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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αἰαῖ, ὀλωλότʼ ἄνδρʼ ἐπεξειργάσω.
τί φής, παῖ; τίνʼ αὖ λέγεις μοι νέον,
1290
αἰαῖ αἰαῖ,
σφάγιον ἐπʼ ὀλέθρῳ
γυναικεῖον ἀμφικεῖσθαι μόρον;
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Χορός
ὁρᾶν πάρεστιν· οὐ γὰρ ἐν μυχοῖς ἔτι.
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Κρέων
οἴμοι,
1295
κακὸν τόδʼ ἄλλο δεύτερον βλέπω τάλας.
τίς ἄρα, τίς με πότμος ἔτι περιμένει;
ἔχω μὲν ἐν χείρεσσιν ἀρτίως τέκνον,
τάλας, τὸν δʼ ἔναντα προσβλέπω νεκρόν.
1300
φεῦ φεῦ μᾶτερ ἀθλία, φεῦ τέκνον.
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Ἐξάγγελος
ἡ δʼ ὀξυθήκτῳ βωμία περὶ ξίφει
λύει κελαινὰ βλέφαρα, κωκύσασα μὲν
τοῦ πρὶν θανόντος Μεγαρέως κλεινὸν λάχος,
αὖθις δὲ τοῦδε, λοίσθιον δὲ σοὶ κακὰς
1305
πράξεις ἐφυμνήσασα τῷ παιδοκτόνῳ.
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Κρέων
αἰαῖ αἰαῖ,
ἀνέπταν φόβῳ. τί μʼ οὐκ ἀνταίαν
ἔπαισέν τις ἀμφιθήκτῳ ξίφει;
1310
δείλαιος ἐγώ, αἰαῖ,
δειλαίᾳ δὲ συγκέκραμαι δύᾳ.
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Ἐξάγγελος
ὡς αἰτίαν γε τῶνδε κἀκείνων ἔχων
πρὸς τῆς θανούσης τῆσδʼ ἐπεσκήπτου μόρων
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Κρέων
ποίῳ δὲ κἀπελύσατʼ ἐν φοναῖς τρόπῳ;
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Ἐξάγγελος
1315
παίσας ὑφʼ ἧπαρ αὐτόχειρ αὑτήν, ὅπως
παιδὸς τόδʼ ᾔσθετʼ ὀξυκώκυτον πάθος.
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Κρέων
ὤμοι μοι, τάδʼ οὐκ ἐπʼ ἄλλον βροτῶν
ἐμᾶς ἁρμόσει ποτʼ ἐξ αἰτίας.
ἐγὼ γάρ σʼ ἐγὼ ἔκανον, ὢ μέλεος,
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