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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καὶ ἐν ἀφροσύνῃ καθελόντες;
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Φύλαξ
ἥδʼ ἔστʼ ἐκείνη τοὔργον ἡ ʼξειργασμένη·
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τήνδʼ εἵλομεν θάπτουσαν. ἀλλὰ ποῦ Κρέων;
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Χορός
ὅδʼ ἐκ δόμων ἄψορρος εἰς δέον περᾷ.
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Κρέων
τί δʼ ἔστι; ποίᾳ ξύμμετρος προὔβην τύχῃ;
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Φύλαξ
ἄναξ, βροτοῖσιν οὐδέν ἔστʼ ἀπώμοτον.
ψεύδει γὰρ ἡ ʼπίνοια τὴν γνώμην· ἐπεὶ
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σχολῇ ποθʼ ἥξειν δεῦρʼ ἂν ἐξηύχουν ἐγὼ
ταῖς σαῖς ἀπειλαῖς αἷς ἐχειμάσθην τότε
ἀλλʼ ἡ γὰρ ἐκτὸς καὶ παρʼ ἐλπίδας χαρὰ
ἔοικεν ἄλλῃ μῆκος οὐδὲν ἡδονῇ,
ἥκω, διʼ ὅρκων καίπερ ὢν ἀπώμοτος,
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κόρην ἄγων τήνδʼ, ἣ καθῃρέθη τάφον
κοσμοῦσα. κλῆρος ἐνθάδʼ οὐκ ἐπάλλετο,
ἀλλʼ ἔστʼ ἐμὸν θοὔρμαιον, οὐκ ἄλλου, τόδε.
καὶ νῦν, ἄναξ, τήνδʼ αὐτός, ὡς θέλεις, λαβὼν
καὶ κρῖνε κἀξέλεγχʼ· ἐγὼ δʼ ἐλεύθερος
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δίκαιός εἰμι τῶνδʼ ἀπηλλάχθαι κακῶν.
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Κρέων
ἄγεις δὲ τήνδε τῷ τρόπῳ πόθεν λαβών;
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Φύλαξ
αὕτη τὸν ἄνδρʼ ἔθαπτε· πάντʼ ἐπίστασαι.
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Κρέων
ἦ καὶ ξυνίης καὶ λέγεις ὀρθῶς ἃ φῄς;
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Φύλαξ
ταύτην γʼ ἰδὼν θάπτουσαν ὃν σὺ τὸν νεκρὸν
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ἀπεῖπας. ἆρʼ ἔνδηλα καὶ σαφῆ λέγω;
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Κρέων
καὶ πῶς ὁρᾶται κἀπίληπτος ᾑρέθη;
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Φύλαξ
τοιοῦτον ἦν τὸ πρᾶγμʼ. ὅπως γὰρ ἥκομεν,
πρὸς σοῦ τὰ δείνʼ ἐκεῖνʼ ἐπηπειλημένοι,
πᾶσαν κόνιν σήραντες, ἣ κατεῖχε τὸν
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νέκυν, μυδῶν τε σῶμα γυμνώσαντες εὖ,
καθήμεθʼ ἄκρων ἐκ πάγων ὑπήνεμοι,
ὀσμὴν ἀπʼ αὐτοῦ μὴ βάλοι πεφευγότες,
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