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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ῥίζας ὃ τέτατο φάος ἐν Οἰδίπου δόμοις,
κατʼ αὖ νιν φοινία θεῶν τῶν νερτέρων
ἀμᾷ κόνις λόγου τʼ ἄνοια καὶ φρενῶν ἐρινύς.
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Χορός
605
τεάν, Ζεῦ, δύνασιν τίς ἀνδρῶν ὑπερβασία κατάσχοι;
τὰν οὔθʼ ὕπνος αἱρεῖ ποθʼ ὁ πάντʼ ἀγρεύων,
οὔτε θεῶν ἄκματοι μῆνες, ἀγήρῳ δὲ χρόνῳ
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δυνάστας κατέχεις Ὀλύμπου μαρμαρόεσσαν αἴγλαν.
τό τʼ ἔπειτα καὶ τὸ μέλλον
καὶ τὸ πρὶν ἐπαρκέσει
νόμος ὅδʼ, οὐδὲν ἕρπει
θνατῶν βιότῳ πάμπολύ γʼ ἐκτὸς ἄτας.
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Χορός
615
ἁ γὰρ δὴ πολύπλαγκτος ἐλπὶς πολλοῖς μὲν ὄνασις ἀνδρῶν,
πολλοῖς δʼ ἀπάτα κουφονόων ἐρώτων·
εἰδότι δʼ οὐδὲν ἕρπει, πρὶν πυρὶ θερμῷ πόδα τις
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προσαύσῃ. σοφίᾳ γὰρ ἔκ του κλεινὸν ἔπος πέφανται.
τὸ κακὸν δοκεῖν ποτʼ ἐσθλὸν
τῷδʼ ἔμμεν ὅτῳ φρένας
θεὸς ἄγει πρὸς ἄταν·
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Χορός
625
πράσσει δʼ ὀλίγιστον χρόνον ἐκτὸς ἄτας.
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Χορός
ὅδε μὴν Αἵμων, παίδων τῶν σῶν
νέατον γέννημʼ· ἆρʼ ἀχνύμενος
τάλιδος ἥκει μόρον Ἀντιγόνης,
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ἀπάτης λεχέων ὑπεραλγῶν;
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Κρέων
τάχʼ εἰσόμεσθα μάντεων ὑπέρτερον.
ὦ παῖ, τελείαν ψῆφον ἆρα μὴ κλύων
τῆς μελλονύμφου πατρὶ λυσσαίνων πάρει;
ἢ σοὶ μὲν ἡμεῖς πανταχῇ, δρῶντες φίλοι;
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Αἵμων
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πάτερ, σός εἰμι, καὶ σύ μοι γνώμας ἔχων
χρηστὰς ἀπορθοῖς, αἷς ἔγωγʼ ἐφέψομαι.
ἐμοὶ γὰρ οὐδεὶς ἀξιώσεται γάμος
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