Antigone, Sophocles, creator; Sophocles with an English translation Vol 1; Storr, Francis, 1839-1919, editor, translator. London, New York: W. Heinemann, The Macmillan Co. 1912.
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ὦ κοινὸν αὐτάδελφον Ἰσμήνης κάρα,
ἆρʼ οἶσθʼ ὅ τι Ζεὺς τῶν ἀπʼ Οἰδίπου κακῶν
ὁποῖον οὐχὶ νῷν ἔτι ζώσαιν τελεῖ;
οὐδὲν γὰρ οὔτʼ ἀλγεινὸν οὔτʼ ἄτης ἄτερ
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οὔτʼ αἰσχρὸν οὔτʼ ἄτιμόν ἐσθʼ, ὁποῖον οὐ
τῶν σῶν τε κἀμῶν οὐκ ὄπωπʼ ἐγὼ κακῶν.
καὶ νῦν τί τοῦτʼ αὖ φασι πανδήμῳ πόλει
κήρυγμα θεῖναι τὸν στρατηγὸν ἀρτίως;
ἔχεις τι κεἰσήκουσας; ἤ σε λανθάνει
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πρὸς τοὺς φίλους στείχοντα τῶν ἐχθρῶν κακά;
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Ἰσμήνη
ἐμοὶ μὲν οὐδεὶς μῦθος, Ἀντιγόνη φίλων
οὔθʼ ἡδὺς οὔτʼ ἀλγεινὸς ἵκετʼ ἐξ ὅτου
δυοῖν ἀδελφοῖν ἐστερήθημεν δύο,
μιᾷ θανόντοιν ἡμέρᾳ διπλῇ χερί·
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ἐπεὶ δὲ φροῦδός ἐστιν Ἀργείων στρατὸς
ἐν νυκτὶ τῇ νῦν, οὐδὲν οἶδʼ ὑπέρτερον,
οὔτʼ εὐτυχοῦσα μᾶλλον οὔτʼ ἀτωμένη.
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Ἀντιγόνη
ᾔδη καλῶς, καί σʼ ἐκτὸς αὐλείων πυλῶν
τοῦδʼ οὕνεκʼ ἐξέπεμπον, ὡς μόνη κλύοις.
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Ἰσμήνη
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τί δʼ ἔστι; δηλοῖς γάρ τι καλχαίνουσʼ ἔπος.
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Ἀντιγόνη
οὐ γὰρ τάφου νῷν τὼ κασιγνήτω Κρέων
τὸν μὲν προτίσας, τὸν δʼ ἀτιμάσας ἔχει;
Ἐτεοκλέα μέν, ὡς λέγουσι, σὺν δίκης
χρήσει δικαίᾳ καὶ νόμου κατὰ χθονὸς
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ἔκρυψε τοῖς ἔνερθεν ἔντιμον νεκροῖς·
τὸν δʼ ἀθλίως θανόντα Πολυνείκους νέκυν
ἀστοῖσί φασιν ἐκκεκηρῦχθαι τὸ μὴ
τάφῳ καλύψαι μηδὲ κωκῦσαί τινα,
ἐᾶν δʼ ἄκλαυτον, ἄταφον, οἰωνοῖς γλυκὺν
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θησαυρὸν εἰσορῶσι πρὸς χάριν βορᾶς.
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