Euripides' PHOENISSAE Complete

Translated by E. Coleridge.

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Creon: What! ought I not to carry out his behests?

Antigone: No; not if they are wrong and ill-advised.

Creon: Why, is it not just for that other to be given to the dogs?

Antigone: Nay, the vengeance ye are exacting is no lawful one.

Creon: It is; for he was his country's foe, though not a foeman born.

Antigone: Well, to fate he rendered up his destinies.

Creon: Let him now pay forfeit in his burial too.

Antigone: What crime did he commit in coming to claim his heritage?

Creon: Be very sure of this, yon man shall have no burial.

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