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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οὐκοῦν, ὅταν δὴ μὴ σθένω, πεπαύσομαι.
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Ἰσμήνη
ἀρχὴν δὲ θηρᾶν οὐ πρέπει τἀμήχανα.
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Ἀντιγόνη
εἰ ταῦτα λέξεις, ἐχθαρεῖ μὲν ἐξ ἐμοῦ,
ἐχθρὰ δὲ τῷ θανόντι προσκείσει δίκῃ.
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ἀλλʼ ἔα με καὶ τὴν ἐξ ἐμοῦ δυσβουλίαν
παθεῖν τὸ δεινὸν τοῦτο· πείσομαι γὰρ οὐ
τοσοῦτον οὐδὲν ὥστε μὴ οὐ καλῶς θανεῖν.
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Ἰσμήνη
ἀλλʼ εἰ δοκεῖ σοι, στεῖχε· τοῦτο δʼ ἴσθʼ ὅτι
ἄνους μὲν ἔρχει, τοῖς φίλοις δʼ ὀρθῶς φίλη.
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Χορός
100
ἀκτὶς ἀελίου, τὸ κάλλιστον ἑπταπύλῳ φανὲν
Θήβᾳ τῶν προτέρων φάος,
ἐφάνθης ποτʼ, ὦ χρυσέας
ἁμέρας βλέφαρον,
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Διρκαίων ὑπὲρ ῥεέθρων μολοῦσα,
τὸν λεύκασπιν Ἀργόθεν ἐκβάντα φῶτα πανσαγίᾳ
φυγάδα πρόδρομον ὀξυτέρῳ κινήσασα χαλινῷ·
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Χορός
110
ὃς ἐφʼ ἡμετέρᾳ γᾷ Πολυνείκους
ἀρθεὶς νεικέων ἐξ ἀμφιλόγων
ὀξέα κλάζων
ἀετὸς εἰς γᾶν ὣς ὑπερέπτα,
λευκῆς χιόνος πτέρυγι στεγανός,
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πολλῶν μεθʼ ὅπλων
ξύν θʼ ἱπποκόμοις κορύθεσσιν.
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Χορός
στὰς δʼ ὑπὲρ μελάθρων φονώσαισιν ἀμφιχανὼν κύκλῳ
λόγχαις ἑπτάπυλον στόμα
ἔβα, πρίν ποθʼ ἁμετέρων
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αἱμάτων γένυσιν πλησθῆναί τε καὶ στεφάνωμα πύργων
πευκάενθʼ Ἥφαιστον ἑλεῖν. τοῖος ἀμφὶ νῶτʼ ἐτάθη
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πάταγος Ἄρεος, ἀντιπάλῳ δυσχείρωμα δράκοντος.
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Χορός
Ζεὺς γὰρ μεγάλης γλώσσης κόμπους
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