Sophocles Antigone

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 Excerpt: ...and reward or the blame and punishment attaching to it. So here, the charge or blame of impiety. Cf. El. 968, evtre&eiav 4k irarpbs Oav6vros oXaei. Eur. Med. 218, SiaKeiav iKrif aavro Kal baBvfiiav. more close.--C'ksckus: Schol.?a Tob SiKaiov. 929f. hi: Antigone remains unchanged; she has neither confessed that she has done wrong nor succumbed through fear.--iWuov pViral: forms one idea (cf 137); tyvxv depends on it. Wild tempests of the soul. Cf. Aj. 616, rik irpiv tpya Xcpoiv ueylaras apcrus. Cf. "A gust of the soul, i' faith it overset me." Coleridge's Remorse, ii. 1.--Tisv avnSv avral: see on 13. 930.-ye: adds emphasis to rcSe. A different nature from hers would have yielded. 931. Tovtuv: gen. of cause. He makes the attendants accountable for the imprecation of Antigone, an opportunity for which was given by their delay. 932. KXav'xa6' virap£c i Kri.: an implied threat similar to Kaiav ippevdaeis, 754.--tfirep: on account of. The last syllable of frirep is here made long. The use of the syllaba anceps is allowed by Soph. and Eur. at the close of an anapaestic verse when there is a change of dramatis personae. Cf. Eur. Med. 1396, MH. uive Ka! yr/pas. IA. 5 reKva ip(rara. 942. ota irpos otuv: c/!.4/. 557, Sefeis oTos oTou (irarpbs) trpdjpris. Trach. 995, UpSov o'lav oluv... 6.piv. 943. Having honored (the duty of) piety. The assonance of the Greek is noticeable. 944. While Antigone is conducted to her " chamber of death," the Chorus chant this hymn of condolence, whose strains fall upon her ear as she departs. Her fate is compared with that of Danae, of Lycurgus, and of Cleopatra, against whom alike, though they, like her, were of royal birth, the omnipotent force of Destiny pre vailed.--To Cleopatra two strophes are devoted, ...