Oedipus at Colonus

Sophocles

Sophocles the plays and fragments, Part 2: The Oedipus at Colonus. Jebb, Richard Claverhouse, Sir, translator. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1889.

  1. Where is the deed which backs that threatening word?
Creon
  1. One of your two daughters I have myself just seized and sent away. The other I will drag off immediately.
Oedipus
  1. Oh, no!
Creon
  1. You will soon find more to weep about.
Oedipus
  1. You have my child?
Creon
  1. And I will have this one in no long time.
Oedipus
  1. Oh! Strangers, what will you do? Will you betray me? Will you not drive the godless man from this land?
Chorus
  1. Depart, stranger! Quick!
  2. Your present deed is not just, nor the deed which you have done.
Creon
  1. It is time for you to drag this girl off against her will, if she will not go freely.
Antigone
  1. Wretched that I am! Where can I flee? Where find help from gods or men?
Chorus
  1. What are you doing, stranger?
Creon
  1. I will not touch this man, but her who is mine.
Oedipus
  1. Lords of the land!
Chorus
  1. Stranger, you are acting unjustly.
Creon
  1. Justly.
Chorus
  1. How?
Creon
  1. I take my own.
Oedipus
  1. Oh, city !
Chorus
  1. What are you doing, stranger? Release her!