Sophocles Oedipus Tyrannus 1313

ed. Francis Storr

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Oedipus Tyrannus. Sophocles. ed. Francis Storr. London. 1912.

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Current edition Experimental

Οἰδίπους Τύραννος (Greek) (Sophocles, Volume 1. Storr, Francis, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann Ltd.; The Macmillan Company, 1912.)

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Editions (1)
Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879)) — 1313 focus
ἰὼ σκότου
νέφος ἐμὸν ἀπότροπον, ἐπιπλόμενον ἄφατον,
ἀδάματόν τε καὶ δυσούριστον *ὄν.
1315
οἴμοι,
οἴμοι μάλ᾽ αὖθις· οἷον εἰσέδυ μ' ἅμα
κέντρων τε τῶνδ᾽ οἴστρημα καὶ μνήμη κακῶν.
Translations (5)
English (Lewis Campbell, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Lewis Campbell, 1906)) — 1313 focus
O dark cloud, descending
Unutterably on me! invincible,
Abhorred, borne onward by too sure a wind.
Woe, woe!
1315
Woe! Yet again I voice it, with such pangs
Both from these piercing wounds I am assailed
And from within through memory of my grief.
German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review)) — 1313 focus
Ogräßliches
English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759)) — 1313 focus
Open the doors, he cries, and let all Thebes
Behold his parents' murderer, adding words
Not to be uttered ; banished now, he says,
He must be, nor, devoted as he is
By his own curse, remain in this sad place.
1315
He wants a kind conductor and a friend
To help him now, for 'tis too much to bear. -
But you will see him soon, for lo ! the doors
Are opened, and you will behold a sight
That would to pity move his deadliest foe.
English (Robert Potter, 1788) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Robert Potter, 1788)) — 1313 focus
Woe, woe, woe, woe! O miserable me!
Wretch that I am, ah, whither am I borne?
Whose ears do now my cries of anguish reach?
To what are thy decrees, O fortune, changed
English (Sir Richard Jebb, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb, 1904)) — 1313 focus

Commentary

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

mvp-comment-805-1 ἀπότροπον 1

mvp-comment-805-2 ἐπιπλόμενον 2

mvp-comment-806-1 δυσούριστον 3 δυσούριστον ὄν 4 δυσούριστ’ ἰόν 5 δυσοιώνιστον 6 δυσεξούριστον 7

mvp-comment-807-1 κέντρων 8

mvp-comment-808-1 ἐν τοσοῖσδε πήμασιν 9

mvp-comment-809-1 πενθεῖν … καὶ φέρειν 10 διπλᾶ πενθεῖν 11 φέρειν 12

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

1313-1318. mvp-comment-742-1 O cloud of darkness cov. ering me, horrible, unutterably lowering on my head, unconquerable, and wafted to me by an evil fate.' For δυσούριστον, cp. 423, ἄνορμον εἰσέπλευσας εὐπλοίας τυχών, For ἐμόν, expressing a feeling of personal appropriation, cp. Αj. 395, σκότος, ἐμὸν φάος : О. С. 1549, ὦ φῶς ἀφεγγές, πρόσθε πού ποτ' ἦσθ' ἐμόν.

1318. mvp-comment-743-1 κέντρων.. τῶνδε The points of the clasps, which he still felt as if piercing his eye-balls, or rather the wounds inflicted by them. How the pang of these sharp wounds enters into me together with the remembrance of my calamity!' The word κέντρον is again used of a stabbing pain in Tr. 840, κέντρ᾽ ἐπιζέσαντα.

1319-1320. mvp-comment-744-1 The coldness of this and similar expressions of the chorus, who are stunned by the sight, acts as a foil to the passion of Oedipus.