Antigone
Sophocles
Sophocles the plays and fragments, Part 3: The Antigone. Jebb, Richard Claverhouse, Sir, translator. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1891.
- You do. Your every word, after all, pleads her case.
- And yours, and mine, and that of gods below.
- You can never marry her, not while she is still alive.
- Then she will die, and in death destroy another.
- What! Does your audacity run to open threats?
- How is it a threat to speak against empty plans?
- You will regret your unwise instructions in wisdom.