Seven Against Thebes

Aeschylus

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

  1. Destruction to look upon!
Antigone
  1. Oh, the grief—
Ismene
  1. Oh, the evils—
Antigone
  1. For home and land.
Ismene
  1. Above all for me,
Antigone
  1. And more also for me.
Ismene
  1. Ah I pity your grievous suffering, my king.
Antigone
  1. Pity for you both, most lamentable of all men.
Ismene
  1. You were possessed by delusion.