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 παῖς ἀπʼ ἄλλου φωτός, εἰ τοῦδʼ ἤμπλακον,
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μητρὸς δʼ ἐν Ἅιδου καὶ πατρὸς κεκευθότοιν
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οὐκ ἔστʼ ἀδελφὸς ὅστις ἂν βλάστοι ποτέ.
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τοιῷδε μέντοι σʼ ἐκπροτιμήσασʼ ἐγὼ
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νόμῳ Κρέοντι ταῦτʼ ἔδοξʼ ἁμαρτάνειν
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καὶ δεινὰ τολμᾶν, ὦ κασίγνητον κάρα.
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καὶ νῦν ἄγει με διὰ χερῶν οὕτω λαβὼν
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ἄλεκτρον, ἀνυμέναιον, οὔτε του γάμου
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μέρος λαχοῦσαν οὔτε παιδείου τροφῆς,
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ἀλλʼ ὧδʼ ἔρημος πρὸς φίλων ἡ δύσμορος
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ζῶσʼ εἰς θανόντων ἔρχομαι κατασκαφάς.
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ποίαν παρεξελθοῦσα δαιμόνων δίκην;
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τί χρή με τὴν δύστηνον ἐς θεοὺς ἔτι
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βλέπειν; τίνʼ αὐδᾶν ξυμμάχων; ἐπεί γε δὴ
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τὴν δυσσέβειαν εὐσεβοῦσʼ, ἐκτησάμην.
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ἀλλʼ εἰ μὲν οὖν τάδʼ ἐστὶν ἐν θεοῖς καλά,
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παθόντες ἂν ξυγγνοῖμεν ἡμαρτηκότες·
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εἰ δʼ οἵδʼ ἁμαρτάνουσι, μὴ πλείω κακὰ
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πάθοιεν ἢ καὶ δρῶσιν ἐκδίκως ἐμέ.
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Χορός
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ἔτι τῶν αὐτῶν ἀνέμων αὑταὶ
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ψυχῆς ῥιπαὶ τήνδε γʼ ἔχουσιν.
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Κρέων
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τοιγὰρ τούτων τοῖσιν ἄγουσιν
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κλαύμαθʼ ὑπάρξει βραδυτῆτος ὕπερ.
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Ἀντιγόνη
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οἴμοι, θανάτου τοῦτʼ ἐγγυτάτω
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τοὔπος ἀφῖκται.
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Χορός
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θαρσεῖν οὐδὲν παραμυθοῦμαι
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μὴ οὐ τάδε ταύτῃ κατακυροῦσθαι.
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Ἀντιγόνη
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ὦ γῆς Θήβης ἄστυ πατρῷον
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καὶ θεοὶ προγενεῖς,
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ἄγομαι δὴ κοὐκέτι μέλλω.
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