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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εἰ θέμις εἰπεῖν, οὐκ ἀλλοτρίαν
1260
ἄτην, ἀλλʼ αὐτὸς ἁμαρτών.
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Κρέων
ἰὼ
φρενῶν δυσφρόνων ἁμαρτήματα
στερεὰ θανατόεντʼ,
ὦ κτανόντας τε καὶ
θανόντας βλέποντες ἐμφυλίους.
1265
ὤμοι ἐμῶν ἄνολβα βουλευμάτων.
ἰὼ παῖ, νέος νέῳ ξὺν μόρῳ
αἰαῖ αἰαῖ,
ἔθανες, ἀπελύθης
ἐμαῖς οὐδὲ σαῖς δυσβουλίαις.
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Χορός
1270
οἴμʼ ὡς ἔοικας ὀψὲ τὴν δίκην ἰδεῖν.
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Κρέων
οἴμοι,
ἔχω μαθὼν δείλαιος· ἐν δʼ ἐμῷ κάρᾳ
θεὸς τότʼ ἄρα τότε μέγα βάρος μʼ ἔχων
ἔπαισεν, ἐν δʼ ἔσεισεν ἀγρίαις ὁδοῖς,
1275
οἴμοι, λακπάτητον ἀντρέπων χαράν.
φεῦ φεῦ, ὦ πόνοι βροτῶν δύσπονοι.
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Ἐξάγγελος
ὦ δέσποθʼ, ὡς ἔχων τε καὶ κεκτημένος,
τὰ μὲν πρὸ χειρῶν τάδε φέρων, τὰ δʼ ἐν δόμοις
1280
ἔοικας ἥκειν καὶ τάχʼ ὄψεσθαι κακά.
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Κρέων
τί δʼ ἔστιν αὖ κάκιον ἐκ κακῶν ἔτι;
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Ἐξάγγελος
γυνὴ τέθνηκε, τοῦδε παμμήτωρ νεκροῦ,
δύστηνος, ἄρτι νεοτόμοισι πλήγμασιν.
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Κρέων
ἰώ.
ἰὼ δυσκάθαρτος Ἅιδου λιμήν,
1285
τί μʼ ἄρα τί μʼ ὀλέκεις;
ὦ κακάγγελτά μοι
προπέμψας ἄχη, τίνα θροεῖς λόγον;
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