Seven Against Thebes

Aeschylus

Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, translator. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922.

  1. You are laid out for mourning—
Ismene
  1. Though you did the killing.
Antigone
  1. Ah me!
Ismene
  1. Ah me!
Antigone
  1. My heart is mad with wailing.
Ismene
  1. My heart groans within me.
Antigone
  1. Ah, the grief, brother all-lamentable.
Ismene
  1. And you also, brother all-wretched.
Antigone
  1. You perished at the hands of your nearest and dearest.
Ismene
  1. And you killed your nearest and dearest.
Antigone
  1. Twofold to tell of—
Ismene
  1. Twofold to look upon—
Antigone
  1. Are these sorrows so close to those.
Ismene
  1. Fraternal sorrows stand close by fraternal sorrows.
Chorus
  1. O Fate, giver of grievous troubles, and awful shade of Oedipus, black Erinys, you are indeed a mighty force.
Antigone
  1. Ah, me
Ismene
  1. Ah, me
Antigone
  1. Sorrows hard to behold—
Ismene
  1. He showed me when he returned from exile.
Antigone
  1. But he made no return after he had killed.