Antigone
It hath, it hath.
1745
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.
1745. mvp-comment-929-1 It was then beyond my strength, but now it overwhelms me.' The language anticipates the metaphor of a sea of troubles, which appears in the next line. For ὕπερθεν, cp. κατάκρας, supr. 1242.