Antigone
Sophocles
Sophocles the plays and fragments, Part 3: The Antigone. Jebb, Richard Claverhouse, Sir, translator. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1891.
- And you recommend this? You think that I should yield?
- Yes, my king, and with all possible speed. For harms sent from the gods swiftly cut short the follies of men.
- Ah, it is a struggle, but I depart from my heart’s resolve and obey. We must not wage vain wars with necessity.
- Go, do these things and do not leave their performance to others.
- Right away I will go. Go, go, my servants, each and all of you! Take axes in your hands,
- and hurry to that place there in view! But since my judgment has taken this turn, I will be there to set her free, as I myself confined her. I am held by the fear that it is best to keep the established laws to life’s very end.
- God of many names, glory of the Cadmeian bride and offspring of loud-thundering Zeus, you who watch over far-famed Italy and reign