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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910
καὶ παῖς ἀπʼ ἄλλου φωτός, εἰ τοῦδʼ ἤμπλακον,
μητρὸς δʼ ἐν Ἅιδου καὶ πατρὸς κεκευθότοιν
οὐκ ἔστʼ ἀδελφὸς ὅστις ἂν βλάστοι ποτέ.
τοιῷδε μέντοι σʼ ἐκπροτιμήσασʼ ἐγὼ
νόμῳ Κρέοντι ταῦτʼ ἔδοξʼ ἁμαρτάνειν
915
καὶ δεινὰ τολμᾶν, ὦ κασίγνητον κάρα.
καὶ νῦν ἄγει με διὰ χερῶν οὕτω λαβὼν
ἄλεκτρον, ἀνυμέναιον, οὔτε του γάμου
μέρος λαχοῦσαν οὔτε παιδείου τροφῆς,
ἀλλʼ ὧδʼ ἔρημος πρὸς φίλων ἡ δύσμορος
920
ζῶσʼ εἰς θανόντων ἔρχομαι κατασκαφάς.
ποίαν παρεξελθοῦσα δαιμόνων δίκην;
τί χρή με τὴν δύστηνον ἐς θεοὺς ἔτι
βλέπειν; τίνʼ αὐδᾶν ξυμμάχων; ἐπεί γε δὴ
τὴν δυσσέβειαν εὐσεβοῦσʼ, ἐκτησάμην.
925
ἀλλʼ εἰ μὲν οὖν τάδʼ ἐστὶν ἐν θεοῖς καλά,
παθόντες ἂν ξυγγνοῖμεν ἡμαρτηκότες·
εἰ δʼ οἵδʼ ἁμαρτάνουσι, μὴ πλείω κακὰ
πάθοιεν ἢ καὶ δρῶσιν ἐκδίκως ἐμέ.
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Χορός
ἔτι τῶν αὐτῶν ἀνέμων αὑταὶ
930
ψυχῆς ῥιπαὶ τήνδε γʼ ἔχουσιν.
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Κρέων
τοιγὰρ τούτων τοῖσιν ἄγουσιν
κλαύμαθʼ ὑπάρξει βραδυτῆτος ὕπερ.
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Ἀντιγόνη
οἴμοι, θανάτου τοῦτʼ ἐγγυτάτω
τοὔπος ἀφῖκται.
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Χορός
935
θαρσεῖν οὐδὲν παραμυθοῦμαι
μὴ οὐ τάδε ταύτῃ κατακυροῦσθαι.
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Ἀντιγόνη
ὦ γῆς Θήβης ἄστυ πατρῷον
καὶ θεοὶ προγενεῖς,
ἄγομαι δὴ κοὐκέτι μέλλω.
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