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ὁρᾶτέ μ᾽, ὦ γᾶς πατρίας πολῖται,
775

τὰν νεάταν ὁδὸν

στείχουσαν, νέατον δὲ φέγ-

γος λεύσσουσαν ἀελίου,

κοὔποτ᾽ αὖθις· ἀλλά μ' ὁ παγ-

κοίτας Ἅιδας ζῶσαν ἄγει
780

τὰν Ἀχέροντος

ἀκτάν, οὔθ᾽ ὑμεναίων

ἔγκληρον, οὔτ᾽ ἐπινυμφίδιός

πώ μέ τις ὕμνος ὕμ-

νησεν, ἀλλ᾽ Ἀχέροντι νυμφεύσω.
785

Antigone. Sophocles. Leipzig. 1884.

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Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) (Greek) (Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884))

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Editions (11)

Greek (L. Benloew, 1858) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (L. Benloew, 1858)) — 806 focus

ὁρᾶτέ μ᾽, ὦ γᾶς πατρίας πολῖται

τὰν νεάταν ὁδὸν

στείχουσαν, νέατον δὲ φέγγος
805

λεύσσουσαν ἀελίου,

οὔ ποτ᾽ αὖθις· ἀλλά μ᾽ ὁ παγκοίτας

ᾍδας ζῶσαν ἄγει

τὰν Ἀχέροντος

ἀκτὰν, οὔθ᾽ ὑμεναίων
810

ἔγκληρον· οὔτ᾽ ἐπινυμφίδιός

πώ μέ τις ὕμνος

ὕμνησεν· ἀλλ᾽ Ἀχέροντι νυμφεύσω.

Χορός

Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 806 focus

ὁρᾶτέ μ᾽, ὦ γᾶς πατρίας πολῖται,
795

τὰν νεάταν ὁδὸν

στείχουσαν, νέατον δὲ φέγγος

λεύσσουσαν ἀελίοιο, κοὔ πο-

τ᾽ αὖτ', ἀλλ᾽ ἔμ᾽ ὁ παγκοίτας

Ἅιδας ζῶσαν ἄγει τὰν Ἀχέροντος
800

ἀκτὰν, οὔθ᾽ ὑμεναίων

ἔγκληρον, οὔτ᾽ ἐπινυμφίδιός

πω μέ τις ὕμνος ὕμνησεν,

ἀλλ᾽ ἦ ᾽χέροντι νυμφεύσω.

Χορός

Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879)) — 806 focus

ὁρᾶτέ μ', ὦ γᾶς πατρίας πολῖται,

τὰν νεάταν ὁδὸν

στείχουσαν, νέατον δὲ φέγγος

λεύσσουσαν ἀελίου,

κοὔποτ᾽ αὖθις· ἀλλά μ᾿ ὁ παγκοίτας Ἅιδας ζῶσαν ἄγει
810

τὰν Ἀχέροντος

ἀκτάν, οὔθ᾽ ὑμεναίων

ἔγκληρον, οὔτ᾽ *ἐπινύμφειός πώ μέ τις ὕμνος
815

ὕμνησεν, ἀλλ᾽ Ἀχέροντι νυμφεύσω.

Χορός

Greek (A. Colonna, 1978) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Colonna, 1978)) — 806 focus

ὁρᾶτ᾽ ἔμ᾽, ὦ γᾶς πατρίας πολῖται,

τὰν νεάταν ὁδὸν

στείχουσαν, νέατον δὲ φέγ-

γος λεύσσουσαν ἀελίου,

κοὔποτ᾽ αὖθις. ἀλλά μ᾽ ὁ παγ-
810

κοίτας Ἅιδας ζῶσαν ἄγει

τὰν Ἀχέροντος

ἀκτάν, οὔθ᾽ ὑμεναίων ἔγ-

κληρον, οὔτ᾽ ἐπὶ νυμφείοις

πώ μέ τις ὕμνος ὕμ-
815

νησεν, ἀλλ᾽ Ἀχέροντι νυμφεύσω.

Χορός

Greek (A. Dain, 1955) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Dain, 1955)) — 806 focus

ὁρᾶτ’ ἔμ’, ὦ γᾶς πατρίας πολῖται,

τὰν νεάταν ὁδὸν

στείχουσαν, νέατον δὲ φέγ-

γος λεύσσουσαν ἀελίου,

κοὔποτ’ αὖθις, ἀλλά μ’ ὁ παγ-
810

κοίτας Ἅιδας ζῶσαν ἄγει

τὰν Ἀχέροντος

ἀκτάν, οὔθ’ ὑμεναίων ἔγ-

κληρον, οὔτ’ ἐπὶ νυμφείοις

πώ μέ τις ὕμνος ὕμ-
815

νησεν, ἀλλ’ Ἀχέροντι νυμφεύσω.

Χορός

Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979)) — 806 focus

ὁρᾶτέ μ᾽, ὦ γᾶς πατρίας πολῖται,

τὰν νεάταν ὁδὸν

στείχουσαν, νέατον δὲ φέγ-

γος λεύσσουσαν ἀελίου,

κοὔποτ᾽ αὖθις, ἀλλά μ᾽ ὁ παγ-
810

κοίτας Ἅιδας ζῶσαν ἄγει

τὰν Ἀχέροντος

ἀκτάν, οὔθ᾽ ὑμεναίων

ἔγκληρον, οὔτ᾽ ἐπὶ νυμ-

φείοις πώ μέ τις ὕμνος ὕ-
815

μνησεν, ἀλλ᾽ Ἀχέροντι νυμφεύσω.

Χορός

Greek (G. Hermann, 1830) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (G. Hermann, 1830)) — 806 focus

ὁρᾶτέ μ᾽, ὦ γᾶς πατρίας πο-
800

λῖται τὰν νεάταν ὁδὸν

στείχουσαν, νέατον δὲ φέγ-

γος λεύσσουσαν ἀελίου,

κοὔποτ᾽ αὖθις· ἀλλά μ᾽ ὁ παγ-

κοίτας Ἅιδας ζῶσαν ἄγει
805

τὰν Ἀχέροντος

ἀκτάν, οὔθ᾽ ὑμεναίων

ἔγκληρον, οὔτ᾽ ἐπινυμφίδιός

πώ μέ τις ὕμνος ὕ-

μνησεν, ἀλλ᾽ Ἀχέροντι νυμφεύσω.
810

Χορός

Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906)) — 806 focus

ὁρᾶτ᾽ ἔμ᾽, ὦ γᾶς πατρίας πολῖται, τὰν νεάταν ὁδὸν 1

στείχουσαν, νέατον δὲ φέγγος λεύσσουσαν ἀελίου, 2

κοὔποτ᾽ αὖθις· ἀλλά μ᾽ ὁ παγκοίτας Ἅιδας ζῶσαν ἄγει 3

τὰν Ἀχέροντος 4

ἀκτάν, οὔθ᾽ ὑμεναίων ἔγκληρον, οὔτ᾽ ἐπινύμφειός 5

πώ μέ τις ὕμνος ὕμνησεν, ἀλλ᾽ Ἀχέροντι νυμφεύσω. 6

Χορός
1

Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924)) — 806 focus

ὁρᾶτ᾽ ἔμ’, ὦ γᾶς πατρίας πολῖται,

τὰν νεάταν ὁδὸν

780 στείχουσαν, νέατον δὲ φέγ-

γος λεύσσουσαν ἀελίου,

κοὔποτ᾽ αὖθις· ἀλλά μ᾽ ὁ παγ-
810

κοίτας Ἅιδας ζῶσαν ἄγει

τὰν Ἀχέροντος

ἀκτάν, οὔθ᾽ ὑμεναίων

ἔγκληρον, οὔτ᾽ ἐπὶ νυμ-

φείοις πώ μέ τις ὕμνος ὕ-
815

μνησεν, ἀλλ᾽ Ἀχέροντι νυμφεύσω.

Χορός

Antigone (OCR draft) Experimental (Antigone) — 806 focus

Ἀντιγόνη

ὁρᾶτʼ ἔμʼ, ὦ γᾶς πατρίας πολῖται, τὰν νεάταν ὁδὸν

στείχουσαν, νέατον δὲ φέγγος λεύσσουσαν ἀελίου,

κοὔποτʼ αὖθις. ἀλλά μʼ ὁ παγκοίτας Ἅιδας ζῶσαν ἄγει
810

τὰν Ἀχέροντος

ἀκτάν, οὔθʼ ὑμεναίων ἔγκληρον, οὔτʼ ἐπινύμφειός

πώ μέ τις ὕμνος ὕμνησεν, ἀλλʼ Ἀχέροντι νυμφεύσω.
815

Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949)) — 806 focus

ὁρᾶτ᾽ ἔμ᾽, ὦ γᾶς πατρίας πολῖται,

τὰν νεάταν ὁδὸν

στείχουσαν, νέατον δὲ φέγ-

γος λεύσσουσαν ἀελίου,

κοὔποτ᾽ αὖθις· ἀλλά μ᾽ ὁ παγ-
810

κοίτας Ἅιδας ζῶσαν ἄγει

τὰν Ἀχέροντος

ἀκτάν, οὔθ᾽ ὑμεναίων

ἔγκληρον, οὔτ᾽ ἐπὶ νυμ-

φείοις πώ μέ τις ὕμνος ὕμ-
815

νησεν, ἀλλ᾽ Ἀχέροντι νυμφεύσω.

Χορός

Translations (11)

German (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 806 focus

O seht mich, o Bürger des Vaterlandes,
775

die ich den letzten Weg

wandle, die ich den letzten Strahl

schaue jetzt von Helios Licht,

und nie wieder! Lebend entführt

Hades, alle lagernd zur Ruh',
780

Acherons Ufern

zu mich; nicht Hymenäen

empfing ich, nimmer ein bräutliches Lied

feierte mich im Lust-

reigen: Acheron führt als Braut heim mich!
785

Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921)) — 806 focus

Miradme, ¡oh ciudadanos de mi patria!, comenzando mi último viaje y mirando por última vez la luz del sol, que ya no veré más; porque Plutón, que a todos recibe, me lleva viva a las orillas del Aqueron- Aqueron- te, sin haber participado de himeneó himeneo y sin que ningún himno nupcial me haya celebrado; pero con Aqueronte me casaré.

CORO

Latin (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Latin (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 806 focus

Adspicite me, o patriae urbis cives, ultimam ingredientem viam, ultimumque iubarintuentem Solis, mihi numquam posthac videndum, sed communis me Orcus vivam deducit ad Acheruntis oram, hymenaeorum expertem, mec me nuptialis hymnus celebravit umquam , sed Acherunti sane nubam.

Chorus

English (Lewis Campbell, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Lewis Campbell, 1906)) — 806 focus

Ye see me on my way,

O burghers of my father’s land!

With one last look on Helios’ ray,

Led my last path toward the silent strand.

Alive to the wide house of rest I go;

No dawn for me may shine,

No marriage-blessing e’er be mine,

No hymeneal with my praises flow!

The Lord of Acheron’s unlovely shore
810

Shall be mine only husband evermore.
810

Yea, but with glory and fame,—

Not by award of the sword,

Not with blighting disease,

But by a law of thine own,—

Thou, of mortals alone,
815

Goest alive to the deep
815

Tranquil home of the dead.

ANT

German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review)) — 806 focus

seht mich, seht, Bürger der Väterheimat,

Wie ich den lezten Weg

Dahinwandle, den lezten Strahl
800

Sehen soll von Helios' Glanz,

Und nie wieder! Lebend entführt

Hades, All' aufnehmend in Ruh,

Mich zu dem Ufer

Acheron's; Hymenäen
805

Empfing ich nicht, kein bräutliches Lied

Feierte mich mit Fest-

klängen; Acheron führt als Braut mich heim.

Der Chor.

English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759)) — 806 focus

Chords.

Antigone

Farewell, my friends, my countrymen, farewell !

Here on her last sad journey you behold

The poor Antigone ; for never more

Shall I return, or view the light of day :

The hand of death conducts me to the shore
810

Of dreary Acheron ; no nuptial song

Reserved for me — the wretched bride alone

Of Pluto now, and wedded to the tomb.

Chorus

Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889)) — 806 focus

¡Ciudadanos de Thebas, mi patria! miradmo colocada en el sendero fatal, y por última vez contemplando la claridad del Sol: ya nunca más lo verél... El dios del Averno, que todo lo aletarga, me conduce viva á las márgenes del Aqueronte, sin haber gozado del tálamo nupcial, antes de haber resonado para mi los cantos del himeneo; mi esposo será el Aqueronte.

LOS COREUTAS

German (F. Hölderlin, 1804) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (F. Hölderlin, 1804)) — 806 focus

ANTIGONAE

Seht, ihr des Vaterlandes Bürger,
835

Den lezten Weg gehn mich,

Und das lezte Licht

Anschauen der Sonne.

Und nie das wieder? Der alles schwaigende Todesgott,

Lebendig führt er mich
840

Zu des Acherons Ufer, und nicht zu Hymenäen

Berufen bin ich, noch ein bräutlicher singt

Mich, irgend ein Lobgesang, dagegen

Dem Acheron bin ich vermälılt.

English (Sir Richard Jebb1, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb1, 1904)) — 806 focus

See me, citizens of my fatherland, setting forth on my last way, looking my last on the sunlight that is 810 for me no more; no, Hades who gives sleep to all leads me living to Acheron’s shore; who have had no portion in the chant that brings the bride, nor hath any song been mine for the crowning of bridals; whom the lord of the Dark Lake shall wed.

Chorus

English (Robert Potter, 1788) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Robert Potter, 1788)) — 806 focus

Basely to wrong is drawn aside;

By thee contentions fierce and wild

Raise storms in hearts by blood allied.

Desire, in flames now seen to rise

Caught from the virgin's radiant eyes,

Disdains the curb of Laws to own,

But with them shares their potent throne;

While Venus, sovereign of the soul,

Victorious smiles, and scorns control.

E'en I at this sad sight beyond due bounds

Am carried, and the fountain of my tears
810

No longer can restrain, whilst I behold
810

Antigone thus borne to share the bed
810

Of death, the common bed where all repose.

Ye reverend men, inhabitants of Thebes,

My country, you behold me treading now.

For the last time these paths, the sun's bright beams

For the last time beholding, never more :

For me the all-composing hand of death
815

Leads to the dismal banks of Acheron;
815

No nuptial rites, no hymeneal song

Are mine; to Acheron a bride I go....

Chorus
ANTIGONE, CHORUS.

English (Sir Richard Jebb2, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb2, 1904)) — 806-880 focus

Antigone

Citizens of my fatherland, see me setting out on my last journey, looking at my last sunlight,

and never again. No, Hades who lays all to rest leads me living to Acheron ’s shore, though I have not had my due portion of the chant that brings the bride, nor has any hymn been mine
810

for the crowning of marriage. Instead the lord of Acheron will be my groom.
815

817

Chorus

Then in glory and with praise you depart to that deep place of the dead, neither struck by wasting sickness,

nor having won the wages of the sword. No, guided by your own laws and still alive, unlike any mortal before, you will descend to Hades.
820

823

Antigone

I have heard with my own ears how our Phrygian guest, the daughter of Tantalus, perished

in so much suffering on steep Sipylus—how, like clinging ivy, the sprouting stone subdued her. And the rains, as men tell, do not leave her melting form, nor does the snow,
825

but beneath her weeping lids she dampens her collar. Most like hers is the god-sent fate that leads me to my rest.
830

834

Chorus

Yet she was a goddess, as you know, and the offspring of gods,

while we are mortals and mortal-born. Still it is a great thing for a woman who has died to have it said of her that she shared the lot of the godlike in her life, and afterwards, in death.
835

839

Antigone

Ah, you mock me! In the name of our fathers’ gods,

why do you not wait to abuse me until after I have gone, and not to my face, O my city, and you, her wealthy citizens? Ah, spring of Dirce, and you holy ground of Thebes whose chariots are many,
840

you, at least, will bear me witness how unwept by loved ones, and by what laws I go to the rock-closed prison of my unheard-of tomb! Ah, misery!
845

I have no home among men or with the shades, no home with the living or with the dead.
850

853

Chorus

You have rushed headlong to the far limits of daring, and against the high throne of Justice

you have fallen, my daughter, fallen heavily. But in this ordeal you are paying for some paternal crime.
855

858

Antigone

You have touched on my most bitter thought

and moved my ever-renewed pity for my father and for the entire doom ordained for us, the famed house of Labdacus. Oh, the horrors of our mother’s bed! Oh, the slumbers of the wretched mother at the side
860

of her own son, my own father! What manner of parents gave me my miserable being! It is to them that I go like this, accursed and unwed, to share their home.
865

Ah, my brother, the marriage you made was doomed, and by dying you killed me still alive!
870

872

Chorus

Your pious action shows a certain reverence, but an offence against power can no way be tolerated by him who has power in his keeping.

Your self-willed disposition is what has destroyed you.
875

876

Antigone

Unwept, unfriended, without marriage-song, I am led in misery on this journey that cannot be put off. No longer is it permitted me, unhappy girl,

to look up at this sacred eye of the burning sun. But for my fate no tear is shed, no friend moans in sorrow.
880

Commentary

Commentary (R. C. Jebb) (OCR draft) (Commentary (R. C. Jebb))

mvp-comment-464-1 ὡς ἄγος μόνον ¹ ὡς ² ὅσον ³

mvp-comment-464-2 ἄγος ⁴

mvp-comment-464-3 Creon's edict had announced that the transgressor would be publicly stoned to death (36). It is to this that the anxious question of the Chorus alludes (772). Creon had already said that Antigone's doom was to be

κάκιστος

(489). But now, at least, he feels that he cannot inflict such a death on the maiden, his kinswoman. She shall die, not by stoning, but by starvation. The choice is not prompted by cruelty, but simply by the desire to avoid physical violence.

mvp-comment-464-4 The danger of a

μίασμα

—to be avoided by a dole of food—has no relation to the special circumstances,—Antigone's royal birth, and the nature of her offence. In the ancient belief, that danger existed whenever a person was put to death by starvation. Two notions were probably blended; ( a) that, if a little food was given, the death was nature's work, not man's; ( b) that the

νέρτεροι

claimed an indemnity for the usual

ἐναγίσματα

. So the Greeks put Philoctetes ashore on desolate Lemnos, —

ῥάκη προθέντες βαιὰ καί τι καὶ βορᾶς | ἐπωφέλημα σμικρόν

( Ph. 274 ). So, too, when a Vestal was to be buried alive, the small vault in the Campus Sceleratus was furnished with a couch, a burning lamp, and a small table, on which the dole was placed,—bread, olives, milk, and a jug of water ( Plut. Num. 10 ).

mvp-comment-465-1 πᾶσ’ ⁵

mvp-comment-466-1 ὃν μόνον σέβει ⁶

mvp-comment-466-2

ἐγγενεῖς

(199). By honouring him, and Hades (519), she has dishonoured those other gods.

mvp-comment-467-1 τὸ μὴ θανεῖν ⁷ τεύξεται ⁸

mvp-comment-468-1 ἀλλὰ τηνικαῦτα ⁹ τἀν ¹⁰

mvp-comment-470-1 ἀνίκατε μάχαν ¹¹

mvp-comment-471-1 ἐν κτήμασι πίπτεις, ¹²

mvp-comment-472-1 ἐν μαλακαῖς παρειαῖς ¹³

mvp-comment-472-2 ἐννυχεύεις ¹⁴

mvp-comment-473-1 ὑπερπόντιος ¹⁵

mvp-comment-473-2 ἔν τ’ ἀγρ. αὐλαῖς ¹⁶

Commentary (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) (Commentary (Lewis Campbell, 1879)) focus

775. mvp-comment-452-1 i. e. τοσοῦτον μόνον, ὅσον ἄγος εἶναι. Essay on Language § 39. p. 74. For ἄγος = expiation, see Hesych., ἄγος· ἅγνισμα θυσίας, Σοφοκλῆς Φαίδρα.

776. mvp-comment-453-1 i. e. Lest the whole city might suffer pollution.

780. mvp-comment-454-1 περισσός Bootless. Cp. Aesch. Prom. 383, μόχθον περισσόν. It is characteristic of the time (cp. Thucydides) that the political energy of Creon is combined with scepticism.

781-800. mvp-comment-455-1 Haemon's disobedience to his father, against his own interest, is due to the might of love.

781-800. mvp-comment-455-2 'Never-vanquished love, that layest riches waste, keeping nightly watch in the fair, soft, youthful cheek: love that roamest over seas and findest out the wildest nook! No god, nor any mortal man, escapes thy maddening power. By love the upright mind is drawn to wrong unto its hurt. By love this present strife is kindled between kinsmen. And clearly triumphant is the influence of desire that cometh from the looks of the fair bride - desire that divides empire with the majestic law: so resistlessly doth goddess Aphrodite mock mankind.

781-800. mvp-comment-455-3 This little ode consists of a strophe and antistrophe, of which the scansion is as follows:- CCLトしてし CICCICII CCCICII IICIICCIト(CLトー 5-0-0-ICCICI-

781-800. mvp-comment-455-4 A glyconic quatrain is followed by two choriambic lines, and the strophe ends with a return to the glyconic rhythm. L. 7 admits of being otherwise divided, viz.: CCLCー.

781. mvp-comment-456-1 ἀνίκατε μάχαν Cp. the similar personification of θυμός by Heraclitus, χαλεπὸν θυμῷ μάχεσθαι, ψυχῆς γὰρ ὠνέεται.

782. mvp-comment-457-1 ὃς ἐν κτήμασι πίπτεις (i. e.

782. mvp-comment-457-2 ἐμπίπτεις κτήμασι.) These words have been variously interpreted and emended. They probably mean, Who fallest upon wealth, i. e. art the destroyer of possessions, ruining worldly fortunes in various ways, as the love of Helen wasted Troy, etc. Cp. Eur. Hipp. 538, foll., Ἔρωτα δὲ τὸν τύραννον ἀνδρῶν |.. πέρθοντα καὶ διὰ πάσας | ἰόντα συμφορὰς | θνατοῖς, ὅταν ἔλθῃ. So, in this instance, Haemon is losing all for love. Others interpret, Desire who makest wealth thy object (Schol. rec.), Love, who by attacking enslavest, or Who makest victims of the wealthy.

783-784. mvp-comment-458-1 ὃς .. ἐννυχεύεις Cp. Milton, L'Allegro, 29, 30, 'Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, | And love to live in dimple sleek.' Love is still figured as an enemy, who keeps nightly watch where he is ready to spring forth armed on the unwary. Pind. Nem. 8. 2, ὥρα .. παρθενηΐοις .. ἐφίζοισι γλεφάροις.

785. mvp-comment-459-1 The poet is thinking of legendary examples, such as Paris, Leander, Anchises, etc.

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Then in glory and with praise you depart to that deep place of the dead, neither struck by wasting sickness,

nor having won the wages of the sword. No, guided by your own laws and still alive, unlike any mortal before, you will descend to Hades.
820

Chorus

Yet she was a goddess, as you know, and the offspring of gods,

while we are mortals and mortal-born. Still it is a great thing for a woman who has died to have it said of her that she shared the lot of the godlike in her life, and afterwards, in death.
835

Chorus

You have rushed headlong to the far limits of daring, and against the high throne of Justice

you have fallen, my daughter, fallen heavily. But in this ordeal you are paying for some paternal crime.
855

Chorus

Your pious action shows a certain reverence, but an offence against power can no way be tolerated by him who has power in his keeping.

Your self-willed disposition is what has destroyed you.
875

Antigone

Unwept, unfriended, without marriage-song, I am led in misery on this journey that cannot be put off. No longer is it permitted me, unhappy girl,

to look up at this sacred eye of the burning sun. But for my fate no tear is shed, no friend moans in sorrow.
880

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Χορός 1

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LOS COREUTAS

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Chorus ANTIGONE, CHORUS.

Chorus Then in glory and with praise you depart to that deep place of the dead, neither struck by wasting sickness, nor having won the wages of the sword. No, guided by your own laws and still alive, unlike any mortal before, you will descend to Hades. 820

Chorus Yet she was a goddess, as you know, and the offspring of gods, while we are mortals and mortal-born. Still it is a great thing for a woman who has died to have it said of her that she shared the lot of the godlike in her life, and afterwards, in death. 835

Chorus You have rushed headlong to the far limits of daring, and against the high throne of Justice you have fallen, my daughter, fallen heavily. But in this ordeal you are paying for some paternal crime. 855

Chorus Your pious action shows a certain reverence, but an offence against power can no way be tolerated by him who has power in his keeping. Your self-willed disposition is what has destroyed you. 875

Antigone Unwept, unfriended, without marriage-song, I am led in misery on this journey that cannot be put off. No longer is it permitted me, unhappy girl, to look up at this sacred eye of the burning sun. But for my fate no tear is shed, no friend moans in sorrow. 880

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Χορός
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Chorus
ANTIGONE, CHORUS.

Chorus

Then in glory and with praise you depart to that deep place of the dead, neither struck by wasting sickness,

nor having won the wages of the sword. No, guided by your own laws and still alive, unlike any mortal before, you will descend to Hades.
820

Chorus

Yet she was a goddess, as you know, and the offspring of gods,

while we are mortals and mortal-born. Still it is a great thing for a woman who has died to have it said of her that she shared the lot of the godlike in her life, and afterwards, in death.
835

Chorus

You have rushed headlong to the far limits of daring, and against the high throne of Justice

you have fallen, my daughter, fallen heavily. But in this ordeal you are paying for some paternal crime.
855

Chorus

Your pious action shows a certain reverence, but an offence against power can no way be tolerated by him who has power in his keeping.

Your self-willed disposition is what has destroyed you.
875

Antigone

Unwept, unfriended, without marriage-song, I am led in misery on this journey that cannot be put off. No longer is it permitted me, unhappy girl,

to look up at this sacred eye of the burning sun. But for my fate no tear is shed, no friend moans in sorrow.
880