-3 τρόχους ¹⁶⁴⁶ τροχους ¹⁶⁴⁷

mvp-comment-640-4 ἁμιλλητῆρας ¹⁶⁴⁸

mvp-comment-641-1 ἐν οἷσι ¹⁶⁴⁹

mvp-comment-641-2 τῶν σῶν … ἐκ σπλάγχνων ἕνα ¹⁶⁵⁰

mvp-comment-642-1 νέκυν νεκρῶν ¹⁶⁵¹ ἀντιδοὺς ἔσει ¹⁶⁵²

mvp-comment-643-1 ἀνθ’ ὧν ¹⁶⁵³

mvp-comment-643-2 ἔχεις βαλὼν κάτω τῶν ἄνω ¹⁶⁵⁴

mvp-comment-644-1 Bothe, omitting τε ¹⁶⁵⁵ ψυχήν ¹⁶⁵⁶ τῶν ἄνω ¹⁶⁵⁷ τῶν ἄνω ¹⁶⁵⁸ τῶν ἄνω … ψυχήν ¹⁶⁵⁹ ψυχήν τ’ … κατῴκισας ¹⁶⁶⁰ ἀνθ’ ὧν ¹⁶⁶¹ τῶν ἄνω ¹⁶⁶²

mvp-comment-644-2 ἀτίμως ¹⁶⁶³

mvp-comment-645-1 ἔχεις δέ ¹⁶⁶⁴ τῶν κάτωθεν θεῶν ¹⁶⁶⁵ νέκυν ¹⁶⁶⁶

mvp-comment-645-2 ἄμοιρον ¹⁶⁶⁷

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 ¹⁶⁶⁸

mvp-comment-645-5 ἀνόσιον ¹⁶⁶⁹

mvp-comment-646-1 ὧν ¹⁶⁷⁰

mvp-comment-646-2 βιάζονται ¹⁶⁷¹

mvp-comment-647-1 τούτων ¹⁶⁷²

mvp-comment-647-2 λωβητῆρες ¹⁶⁷³

mvp-comment-647-3 ὑστεροφθόροι ¹⁶⁷⁴

mvp-comment-648-1 λοχῶσιν ¹⁶⁷⁵

mvp-comment-648-2 Ἅιδου καὶ θεῶν ¹⁶⁷⁶

mvp-comment-648-3 ληφθῆναι ¹⁶⁷⁷

mvp-comment-649-1 κατηργ. ¹⁶⁷⁸ οὐ μακρ. χρόν. τριβή ¹⁶⁷⁹ φανεῖ ¹⁶⁸⁰

mvp-comment-650-1 The πόλεις ¹⁶⁸¹ συνταράσσονται ¹⁶⁸²

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 ¹⁶⁸³ ὅσων ¹⁶⁸⁴

mvp-comment-651-2 L's καθήγνισαν ¹⁶⁸⁵ καθήγισαν ¹⁶⁸⁶ καθήγνισαν ¹⁶⁸⁷ καθήγισαν ¹⁶⁸⁸

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 ¹⁶⁸⁹

mvp-comment-653-1 σου ¹⁶⁹⁰ ἀφῆκα ¹⁶⁹¹

mvp-comment-653-2 θυμῷ ¹⁶⁹² καρδίας τοξεύματα ¹⁶⁹³

mvp-comment-654-1 ὦ παῖ ¹⁶⁹⁴

mvp-comment-655-1 τρέφειν ¹⁶⁹⁵

mvp-comment-655-2 ἡσυχωτέραν ¹⁶⁹⁶ ω ¹⁶⁹⁷ αι ¹⁶⁹⁸ αι ¹⁶⁹⁹ ω ¹⁷⁰⁰ ω ¹⁷⁰¹ αι ¹⁷⁰² αι ¹⁷⁰³

mvp-comment-656-1 τὸν νοῦν … τῶν φρενῶν ἀμείνω ¹⁷⁰⁴

mvp-comment-656-2 φέρει ¹⁷⁰⁵ τῶν φρενῶν ¹⁷⁰⁶ ἀμείνω ¹⁷⁰⁷ ἢ ¹⁷⁰⁸ ὧν ¹⁷⁰⁹

mvp-comment-657-1 ἐξ ὅτου ¹⁷¹⁰

mvp-comment-657-2 λευκὴν … ἐκ μελαίνης ¹⁷¹¹

mvp-comment-657-3 ἀμφιβάλλομαι ¹⁷¹²

mvp-comment-658-1 μὴ ¹⁷¹³

mvp-comment-658-2 λακεῖν ¹⁷¹⁴

mvp-comment-659-1 ἔγνωκα ¹⁷¹⁵

mvp-comment-660-1 For τε … δέ ¹⁷¹⁶ δέ ¹⁷¹⁷ τ ¹⁷¹⁸ τε … τε ¹⁷¹⁹ τε … δέ ¹⁷²⁰ δέ ¹⁷²¹

mvp-comment-661-1 ἄτῃ πατάξαι ¹⁷²² θυμὸν ¹⁷²³ ἀντιστάντα ¹⁷²⁴

mvp-comment-661-2 ἐν δεινῷ πάρα ¹⁷²⁵ πάρα ¹⁷²⁶ ἓν δεινοῦ πέρα ¹⁷²⁷

mvp-comment-662-1 The question between L's λαβεῖν ¹⁷²⁸ Κρέον ¹⁷²⁹

mvp-comment-663-1 κατώρυχος ¹⁷³⁰

mvp-comment-664-1 I read the impers. δοκεῖ ¹⁷³¹ δοκεῖς ¹⁷³² δοκεῖς ¹⁷³³

mvp-comment-664-2 παρεικαθεῖν ¹⁷³⁴

mvp-comment-665-1 συντέμνουσι … τοὺς κ. ¹⁷³⁵

mvp-comment-665-2 ποδώκεις ¹⁷³⁶

mvp-comment-665-3 βλάβαι ¹⁷³⁷

mvp-comment-665-4 κακόφρονας ¹⁷³⁸

mvp-comment-666-1 μόλις μέν ¹⁷³⁹

mvp-comment-666-2 ἐξίσταμαι καρδίας ¹⁷⁴⁰

mvp-comment-666-3 τὸ δρᾶν ¹⁷⁴¹

mvp-comment-666-4 δυσμαχητέον ¹⁷⁴²

mvp-comment-667-1 ἐπ’ ἄλλ’. τρέπε ¹⁷⁴³

mvp-comment-668-1 ὡς ἔχω ¹⁷⁴⁴

mvp-comment-668-2 στείχοιμ’ ἄν ¹⁷⁴⁵

mvp-comment-668-3 ἴτ’ ἴτ’ ¹⁷⁴⁶ εἶ’ ¹⁷⁴⁷

mvp-comment-669-1 οἵ τ’ ὄντες οἵ τ’ ἀπόντες ¹⁷⁴⁸

mvp-comment-669-2 ἀξίνας ¹⁷⁴⁹

mvp-comment-670-1 ἐπόψιον ¹⁷⁵⁰

mvp-comment-671-1 ἐγὼ δ’ ¹⁷⁵¹ ἐπιστράφη ¹⁷⁵² τῇδ’ ¹⁷⁵³

mvp-comment-672-1 αὐτός τ’ ἔδησα ¹⁷⁵⁴

mvp-comment-673-1 δέδοικα μὴ … ᾖ ¹⁷⁵⁵ τοὺς καθεστ. νόμους ¹⁷⁵⁶

mvp-comment-673-2 σῴζοντα … τὸν βίον τελεῖν ¹⁷⁵⁷

mvp-comment-675-1 πολυώνυμε ¹⁷⁵⁸

mvp-comment-675-2 Καδμείας ¹⁷⁶⁰

mvp-comment-675-3 ἄγαλμα ¹⁷⁶¹

mvp-comment-675-4 νύμφας ¹⁷⁶² βαρυβρεμέτα ¹⁷⁶³

mvp-comment-676-1 The traditional reading, Ἰταλίαν ¹⁷⁶⁴

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

is the conjecture Ἰκαρίαν ¹⁷⁶⁵ Ἰταλίαν ¹⁷⁶⁶

mvp-comment-677-1 παγκοίνοις ¹⁷⁶⁷

mvp-comment-677-2

(Olympia).

mvp-comment-677-3 κόλποις ¹⁷⁶⁸

mvp-comment-677-4 Ἐλευσι^νίας ¹⁷⁶⁹ ι^ ¹⁷⁷⁰

mvp-comment-678-1 Βακχεῦ ¹⁷⁷¹ ὦ ¹⁷⁷² ὁ ¹⁷⁷³ ματρόπολιν ¹⁷⁷⁴

mvp-comment-678-2 ματρόπολιν ¹⁷⁷⁵

mvp-comment-679-1 L has ὑγρὸν … ῥέεθρον ¹⁷⁷⁶ ὑγρῶν … ῥεέθρων ¹⁷⁷⁷ ῥεῖθρον ¹⁷⁷⁸ ὑγρόν ¹⁷⁷⁹ παρά ¹⁷⁸⁰ ῥεῖθρον ¹⁷⁸¹ ὑγρόν ¹⁷⁸²

mvp-comment-679-2 Ἰσμηνοῦ ¹⁷⁸³

mvp-comment-680-1 ἐπὶ σπορᾷ δρ. ¹⁷⁸⁴

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 ¹⁷⁸⁵

mvp-comment-681-3 By ὑπὲρ διλόφου πέτρας ¹⁷⁸⁶

mvp-comment-681-4 λιγνύς ¹⁷⁸⁷ στέροψ ¹⁷⁸⁸

mvp-comment-681-5 ὄπωπε ¹⁷⁸⁹

mvp-comment-681-6 Κωρύκιαι … Νύμφαι ¹⁷⁹⁰

mvp-comment-681-7 The simple transposition, στείχουσι νύμφαι ¹⁷⁹¹

mvp-comment-682-1 Κασταλίας τε νᾶμα ¹⁷⁹²

mvp-comment-683-1 καί σε Νυσαίων ¹⁷⁹³

mvp-comment-684-1 κισσήρεις ὄχθαι ¹⁷⁹⁴

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 ¹⁷⁹⁵

mvp-comment-685-2 πέμπει ¹⁷⁹⁶

mvp-comment-686-1 The words ἀμβρότων ἐπέων ¹⁷⁹⁷

mvp-comment-686-2 εὐαζόντων ¹⁷⁹⁸

mvp-comment-687-1 τὰν ἐκ πασᾶν ¹⁷⁹⁹ τάν ¹⁸⁰⁰ ἐκ ¹⁸⁰¹ ὑπερτάταν ¹⁸⁰²

mvp-comment-688-1 κεραυνίᾳ ¹⁸⁰³

mvp-comment-689-1 ἔχεται ἐπὶ βιαίας νόσου ¹⁸⁰⁴ ὑπό ¹⁸⁰⁵ ἔχεται ¹⁸⁰⁶ βιαι^ας ¹⁸⁰⁷ ἀμὰ ¹⁸⁰⁸ πόλις ¹⁸⁰⁹

mvp-comment-689-2 πάνδαμος ¹⁸¹⁰

mvp-comment-690-1 μολεῖν ¹⁸¹¹

mvp-comment-690-2 καθαρσίῳ ¹⁸¹²

mvp-comment-690-3 κλιτύν ¹⁸¹³

mvp-comment-690-4 πορθμόν ¹⁸¹⁴

mvp-comment-690-5 στονόεντα ¹⁸¹⁵

mvp-comment-691-1 πνειόντων ¹⁸¹⁶ πνειόντων ¹⁸¹⁷

mvp-comment-691-2 Other conjectures are: (1) ἰὼ πύρπνων ἄστρων χοραγὲ καὶ νυχίων ¹⁸¹⁸ πῦρ πνεόντων χοραγὲ καὶ νυχίων ¹⁸¹⁹ χοραγὲ ἄστρων ¹⁸²⁰

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 ¹⁸²¹ νυχίων ¹⁸²²

mvp-comment-691-4 χοράγ’ ἄστρων ¹⁸²³

mvp-comment-691-5 νυχίων φθεγμάτων ¹⁸²⁴

mvp-comment-692-1 παῖ Διὸς ¹⁸²⁵

mvp-comment-693-1 ὦναξ ¹⁸²⁶

mvp-comment-694-1 Θυίαισιν ¹⁸²⁷

mvp-comment-694-2 χορεύουσι ¹⁸²⁸

mvp-comment-695-1 ταμίαν ¹⁸²⁹

mvp-comment-695-2 Ἴακχον ¹⁸³⁰

mvp-comment-697-1 δόμων ¹⁸³¹ Κάδμου ¹⁸³² πάροικοι ¹⁸³³ δόμων ¹⁸³⁴

mvp-comment-698-1 οὐκ ἔστι ¹⁸³⁵ στάντα ¹⁸³⁶ στάντα ¹⁸³⁷

mvp-comment-698-2 βίον ¹⁸³⁸ ὁποίᾳ ¹⁸³⁹

mvp-comment-699-1 μάντις … τῶν καθεστώτων ¹⁸⁴⁰ ἐφεστώτων ¹⁸⁴¹

mvp-comment-700-1 ὡς ἐμοί ¹⁸⁴²

mvp-comment-701-1 σώσας … ἐχθρῶν ¹⁸⁴³ δέ ¹⁸⁴⁴ τε ¹⁸⁴⁵ λαβών τε ¹⁸⁴⁶ ηὔθυνε ¹⁸⁴⁷ παντελῆ ¹⁸⁴⁸

mvp-comment-701-2 ηὔθυνε ¹⁸⁴⁹

mvp-comment-701-3 εὐγενεῖ ¹⁸⁵⁰

mvp-comment-702-1 ἀφεῖται πάντα ¹⁸⁵¹

mvp-comment-703-1 προδῶσιν ¹⁸⁵² προδῶσιν ¹⁸⁵³ ἀνδρὸς ¹⁸⁵⁴ προδῶσιν ¹⁸⁵⁵ ἄνδρες ¹⁸⁵⁶ ἀνδρός ¹⁸⁵⁷ τὰς γὰρ ἡδονάς ¹⁸⁵⁸

mvp-comment-703-2 οὐ τίθημι ¹⁸⁵⁹

mvp-comment-704-1 For

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

mvp-comment-704-2 τοῦτον ¹⁸⁶⁰

mvp-comment-704-3 ἔμψ. νεκρόν ¹⁸⁶¹

mvp-comment-705-1 πλούτει … ζῆ ¹⁸⁶²

mvp-comment-705-2 εἰ βούλει ¹⁸⁶³ ζῆ ¹⁸⁶⁴ σχῆμα ¹⁸⁶⁵

mvp-comment-706-1 τὸ χαίρειν ¹⁸⁶⁶

mvp-comment-706-2 καπνοῦ σκιᾶς ¹⁸⁶⁷

mvp-comment-707-1 πριαίμην ἀνδρί ¹⁸⁶⁸

mvp-comment-707-2 πρὸς τὴν ἡδ. ¹⁸⁶⁹

mvp-comment-708-1 βασιλέων ¹⁸⁷⁰ αἴτιοι θανεῖν ¹⁸⁷¹

mvp-comment-709-1 φονεύει ¹⁸⁷² ὁ κείμενος ¹⁸⁷³

mvp-comment-710-1 αὐτόχειρ ¹⁸⁷⁴

mvp-comment-711-1 φόνου ¹⁸⁷⁵

mvp-comment-711-2 ὀρθὸν ἤνυσας ¹⁸⁷⁶

mvp-comment-712-1 ὡς ¹⁸⁷⁷ πάρεστι βουλ. τὰ ἄλλα ¹⁸⁷⁸ βουλεύειν ¹⁸⁷⁹ τὰ ἄλλα ¹⁸⁸⁰

mvp-comment-712-2 ὧδ’ ἐχόντων ¹⁸⁸¹

mvp-comment-713-1 καὶ μήν ¹⁸⁸²

mvp-comment-713-2 Εὐρυδίκην ¹⁸⁸³

mvp-comment-714-1 κλύουσα παιδός ¹⁸⁸⁴

mvp-comment-715-1 ὦ πάντες ἀστοί ¹⁸⁸⁵

mvp-comment-716-1 Παλλάδος προσήγορος εὐγμάτων ¹⁸⁸⁶

mvp-comment-717-1 τυγχάνω τε … καὶ … βάλλει ¹⁸⁸⁷

mvp-comment-717-2 the sound ( cp. 1172 f. n.). For the temporal parataxis with τε … καί ¹⁸⁸⁸

mvp-comment-717-3 κλῇθρα χαλῶσα πύλης ἀνασπαστοῦ ¹⁸⁸⁹

mvp-comment-717-4 κλῇθρα ¹⁸⁹⁰

mvp-comment-717-5 ἀνασπαστοῦ ¹⁸⁹¹

mvp-comment-717-6 φθόγγος ¹⁸⁹²

mvp-comment-717-7 οἰκείου ¹⁸⁹³

mvp-comment-718-1 δῑ ὤτων ¹⁸⁹⁴

mvp-comment-718-2 πρὸς δμωαῖσι ¹⁸⁹⁵

mvp-comment-718-3 ἀποπλήσσομαι ¹⁸⁹⁶

mvp-comment-719-1 καὶ παρὼν ἐρῶ, κοὐδὲν παρήσω ¹⁸⁹⁷ παρὠν ¹⁸⁹⁸

mvp-comment-720-1 ὧν ¹⁸⁹⁹

mvp-comment-720-2 ὧν ¹⁹⁰⁰ ψεῦσται ¹⁹⁰¹ φανούμεθ’ ¹⁹⁰²

mvp-comment-720-3 ὀρθόν ¹⁹⁰³

mvp-comment-721-1 ποδαγός ¹⁹⁰⁴ ἑσπόμην ¹⁹⁰⁵

mvp-comment-722-1 πεδίον … ἄκρον ¹⁹⁰⁶

mvp-comment-722-2 νηλεές ¹⁹⁰⁷

mvp-comment-723-1 κυνοσπάρακτον ¹⁹⁰⁸

mvp-comment-724-1 τὸν μέν ¹⁹⁰⁹

mvp-comment-724-2 ἐνοδίαν θεόν ¹⁹¹⁰

mvp-comment-724-3 θεόν ¹⁹¹¹

mvp-comment-724-4 εὐμενεῖς ¹⁹¹²

mvp-comment-724-5 κατασχεθεῖν ¹⁹¹³

mvp-comment-725-1 λούσαντες ἁγν. λουτρόν ¹⁹¹⁴

mvp-comment-725-2 ἐν ¹⁹¹⁵ θαλλοῖς ¹⁹¹⁶

mvp-comment-725-3 )λέλειπτο ¹⁹¹⁷

mvp-comment-725-4 συγκατῄθομεν ¹⁹¹⁸ εἰσεβαίνομεν ¹⁹¹⁹

mvp-comment-726-1 τύμβον ¹⁹²⁰

mvp-comment-726-2 ὀρθόκρανον ¹⁹²¹

mvp-comment-726-3 οἰκείας ¹⁹²²

mvp-comment-727-1 αὖθις ¹⁹²³

mvp-comment-727-2 For

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

mvp-comment-727-3 λιθόστρωτον ¹⁹²⁴

mvp-comment-727-4 κόρης νυμφεῖον‐Ἅιδου ¹⁹²⁵

mvp-comment-728-1 κωκυμάτων ¹⁹²⁶

mvp-comment-729-1 ἀκτέριστον ἀμφὶ παστάδα ¹⁹²⁷

mvp-comment-730-1 ἀθλίας … ἄσημα βοῆς ¹⁹²⁸

mvp-comment-730-2 περιβαίνει ¹⁹²⁹

mvp-comment-731-1 μᾶλλον ἆσσον ¹⁹³⁰

mvp-comment-731-2 ἔπος ¹⁹³¹ δυσθρήνητον ¹⁹³²

mvp-comment-731-3 ὦ τάλας ¹⁹³³

mvp-comment-732-1 τῶν παρελθουσῶν ¹⁹³⁴

mvp-comment-732-2 σαίνει ¹⁹³⁵

mvp-comment-733-1 ὠκεῖς ¹⁹³⁶

mvp-comment-734-1 ἁρμὸν χώματος λιθοσπ. ¹⁹³⁷

mvp-comment-734-2 ἁρμόν ¹⁹³⁸ δύντες ¹⁹³⁹

mvp-comment-735-1 στόμιον ¹⁹⁴⁰

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 ¹⁹⁴¹

mvp-comment-736-2 κλέπτομαι ¹⁹⁴²

mvp-comment-737-1 The simple correction, κελευσμάτων ¹⁹⁴³

mvp-comment-737-2 With κελεύσμασιν ¹⁹⁴⁴

mvp-comment-737-3 (2) The alternative is to amend ἐξ ἀθύμου ¹⁹⁴⁵ ὀξυθύμου ¹⁹⁴⁶

mvp-comment-737-4 Dindorf writes κελεύμασιν ¹⁹⁴⁷

mvp-comment-738-1 αὐχένος ¹⁹⁴⁸

mvp-comment-739-1 μιτώδει ¹⁹⁴⁹

mvp-comment-740-1 Haemon has thrown his arms around her waist ( ἀμφὶ μέσσῃ περιπετῆ ¹⁹⁵⁰ προσκείμενον ¹⁹⁵¹

mvp-comment-740-2 μέσσῃ ¹⁹⁵²

mvp-comment-740-3 περιπετῆ ¹⁹⁵³

mvp-comment-741-1 εὐνῆς … τῆς κάτω ¹⁹⁵⁴

mvp-comment-741-2 πατρὸς ἔργα ¹⁹⁵⁵

mvp-comment-741-3 λέχος ¹⁹⁵⁶

mvp-comment-742-1 σφε ¹⁹⁵⁷

mvp-comment-742-2 στυγνόν ¹⁹⁵⁸

mvp-comment-743-1 οἷον ἔργον ¹⁹⁵⁹ τίνα νοῦν ἔσχες ¹⁹⁶⁰

mvp-comment-743-2 ἐν τῷ συμφορᾶς ¹⁹⁶¹

mvp-comment-743-3 διεφθάρης ¹⁹⁶²

mvp-comment-744-1 ἱκέσιος ¹⁹⁶³

mvp-comment-744-2 ὄσσοισι ¹⁹⁶⁴

mvp-comment-744-3 παπτήνας ¹⁹⁶⁵

mvp-comment-745-1 πτύσας προσώπῳ ¹⁹⁶⁶

mvp-comment-746-1 διπλοῦς κνώδοντας ξίφους ¹⁹⁶⁷ διπλοῦς κνώδοντας ¹⁹⁶⁸

mvp-comment-746-2 ἐκ δ’ ὁρμ. ¹⁹⁶⁹

mvp-comment-746-3 φυγαῖσιν ¹⁹⁷⁰

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’ ¹⁹⁷¹ ἐπενταθείς ¹⁹⁷²

mvp-comment-747-2 πλευραῖς ¹⁹⁷³

mvp-comment-747-3 μέσσον ¹⁹⁷⁴

mvp-comment-747-4 ἔγχος ¹⁹⁷⁵

mvp-comment-747-5 ἐς δ’ ὑγρὸν ἀγκῶν’ ¹⁹⁷⁶

mvp-comment-748-1 φυσιῶν ¹⁹⁷⁷

mvp-comment-748-2 ῥοὴν ¹⁹⁷⁸

mvp-comment-749-1 τέλη ¹⁹⁷⁹

mvp-comment-749-2 ἔν γ’ Ἅιδου ¹⁹⁸⁰ ἔν γ ¹⁹⁸¹ γε ¹⁹⁸² ἔν γε ¹⁹⁸³

mvp-comment-750-1 δείξας … τὴν ἀβουλίαν ¹⁹⁸⁴

mvp-comment-751-1 πρόσκειται ¹⁹⁸⁵

mvp-comment-752-1 τί τοῦτ’ ἂν εἰκάς. ¹⁹⁸⁶

mvp-comment-752-2 ἐσθλὸν ἢ κακόν ¹⁹⁸⁷

mvp-comment-753-1 τεθάμβηκ’ ¹⁹⁸⁸

mvp-comment-753-2 βόσκομαι ¹⁹⁸⁹

mvp-comment-754-1 γόους … ἀξιώσειν ¹⁹⁹⁰

mvp-comment-754-2 ὑπὸ στέγης ¹⁹⁹¹

mvp-comment-755-1 προθήσειν ¹⁹⁹² στένειν ¹⁹⁹³

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 ¹⁹⁹⁴

mvp-comment-757-1 δ’ οὖν ¹⁹⁹⁵ προσεῖναι ¹⁹⁹⁶

mvp-comment-758-1 εἰσόμεσθα, μή τι … καλύπτει ¹⁹⁹⁷

mvp-comment-758-2 καὶ ¹⁹⁹⁸ κατάσχετον … καλύπτει ¹⁹⁹⁹

mvp-comment-758-3 κατάσχετον ²⁰⁰⁰

mvp-comment-759-1 δόμους παραστείχοντες ²⁰⁰¹

mvp-comment-760-1 καὶ μήν ²⁰⁰²

mvp-comment-760-2 ἐφήκει ²⁰⁰³

mvp-comment-761-1 μνῆμ ²⁰⁰⁴ ἐπίσημον ²⁰⁰⁵

mvp-comment-761-2 διὰ χειρός ²⁰⁰⁶

mvp-comment-762-1 εἰ θέμις εἰπεῖν ²⁰⁰⁷ ἄτην ²⁰⁰⁸ ἀλλοτρίαν ²⁰⁰⁹

mvp-comment-762-2 ἁμαρτών ²⁰¹⁰

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 ²⁰¹¹

mvp-comment-763-4 στερεά ²⁰¹²

mvp-comment-764-1 ὦ … βλέποντες ²⁰¹³

mvp-comment-764-2 κτανόντας ²⁰¹⁴ θανόντας ²⁰¹⁵

mvp-comment-764-3 ἐμφυλίους ²⁰¹⁶

mvp-comment-765-1 ἐμῶν ἄνολβα βουλευμάτων ²⁰¹⁷ ἄνολβα ²⁰¹⁸

mvp-comment-766-1 νέος νέῳ ξυν μόρῳ ²⁰¹⁹ νέῳ ²⁰²⁰

mvp-comment-767-1 ἀπελύθης ²⁰²¹

mvp-comment-768-1 ἐμαῖς οὐδὲ σαῖσι ²⁰²²

mvp-comment-769-1 ἔχω μαθὼν ²⁰²³ με ²⁰²⁴ μέγα βάρος ἔχων ²⁰²⁵ ἐν δ’ ἐμῷ κάρᾳ ²⁰²⁶ ἔπαισε ²⁰²⁷ με ²⁰²⁸ κάρᾳ ²⁰²⁹

mvp-comment-769-2 ἐν δ’ ἔσεισεν ²⁰³⁰

mvp-comment-769-3 ἀγρίαις ὁδοῖς ²⁰³¹

mvp-comment-770-1 λακπάτητον ²⁰³² κ ²⁰³³ ξπ ²⁰³⁴ κ ²⁰³⁵

mvp-comment-770-2 ἀντρέπων ²⁰³⁶

mvp-comment-771-1 φεῦ φεῦ, ὦ ²⁰³⁷

mvp-comment-771-2 πόνοι .. δύσπονοι ²⁰³⁸

mvp-comment-772-1 ὡς ἔχων τε καὶ κεκτημένος ²⁰³⁹ ἔχων ²⁰⁴⁰ κεκτημένος ²⁰⁴¹

mvp-comment-773-1 πρὸ χειρῶν ²⁰⁴²

mvp-comment-773-2 τάδε ²⁰⁴³

mvp-comment-773-3 τὰ δ’ ἐν δόμοις ²⁰⁴⁴ τὰ μὲν … φέρων ²⁰⁴⁵ ἔοικας ἥκειν ²⁰⁴⁶ καὶ τάχ’ ὄψεσθαι ²⁰⁴⁷

mvp-comment-773-4 Since τὰ δ’ ἐν δόμοις ²⁰⁴⁸ ἥκειν καὶ ²⁰⁴⁹

mvp-comment-773-5 (

) . Others, indeed, take καὶ τάχα ²⁰⁵⁰

mvp-comment-774-1 τί δ’ ἔστιν ²⁰⁵¹ ἦ ²⁰⁵²

mvp-comment-774-2 (2) Transposing αὖ ²⁰⁵³ ἤ ²⁰⁵⁴ ἦ ²⁰⁵⁵

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

; The change of to would have been peculiarly easy before initial (KAKIONEKAKON for KAKIONEKKAKON). For ἐκ ²⁰⁵⁶

mvp-comment-774-4 reading. The comparat. κάκιον ²⁰⁵⁷

mvp-comment-775-1 παμμήτωρ ²⁰⁵⁸

mvp-comment-775-2 νεοτόμ ²⁰⁵⁹ ἄρτι ²⁰⁶⁰

mvp-comment-776-1 δυσκάθαρτος Ἅιδου λιμήν ²⁰⁶¹ λιμήν ²⁰⁶²

mvp-comment-777-1 κακάγγελτα ²⁰⁶³

mvp-comment-777-2 προπέμψας ²⁰⁶⁴

mvp-comment-778-1 ἐπεξειργάσω ²⁰⁶⁵

mvp-comment-779-1 ὦ παῖ ²⁰⁶⁶

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 ²⁰⁶⁷

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 ²⁰⁶⁸

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 ²⁰⁶⁹

mvp-comment-782-1 ἔναντα ²⁰⁷⁰

mvp-comment-783-1 ἥδ’ ²⁰⁷¹ βωμία ²⁰⁷² βωμία ²⁰⁷³

mvp-comment-783-2 ξίφει ²⁰⁷⁴

mvp-comment-783-3 Next to Arndt's, the best conjecture seems that of Blaydes, ἥδ’ ὀξυθήκτῳ σφαγίδι βωμίᾳ πέρι ²⁰⁷⁵

mvp-comment-784-1 λύει κελαινὰ βλέφαρα ²⁰⁷⁶ μύει ²⁰⁷⁷

mvp-comment-785-1 Μεγαρέως ²⁰⁷⁸

mvp-comment-785-2 κλεινὸν λάχος ²⁰⁷⁹ λάχος ²⁰⁸⁰ λέχος ²⁰⁸¹

mvp-comment-786-1 κακὰς πράξεις ²⁰⁸²

mvp-comment-786-2 ἐφυμνής. ²⁰⁸³

mvp-comment-787-1 ἀνέπταν ²⁰⁸⁴ φόβῳ ²⁰⁸⁵

mvp-comment-787-2 ἀνταίαν ²⁰⁸⁶

mvp-comment-788-1 δείλαι^ος ²⁰⁸⁷

mvp-comment-788-2

.—The following are a few among many instances of αι^ ²⁰⁸⁸ ο ²⁰⁸⁹

mvp-comment-788-3 συγκέκραμαι ²⁰⁹⁰

mvp-comment-789-1 ὡς αἰτίαν … ἔχων ²⁰⁹¹

mvp-comment-789-2 τῶνδε … μόρων ²⁰⁹² κἀκείνων ²⁰⁹³

mvp-comment-789-3 ἐπεσκήπτου ²⁰⁹⁴

mvp-comment-790-1 κἀπελύσατ’ ²⁰⁹⁵ καί ²⁰⁹⁶ ἐν φοναῖς ²⁰⁹⁷

mvp-comment-791-1 ὑφ’ ἦπαρ ²⁰⁹⁸

mvp-comment-791-2 ὀξυκώκυτον ²⁰⁹⁹

mvp-comment-792-1 τάδ’ οὐκ ἐπ’ ἄλλον βροτῶν ²¹⁰⁰

mvp-comment-792-2 ἁρμόσει ποτέ ²¹⁰¹ ἁρμόσει ²¹⁰² ἐκ ²¹⁰³

mvp-comment-793-1 μέλεος ²¹⁰⁴

mvp-comment-793-2 φάμ’ ἔτυμον ²¹⁰⁵

mvp-comment-794-1 ὅ τι τάχιστ’ ²¹⁰⁶

mvp-comment-795-1 τὸν οὐκ ὄντα μᾶλλον ἢ μηδένα ²¹⁰⁷

mvp-comment-796-1 κέρδη ²¹⁰⁸

mvp-comment-796-2 τὰ γὰρ ἐν ποσὶ κακὰ κράτιστά ²¹⁰⁹ βράχιστα ²¹¹⁰

mvp-comment-796-3 τἀν ποσίν ²¹¹¹