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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νοῦν ἔσχες; ἐν τῷ συμφορᾶς διεφθάρης;
1230
ἔξελθε, τέκνον, ἱκέσιός σε λίσσομαι.
τὸν δʼ ἀγρίοις ὄσσοισι παπτήνας ὁ παῖς,
πτύσας προσώπῳ κοὐδὲν ἀντειπών, ξίφους
ἕλκει διπλοῦς κνώδοντας. ἐκ δʼ ὁρμωμένου
πατρὸς φυγαῖσιν ἤμπλακʼ· εἶθʼ ὁ δύσμορος
1235
αὑτῷ χολωθείς, ὥσπερ εἶχʼ, ἐπενταθεὶς
ἤρεισε πλευραῖς μέσσον ἔγχος, ἐς δʼ ὑγρὸν
ἀγκῶνʼ ἔτʼ ἔμφρων παρθένῳ προσπτύσσεται.
καὶ φυσιῶν ὀξεῖαν ἐκβάλλει ῥοὴν
λευκῇ παρειᾷ φοινίου σταλάγματος.
1240
κεῖται δὲ νεκρὸς περὶ νεκρῷ, τὰ νυμφικὰ
τέλη λαχὼν δείλαιος εἰν Ἅιδου δόμοις,
δείξας ἐν ἀνθρώποισι τὴν ἀβουλίαν
ὅσῳ μέγιστον ἀνδρὶ πρόσκειται κακόν.
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Χορός
τί τοῦτʼ ἂν εἰκάσειας; ἡ γυνὴ πάλιν
1245
φρούδη, πρὶν εἰπεῖν ἐσθλὸν ἢ κακὸν λόγον.
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Ἄγγελος
καὐτὸς τεθάμβηκʼ· ἐλπίσιν δὲ βόσκομαι
ἄχη τέκνου κλύουσαν ἐς πόλιν γόους
οὐκ ἀξιώσειν, ἀλλʼ ὑπὸ στέγης ἔσω
δμωαῖς προθήσειν πένθος οἰκεῖον στένειν.
1250
γνώμης γὰρ οὐκ ἄπειρος, ὥσθʼ ἁμαρτάνειν.
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Χορός
οὐκ οἶδʼ· ἐμοὶ δʼ οὖν ἥ τʼ ἄγαν σιγὴ βαρὺ
δοκεῖ προσεῖναι χἠ μάτην πολλὴ βοή.
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Ἄγγελος
ἀλλʼ εἰσόμεσθα, μή τι καὶ κατάσχετον
κρυφῇ καλύπτει καρδίᾳ θυμουμένῃ,
1255
δόμους παραστείχοντες· εὖ γὰρ οὖν λέγεις,
καὶ τῆς ἄγαν γάρ ἐστί που σιγῆς βάρος.
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Χορός
καὶ μὴν ὅδʼ ἄναξ αὐτὸς ἐφήκει
μνῆμʼ ἐπίσημον διὰ χειρὸς ἔχων,
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