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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κλαῖον, ματρὸς ἔχοντες ἀνύμφευτον γονάν·
ἁ δὲ σπέρμα μὲν ἀρχαιογόνων
ἄντασʼ Ἐρεχθειδᾶν,
τηλεπόροις δʼ ἐν ἄντροις
τράφη θυέλλαισιν ἐν πατρῴαις
985
Βορεὰς ἅμιππος ὀρθόποδος ὑπὲρ πάγου
θεῶν παῖς. ἀλλὰ κἀπʼ ἐκείνᾳ
Μοῖραι μακραίωνες ἔσχον, ὦ παῖ.
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Τειρεσίας
Θήβης ἄνακτες, ἥκομεν κοινὴν ὁδὸν
δύʼ ἐξ ἑνὸς βλέποντε· τοῖς τυφλοῖσι γὰρ
990
αὕτη κέλευθος ἐκ προηγητοῦ πέλει.
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Κρέων
τί δʼ ἔστιν, ὦ γεραιὲ Τειρεσία, νέον;
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Τειρεσίας
ἐγὼ διδάξω, καὶ σὺ τῷ μάντει πιθοῦ.
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Κρέων
οὔκουν πάρος γε σῆς ἀπεστάτουν φρενός.
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Τειρεσίας
τοιγὰρ διʼ ὀρθῆς τήνδʼ ἐναυκλήρεις πόλιν.
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Κρέων
995
ἔχω πεπονθὼς μαρτυρεῖν ὀνήσιμα.
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Τειρεσίας
φρόνει βεβὼς αὖ νῦν ἐπὶ ξυροῦ τύχης.
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Κρέων
τί δʼ ἔστιν; ὡς ἐγὼ τὸ σὸν φρίσσω στόμα.
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Τειρεσίας
γνώσει, τέχνης σημεῖα τῆς ἐμῆς κλύων.
εἰς γὰρ παλαιὸν θᾶκον ὀρνιθοσκόπον
1000
ἵζων, ἵνʼ ἦν μοι παντὸς οἰωνοῦ λιμήν,
ἀγνῶτʼ ἀκούω φθόγγον ὀρνίθων, κακῷ
κλάζοντας οἴστρῳ καὶ βεβαρβαρωμένῳ.
καὶ σπῶντας ἐν χηλαῖσιν ἀλλήλους φοναῖς
ἔγνων· πτερῶν γὰρ ῥοῖβδος οὐκ ἄσημος ἦν.
1005
εὐθὺς δὲ δείσας ἐμπύρων ἐγευόμην
βωμοῖσι παμφλέκτοισιν· ἐκ δὲ θυμάτων
Ἥφαιστος οὐκ ἔλαμπεν, ἀλλʼ ἐπὶ σποδῷ
μυδῶσα κηκὶς μηρίων ἐτήκετο
κἄτυφε κἀνέπτυε, καὶ μετάρσιοι
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