Antigone

Sophocles

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

  1. I tell you on my oath. If you do not find the very hand that made this burial, and reveal him before my eyes, mere death shall not suffice for you, not before, hung up alive, you have made this outrage plain,
  2. so that hereafter you may thieve with better knowledge of where your money should be received from, and learn that it is best not to be fond of money-making from any and every source. For you will find that ill-gotten gains bring more men to ruin than to safety.
Guard
  1. Will you allow me to speak? Or shall I just turn and go?
Creon
  1. Do you not know even now how much your voice sickens me?
Guard
  1. Is the pain in your ears, or in your soul?
Creon
  1. And why would you define the seat of my pain?
Guard
  1. He who did it hurts your heart, but I, your ears.