
Modern Greek (1453-): 
εὐδαίμονες οἷσι κακῶν ἄγευστος αἰών.
εὐδαίμονες οἷσι κακῶν ἄγευστος αἰών.

English: 
The Chorus gives a lyric account of the
 devastating impact of Atē, Nemesis and Tisis 
upon subjects of hubristic aberration from measure
—the conceptual cornerstone (μέτρον) 
of the Classical Civilization—and mentions explicitly the nemesic intergenerational doom 
that has befallen the house of the Labdacids,
the royal dynasty of Thebes.
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[The Chorus members move around in anxiety.]
Blest are those whose days have not tasted of evil.
Blest are those whose days have not tasted of evil.

English: 
For when a house has once been shaken by the gods,
no form of ruin is lacking,
but it spreads over the bulk of the race,
just as, when the surge is driven 
over the darkness of the deep
by the fierce breath of Thracian sea-winds, 
it rolls up the black sand from the depths,
and the wind-beaten headlands that front the blows 
of the storm give out a mournful roar.
I see that the ancient sorrows 
of the house of the Labdacids
are heaped upon the sorrows of the dead. [...]
For now that dazzling ray of hope 
that had been spread over the last roots
in the house of Oedipus,
—that hope, in its turn, 
the blood-stained dust of the gods
infernal and mindlessness in speech 
and frenzy at the mind cuts down.

Modern Greek (1453-): 
οἷς γὰρ ἂν σεισθῇ θεόθεν δόμος,
ἄτας οὐδὲν ἐλλείπει γενεᾶς ἐπὶ πλῆθος ἕρπον:
ὅμοιον ὥστε ποντίαις οἶδμα δυσπνόοις
ὅταν Θρῄσσαισιν ἔρεβος ὕφαλον ἐπιδράμῃ πνοαῖς,
κυλίνδει βυσσόθεν κελαινὰν θῖνα
καὶ δυσάνεμοι, στόνῳ βρέμουσι δ᾽ ἀντιπλῆγες ἀκταί.
ἀρχαῖα τὰ Λαβδακιδᾶν οἴκων
ὁρῶμαι πήματα φθιτῶν ἐπὶ πήμασι πίπτοντα [...]
νῦν γὰρ ἐσχάτας ὕπερ ῥίζας
ὃ τέτατο φάος ἐν Οἰδίπου δόμοις,
κατ᾽ αὖ νιν φοινία θεῶν τῶν νερτέρων

English: 
Your power, great Zeus
—what human overstepping can check it?  [...]
You rule by your power and dwell thereby 
in the brilliant splendor of Olympus.
And through the future, both near and distant, 
as through the past, shall this law prevail:
nothing that is vast 
comes to the life of mortals without ruin.
a god leads to ruin!...
a god leads to ruin!...
a god leads to ruin!...
... a god leads to ruin!... a god leads to ruin!... 
[The Chorus members move around chaotically.]
a god leads to ruin!...
a god leads to ruin!...

Modern Greek (1453-): 
ἀμᾷ κόνις λόγου τ᾽ ἄνοια καὶ φρενῶν ἐρινύς.
τεάν, Ζεῦ, δύνασιν τίς ἀνδρῶν ὑπερβασία κατάσχοι [...]
δυνάστας κατέχεις Ὀλύμπου μαρμαρόεσσαν αἴγλαν.
τό τ᾽ ἔπειτα καὶ τὸ μέλλον
καὶ τὸ πρὶν ἐπαρκέσει νόμος ὅδε,
οὐδὲν ἕρπει θνατῶν βιότῳ πάμπολύ γ᾽ ἐκτὸς ἄτας. [...]
θεὸς ἄγει πρὸς ἄταν.
θεὸς ἄγει πρὸς ἄταν.
θεὸς ἄγει πρὸς ἄταν.
θεὸς ἄγει πρὸς ἄταν.
θεὸς ἄγει πρὸς ἄταν.
θεὸς ἄγει πρὸς ἄταν.
θεὸς ἄγει πρὸς ἄταν.
θεὸς ἄγει πρὸς ἄταν.
θεὸς ἄγει πρὸς ἄταν.

Modern Greek (1453-): 
θεὸς ἄγει πρὸς ἄταν.
πράσσει δ᾽ ὀλίγιστον χρόνον ἐκτὸς ἄτας.

English: 
a god leads to ruin!...
And then, only for the briefest moment 
such a man fares free of destruction.
[In Sign Language:
Atē, the goddess of folly, arrogance and denial.]
[The Chorus members make way 
for prince Haemon to enter the stage.]
[They keep their heads down (in guilt), 
avoiding eye contact with the doomed prince.]
[Haemon—standing for the ill-fated young generation 
of his polis—is all alone, almost lost, on stage.]
[Still, the courageous prince walks up the stairs 
of his own “Golgotha” to face his destiny.]

English: 
[The prince looks around at the people (Chorus)
for some sign of support, in vain.]
