αἰσχρόν, shocking the moral sense: ἄτιμον, attended by outward marks of dishonour,—as Oedipus imagines his daughters exposed to slights at the public festivals (O. T. 1489 ff.). Thus “αἰσχρόν” in a manner balances the subjective “ἀλγεινόν”, as the external “ἀτιμία” corresponds with the “ἄτη”. Cp. O. T. 1283 ff. ὁποῖον οὐ … οὐκ ὄπωπα. The repetition of the negative is warranted by the emphasis: cp. Ph. 416“οὐχ ὁ Τυδέως γόνος, ι οὐδ᾽ οὑμπολητὸς Σισύφου Λαερτίῳ, ι οὐ μὴ θάνωσι”: Tr. 1014 “οὐ πῦρ, οὐκ ἔγχος τις ὀνήσιμον οὐκ ἐπιτρέψει”; Aesch. Ag. 1634 “ὃς οὐκ, ἐπειδὴ τῷδ᾽ ἐβούλευσας μόρον, ι δρᾶσαι τόδ᾽ ἔργον οὐκ ἔτλης αὐτοκτόνως”: and so oft. after “οὐ μά”, as El. 626. We need not, then, change “οὐ” (in v. 5) to “ὂν”, with Blaydes, nor “οὐκ ὄπωπ᾽” to “εἰσόπωπ᾽” with Todt. τῶν … κακῶν, sc. “ὄν”, possessive (or ‘partitive’) gen. with ὄπωπα,—‘which I have not seen as belonging to, being in the number of,’ our woes. For the omission of “ὄν” cp. O. C. 694 “ἔστιν δ᾽ οἷον ἐγὼ γᾶς Ἀσίας οὐκ ἐπακούω”.
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Sophocles: The Plays and Fragments, with critical notes, commentary, and translation in English prose. Part III: The Antigone. Sir Richard C. Jebb. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1900.
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