Haslam. — Notes on Antigone. 505 



Or, y. That the obhque form ottoIoj' comes quite naturally 

 after the verb ohOa, the on being redundant, cf. 

 O.T., 1401,— 



apa fxov ni^i')](TO on 

 oi' f'pyct cpdrrac \ vfxlf e'lra cevp livu 



OTCoi iirpaaaov civQlq 



It has occurred to me that it might perhaps be translated 

 as it stands with o n in two other ways, each of which involves 

 an ellipse of teXiI — 



1. Do you know what evil inherited from (Edipus Zeus 



will bring to pass, and what he will not bring to 

 pass, in the lifetime of us twain ? ap olaQa o n Ztvg 

 (reXel) tCjv fm Olciirov KaKiov, ottojoj' ov)^i — reXft, I.e. : 

 Do you know the exact sum of our sorrows ? a style 

 of expression that is not at all unusual in Greek. 



2. Do you know what evil inherited from (Edipus Zeus 



will bring to pass that he will not bring to pass in 

 our lifetime ? (In this case it might be better to take 

 -eXli as present rather than future.) 



The latter interpretation seems, perhaps, to suit the context 

 best, since, from the repetition below of the same phrase, o-koIov 

 ov with tCjv rrojp TE KlifjLMv KUKwi', the pith of Antigone's complaint 

 seems to be that she and her sister had an unfairly large share 

 of this evil inheritance. 



Lines 4-5. uXyEtvbv, aiaxpor, art^ov are all words which 



certamly do not exchide, if they do not actually include, the 



conception of art} ; whereas with them we find coupled the 



phrase o-?jc li-ep, which expressly excludes an] ; and yet all have 



but one verbal phrase ovk ottwtto, so that the passage seems to 



mean "there is nothing baneful and nothing bane/ess," etc., 



" that I have not seen." No satisfactory reading has been 



suggested that I know of instead of liTrfc arep. As all the MSS. 



have this reading, it is worth while to try and make something 



out of it. The following interpretations have been suggested : — 



(1.) By Seidler, who takes liTrjg iinp to signify "without 



blame " or " guilt " — i.e., undeserved; and the follow- 



- ing ov-e — ovTE to signify r/ — ^, cf. line 1157. 



If ciTti can be taken in this sense, it seems simple enough ; 

 and yap would then be taken as explaining the phrase Tuv 

 ciTT OidiTTov KtiKwv, wliilc ovK slmply duplicates the former nega- 

 tive 6v. 



(2.) By Hermann, who suggests taking eitO' otzoiov 6v with 

 aTr]Q ixTtp, " For neither what is painful nor what is 

 not free from bane {i.e., what is mixed with bane), 

 be it base or dishonourable, have I failed to see." 



aiffxpof and dnnov are thus taken parenthetically, as sub= 

 divisions of citt). 



