Sophocles Oedipus at Colonus 458

Robert Potter (Translator)

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Antigone
That none approach the place, that none address
With vows the hallow'd ground in which he lies:
Obeying this, he told me I should hold
These realms from hostile insult always safe.
The god my promise heard, and the firm oath
Of Jove which all things hears.
1770
If such his charge,
1770
With meek submission to his will we yield.
But send us to Ogygian Thebes, if there
Haply the demon Rage, athirst for blood,
Rushing between our brothers, we may check.

Oedipus at Colonus. Sophocles. Robert Potter (Translator). London. 1820.

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Editions (2)
Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879)) — 458 focus
πρὸς *ταῖσδε ταῖς σεμναῖσι δημούχοις θεαῖς
Greek (F. Storr, 1912) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (F. Storr, 1912)) — 510-548 focus
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English (Lewis Campbell, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Lewis Campbell, 1906)) — 458 focus
OED
My path slopes downward, and before my death
I would confirm to Athens and to thee
My promised boon.
German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review)) — 461 focus
Wohl werth des Mitleids, Dedipus, erscheinst du selbst
Und deine Töchter! Aber da du meinem Land
Dich jezt zum Helfer selbst erbeutst mit diesem Wort:
So will ich treulich rathen, was dir frommen kann.
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.