§1673ἦ γὰρ γαμοῦμαι ζῶσα παιδὶ σῷ ποτε;
Antigone: Shall I really, while alive, ever marry your son?
§1674πολλή σʼ ἀνάγκη· ποῖ γὰρ ἐκφεύξῃ λέχος;
Creon: It is a strong necessity; for where indeed will you escape the marriage?
§1675νὺξ ἆρʼ ἐκείνη Δαναΐδων μʼ ἕξει μίαν.
Antigone: Then that night will make me one of the Danaids.
§1676εἶδες τὸ τόλμημʼ οἷον ἐξωνείδισεν;
Creon: Did you see what a bold threat she cast as an insult?
§1677ἴστω σίδηρος ὅρκιόν τέ μοι ξίφος.
Antigone: Let iron and my sworn sword be witness.
§1678τί δʼ ἐκπροθυμῇ τῶνδʼ ἀπηλλάχθαι γάμων;
Creon: Why are you so eager to be rid of this marriage?
§1679συμφεύξομαι τῷδʼ ἀθλιωτάτῳ πατρί.
Antigone: Because I will share the exile of this most wretched father.
§1680γενναιότης σοι, μωρία δʼ ἔνεστί τις.
Creon: Nobility is in you, but also a certain foolishness.
§1681καὶ ξυνθανοῦμαί γʼ, ὡς μάθῃς περαιτέρω.
Antigone: And indeed I will die with him, so that you may realize it even more.
§1682ἴθʼ, οὐ φονεύσεις παῖδʼ ἐμόν, λίπε χθόνα.
Creon: Go, you shall not kill my son; leave this land.
§1683ὦ θύγατερ, αἰνῶ μέν σε τῆς προθυμίας.
Oedipus: O daughter, I praise you indeed for your devotion.
§1684ἀλλʼ εἰ γαμοίμην, σὺ δὲ μόνος φεύγοις, πάτερ;
Antigone: But if I were to marry, while you, father, go into exile alone?
§1685μένʼ εὐτυχοῦσα, τἄμʼ ἐγὼ στέρξω κακά.
Oedipus: Remain in happiness; I will bear my own evils.
§1686καὶ τίς σε τυφλὸν ὄντα θεραπεύσει, πάτερ;
Antigone: And who will care for you who are blind, father?
§1687πεσὼν ὅπου μοι μοῖρα κείσομαι πέδῳ.
Oedipus: Falling wherever fate decrees, I shall lie upon the ground.
§1688ὁ δʼ Οἰδίπους ποῦ καὶ τὰ κλείνʼ αἰνίγματα;
Antigone: Where is Oedipus now and his famous riddles?
§1689ὄλωλʼ· ἓν ἦμάρ μʼ ὤλβισʼ, ἓν δʼ ἀπώλεσεν.
Oedipus: Perished; a single day made me happy, and a single day destroyed me.
§1690οὔκουν μετασχεῖν κἀμὲ δεῖ τῶν σῶν κακῶν;
Antigone: Must I then not also share in your evils?
§1691αἰσχρὰ φυγὴ θυγατρὶ σὺν τυφλῷ πατρί.
Oedipus: It is a shameful exile for a daughter with a blind father.
§1692οὔ, σωφρονούσῃ γʼ, ἀλλὰ γενναία, πάτερ.
Antigone: No, not for a wise daughter, but rather a noble one, father.
§1693προσάγαγέ νύν με, μητρὸς ὡς ψαύσω σέθεν.
Oedipus: Lead me close then, so that I may touch your mother.
§1694ἰδού, γεραιᾶς φιλτάτης ψαῦσον χερί.
Antigone: See, touch the dearest old woman with your hand.
§1695ὦ μῆτερ, ὦ ξυνάορʼ ἀθλιωτάτη.
Oedipus: O mother, O most wretched wife!
§1696οἰκτρὰ πρόκειται, πάντʼ ἔχουσʼ ὁμοῦ κακά.
Antigone: Wretchedly she lies exposed, having all evils together.
§1697Ἐτεοκλέους δὲ πτῶμα Πολυνείκους τε ποῦ;
Oedipus: And where is the fallen body of Eteocles and of Polynices?
§1698τώδʼ ἐκτάδην σοι κεῖσθον ἀλλήλοιν πέλας.
Antigone: These two lie stretched out near each other.
§1699πρόσθες τυφλὴν χεῖρʼ ἐπὶ πρόσωπα δυστυχῆ.
Oedipus: Place my blind hand upon their unfortunate faces.
§1700ἰδού, θανόντων σῶν τέκνων ἅπτου χερί.
Antigone: See, touch with your hand your deceased children.
§1701ὦ φίλα πεσήματʼ ἄθλιʼ ἀθλίου πατρός.
Oedipus: O dear, wretched remains of a wretched father.
§1702ὦ φίλτατον δῆτʼ ὄνομα Πολυνείκους ἐμοί.
Antigone: O most dear name of Polynices to me.
§1703νῦν χρησμός, ὦ παῖ, Λοξίου περαίνεται.
Oedipus: Now, my child, the oracle of Loxias is being fulfilled.
§1704ὁ ποῖος;
Antigone: What kind?
ἀλλʼ ἦ πρὸς κακοῖς ἐρεῖς κακά;
Will you speak of evils upon evils?
§1705ἐν ταῖς Ἀθήναις κατθανεῖν μʼ ἀλώμενον.
Oedipus: That I must die in Athens, wandering.
§1706ποῦ;
Antigone: Where?
τίς σε πύργος Ἀτθίδος προσδέξεται;
What tower of Attica will receive you?
§1707ἱερὸς Κολωνός, δώμαθʼ ἱππίου θεοῦ.
Oedipus: Sacred Colonus, the house of the equestrian god.
Oedipus: But come, serve this blind father, since you desire to share in this exile.
§1710ἴθʼ ἐς φυγὰν τάλαιναν· ὄρεγε χέρα φίλαν, §1711πάτερ γεραιέ, πομπίμαν §1712ἔχων ἔμʼ ὥστε ναυσίπομπον αὔραν.
Antigone: Go into wretched exile; stretch out your dear hand, old father, having me as your guide like a ship-sending breeze.
Oedipus: See, see, I go; Oedipus: child, be my wretched guide.
Antigone: We have become, we have become wretched, indeed most of all the maidens of Thebes.
§1718πόθι γεραιὸν ἴχνος τίθημι;
Oedipus: Where do I place my old step?
§1719βάκτρα πρόσφερʼ, ὦ τέκνον.
Oedipus: Bring me my staff, child.
Antigone: This way, this way go for me, placing your foot this way, this way, with the weak strength of a dream.
Oedipus: Alas, alas, driving me, the old man, into the most unfortunate exile from my fatherland.
§1725ἰὼ ἰώ, δεινὰ δείνʼ ἐγὼ τλάς.
Oedipus: Alas, alas, having suffered terrible, terrible things.
§1726τί τλάς;
Antigone: What having suffered?
τί τλάς;
What having suffered?
οὐχ ὁρᾷ Δίκα κακούς, §1727οὐδʼ ἀμείβεται βροτῶν ἀσυνεσίας.
Does Justice not see the wicked, nor does she repay the foolishness of mortals?
§1728ὅδʼ εἰμὶ μοῦσαν ὃς ἐπὶ καλ- §1729λίνικον οὐράνιον ἔβαν §1730μειξοπαρθένου κόρας §1731αἴνιγμʼ ἀσύνετον εὑρών.
Oedipus: I am he who went unto a glorious, heavenly victory song, having solved the incomprehensible riddle of the half-maiden girl.
§1732Σφιγγὸς ἀναφέρεις ὄνειδος.
Antigone: You bring up the reproach of the Sphinx.
§1733ἄπαγε τὰ πάρος εὐτυχήματʼ αὐδῶν.
Oedipus: Away with speaking of former successes.
Antigone: These wretched sufferings awaited you, becoming an exile far from your fatherland, o father, to die somewhere.
§1737ποθεινὰ δάκρυα παρὰ φίλαισι παρθένοις §1738λιποῦσʼ ἄπειμι πατρίδος ἀποπρὸ γαίας §1739ἀπαρθένευτʼ ἀλωμένα.
Antigone: Leaving desired tears among dear maidens, I depart far away from the land of my fatherland, wandering, deprived of maidenhood.
§1740φεῦ τὸ χρήσιμον φρενῶν §1741ἐς πατρός γε συμφορὰς §1742εὐκλεᾶ με θήσει· §1743τάλαινʼ ἐγὼ σῶν συγγόνου θʼ ὑβρισμάτων, §1744ὃς ἐκ δόμων νέκυς ἄθαπτος οἴχεται §1745μέλεος, ὅν, εἴ με καὶ θανεῖν, πάτερ, χρεών, §1746σκότια γᾷ καλύψω.
Antigone: Ah, the usefulness of my mind toward the disasters of my father will make me glorious; Antigone: wretched I for the insults to you and to my brother, who goes from the house as a corpse unburied, wretched one, whom, even if I must die, father, I will cover with dark earth.
§1747πρὸς ἥλικας φάνηθι σάς.
Oedipus: Appear before your peers.
§1748ἅλις ὀδυρμάτων ἐμῶν.
Antigone: Enough of my lamentations.
Oedipus: But you, around the altar-prayers— Antigone: The gods have satiety of my evils.
Oedipus: Go then where is the sanctuary of Bromius, untrodden, in the mountains of the maenads.
§1753Καδμείαν ᾧ νεβρίδα §1755στολιδωσαμένα ποτʼ ἐγὼ Σεμέλας §1756θίασον ἱερὸν ὄρεσιν ἀνεχόρευσα, §1757χάριν ἀχάριτον ἐς θεοὺς διδοῦσα;
Antigone: Where once, clad in Cadmean fawnskin, I danced the sacred dance of Semele's band on the mountains, rendering an unthanked favor to the gods?
§1758ὦ πάτρας κλεινῆς πολῖται, λεύσσετʼ, Οἰδίπους ὅδε, §1759ὃς τὰ κλείνʼ αἰνίγματʼ ἔγνω καὶ μέγιστος ἦν ἀνήρ, §1760ὃς μόνος Σφιγγὸς κατέσχον τῆς μιαιφόνου κράτη, §1761νῦν ἄτιμος αὐτὸς οἰκτρὸς ἐξελαύνομαι χθονός.
Oedipus: O citizens of my glorious fatherland, look, this is Oedipus, who knew the famous riddles and was the greatest man, who alone held down the power of the murderous Sphinx, now, dishonored, wretched, I am driven out of the land.
§1762ἀλλὰ γὰρ τί ταῦτα θρηνῶ καὶ μάτην ὀδύρομαι;
But indeed why do I lament these things and weep in vain?
§1763τὰς γὰρ ἐκ θεῶν ἀνάγκας θνητὸν ὄντα δεῖ φέρειν.
For one who is mortal must bear the necessities from the gods.