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crv y flire (101 H.TI /J.TJKOS, a\\d 0-uvTOfj.a 

 rjSris TO. KrjpvxQtvra /x^ trpda-creif rdSe ; 

 AN. 'HSw, rl 5' OVK tfj.e\\ov ; f^avr\ yap 3\v. 

 KP. Kal Syr' trfapas rovffS' inrfpfraivftv vdfiovs 

 AN. Ou yap ri pot Zeus ?\v 6 irnpvl-as rdtif, 450 



ouo" rj |uVoiKOS ruv Kara QfSiv A.'iKt], 

 (ot Touo"8' fv ai'dpiaTroiffii' wpiffav v6p.ovs) 

 ovS^ ffOtveiv TOffovrov <a6jj.r,v TO o~a 

 Ki)pvy/j.aO' war' aypairra naff^aKr} dewy 

 vojj.ip.ci. 8vvao-9ai Bvrirbv ovv 'irep5pa j ueu' 455 



ou yap TI vvv 76 KaxdfS, a\\' ati irore 

 77 TOUTO, KovSfls olStv (" orov '<pdvri 

 Tovrcav fyk OVK ffjif\\oi>, avSpbs ou5 PCS 

 ua Seicrair' eV 9fo7ffi r^v Sue?}? 

 f, 6avovfj.fvri yap e|j?877, T\ 6" ov ; 4GO 



Kfi /J.TI crv irpovKijpv^as- ft Se TOV XP OVOV 

 irp6o-Qfv Oavovpat, Kf'pSos avr' tyia \tyta- 

 forts yap fv iro\Ko1<riv us tyh Katcots 

 (jj, TTUJX 85' ouxl KorQaviav KtpSos <ptpei .- 

 ouYtts fftoiye rovSe rov U.OOOM TUX*"' 465 



irap' ouStv &\yos, a\\' av ft rbv * ^TJS 

 jirjTpbs Qavovr' adairrov tftHrxfaniV vtKvv, 

 Kftvois &v tf\yovv' To?o~5e b" OVK a\yvvofj.ai. 

 ffol 5' tl 5oK(a vvv pupa Spcaffa rvyxavfiv 

 C")(fb6v TI /xa'poi /jLcepiav 6<f>\io~Kav(i>. 470 



NOTES 



441. Se 3fj> y u there. The 3>; emphasises the pronoun. 2t is in the 

 accusative case, as being the object of Kreon's address, though there is 

 no actual verb to govern it. 



442. KuTapi/et M. In Greek two negatives strengthen, instead of, as 

 in other languages, nullifying each other. So in the next line, ovu 



uirapvov/j.a.1 TO /ifj, I do not deny the fact, SC. TO yu>j Se&paKtvai. 



444. zo (if.v. Addressed to the soldier who had been responsible for 

 carrying out the king's mandate, and had detected Antigone in the 

 act of violating Iu. Ko/n'f oir tiv, opt. with av, is equivalent to xo/uife, 

 imperative, " you may take away," to " tafce aicay." 



446. M^xor. The accuatiuits respecius, used adverbially, at length.. 

 'A\\a <n5i/To/ua, but briefly. Ace. plural neut., used as adverb. 



447. Mj itpaaativ is used as in apposition to and explanatory of TU 

 KnpvxflwTa- You knew the terms of the proclamation, viz., ttat you were not 

 to do this. 



448. Ti 3' OVK ?/ie\\ov5 etc., what was t7wre to present me? Why, it was 

 distinct. Tap gives the reason why she could have no excuse I cannot 

 say I did not, for and may be translated as above, why. 



451. SvvoiKot v Kara 6fu>v. Who sits associate of the gods below. 



455. Qvnrov ovtf . Sc. <re, understood from TU <r Knpvf/j.ara. I did not 

 thinfc that decrees issued by thee were o powerful that thou, a mortal, 

 cottldst, etc. 



456. NCi/ Ka\0ft, to-day and yesterday, from one day to the next. 'Ati 

 ITOT. The iroTe supplies the idea that the operations of the law are 

 continually, from time to time, removing. 



457. 'Ef STOI; '<pavn, from what, or from whom, they come. 



458. TOUTIOI/ Sioaetv iixriv, I was not going to pay the penalty of these laws, 

 8C. rendr myself amenable to them. AoUi/cu dtKn" hke the Latin dare 

 peetias. 



460. Qavovpivn- For I fcnetc that I must die as a matter of course. When 

 the participle, as here, refers to the subject of the finite verb, it is 

 often put in the nominative, as if it were, I, about to die, fcnew it. So 

 Euripides has tn-ei irpot uv&pot rtaOtt' ti&'*nnf>"i, and Milton, in the 

 "Paradise Lost," has imitated the same construction "And knew 

 not eating death." 



461. ToD xpovov, the natural time. 



464. nZt ou <t>ipei, how does he not i.e., surely he does achieve a gain? 



465. "E/uoi-ye, my grief at meeting with this fate is as nothing. 



466. "AXV av. The av is used in a sort of anticipatory way here to 

 prepare the mind for the condition that is coming. 



468. KeiVoit, in such, a case, at such things. 

 470. Muiptp pwpiav, sc. I am about incurring (it is something lifce incur- 

 ring) a charge of folly at the hands of a fool. 



In the following' beautiful passage, taken from the "CEdipus 

 Colonaeus," we have the touching lament of (Edipus, who has 

 been driven from his country, and having wandered about, 

 attended only by his faithful daughters Antigone and Ismene, 

 has arrived in Attica and taken shelter on some consecrated 

 spot. From this the superstitious fears of the people impel 

 them to drive him away : 



SOPHOCLES. "(EDIPUS COLONJEUS," 258 267. 

 OI. TJ SIJTO 8o'|7js, / n /c\T;8oW /eaXfjs 

 eova"r)s w$f\T)p.c. yiyverai, 



tl TOS 7' 'AB^vas (paffl 0eoo-e/3e<rraTas 

 flvat, novas 8 rbv Kaitov/j.fvov ^tvov 

 o~tt>etv o'las re Kal /J.6i/as apKf.1v tx*iv ; 

 K&fJ.oiy irov TOUT' tffrlv, o'lnvts fiddpcav 

 tK riovSf ju' Qdpavrts fir' t\avi>erf, 

 wojj.a p.6vov Seio-avres ; ov yap Sij rb ye 

 a<afj.' ovSe r&pya r&fj.'- tiril TO, y' tpya p.ov 

 ' tffrl /jia\\oi> % 



260 



' 265 



NOTES. 



259. Marnv peouo-nt, that flows in vain, that after all means nothing. " li 

 is useless to depend upon the good name of any place for hospitality 

 or kindness, for the Athenians are reported to possess these virtues in 

 the highest extent, yet at the mere mention of my name they are ready 

 to drive me from the country." 



263. Kajuo<7, etc. flit.), and yet where is all this as far as I am con- 

 cerned? and yet what atiails me this ? 



263. o'irmet. The antecedent to this must be supplied by 'A0nvcuoi 

 out of 'Adrjvat in 1. 260 since her people, etc 



265. "Ovofj.a novov, fearing the mere sound of my name. &rj emphasises 

 the oi 7<jp, since of course it cannot be, etc. 



267. rU7roi/0oTa, etc., are rather suffered than done rather passive than 

 active. So Shakespeare makes King Lear exclaim 



"I am a man 

 More sinned against than sinning." 



The following beautiful passage is from the choral ode in the 

 same play, in which the people of Athens are represented as 

 welcoming the wanderer to their land, and praising the beauties 

 of the country. It may be compared with the ode in praise of 

 Athens from the " Medea " of Euripides, already cited in these 

 Readings ; while, as a description of the beauties of natural 

 scenery, it finds a pendant in the passage from the " Bacchae," 

 which we have also on a previous occasion introduced to our 

 readers : 



SOPHOCLES. "(EDIPUS COLON.EUS," 668 693. 



Zvlinrov, fvf, raffSe x^P as 



'(KOV TO Kpariffra yas fTrav\a, 



rbv apyr/ra Ko\u>vbv, tv6' 670 



a \iyeia /j.ivvpfTai 



8afj.iovo~a paXiffr' ariSwv 



Y\tapa7s virb 



675 



680 



685 



690 



NOTES. 



668. Tao-oV for TrjaSe a for n, according to the usage of the Doric 

 dialect, in which the choruses of the Greek plays were written. Many 

 other examples will be found in this extract. 



669. rar grraiAa must be construed as one substantive, on which 

 xwpar depends. 



674. Oinovra, lit. wine-coloured, so darfc as icina. A frequent epithet. 

 Homer often applies it to the sea otvoira KOVTOV, the wine-dark sea. 



677. 'Anji/f/Liov, etc., untouched by the wind of any storms that blow. The 

 genitive is governed by the a privative in uvi-fi/e/iov. The expression 

 is equivalent to avev ai/juou iravTwv x 'M t ">' w: '- So we find in the same 



way ii\a\Ko? uairioutv for ai/cu \a\novf uairidav. 



682. KOT' ^M a P 'i always day after day. A pleonastic expression, like 

 acev en-' rifiari, a few lines below. 



689. 'flKVTOKot generally is found in a passive sense. Here, however, 

 it seems undoubtedly to be active, signifying quicfcly fertilising. 



rbv olvtaira vtp.ovaa KIO~O~OV 

 Kal rav aflarov 6tov 

 <pv\\dSa /j.vpi6Kapirov avr\\iov 

 avfiff/j.6v re TravTuv 

 t'^vcav ?i>' o 



6d\\ft 5' ovpavias VTT' &xvas 

 o Ka\\i$OTp\,s Kar' ^,uap oel 

 vdpKiffffos, /j.tyd\an' Qeatv 

 apxaioif o~T*<pawti o re 

 Xpv<ravy)]s Kp6Kos~ ovS' ainrvoi 

 Kprjvat /juvvBovffiv 

 VLrjcpiffov vofudSts petOpuiv, 

 a\\' alfv fir' tffnart 



01KVTOKOS TTfSiuV f1Tlvio~fffTai 



