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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κισσήρεις ὄχθαι χλωρά τʼ ἀκτὰ
πολυστάφυλος πέμπει,
ἀμβρότων ἐπέων
1135
εὐαζόντων Θηβαΐας ἐπισκοποῦντʼ ἀγυιάς·
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Χορός
τὰν ἐκ πᾶσαι τιμᾷς ὑπερτάταν πόλεων
ματρὶ σὺν κεραυνίᾳ·
1140
καὶ νῦν, ὡς βιαίας ἔχεται
πάνδαμος πόλις ἐπὶ νόσου,
μολεῖν καθαρσίῳ ποδὶ Παρνασίαν ὑπὲρ κλιτὺν
1145
ἢ στονόεντα πορθμόν.
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Χορός
ἰὼ πῦρ πνειόντων χοράγʼ ἄστρων, νυχίων
φθεγμάτων ἐπίσκοπε,
παῖ Διὸς γένεθλον, προφάνηθʼ
1150
ὦναξ, σαῖς ἅμα περιπόλοις
Θυίαισιν, αἵ σε μαινόμεναι πάννυχοι χορεύουσι
τὸν ταμίαν Ἴακχον.
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Ἄγγελος
1155
Κάδμου πάροικοι καὶ δόμων Ἀμφίονος,
οὐκ ἔσθʼ ὁποῖον στάντʼ ἂν ἀνθρώπου βίον
οὔτʼ αἰνέσαιμʼ ἂν οὔτε μεμψαίμην ποτέ.
τύχη γὰρ ὀρθοῖ καὶ τύχη καταρρέπει
τὸν εὐτυχοῦντα τόν τε δυστυχοῦντʼ ἀεί·
1160
καὶ μάντις οὐδεὶς τῶν καθεστώτων βροτοῖς.
Κρέων γὰρ ἦν ζηλωτός, ὡς ἐμοί, ποτέ,
σώσας μὲν ἐχθρῶν τήνδε Καδμείαν χθόνα
λαβών τε χώρας παντελῆ μοναρχίαν
ηὔθυνε, θάλλων εὐγενεῖ τέκνων σπορᾷ·
1165
καὶ νῦν ἀφεῖται πάντα. τὰς γὰρ ἡδονὰς
ὅταν προδῶσιν ἄνδρες, οὐ τίθημʼ ἐγὼ
ζῆν τοῦτον, ἀλλʼ ἔμψυχον ἡγοῦμαι νεκρόν.
πλούτει τε γὰρ κατʼ οἶκον, εἰ βούλει, μέγα
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