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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ὑπερεχθαίρει, καὶ σφας ἐσιδὼν
πολλῷ ῥεύματι προσνισσομένους
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χρυσοῦ καναχῆς ὑπεροπλίαις,
παλτῷ ῥιπτεῖ πυρὶ βαλβίδων
ἐπʼ ἄκρων ἤδη
νίκην ὁρμῶντʼ ἀλαλάξαι.
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Χορός
ἀντιτύπᾳ δʼ ἐπὶ γᾷ πέσε τανταλωθεὶς
135
πυρφόρος, ὃς τότε μαινομένᾳ ξὺν ὁρμᾷ
βακχεύων ἐπέπνει
ῥιπαῖς ἐχθίστων ἀνέμων.
εἶχε δʼ ἄλλᾳ τὰ μέν,
ἄλλα δʼ ἐπʼ ἄλλοις ἐπενώμα στυφελίζων μέγας Ἄρης
140
δεξιόσειρος.
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Χορός
ἑπτὰ λοχαγοὶ γὰρ ἐφʼ ἑπτὰ πύλαις
ταχθέντες ἴσοι πρὸς ἴσους ἔλιπον
Ζηνὶ τροπαίῳ πάγχαλκα τέλη,
πλὴν τοῖν στυγεροῖν, ὣ πατρὸς ἑνὸς
145
μητρός τε μιᾶς φύντε καθʼ αὑτοῖν
δικρατεῖς λόγχας στήσαντʼ ἔχετον
κοινοῦ θανάτου μέρος ἄμφω.
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Χορός
ἀλλὰ γὰρ ἁ μεγαλώνυμος ἦλθε Νίκα
τᾷ πολυαρμάτῳ ἀντιχαρεῖσα Θήβᾳ,
150
ἐκ μὲν δὴ πολέμων
τῶν νῦν θέσθαι λησμοσύναν,
θεῶν δὲ ναοὺς χοροῖς
παννυχίοις πάντας ἐπέλθωμεν, ὁ Θήβας δʼ ἐλελίχθων
Βάκχιος ἄρχοι.
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Χορός
155
ἀλλʼ ὅδε γὰρ δὴ βασιλεὺς χώρας,
Κρέων ὁ Μενοικέως ἄρχων νεοχμὸς
νεαραῖσι θεῶν ἐπὶ συντυχίαις
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