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καὐτὸς θεσμῶν ἔξω: i.e. like Haemon, I also am moved to rebel against Creon's sentence, and to take Antigone's part.

φέρομαι, a proverbial image from the race-course: Aristoph. Ran. 993μόνον ὅπως μή σ᾽ θυμὸς ἁρπάσας ἐκτὸς οἴσει τῶν ἐλαῶν”, because some olives marked the limits of the course at the end of the race-course (schol. ad loc.), where the chariots turned, and where the horses were most likely to swerve or bolt. Plat. Crat. 414Bοὐ γὰρ ἐπισκοπεῖς με ὥσπερ ἐκτὸς δρόμου φερόμενον, ἐπειδὰν λείου ἐπιλάβωμαι” (when I get on smooth ground). Aesch. PV 883ἔξω δὲ δρόμου φέρομαι λύσσης πνεύματι μάργῳ”. Eur. Bacch. 853ἔξω δ᾽ ἐλαύνων τοῦ φρονεῖν.

ἴσχειν δ᾽: cp. 817ἔχουσ᾽”: 820 “λαχοῦσ᾽”, by the rule of continuity (“συνάφεια”) in anapaestic systems. In lyrics such elision is rarer (see on 350).


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    • Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, 883
    • Aristophanes, Frogs, 993
    • Euripides, Bacchae, 853
    • Plato, Cratylus, 414b
    • Sophocles, Antigone, 817
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