Antigone. Sophocles. Godesberg. 1949.
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Antigone. Sophocles. Godesberg. 1949.
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Funding provided by Tufts University.
Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949) (OCR draft) (Greek) (Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949))
Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.
1056. mvp-comment-609-1 τὸ δ᾽ ἐκ τυράννων The mean- ing of the preposition is not to be pressed. It is merely an extension of the familiar metaphor of γένος, Kind for Class. Cobet conj. τὸ δέ γε τυράννων. But not to advert to the broken tribrach in the first place, so unlike the earlier manner of Sophocles, the expression is less forcible. It is like the difference between saying the class of tyrants and the breed of tyrants in English. Cp. Eur. Hec. 254-255, ἀχάριστον ὑμῶν σπέρμ᾽, ὅσοι δημηγόρους | ζηλοῦτε τιμάς. On the γένεσις of the tyrant, see Ο. Τ. 873, ὕβρις φυτεύει τύραννον.