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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μή τι πέρα χρέος
ἐμᾷ πόλει προσάψῃς.
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Ἀντιγόνη
ὦ ξένοι
αἰδόφρονες, ἀλλʼ ἐπεὶ
γεραὸν πατέρα τόνδʼ ἐμὸν
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οὐκ ἀνέτλατʼ, ἔργων
ἀκόντων ἀΐοντες αὐδάν,
ἀλλʼ ἐμὲ τὰν μελέαν, ἱκετεύομεν, ὦ ξένοι, οἰκτίραθʼ, ἃ
πατρὸς ὑπὲρ τοὐμοῦ μόνου
ἄντομαι οὐκ ἀλαοῖς προσορωμένα
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ὄμμα σὸν ὄμμασιν, ὥς τις ἀφʼ αἵματος
ὑμετέρου προφανεῖσα, τὸν ἄθλιον
αἰδοῦς κῦρσαι· ἐν ὔμμι γὰρ ὡς θεῷ
κείμεθα τλάμονες. ἀλλʼ ἴτε, νεύσατε τὰν ἀδόκητον χάριν·
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πρός σʼ ὅ τι σοι φίλον ἐκ σέθεν ἄντομαι,
ἢ τέκνον ἢ λέχος ἢ χρέος ἢ θεός·
οὐ γὰρ ἴδοις ἂν ἀθρῶν βροτὸν ὅστις ἄν,
εἰ θεὸς ἄγοι,
ἐκφυγεῖν δύναιτο.
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Χορός
ἀλλʼ ἴσθι, τέκνον Οἰδίπου, σέ τʼ ἐξ ἴσου
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οἰκτίρομεν καὶ τόνδε συμφορᾶς χάριν·
τὰ δʼ ἐκ θεῶν τρέμοντες οὐ σθένοιμεν ἂν
φωνεῖν πέρα τῶν πρὸς σὲ νῦν εἰρημένων.
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Οἰδίπους
τί δῆτα δόξης ἢ τί κληδόνος καλῆς
μάτην ῥεούσης ὠφέλημα γίγνεται,
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εἰ τάς γʼ Ἀθήνας φασὶ θεοσεβεστάτας
εἶναι, μόνας δὲ τὸν κακούμενον ξένον
σῴζειν οἵας τε καὶ μόνας ἀρκεῖν ἔχειν;
κἄμοιγε ποῦ τοῦτʼ ἐστίν, οἵτινες βάθρων
ἐκ τῶνδέ μʼ ἐξάραντες εἶτʼ ἐλαύνετε,
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