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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τί γάρ, ὅτῳ μήτʼ Ἄρης
1680
μήτε πόντος ἀντέκυρσεν,
ἄσκοποι δὲ πλάκες ἔμαρψαν
ἐν ἀφανεῖ τινι μόρῳ φερόμενον.
τάλαινα· νῶν δʼ ὀλεθρία
νὺξ ἐπʼ ὄμμασιν βέβακε.
1685
πῶς γὰρ ἤ τινʼ ἀπίαν
γᾶν ἢ πόντιον κλύδωνʼ ἀλώμεναι, βίου δύσοιστον ἕξομεν τροφάν;
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Ἰσμήνη
οὐ κάτοιδα. κατά με φόνιος
Ἀΐδας ἕλοι πατρὶ ξυνθανεῖν γεραιῷ
1690
τάλαιναν, ὡς ἔμοιγʼ ὁ μέλλων βίος οὐ βιωτός.
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Χορός
ὦ διδύμα τέκνων ἀρίστα,
τὸ φέρον ἐκ θεοῦ φέρειν,
1695
μηδὲν ἄγαν φλέγεσθον· οὔ τοι κατάμεμπτʼ ἔβητον.
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Ἀντιγόνη
πόθος τοὶ καὶ κακῶν ἄρʼ ἦν τις.
1700
καὶ γὰρ ὃ μηδαμὰ δὴ φίλον ἦν φίλον,
ὁπότε γε καὶ τὸν ἐν χεροῖν κατεῖχον.
ὦ πάτερ, ὦ φίλος,
ὦ τὸν ἀεὶ κατὰ γᾶς σκότον εἱμένος·
οὐδέ γʼ ἔνερθʼ ἀφίλητος ἐμοί ποτε
1705
καὶ τᾷδε μὴ κυρήσῃς.
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Χορός
ἔπραξεν;
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Ἀντιγόνη
ἔπραξεν οἷον ἤθελεν.
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Χορός
τὸ ποῖον;
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Ἀντιγόνη
ἇς ἔχρῃζε γᾶς ἐπὶ ξένας
ἔθανε· κοίταν δʼ ἔχει
νέρθεν εὐσκίαστον αἰέν,
οὐδὲ πένθος ἔλιπʼ ἄκλαυτον.
ἀνὰ γὰρ ὄμμα σε τόδʼ, ὦ πάτερ, ἐμὸν
1710
στένει δακρῦον, οὐδʼ ἔχω
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