Antigone
Thy death
Yet shun; yet hear me; let me yet prevail.ar
Oedipus at Colonus. Sophocles. Robert Potter (Translator). London. 1820.
Oedipus at Colonus. Sophocles. Robert Potter (Translator). London. 1820.
English (Robert Potter, 1788) (OCR draft) (English) (English (Robert Potter, 1788))
Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.
mvp-comment-1000-1 εἰ … στερηθῶ 1
mvp-comment-1000-2 ταῦτα δ’ 2
mvp-comment-1000-3 ταῦτα 3 φῦναι 4
mvp-comment-1000-4 ἐν τῷ δ. 5
mvp-comment-1000-5 φῦναι 6
mvp-comment-1000-6
The MS.
σφῷν is better than
σφὼ , to which some edd., following Elmsley, have needlessly changed it.
mvp-comment-1000-7 ἀρῶμαι 7
1443. mvp-comment-766-1 εἴ σου στερηθῶ For the subjunctive with el, see Essay on L § 27. p. 44. Here the supposition is more definite than with ei and the optative, and more general than with ἐάν and the subjunctive, and the form of expression is therefore more suited to the expression of intense feeling.
1443. mvp-comment-766-2 ταῦτα .. χἀτέρᾳ But this is in the power of God, and may come to pass either in this way, or in some other. It rests with the Divinity that shapes our ends.Cp. Shak. Hamlet, 5. 2, Not a whit, we defy augury: there's a special providence in the falling of a sparrow:' Hom. Il. 12. 235-243.
1444. mvp-comment-767-1 For φῦναι, cp. Αj. 646-647, ἅπανθ' ὁ .. χρόνος | φύει τ' ἄδηλα καὶ φανέντα κρύπτεται.