Antigone
Sophocles
Sophocles the plays and fragments, Part 3: The Antigone. Jebb, Richard Claverhouse, Sir, translator. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1891.
- And what is it that so disheartens you?
- I want to tell you first about myself—I did not do the deed, nor did I see the doer,
- so it would be wrong that I should come to any harm.
- Like a bowman you aim well at your target from a distance, and all around you hedge yourself off well from the deed. It is clear that you have some unheard-of thing to tell.
- That I do, for terrible news imposes great hesitation.
- Then tell it, will you, and so unburdened go away?
- Well, here it is. The corpse—some one has just given it burial and disappeared after sprinkling thirsty dust on the flesh and performing the other rites that piety demands.