Sophocles, Antigone (ed. Sir Richard Jebb)

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Then know, yes, know it well! You will not live through many more [1065] courses of the sun's swift chariot, before you will give in return one sprung from your own loins, a corpse in requital for corpses. For you have thrust below one of those of the upper air and irreverently lodged a living soul in the grave, [1070] while you detain in this world that which belongs to the infernal gods, a corpse unburied, unmourned, unholy. In the dead you have no part, nor do the gods above, but in this you do them violence. For these crimes the avenging destroyers, [1075] the Furies of Hades and of the gods, lie in ambush for you, waiting to seize you in these same sufferings. And look closely if I tell you this with a silvered palm. A time not long to be delayed will reveal in your house wailing over men and over women. [1080] All the cities are stirred up in hostility, whose mangled corpses the dogs, or the wild beasts or some winged bird buried, carrying an unholy stench to the city that held each man's hearth. There, now, are arrows for your heart, since you provoke me, [1085] launched at you, archer-like, in my anger. They fly true--you cannot run from their burning sting. Boy, lead me home, so that he may launch his rage against younger men, and learn to keep a quieter tongue [1090] and a better mind within his breast than he now bears. Exit Teiresias.

Further comments from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Antigone:
line 1064: all' eu ge toi
line 1064: mê &#ch2026; telôn
line 1064: hêlion telein
line 1064: katisthi
line 1064: telôn
line 1064: trochous
line 1064: trochous
line 1064: hamillêtêras
line 1070: echeis de
line 1070: tôn katôthen theôn
line 1070: nekun
line 1070: amoiron
line 1070: akteriston
line 1070: anosion
line 1075: lochôsin
line 1075: Haidou kai theôn
line 1075: lêphthênai
line 1080 (general note)
line 1080: poleis
line 1080: suntarassontai
line 1090: ton noun &#ch2026; tôn phrenôn ameinô
line 1090: pherei
line 1090: tôn phrenôn
line 1090: ameinô
line 1090: ê
line 1090: hôn

Cross references from Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Oedipus Tyrannus:
863: ton noun t' ameinô tôn phrenôn ê nun pherei

Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus:
* [549-667: Conclusion of first episode]: katisthi mê pollous etitrochous hamillêtêras hêliou telônen oisi ... amoibon antidous esei
* [1044-1095: Second stasimon]: trochous hamillêtêras hêliou
* [1249-1555: Fourth episode]

Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
513 [Ou und mê bei Partizipien und Adjektiven.]

Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Antigone:
* [III.]
* [376-581]
* [376-581]

Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Ajax:
* [719-865]
* [1223-1420]

Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Electra:
* [251-471]
* [1-120]
* [121-250]

Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Philoctetes:
* [676-729]
* [219-675]

Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Trachiniae:
* [141-496]
* [141-496]
* [971-1278]
* [971-1278]
* [141-496]

Cross references from W. Walter Merry, James Riddell, D. B. Monro, Commentary on the Odyssey (1886):
11, 51 [Book 11 (l)]

Cross references from Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, Syntax of Classical Greek:
18, 31, 406 [Perfect active imperative.]: all' eu ge toi katisthi

This text is based on the following book(s):
Sophocles. The Antigone of Sophocles. Edited with introduction and notes by Sir Richard Jebb. Sir Richard Jebb. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1891.
OCLC: 39793726