Antigone

Sophocles

Sophocles the plays and fragments, Part 3: The Antigone. Jebb, Richard Claverhouse, Sir, translator. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1891.

  1. You have a hot heart for chilling deeds.
Antigone
  1. I know that I please those whom I am most bound to please.
Ismene
  1. Yes, if you will also have the power. But you crave the impossible.
Antigone
  1. Why then, when my strength fails, I will have finished.
Ismene
  1. An impossible hunt should not be tried in the first place.
Antigone
  1. If you mean that, you will have my hatred, and you will be subject to punishment as the enemy of the dead.
  2. But leave me and the foolish plan I have authored to suffer this terrible thing, for I will not suffer anything so terrible that my death will lack honor.