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Χορός

ἁνήρ, ἄναξ, βέβηκε δεινὰ θεσπίσας:
ἐπιστάμεσθα δ᾽, ἐξ ὅτου λευκὴν ἐγὼ
τήνδ᾽ ἐκ μελαίνης ἀμφιβάλλομαι τρίχα,
μή πώ ποτ᾽ αὐτὸν ψεῦδος ἐς πόλιν λακεῖν.

Κρέων

1095ἔγνωκα καὐτὸς καὶ ταράσσομαι φρένας.
τό τ᾽ εἰκαθεῖν γὰρ δεινόν, ἀντιστάντα δὲ
ἄτῃ πατάξαι θυμὸν ἐν δεινῷ πάρα.

Χορός

εὐβουλίας δεῖ, παῖ Μενοικέως, λαβεῖν.

Κρέων

τί δῆτα χρὴ δρᾶν; φράζε. πείσομαι δ᾽ ἐγώ.

Χορός

1100ἐλθὼν κόρην μὲν ἐκ κατώρυχος στέγης
ἄνες, κτίσον δὲ τῷ προκειμένῳ, τάφον.

Κρέων

καὶ ταῦτ᾽ ἐπαινεῖς καὶ δοκεῖς παρεικαθεῖν;

Χορός

ὅσον γ᾽, ἄναξ, τάχιστα: συντέμνουσι γὰρ
θεῶν ποδώκεις τοὺς κακόφρονας βλάβαι.

Κρέων

1105οἴμοι: μόλις μέν, καρδίας δ᾽ ἐξίσταμαι
τὸ δρᾶν: ἀνάγκῃ δ᾽ οὐχὶ δυσμαχητέον.

Χορός

δρᾶ νυν τάδ᾽ ἐλθὼν μηδ᾽ ἐπ᾽ ἄλλοισιν τρέπε.

Κρέων

ὧδ᾽ ὡς ἔχω στείχοιμ᾽ ἄν: ἴτ᾽ ἴτ᾽ ὀπάονες,
οἵ τ᾽ ὄντες οἵ τ᾽ ἀπόντες, ἀξίνας χεροῖν
1110ὁρμᾶσθ᾽ ἑλόντες εἰς ἐπόψιον τόπον.
ἐγὼ δ᾽, ἐπειδὴ δόξα τῇδ᾽ ἐπεστράφη,
αὐτός τ᾽ ἔδησα καὶ παρὼν ἐκλύσομαι.
δέδοικα γὰρ μὴ τοὺς καθεστῶτας νόμους
ἄριστον ᾖ σῴζοντα τὸν βίον τελεῖν.

Sophocles. Sophocles. Vol 1: Oedipus the king. Oedipus at Colonus. Antigone. With an English translation by F. Storr. The Loeb classical library, 20. Francis Storr. London; New York. William Heinemann Ltd.; The Macmillan Company. 1912.

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Commentary references to this page (5):
- Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Antigone, 563
- Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Electra, 105
- Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Electra, 575
- Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Philoctetes, 1252-1253
- Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Philoctetes, 329
Cross-references to this page (2):
- Herbert Weir Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges, VERBAL NOUNS
- William Watson Goodwin, Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb, Chapter V
Cross-references in general dictionaries to this page (3):
- LSJ, ἐξίστημι
- LSJ, καρδί-α
- LSJ, μόλι^ς

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