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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νικᾷ δʼ ἐναργὴς βλεφάρων ἵμερος εὐλέκτρου
νύμφας, τῶν μεγάλων πάρεδρος ἐν ἀρχαῖς
800
θεσμῶν. ἄμαχος γὰρ ἐμπαίζει θεὸς, Ἀφροδίτα.
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Χορός
νῦν δʼ ἤδη ʼγὼ καὐτὸς θεσμῶν
ἔξω φέρομαι τάδʼ ὁρῶν ἴσχειν δʼ
οὐκέτι πηγὰς δύναμαι δάκρυ
τὸν παγκοίτην ὅθʼ ὁρῶ θάλαμον
805
τήνδʼ Ἀντιγόνην ἀνύτουσαν.
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Ἀντιγόνη
ὁρᾶτʼ ἔμʼ, ὦ γᾶς πατρίας πολῖται, τὰν νεάταν ὁδὸν
στείχουσαν, νέατον δὲ φέγγος λεύσσουσαν ἀελίου,
810
κοὔποτʼ αὖθις. ἀλλά μʼ ὁ παγκοίτας Ἅιδας ζῶσαν ἄγει
τὰν Ἀχέροντος
ἀκτάν, οὔθʼ ὑμεναίων ἔγκληρον, οὔτʼ ἐπινύμφειός
815
πώ μέ τις ὕμνος ὕμνησεν, ἀλλʼ Ἀχέροντι νυμφεύσω.
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Χορός
οὐκοῦν κλεινὴ καὶ ἔπαινον ἔχουσʼ
ἐς τόδʼ ἀπέρχει κεῦθος νεκύων,
οὔτε φθινάσιν πληγεῖσα νόσοις
820
οὔτε ξιφέων ἐπίχειρα λαχοῦσʼ,
ἀλλʼ αὐτόνομος ζῶσα μόνη δὴ
θνητῶν Ἅιδην καταβήσει.
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Ἀντιγόνη
ἤκουσα δὴ λυγρότατον ὀλέσθαι τὰν Φρυγίαν ξέναν
825
Ταντάλου Σιπύλῳ πρὸς ἄκρῳ, τὰν κισσὸς ὡς ἀτενὴς
πετραία βλάστα δάμασεν, καί νιν ὄμβροι τακομέναν,
ὡς φάτις ἀνδρῶν,
830
χιών τʼ οὐδαμὰ λείπει, τέγγει δʼ ὑπʼ ὀφρύσι παγκλαύτοις
δειράδας· ᾇ με δαίμων ὁμοιοτάταν κατευνάζει.
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Χορός
ἀλλὰ θεός τοι καὶ θεογεννής,
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ἡμεῖς δὲ βροτοὶ καὶ θνητογενεῖς.
καίτοι φθιμένῃ μέγα κἀκοῦσαι
τοῖς ἰσοθέοις σύγκληρα λαχεῖν.
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