Antigone
Sophocles
Sophocles the plays and fragments, Part 3: The Antigone. Jebb, Richard Claverhouse, Sir, translator. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1891.
- So fierce was the crash of battle swelling about his back, a match too hard to win for the rival of the dragon.
- For Zeus detests above all the boasts of a proud tongue. And when he saw them advancing in a swollen flood,
- arrogant their clanging gold, he dashed with brandished fire one who was already starting to shout victory when he had reached our ramparts.
- Staggered, he fell to the earth with a crash,
- torch in hand, a man possessed by the frenzy of the mad attack, who just now was raging against us with the blasts of his tempestuous hate. But his threats did not fare as he had hoped, and to the other enemies mighty Ares dispensed each their own dooms with hard blows,
- Ares, our mighty ally at the turning-point.
- For the seven captains, stationed against an equal number at the seven gates, left behind their brazen arms in tribute to Zeus the turner of battle—all but the accursed pair who, born of one father and one