Sophocles. Antigone, ed. on the basis of Wolff's ed. by M.L. D'Ooge

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 edition. Excerpt: ... this it may be replied: (1) The story of Hdt. may have suggested this passage to the poet, but does not prove these lines to be an interpolation. So in 0. C. 338 f. there is an allusion to a description given by Hdt. ii. 35. And, again, this passage is one of the best attested in Soph., since it is cited in Arist. Rhet. iii. 16. (2) Antigone, so far from contradicting what she had said before with reference to the sacredness of the duty of burial, only emphasizes this thought the more by showing that a violation or neglect of this duty in the present case is without remedy; for there can be no substitute for a brother as there might be for husband or children. What she really would do were she wife or mother, needs not be taken account of. That the passage is somewhat in the sophistical vein may be a matter of regret, but is not a sufficient reason for rejecting it. See App. for additional remarks. 906. injKero: had been wasting away, i.e. going to dissolution from exposure to the sun and the air. The same thought must be supplied to complete 905, sc. el T4kvov Ka.rQa.vbv 907. PCtj. iroXiriSv: it is true that Antigone has said in 509 and elsewhere that the citizens are at heart in sympathy with her. Now, however, when all is to succumb to the behest of authority, and when she regards herself as Skoutoj, &iptos, the expression /3i'at Toaitui/ is not at all strange.--av po'unv: would I have taken upon myse(f. 908. For the sake of what principle pray do I say this? A self-interrogation, as in 0. C. 1308, rl Sijra vvv fapiyfievos Kupu; 909. Kirr6avoVros: must agree with the gen. of itiats to be supplied; a hard const. The omission of the pers. or dem. pron. or of a general or indef. subst. in the gen. abs. is not unknown. Cf. 0. T. 629,...