Sophocles Oedipus at Colonus 520

Lewis Campbell (Translator)

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ANT
His wishes are enough. Then, pray thee, send
An escort to convey us to our home,
Primeval Thebes, if so we may prevent
1770
The death that menaces our brethren there.

Oedipus at Colonus. Sophocles. Lewis Campbell (Translator). London, New York and Toronto. 1906.

Current edition Experimental

English (Lewis Campbell, 1906) (OCR draft) (English) (English (Lewis Campbell, 1906))

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Editions (2)
Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879)) — 520 focus
πείθου· κἀγὼ γὰρ ὅσον σὺ προσχρῄζεις.
520
Greek (F. Storr, 1912) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (F. Storr, 1912)) — 510-548 focus
Translations (2)
German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review)) — 521 focus
Unheil schuf ich, o Freund, schus es, ein Unschuldiger; ja, zeuge die Gottheit,
520
Nichts übt' ich davon mit Willen!
Wie so das?
In schnödem Ehlager umfing die Stadt mich
Arglosen mit Gräuelbanden.
English (Sir Richard Jebb, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb, 1904)) — 510-546c focus

Commentary

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

mvp-comment-1183-1 κατὰ νοῦν 1

mvp-comment-1183-2 τάδ’ … ταῦτ’ 2

mvp-comment-1184-1 τᾶς ὠγυγίους 3

mvp-comment-1185-1 ἰόντα 4

mvp-comment-1185-2 ὁμαίμοις 5

mvp-comment-1185-3 Antigone suggests that she and Ismene may yet be in time to plead with their two brothers, and so to avert the doom of mutual destruction pronounced on them by their father (1373) . Thus the close of this drama is linked by the poet with the beginning of his earlier Antigone , which opens at a moment just after the deaths of the brothers. The sisters are then living at Thebes, where Creon has succeeded to the throne. An additional pathos is lent to Antigone's part there by the suggestion here of a previous intercession. In Aesch. Theb. it is the Chorus (of Theban maidens) that endeavours to dissuade Eteocles from going to meet his brother (677 ff.) : in Eur. Phoen. it is their mother Iocasta who seeks to reconcile them (452 ff.) .

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

1768. mvp-comment-939-1 For Ὅρκος here, cp. Hes. Op. D. 219.

1769. mvp-comment-940-1 ταῦτ᾽ ἂν ἀπαρκοῖ Cp. О. Т. 1182 and note.

1772. mvp-comment-941-1 τοῖσιν ὁμαίμοις Partly dative of direct reference after ἰόντα (Essay on Language § 12. p. 18), partly of remote reference after διακωλύσωμεν. ' In the hope of averting the bloody death which menaces our brothers: and, In the hope of averting from our brothers the death which threatens them.