Sophocles Oedipus at Colonus 1723

Richard Jebb (Translator)

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Oedipus at Colonus. Sophocles. Richard Jebb (Translator). Cambridge. 1889.

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Current edition Experimental

Oedipus at Colonus (English) (Sophocles the plays and fragments, Part 2: The Oedipus at Colonus. Jebb, Richard Claverhouse, Sir, translator. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1889. (Modernized by Perseus.))

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Editions (2)
Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879)) — 1723 focus
πάλιν, φίλα, συθῶμεν.
Greek (F. Storr, 1912) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (F. Storr, 1912)) — 1723 focus
Translations (4)
English (Lewis Campbell, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Lewis Campbell, 1906)) — 1723 focus
Thither again, dear girl, let us go speedily!
German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review)) — 1723 focus
Laß uns zurückgeh'n, Schwester!
1700
English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759)) — 1723 focus
Ere blot thee from my memory.
Let us be gone.
He is yet
Un buried, and without
English (Robert Potter, 1788) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Robert Potter, 1788)) — 1723 focus
Me too, unhappy me, that I might die,
Die with my aged father! for in life
1730
What now remains that prompts a wish to live?"
He hath indeed obtain'd
What he wish'd warmly: in a foreign land
He died, and lodges in eternal shadest ni
Beneath the ground: nor hath he left a grief
That shall forget to weep; for from my eyesin
For thee, my father, shall the tears of worl
For ever stream'; for nothing can efface
This sorrow deep imprinted on my hearted
Thou shou'dst not in a foreign land have died;
But thou hast died, and left me desolate

Commentary

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

mvp-comment-1156-1 πάλιν … συθῶμεν 1

mvp-comment-1157-1 The MS. text of this verse does not answer metrically to 1739. Bergk and Gleditsch alter both verses (see cr. n.). Hermann, whose remedy is simplest, leaves this v. intact, and in 1739 reads ΧΟ. καὶ πάρος ἀπέφυγε ΑΝ. τί ; See n. there.

mvp-comment-1158-1 τὰν χθόνιον ἑστίαν 2

mvp-comment-1159-1 θέμις … τάδ’ 3

mvp-comment-1159-2 μῶν οὐχ ὁρᾷς 4

mvp-comment-1159-3 μῶν οὐ 5

mvp-comment-1159-4 ἐπέπληξας 6

mvp-comment-1160-1 καὶ τόδ’ 7

mvp-comment-1160-2 μάλ’ αὖθις 8

mvp-comment-1160-3 ἔπιτνε 9

mvp-comment-1160-4 δίχα τε παντός 10

mvp-comment-1161-1 ἄγε με 11

mvp-comment-1162-1 The MS.

ποῖ δῆτ’...ἕξω
has been defended in two ways, neither of which is satisfactory: (1) by an ellipse of
μολοῦσα
: (2) as=
"until when ?"
As in 383 (n.) we should read
ὅπου
for
ὅποι
, and in 335 (n.)
ποῦ
for
ποῖ
, so here I feel sure that ποῦ is right. It suits the sense better than the v.l. πῇ , besides being closer to the MSS. The v.l. ἄξω , (which would justify ποῖ ,) is plainly a mere corruption of
ἕξω
.

mvp-comment-1162-2 αὖθις 12

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

1727. mvp-comment-920-1 τὰν χθόνιον ἑστίαν The dark home.'

1729. mvp-comment-921-1 μῶν οὐχ ὁρᾷς Sc. ἀθέμιτον εἶναι. There are two reasons. It is forbidden to know the place: and no man saw him die, or buried him (1732).

1730. mvp-comment-922-1 τί τόδ' ἐπέπληξας means this rebuke?' What

1733. mvp-comment-923-1 ἄγε με

Siquidem ἄγε με an ἀγέτω μέ τις legitur, nihil refert.
(Elmsley.) ἐπενάριξον] “Take me thither (who will), and then I care not if you kill me at his tomb.' Cp. Eur. Hec. 504.

1734. mvp-comment-924-1 ποῖ Sc. ἐλθοῦσα. For the condensation, see Essay on Language § 43. p. 81.