Oedipus at Colonus, Sophocles, creator; Sophocles with an English translation Vol 1. Storr, Francis, 1839-1919, editor, translator. London, New York: William Heinemann Ltd., The Macmillan Company, 1912.
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χαλκοῖς βάθροισι γῆθεν ἐρριζωμένον,
ἔστη κελεύθων ἐν πολυσχίστων μιᾷ,
κοίλου πέλας κρατῆρος, οὗ τὰ Θησέως
Περίθου τε κεῖται πίστʼ ἀεὶ ξυνθήματα.
1595
ἀφʼ οὗ μέσος στὰς τοῦ τε Θορικίου πέτρου
κοίλης τʼ ἀχέρδου κἀπὸ λαΐνου τάφου,
καθέζετʼ· εἶτʼ ἔλυσε δυσπινεῖς στολάς.
κἄπειτʼ ἀΰσας παῖδας ἠνώγει ῥυτῶν
ὑδάτων ἐνεγκεῖν λουτρὰ καὶ χοάς ποθεν·
1600
τὼ δʼ εὐχλόου Δήμητρος εἰς προσόψιον
πάγον μολοῦσαι τάσδʼ ἐπιστολὰς πατρὶ
ταχεῖ ʼπόρευσαν σῦν χρόνῳ, λουτροῖς τέ νιν
ἐσθῆτί τʼ ἐξήσκησαν ᾗ νομίζεται.
ἐπεὶ δὲ παντὸς εἶχε δρῶντος ἡδονὴν
1605
κοὐκ ἦν ἔτʼ οὐδὲν ἀργὸν ὧν ἐφίετο,
κτύπησε μὲν Ζεὺς χθόνιος αἱ δὲ παρθένοι
ῥίγησαν, ὡς ἤκουσαν· ἐς δὲ γούνατα
πατρὸς πεσοῦσαι ʼκλαιον οὐδʼ ἀνίεσαν
στέρνων ἀραγμοὺς οὐδὲ παμμήκεις γόους.
1610
ὁ δʼ ὡς ἀκούει φθόγγον ἐξαίφνης πικρόν,
πτύξας ἐπʼ αὐταῖς χεῖρας εἶπεν· ὦ τέκνα,
οὐκ ἔστʼ ἔθʼ ὑμῖν τῇδʼ ἐν ἡμέρᾳ πατήρ.
ὄλωλε γὰρ δὴ πάντα τἀμά, κοὐκέτι
τὴν δυσπόνητον ἕξετʼ ἀμφʼ ἐμοὶ τροφήν·
1615
σκληρὰν μέν, οἶδα, παῖδες· ἀλλʼ ἓν γὰρ μόνον
τὰ πάντα λύει ταῦτʼ ἔπος μοχθήματα.
τὸ γὰρ φιλεῖν οὐκ ἔστιν ἐξ ὅτου πλέον
ἢ τοῦδε τἀνδρὸς ἔσχεθʼ, οὗ τητώμεναι
τὸ λοιπὸν ἤδη τὸν βίον διάζετον.
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Ἄγγελος
1620
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