1. 274 Miscellanea / C.W. Willink / Mnemosyne 60 (2007) 274-280
Sophocles, Antigone 23-5 and the Burial of Eteocles1)
Compound corruption confronts us in the opening lines of Antigone,2) and there
is further compound corruption—of some importance to the plot, as we shall
see—at lines 23 ff. in Antigone’s third speech to Ismene:
Ισ. τί δʼ ἔστι; δηλοῖς γάρ τι ĸαλχαίνουσʼ ἔπος. 20
Αν. οὐ γὰρ τάφου νῶιν τὼ ĸασιγνήτω Κρέων
τὸν μὲν προτίσας, τὸν δʼ ἀτιμάσας ἔχει;
ʼΕτεοĸλέα μέν, ὡς λέγουσι, †σὺν δίĸηι
χρησθεὶς διĸαίαι