Antigone

Sophocles

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

  1. Alas! Does any man know, does any consider—
Creon
  1. What is this? What universal truth are you announcing?
Teiresias
  1. —by how much the most precious of our possessions is the power to reason wisely?
Creon
  1. By as much, I think, as senselessness is the greatest affliction.
Teiresias
  1. Yet you came into being full of that disease.
Creon
  1. I have no desire to trade insults with the seer.
Teiresias
  1. Yet that is what you do in saying that I prophesy falsely.