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Antigone Plumptre Translation - Sophocles · Robinson Crusoe in Words of One Syllable

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  Speaker 1: Part one of Antigony. This is a LibriVox recording. All
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  Speaker 1: expatriate in Bangor, Maine. Antigony by Sophocles, translated by Edward
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  Speaker 1: Hayes Plumptree, eighteen twenty one to eighteen ninety one, Part
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  Speaker 1: one Dramatius Persone, Creon, King of Thebes, Haimon, son of Creon, Esius,
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  Speaker 1: a seer guard, first messenger, second messenger, Eurydici, wife of Creon,
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  Speaker 1: Antigony and Ismayne, daughters of Oedipus, Chorus of theban Elders argument.
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  Speaker 1: After the death of Oedipus, Antigony and Ismene returned to
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  Speaker 1: Thebes and lived in the king's house with Attaeocles. Their
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  Speaker 1: but the seven great captains from Argos, whom Polnichies had
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  Speaker 1: called to help him, came against thieves to destroy it,
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  Speaker 1: and were hardly driven back, and the two brothers having
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  Speaker 1: died by each other's hands, the people of the city
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  Speaker 1: made Crean their king as being wise and prudent and
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  Speaker 1: next of kin to the dead, and he issued his
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  Speaker 1: decree that Attaeocles should be buried with due honor, but
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  Speaker 1: that no man should dare to bury Polinichies, who had
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  Speaker 1: come purposing to lay waste the city in all the
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  Speaker 1: temples of the gods. Antigony seen thebes in front of
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  Speaker 1: the palace early morning, hills in the distance on the left,
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  Speaker 1: on the right the city enter antigony and Ismynae. Antigony
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  Speaker 1: is mane mine own, sister, darling. One is there of
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  Speaker 1: ills that sprang from Oedipus one left that Zeus will
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  Speaker 1: fail to bring on us the two who yet remain naught?
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  Speaker 1: Is there sad not full of sorrow steeped in sin
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  Speaker 1: or shame? But I have seen it in thy woes
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  Speaker 1: and mine? And now what new decree is this? They
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  Speaker 1: tell our captain has enjoined on all the state. Knowst
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  Speaker 1: thou hast heard? Or are they hid from thee the
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  Speaker 1: ills that come from foes upon our friends? Is maynae
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  Speaker 1: no tidings of our friends antigony pleasant or painful? Since
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  Speaker 1: that hour have come when we two sisters lost our
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  Speaker 1: brothers twain in one day, dying by a twofold blow,
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  Speaker 1: And since in this last night the argive host has
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  Speaker 1: left the field. I nothing further know, nor brightening fortune,
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  Speaker 1: nor increasing gloom antigony that knew I well, and therefore
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  Speaker 1: sent for thee beyond the gates, that thou mayst hear alone.
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  Speaker 1: Is maynae what meanest thou it is, but all too
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  Speaker 1: clear thou brutest darkly or some tale of woe antigony,
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  Speaker 1: And dost not Creon treat our brothers twain, one with
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  Speaker 1: the rights of burial, one with shame attaeicles, so say they,
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  Speaker 1: He interred fitly with wonted rites, as one held meet
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  Speaker 1: to pass with honor to the dead below. But for
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  Speaker 1: the corpse of Polnikes slain so piteously, they say, he
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  Speaker 1: has proclaimed to all the citizens that none should give
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  Speaker 1: his body burial or bewail his fate, but leave it
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  Speaker 1: still unwept, unsepulchered a prize full rich for birds that
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  Speaker 1: scent afar their sweet repast. So Creon bids, they say,
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  Speaker 1: Creon the good commanding thee, and me, yes, me, I say,
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  Speaker 1: And now is coming here to make it clear to
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  Speaker 1: those who know it not, and counts the matter not
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  Speaker 1: a trivial thing. But whoso does the things that he
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  Speaker 1: forbids for him. There waits within the city walls the
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  Speaker 1: death of Stoning. Thus then stands thy case, and quickly
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  Speaker 1: thou wilt show if thou art born of noble nature
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  Speaker 1: or degenerate livest fath, child of honored parents. Is may nay,
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  Speaker 1: how could I o daring in thy mood, in this
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  Speaker 1: our plight, or breaking law, or keeping aught avail antigony?
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  Speaker 1: Wilt thou with me share risk and toil look to it?
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  Speaker 1: Is maynae? What risk is this? What purpose fills thy mind? Antigony?
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  Speaker 1: Wilt thou help this my hand to lift the dead?
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  Speaker 1: Is maynae? Meanst thou to bury him? When law forbids antigony.
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  Speaker 1: He is my brother, yes, and thine though thou wouldst
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  Speaker 1: fain he were not I desert him. Not is maynae,
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  Speaker 1: O daring one? When Creon bids thee not antigony. He
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  Speaker 1: has no right to keep me from mine own? Is
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  Speaker 1: maynae ah me, Remember, sister, how our sire perished with hate,
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  Speaker 1: overwhelmed and infamy from evils that himself did bring to
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  Speaker 1: light with his own hand, himself of eyes bereaving, And
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  Speaker 1: how his wife and mother both in one with twisted
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  Speaker 1: cordage cast away her life. And thirdly, how our brothers,
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  Speaker 1: in one day, in suicidal conflict, wrought the doom each
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  Speaker 1: of the other. And we twain our left. And think
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  Speaker 1: how much more wretchedly than all we twain shall perish
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  Speaker 1: if against the law we brave our Sovereign's edict and
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  Speaker 1: his power. This first we need remember we were born
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  Speaker 1: women as such, not made to strive with men. And
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  Speaker 1: next that they who reign surpass in strength, and we
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  Speaker 1: must bow to this and worse than this. I then,
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  Speaker 1: in treating those that dwell below to judge me leniently
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  Speaker 1: as forced to yield, will hearken to our rulers over
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  Speaker 1: zeal that still will meddle little wisdom shows antigony. I
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  Speaker 1: will not ask thee, nor though thou shouldst wish to
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  Speaker 1: do it, shouldst thou join with my consent, do what
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  Speaker 1: thou wilt. I go to bury him, and good it
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  Speaker 1: were in doing this to die loved, I shall be
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  Speaker 1: with him whom I have loved, guilty of holiest crime.
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  Speaker 1: More time is mine in which to share the favor
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  Speaker 1: of the dead than that of those who live, For
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  Speaker 1: I shall rest forever there. But thou, if thus thou
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  Speaker 1: please count as dishonored. What the gods approve is may nay.
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  Speaker 1: I do them no dishonor. But I find myself too
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  Speaker 1: weak to war against the state. Antigony. Make what excuse
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  Speaker 1: thou wilt I go to rear a grave above the
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  Speaker 1: brother whom I love? Is maynae. Ah wretched me? How
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  Speaker 1: much I fear for thee? Antigony fear not for me
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  Speaker 1: thine own fate raise safety is maynae at any rate.
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  Speaker 1: Disclose this deed to none, Keep it close hidden, I
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  Speaker 1: will hide it too. Antigony speak out. I bid THEE silent.
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  Speaker 1: Thou wilt be more hateful to me. If thou fail
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  Speaker 1: to tell my deed to all men is maynae. Fiery
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  Speaker 1: is thy mood, although thy deeds the very blood might
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  Speaker 1: chill Antigony. I know I please the souls I ought
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  Speaker 1: to please is may nay. Yes, if thou canst thou
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  Speaker 1: seek'st the impossible Antigony when strength shall fail me, then
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  Speaker 1: I'll cease to strive. Is maynae. We should not hunt
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  Speaker 1: the impossible at all. Antigony. If thou speak thus my hatred,
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  Speaker 1: wilt thou gain and rightly wilt be hated of the
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  Speaker 1: dead leave me and my ill counsel to endure this
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  Speaker 1: dreadful doom. I shall not suffer aught so evil as
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  Speaker 1: a death dishonorable is maynae go. Then, if so thou
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  Speaker 1: wilt of this, be sure wild as thou art, thy
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  Speaker 1: friends must love thee still exeunt enter chorus of theban
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  Speaker 1: Elders strophi ie chorus O light of yon, bright sun,
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  Speaker 1: fairest of all that ever shone on Thebes, Thebes with
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  Speaker 1: her seven high gates, Thou didst appear that day eye
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  Speaker 1: of the golden dawn or Durky's streams, advancing, driving with
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  Speaker 1: quickened curb in haste of headlong flight. The warrior, who,
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  Speaker 1: in panoply of proof from Argos, came with shield of
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  Speaker 1: glittering white whom Polinichies brought, roused by the strife of
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  Speaker 1: tongues against our fatherland. As eagle shrieking shrill. He hovered
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  Speaker 1: o'er our land with snow white wing, bedecked begirt with
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  Speaker 1: myriad arms and flowing horsehair crests anti strophe ie. He
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  Speaker 1: stood above our towers, encircling with his spears, all blood
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  Speaker 1: be stained the portals of our gates he went before
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  Speaker 1: he filled his jaw with blood of men Ere the
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  Speaker 1: pine fed Hephaestus had seized our crown of towers. So
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  Speaker 1: loud the battle din that Ari's loves was raised around
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  Speaker 1: his rear, a conflict. Hard en for his dragon, foe
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  Speaker 1: for breath of haughty speech, Zeus hateth evermore, and seeing
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  Speaker 1: them advance with mighty rushing stream and clang of golden
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  Speaker 1: arms with brandish fire, he hurls one who rushed eagerly
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  Speaker 1: from topmost battlement to shout out victory. Strophy too, crashing
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  Speaker 1: to earth, he fell down, smitten with his torch, who
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  Speaker 1: came with madman's haste, drunken with frenzied soul, and swept
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  Speaker 1: o'er us with blasts the whirlwind blasts of hate. Thus
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  Speaker 1: on one side they fare, and Ari's great like war horse,
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  Speaker 1: in his strength, smiting now here now there brought each
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  Speaker 1: his several fate. For seven che warriors at the seven
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  Speaker 1: gates met equals with equals matched to Zeus, the lord
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  Speaker 1: of war left tribute arms of bronze. All but the
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  Speaker 1: hateful ones, who from one father and one mother sprung
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  Speaker 1: stood wielding hand to hand their two victorious spears and
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  Speaker 1: had their doom of death as common law anti Strophe two.
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  Speaker 1: But now since victory of mightiest name, hath come to
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  Speaker 1: thebes of Chariot's proud, joying and giving joy. After these
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  Speaker 1: wars just passed, learn ye forgetfulness, and all night long,
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  Speaker 1: with dance and voice of hymns, let us go round
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  Speaker 1: in state to all the shrines of gods. While Bacchus,
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  Speaker 1: making thebes resound with dance, begins the strain of joy.
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  Speaker 1: But lo, our country's king, Creon Menachius's son, new ruler,
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  Speaker 1: by new change and providence of God, comes to us,
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  Speaker 1: steering on some new device. For lo, he hath convened
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  Speaker 1: by Herald's loud command, this Council of the elders of
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  Speaker 1: our land. Enter Creon, Creon, my friends, for what concerns
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  Speaker 1: our commonwealth? The gods who vexed it with the billowing storms,
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  Speaker 1: have righted it again, and I have sent by special
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  Speaker 1: summons calling you to come apart from all the others.
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  Speaker 1: This in part, as knowing ye did all along uphold
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  Speaker 1: the might of lais throne. In part again because when
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  Speaker 1: Oedipus our country ruled, and when he perished, then towards
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  Speaker 1: his sons, Ye still were faithful in your steadfast mind,
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  Speaker 1: And since they fell as by a double death, both
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  Speaker 1: on the self same day, with murderous blow, smiting and
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  Speaker 1: being smitten. Now I hold their thrones and all their
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  Speaker 1: power of sovereignty by nearness of my kindred to the
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  Speaker 1: dead and hard. It is to learn what each man
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  Speaker 1: is in heart and mind and judgment, till he gain
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  Speaker 1: experience in prins and in laws. For me, who err
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  Speaker 1: is called to guide a state, and does not catch
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  Speaker 1: at councils wise and good, but holds his peace through
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  Speaker 1: any fear of man, I deem him basest of all
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  Speaker 1: men that are, and so have deemed long since. And
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  Speaker 1: whoso err as worthier than his country counts his friend,
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  Speaker 1: I utterly despise him. I myself zeus be my witness,
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  Speaker 1: who beholdeth all, would not keep silence seeing danger come
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  Speaker 1: instead of safety to my subjects true, Nor could I
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  Speaker 1: take as friend my country's foe. For this I know
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  Speaker 1: that there our safety lies and sailing while the good
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  Speaker 1: ship holds her course. We gather friends around us. By
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  Speaker 1: these rules, and such as these do I maintain this state.
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  Speaker 1: And now I come with edicts close allied to these
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  Speaker 1: in spirit. For my citizens, concerning those two sons of
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  Speaker 1: Oedipus Eteicles, who died in deeds of might, illustrious, fighting
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  Speaker 1: for our fatherland, to honor him with sempulture, all rites
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  Speaker 1: duly performed. That to the noblest dead of right belong
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  Speaker 1: not so his brother. Him I speak of Polinichies, who
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  Speaker 1: returned from exile, sought with fire to desolate his father's
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  Speaker 1: city and the shrines of gods. Yes, sought to glut
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  Speaker 1: his rage with blood of men, and lead them captives
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  Speaker 1: to the bond slave's doom. Him I decree that none
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  Speaker 1: shall dare in tumb, the none shall utter wail or
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  Speaker 1: loud lament, believe his corpse unburied by the dogs and
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  Speaker 1: vultures mangled foul to look upon. Such is my purpose.
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  Speaker 1: Ne'er if I can help, shall the vile have more
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  Speaker 1: honor than the just. But whoso shows himself my country's friend,
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  Speaker 1: living or dead, from me, shall honor gain chorus. This
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  Speaker 1: is thy pleasure, Omnichaeus's son, for him who hated him,
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  Speaker 1: who loved our state. And thou hast power to make
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  Speaker 1: what laws thou wilt, both for the dead and all
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  Speaker 1: of us who live Chreon. Be Ye, then, guardians of
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  Speaker 1: the things I speak Chorus, commit this task to one
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  Speaker 1: of younger years Chreon, nay, watchmen are appointed for the
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  Speaker 1: corpse Chorus. What other task than dost thou lay on us? Chreon?
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  Speaker 1: Not to consent with those that disobey Chorus. None are
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  Speaker 1: so foolish as to seek for death Chreon, Yet that
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  Speaker 1: shall be the doom. But love of gain hath oft,
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  Speaker 1: with false hopes, lured men to their death. Enter guard guard.
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  Speaker 1: I will not say, o, King, that I have come
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  Speaker 1: panting with speed, implying nimble feet, For I had many
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  Speaker 1: halting points of thought, backwards and forwards, turning round and round.
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  Speaker 1: For now my mind would give me sage advice, Poor wretch,
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  Speaker 1: Why go where thou must bear the blame? Or wilt
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  Speaker 1: thou tarry? Fool shall crean know these things from others?
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  Speaker 1: How wilt thou escape grief? Revolving? Thus I came in haste,
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  Speaker 1: yet slow, and thus a short way finds itself prolonged.
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  Speaker 1: But last of all, to come to thee prevailed. And
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  Speaker 1: though I tell of not yet, I will speak for
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  Speaker 1: this one hope, I cling to might and name that
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  Speaker 1: I shall suffer nought but destiny. Creon, what is it
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  Speaker 1: then that causes such dismay? Guard first, for mine own
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  Speaker 1: share in it? This I say the deed I did
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  Speaker 1: not do, not know who did, nor should I rightly
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  Speaker 1: come to ill for it. Creon, Thou feel'st thy way
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  Speaker 1: and fencest up thy deed all round and round twards,
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  Speaker 1: seeing thou hast some news, Guard yeay, news of fear
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  Speaker 1: engenders long delay. Creon, wilt thou not speak? And then
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  Speaker 1: depart in peace? Guard well speak, I will the corpse
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  Speaker 1: someone has been, but now and bear it a little
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  Speaker 1: dust o'er the skin scattering with the wonted rights. Creon,
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  Speaker 1: what sayest thou what men dared this deed of guilt? Guard?
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  Speaker 1: I know not? Neither was there stroke of axe, nor
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  Speaker 1: earth cast up by mattock. All the soil was dry
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  Speaker 1: and hard, no track of chariot wheel. But he who
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  Speaker 1: did it went and left no sign. And when the
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  Speaker 1: first day watchman showed at us, the sight caused wonder
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  Speaker 1: and sore grief to all, for he had disappeared. No
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  Speaker 1: tomb indeed was over him, but dust, all lightly strown,
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  Speaker 1: as by some hand that shunned defiling guilt, and no
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  Speaker 1: sign was there of wild beast or dog having come
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  Speaker 1: and torn him. Evil words arose among us, guard to guard,
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  Speaker 1: imputing blame which might have come to blows, and none
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  Speaker 1: was there to check its course. For each to each
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  Speaker 1: appeared the man whose hands had done it. Yet not
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  Speaker 1: one had brought it home. But each disclaimed all knowledge.
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  Speaker 1: And we were ready in our hands to take bars
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  Speaker 1: of hot iron, and to walk through fire, and call
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  Speaker 1: the gods to witness. None of us were privy to
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  Speaker 1: his schemes who planned the deed, nor his who wrought it. Then,
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  Speaker 1: at last, when naught was gained by all our searchings,
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  Speaker 1: someone speaks, who made us bend our gaze upon the
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  Speaker 1: ground in fear and trembling, for we neither saw how
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  Speaker 1: to oppose it, nor accepting it, how we might prosper
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  Speaker 1: in it. And his speech was this, that all our
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  Speaker 1: tales should go to thee, not hushed up anywise. This
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  Speaker 1: gained the day, and me ill starred the lot condemns
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  Speaker 1: to win this precious prize. So here I come to
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  Speaker 1: THEE against my will, and surely do I trow thou
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  Speaker 1: dost not wish to see me. Still tis true that
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  Speaker 1: no man loves the messenger of ill chorus for me,
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  Speaker 1: my prince. My mind sometime has thought, if this perchance
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  Speaker 1: has some divine intent, chreon cease, then before thou fillest
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  Speaker 1: me with wrath, lest thou be found, though full of years,
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  Speaker 1: a fool. For what thou sayest is most intolerable that
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  Speaker 1: for this corpse, the providence of God's has any care.
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  Speaker 1: What have they buried him? As to their patron paying
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  Speaker 1: honors high, who came to waste their column shrines with fire,
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  Speaker 1: to desecrate their offerings and their lands in all their
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  Speaker 1: wonted customs. Dost thou see the gods approving men of
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  Speaker 1: evil deeds? It is not so, but men of rebel mood,
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  Speaker 1: lifting their head in secret, long ago, still murmured thus
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  Speaker 1: against me. Never yet had they their neck beneath the yoke,
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  Speaker 1: content to bear it with submission. They I know, have
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  Speaker 1: bribed these men to let the deed be done. No
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  Speaker 1: thing in use by men, for power of ill can
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  Speaker 1: equal money. This lays cities low, This drives men forth
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  Speaker 1: from quiet dwelling place. This warps and changes minds of
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  Speaker 1: worthiest stamp to turn to deeds of baseness, teaching men
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  Speaker 1: all shifts of cunning, and to know the guilt of
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  Speaker 1: every impious deed. But they who hired have wrought this crime,
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  Speaker 1: have labored to their cost, or soon or late to
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  Speaker 1: pay the penalty. But if Zeus still claims any awe
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  Speaker 1: from me, know this, and with an oath, I tell
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  Speaker 1: it thee. Unless ye find the very man whose hand
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  Speaker 1: has wrought this burial, and before mine eyes present him captive,
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  Speaker 1: death shall not suffice till first hung up still living.
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  Speaker 1: Ye shall show the story of this outrage, that henceforth,
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  Speaker 1: knowing what gain is lawful, ye may grasp at that
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  Speaker 1: and learn it is not meet to love gain from
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  Speaker 1: all quarters by base prophet one, ye will see more
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  Speaker 1: destroyed than prospering God. May I then speak? Or shall
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  Speaker 1: I turn and go? Chreon? Cease? Not even yet? How
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  Speaker 1: vexing are thy words? Gard is it thine ears? They trust?
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  Speaker 1: Or thy soul? Creon? Why dost thou gauge my trouble?
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  Speaker 1: Where it is God the doer grieves thy heart? But
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  Speaker 1: I thine ears, Creon pshaw, what a babbler born to prate?
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  Speaker 1: Art Thou God may be? Yet I this deed at
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  Speaker 1: least did not Creon? Yes, and for money selling e'en
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  Speaker 1: thy soul. God ah me, how dire it is in
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  Speaker 1: thinking false to think chreon prate about thinking. But unless
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  Speaker 1: ye showed to me the doers, ye shall say ere
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  Speaker 1: long that scoundrel gains still work their punishment exit God
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  Speaker 1: God's send we find him. Should we find him not,
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  Speaker 1: as well may be for this must chance decide you
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  Speaker 1: will not see me coming here again, For now, being
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  Speaker 1: safe beyond all hope of mine, beyond all thought, I
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  Speaker 1: owe the gods much thanks it strophi Ie chorus. Many
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  Speaker 1: the forms of life wondrous and strange to sea, but
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  Speaker 1: naught than man appears more wondrous and more strange. He,
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: with the wintry gales o'er the white foaming sea, mid
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: wild waves surging round, wendeth his way across Earth of
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: all gods from ancient days, the first, unworn and undecay'd.
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  Speaker 1: He with his plows that travel o're and o're furrowing
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: with horse and mule, wears ever year by year anti
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: strophe ie. The thoughtless tribe of birds, the beasts that
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: roam the fields, the brood in sea depths born. He
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: takes them all in nets knotted in snaring mesh man,
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: wonderful in skill and by his subtle arts, he holds
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: in sway the beasts that roam the fields, or tread
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: the mountain's height, and brings the binding yoke upon the
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: neck of horse with shaggy mane or bull on mountain crest.
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  Speaker 1: Untamable in strength, strophy too, and speech and thought as
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: swift as wind and temper'd mood for higher life of
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: states these he has learnt, and how to flee or
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: the clear cold of frost, unkind or darts of storm
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: and shower man, all providing unprovided he meeteth no chance.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: The coming days may bring only from haities. Still he
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: fails to find escape, though skill of art may teach
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: him how to flee from depths of failed disease incurable
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: anti strophe too. So gifted with a wondrous might above
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: all fancy's dreams, with skill to plan now unto evil,
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: now to good, he turns while holding fast the laws
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: his country's sacred rights that rest upon the oath of
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: gods on high high in the state, and outlaw from
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: the state. When loving in his pride the thing that
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: is not good, ne'er may he share my heart, nor
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: yet my thoughts who worketh deeds of evil like to this?
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: Enter guards, bringing in Antigony. As to this portent which
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: the gods have sent, I stand in doubt. Can I,
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: who know her, say that this is not the maid Antigony, Oh,
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: wretched one of wretched father, born thou child of Oedipus?
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: What means this? Surely tis not that they bring thee
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: as a rebel against the king's decree and taken in
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: the folly of thine act guard. Yes, she it was
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: by whom the deed was done. We found her burying.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: Where is Creon prey Chorus? Back from his palace? Comes he?
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: Just in time? Enter Creon Chreon. What chance is this
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: with which my coming fits? Gard men o my king
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: should pledge themselves to naught, for cool reflection makes their
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: purpose void. I surely thought I should be slow to
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: come here, cowed by thy threats which then fell thick
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: on me. But now persuaded by the sweet delight which
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: comes unlooked for and beyond our hopes, I come, Although
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: I swore the contrary, bringing this maiden, whom in act
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: we found decking the grave. No need for lots was
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: now the prize was mine and not another man's. And
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: now O King take her, and as thou wilt judge
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: and convict her, I can claim a right to wash
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: my hands of all this troublous coil. Creon, How and
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: where was it that ye seized and brought her guard?
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: She was an act of burying, Thou knowest all, Creon,
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: dost know and rightly speak the tale? Thou tellest, Guard,
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: I saw her burying that self same corpse. Thou badestest
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: not to bury? Speak I clear, Creon, how was she
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: seen and taken in the act guard? The matter passed
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: as follows. When we came with all those dreadful threats
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: of thine upon us, sweeping away the dust which lightly
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: spread covered the corpse, and being stripped and bare the
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: tainted carcass on the hill, we sat to windward, shunning
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: the infected air, each stirring up his fellow with strong
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: words if any shirked his duty. This went on some
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: time until the glowing orb of day stood in mid heaven,
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: and the scorching heat fell on us. Then a sudden
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: whirlwind rose a scourge from heaven, raising squalls on earth,
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: and filled the plane the leafage, stripping bare of all
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: the forest and the air's vast space was thick and troubled,
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: and we closed our eyes until the plague the god
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: said scent was past, and when it ceased, a weary
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: time being gone, the girl is seen, and with a
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: bitter cry, shrill as a bird's when it beholds its nest,
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: all emptied of its infant brood, she wails. Thus she,
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: when she beholds the corpse, all stripped, groaned loud, with
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: many moanings, and she called fierce curses down on those
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: who did the deed. And in her hand she brings
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: some fine dry dust, and from a vasive bronze, well
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: wrought upraised, she pours the three libations or the dead,
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: and we beholding give her chase forthwith and run her down,
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: not terrified at us. And then we charge her with
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: a former deed as well as this, and nothing she denied.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: But this to me both bitter is and sweet. For
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: to escape oneself from ill is sweet. But to bring
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: friends to trouble this is hard and painful. Yet my
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: nature bids me count above all these things safety for myself.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: Creon to antigony, Thou, then, yes, thou who bend'st thy
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: face to earth. Confessest thou or dost deny the deed antigony?
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: I own I did it and will not deny. Creon
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: to guard, go thy way where'er thy will may choose,
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: freed from a weighty charge exit guard. End of Part
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: one recording by ex Patriot in Bangor, Maine. Part two
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: of Antigony by Sophocles, translated by Edward Hayes Plumptory, eighteen
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: twenty one at eighteen ninety one. This librivax recording is
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: in the public domain. Recording by ex Patriot in Bangor Maine,
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: Part two, Creon to antigony. And now for thee say,
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: in few words, not lengthening out thy speech, knew'st thou
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: the edicts which forbade these things antigony? I knew them?
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: Could I fail full clear? Were they creon? And thou
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: didstare to disobey these laws antigony? Yes? For it was
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: not Zeus who gave them forth, nor Justice dwelling with
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: the gods below, who traced these laws for all the
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: sons of men. Nor did I in thy edicts strong
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: enough that thou, a mortal man, shouldst overpass the unwritten
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: laws of God, that know not change. They are not
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: of to day nor yesterday, but live forever. Nor can
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: man assign when first they sprang to being not through
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: fear of any man's resolve. Was I prepared before the
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: gods to bear the penalty of sinning against these? That
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: I should die? I knew? How should I not, though
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: thy decree had never spoken? And before my time, if
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: I shall die, I reckon this again. For whoso lives
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: as I in many woes, how can it be? But
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: he shall gain by death? And so for me to
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: bear this doom of thine has nothing painful. But if
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: I had left my mother's son unburied on his death,
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: in that I should have suffered. But in this I
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: suffer not. And should I seem to THEE to do
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: a foolish deed, tis simply this I bear the charge
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: of folly from a fool chorus the maiden stubborn will
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: of stubborn son. Where the offspring shows itself she knows
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: not yet to yield to evils. Creon No, then mine's
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: too stiff, most often stumble, and the rigid steel baked
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: in the furnace made exceeding hard thou ceast most often
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: split and shivered lie, and I have known the steeds
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: of fiery mood with a small curb subdued. It is
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: not meet that one who lives in bondage to his
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: neighbors should think too proudly want an outrage. Then this
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: girl first learnt transgressing these my laws. But this, when
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: she has done it, is again a second outrage over it,
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: to boast and laugh as having done it. Surely, then
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: she is the man, not I, if all unscathed such
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: deeds of might are hers. But be she child of
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: mine own's sister, or of one more near than all
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: the kith and kin of household zeus, she and her
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: sister shall not scape a doom most foul and shameful.
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: For I charge her too with having planned this deedail sepulture,
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: go yee, and call her twas. But now within I
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: saw her raving, losing self command. And still the mind
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: of those who in the dark planned deeds of evil
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: is the first to fail, and so convicts itself of
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: secret guilt. But most I hate when one found out
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: in guilt will seek to glose and brave it to
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: the end antigony, And dost thou seek aught else beyond
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: my death, Prion nought else for me that gaining I
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: gain all Antigony. Why then, delay of all thy words?
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: Not one pleases me now, and may it never please?
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: And so all mine must grat upon thine ears. And
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: yet how could I higher glory gain than placing my
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: true brother in his tomb? There is not one of these,
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: but would confess it pleases them? Did fear not seal
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: their lips? The tyrants might in much besides excels, and
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: it may do, and say what er it was? Well? Creon,
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: of all the race of Cadmos, Thou alone lookest thus
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: upon the deed Antigony. They see it too, as I do,
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: But their tongue is tied for thee. Creon, art not
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: ashamed against their thoughts to think antigony. There is not
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: base in honoring our own blood, Creon. And was he
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: not thy kin who fought against him Antigony? Yea brother
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: of one father and one mother, Creon, Why then give
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: honor which dishonors him Antigany? The dead below will not
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: repeat thy words, Creon. Yes, if thou give like honor
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: to the godless Antigony. It was his brother, not his slave,
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: that died Creon, wasting this land while he died fighting
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: for it antigany. Yet Haiti still craves equal rights for
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: all Creon, the good craves, not the portion of the
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: bad antigony. Who knows that this be holy deemed below Creon?
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: Not even when he dies, can foe be friend antigony.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: My nature leads to sharing love, not hate. Creon, go
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: then below, And if thou must have love, love them
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: while I live, women shall not rule. Enter is Mayne,
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: led in by attendants chorus, and lo Is Mayne at
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: the gate comes shedding tears of sisterly regard, and o'er
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: her brow, a gathering cloud mars the deep roseate blush
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: be dooing her fair cheek. Creon too, is Maynee. And thou,
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: who creeping as a viper creeps, didst drain my life
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: in secret? And I knew not that I was rearing
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: two accursed ones, subverters of my throne. Come tell me, then,
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: wilt thou confess thou tookst thy pardon this? Or wilt
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: thou swear thou didst not know of it? Is Mayne,
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: I did that. Indeed, if she did go with her, yes,
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: share the guilt and bear an equal blame. Antigony nay,
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: justice will not suffer this, for thou didst not consent,
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: nor did I let THEE join? Is may nay. Nay
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: in thy troubles, I am not ashamed in the same
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: boat with THEE to share thy fate Antigony who did
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: it hades knows, and those below I do not love
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: a friend who loves in words is may nay. Do
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: not my sister put me to such shame as not
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: to let me join in death with THEE, and so
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: to pay due reverence to the dead. Antigony share not
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: my death, nor make thine own this deed. Thou hadst
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: no hand in it. My death shall suffice is may nay.
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: What life to me is sweet bereaved of THEE? Antigony
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: ask creon there, since thou o'er him dost watch is
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: may nay, Why vex me so in nothing bettered by it?
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: Antigony tis pain? Indeed to laugh my laugh at THEE
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: is may nay. But now at least how may I
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: profit THEE? Antigony, say thou thyself, I grudge not thy
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: escape is may nay. Ah woe is me? And must
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: I miss thy faith? Antigony, Thou need'st thy choice to
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: live and I to die is may nay. Twas not
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: because I failed to speak my thoughts. Antigony to these
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: didst Thou to those did I seem wise? Is may nay,
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: And yet the offense is equal in us both Antigony
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: take courage. Thou dost live my soul long since hath
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: died to render service to the dead Chrion. Of these
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: two girls, the one goes mad, but now the other,
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: ever since her life began, is may nay, even so
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: o king no mind that ever lives, stands firm in
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: evil days, but goes astray. Crion thine did when with
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: the vile vile deeds Thou choosest is Mayne. How could
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: I live without her presence? Here? Chreon speak not of presence?
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: She is here? No more is Mayne. And wilt thou
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: slay thy son's betrothed bride Chreon full many a field
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: there is which he may plow? Is Mayne, none like
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: that plighted troth TwixT him and her Chrion wives that
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: are vile I love not for my sons, is Maynee,
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: Oh dearest Hymn, how thy father shames thee Chreon, Thou
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: with that marriage dost but vex my soul Chorus, and
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: wilt thou rob thy son of her he loved chrion
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: tis death. Not I shall break the marriage off Chorus.
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: Her doom is fixed, it seems, then she must die
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: Chreon fixed. Yes, by me and THEE no more delay.
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: Lead them within, ye slave, These must be kept henceforth,
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: as women suffered not to roam, for even boldest natures
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: shrink in fear when they see hades overshadowing life. Exeunt
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: guards with antigone and ismenee strophi ie chorus. Blessed are
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: those whose life no woe doth taste. For unto those
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: whose house the gods have shaken, nothing fails of curse
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: or woe that creeps to generations far e'en. Thus a
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: wave when spreads with blast from Thraycian coasts, the darkness
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: of the deep up from the sea's abyss, hither and
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: thither rolls the black sand on and every jutting peak,
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: swept by the storm wind's strength, lashed by the fierce
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: wild waves, re echoes with the far resounding roar anti strophe. I,
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: I see the woes that smote in ancient days the
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: seed of Labdacas, who perish long ago with grief on
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: grief still falling. Nor does this a rescue, that some
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: god still smites it down, Nor have they any end?
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: For now there rose a gleam over the last week,
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: shoots that sprang from out the race of Oedipus. Yet this,
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: the blood stained scythe of those that reign below, cuts
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: off relentlessly in maddened speech and frenzied rage of heart strophy. Too,
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: Thy power, o zeus, what haughtiness of men? Yea, what
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: can hold in check? Which neither sleep that maketh all
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: things old, nor the long months of gods that never fail,
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: can for a moment sees but still as Lord Supreme,
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: waxing not old with time, Thou dwellest in thy sheen
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: of radiancy on far olympus height, through future, nearer forest,
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: through the past, one law holds Ever good naught comes
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: to life of man unscathed throughout by woe. Anti strophe too,
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: for hope, too many comes in wanderings wild a solace
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: and support to me as a cheat of fond desires,
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: and creepeth still on him who knows it not until
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: he burn his foot within the scorching flame. Full well
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: spake one of old, that evil ever seems to be
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: as good to those whose thoughts of heart God leadeth
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: unto woe. And without woe he spends but short a
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: space of time, and here comes Himan, last of all
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: thy sons, comes he bewailing sore the fate of her
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: who should have been his bride. The maid antigony, grieving
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: o'er vanished joys enter Himan, craon. Soon we shall know
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: much more than seers can. Surely thou dost not come
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: my son to rage against thy father, hearing his decree
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: fixing her doom, who should have been thy bride? Or
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: dost thou love us still whate'er we do, Himan, my father,
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: I am thine, and thou dost guide with thy wise counsels,
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: which I gladly follow. No marriage weighs one moment in
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: the scales with me, while thou dost guide my steps aright.
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: Crion this thought, my son should dwell within thy breast,
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: that all things stand below a father's will. For so
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: men pray that they may rear and keep obedient offspring
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: by their hearths and homes, that they may both requite
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: their father's foes and pay with him like honors to
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: his friend. But he who reareth sons that prophet, not
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: what could one say of him but this, that he
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: breeds his own sorrow laughter to his foes. Lose not
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: thy reason, then, my son, or come by pleasure for
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: a woman's sake. But know a cold embrace is that
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: to have at home a worthless wife, the partner of
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: thy bed, What ulcerous sore is worse than one we love,
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: who proves all worthless. No with loathing, scorn, as hateful
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: to thee. Let that girl go wet a spouse in
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: hades taken in the act. I found her her alone
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: of all the state rebellious, and I will not make
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: myself false to the state she dies. So let her
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: call on Zeus, the Lord of kindred. If I rear
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: of mine own stock things foul and orderless, I shall
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: have work enough with those without. For he who in
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: the life of home is good, will still be seen
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: as just in things of state. I should be sure
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: that men would govern well, and know well to be governed,
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: and would stand in war's wild storm on his appointed post.
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: A just and good defender. But the man who, by
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: transgressions violates the laws, or thinks to bid the powers
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: that be obey, he must not hope to gather praise
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: from me. No, we must follow whom the state appoints
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: in things are just and trivial, or may be the
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: opposite of these. For anarchy is our worst evil, brings
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: our commonwealth to utter ruin, lays whole houses low in battle, strife,
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: hurls firm allies in flight. But they who yield to guidance,
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: these shall find obedi and saves most men. Thus, help
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: should come to what our rulers order. Least of all
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: ought men to bow before a woman's sway. Far better
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: if it must be so, to fall by a man's hand,
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: than thus to bear reproach by woman conquered. Chorus unto us,
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: O King, unless our years have robbed us of our wit,
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: thou seemest to say wisely what thou sayest, Himan, The
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: gods my father have bestowed on man his reason noblest
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: of all earthly gifts. And that thou speakest for only
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: these thy words I cannot say, God grant, I ne'er
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: know how such things to utter. Yet another's thoughts may
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: have some reason. Tis my lot to watch what each
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: man says, or does or blames in thee. For dread
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: thy face to one of low estate who speaks what
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: thou wilt not rejoice to hear. But I can hear
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: the things in darkness said, how the whole city wails
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: this maiden's fate as one who of all women most
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: unjustly for noblest deed, must die the foulest death, who
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: her own brother fallen in the fray, would neither leave unburied,
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: nor expose to carrion dogs or any bird of prey.
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: May she not claim the meat of golden praise? Such
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: is the whisper that in secret runs all darkling. And
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: for me, my father, naught is dearer than thy welfare.
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: What can be a nobler prize of honor for the
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: sun than a sire's glory, or for sire than sons?
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: I pray thee then, where not one mood alone that
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: what thou sayest is right and naught, But that for
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: he who thinks that he alone is wise his mind
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: in speech above what others have such men, when search
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: are mostly empty, found But for a man to learn,
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: though he be wise, yeate to learn much and know
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: the time to yield brings no disgrace. When winter floods
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: the streams, thou seest the trees that bend before the
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: storm save their last twigs, while those that will not
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: yield perish with root and branch. And when one hull
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: too tight the mainsail rope and will not slack, he
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: has to end his voyage with deck or turn. Do
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: thou then yield? Permit thyself to change, Young, though I be,
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: if any prudent thought be with me, I at least
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: will dare assert the higher worth of one who come
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: what will is full of knowledge. If that may not be,
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: for nature is not wont to take that bent tis
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: good to learn from those who counsel well. Chorus my
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: king tis fit that thou shouldst learn from him if
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: he speaks words in season, and in turn that thou
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: to Himan shouldst learn of him, for both speak well. Creon,
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: shall we at our age stoop to learn from him? Young,
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: as he is the lesson to be wise himn learn
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: not thou shouldst not learn? And if I'm young, thou
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: shouldst my deeds and not my years. Consider, Creon, is
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: that thy deed to reverence rebel souls, Hi Man, I
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: would bid none waste reverence. It's on the base Kreon.
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: Has not that girl been seized with that disease? Him On,
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: the men of thebes with one accord, say no, Creon,
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: and will my subjects tell us how to rule? Himon,
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: dost thou not see thou speakest like a boy? Creon?
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: Must I then rule for others than myself? Him On?
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: That is no state which hangs on one man's will, Chreon,
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: is not the state deemed his who governs it? Himon,
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: brave rule alone and or an empty land Kreon. This boy,
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: it seems, will be his bride's ally him On. If
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: thou art chi for thou art all my care Chreon,
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: basest of base against thy father, pleading him on yea,
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: for I see thee sin a grievous sin, Kreon, and
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: do I sin revering mine own sway? Him On, Thou
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: ShoWest no reverence trampling on God's laws, Creon, O guilty
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: soul by woman's craft beguiled, Hi Man, thou wilt not
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: find me slave unto the base Chreon, Thy every word
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: is still on her behalf him on yea and on
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: thine and mine and theirs below. Chreon, be sure thou
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: shalt not wed her while she lives him On, then
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: she must die, and dying others slay Creon, and dost
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: thou dare to come to me with threats? Hi Man?
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: Is it a threat against vain thoughts to speak? Creon,
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: Thou to thy cost shalt teach me wisdom's ways thyself
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: in wisdom wanting, Hi Man, I would say thou wist
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: unwise if thou wert not my father, Chreon, Thou woman's slave,
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: I say, prayed on no more him On. Wilt thou
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: then speak and speaking? Listen not Creon, nay by Olympus,
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: Thou shalt not go free to float me with reproaches
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: lead her out whom my soul hates, that she may
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: die forth with before mine eyes and near her bridegroom.
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: Here Himan, no think it not near me? She shall
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: not die, And thou shalt never see my face alive,
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: that thou mayst storm at those who like to yield
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: exit Hyman chorus. The man has gone o king in
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: hasty mood, A mind distressed in youth is hard to bear. Chreon,
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: let him do what he will, and bear himself as
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: more than man. He shall not save those girls. Chorus,
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: What dost thou mean to slay them? Both alike Creon,
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: not her who touched it? Not there thou sayest well?
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: Chorus what form of death meanst thou to slay her?
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: With Creon leading her on to where the desert path
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: is loneliest. There alive in rocky cave, will I immure
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: her just so much of food before her set, as
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: may avert pollution and save the city from the guilt
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: of blood. And there, invoking Hades, whom alone, of all
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: the gods she worships, she perchance shall gain escape from death,
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: or then shall know that hades worship is but labor
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: lost Strophy chorus, O Love in every battle victor owned love,
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: rushing on thy prey, now on a maiden's soft and
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: blooming cheek, in secret ambush hid now o'er the broad sea,
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: wandering at will, and now in shepherd's folds. Of all
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: the undying ones, none escape from THEE, nor yet of
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: mortal men, whose lives are measured as a fleeting day,
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: and who has THEE is frenzied in his soul. Anti strophy,
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: Thou makest vile the purpose of the just to his
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: own fatal harm. Thou hast stirred up this fierce and
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: deadly strife of men of nearest kin. The charm of
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: eyes of bride, beloved and fair is crowned with victory
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: and dwells on high among the powers that rule, equal
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: with holiest laws. For Aphrodite, she whom none subdues, sports
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: in her might and majesty divine. I, even I am
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: born beyond the appointed laws. I look on this and
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: cannot stay the fountain of my tears. For lo I
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: see her see antigony, wend her sad lonely way to
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: that bride chamber where we all must lie. Antigony. Behold, o,
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: men of this my fatherland. I wend my last lone way,
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: seeing the last sunbeam now and never more. He leads me,
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: yet alive hades that welcomes all to Acorn's dark shore.
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: Would neither part nor lot in marriage festival, nor hath
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: the marriage hymn been sung from me as bride. But
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: I shall be the bride of achron chorus. And hast
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: thou not all honor worthiest praise, who goest to the
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: home that hides the dead, not smitten by the sickness
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: that decays, nor by the sharp sword's mead, but of
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: thine own free will, in fullest life alone of mortals.
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: Thus to Hades takes thy way. Antigony, I heard of
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: old her pitiable end on SiPiLis high crag, the Phrygian
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: stranger from a far land come whom Tantalus began, whom
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: growth of rugged rock, clinging as I thee clings subdued
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: and made its own. And now so runs the tail
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: there as she melts in shower, the snow abideth ay
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: and still Bedew's yon cliffs that lie below those brows
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: that ever weep with fate like hers, God brings me
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: to my rest. Chorus A goddess she and of the
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: high gods born, and we are mortals, born of mortal seed,
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: and lo for one who liveth but to die to
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: gain like doom with those of heavenly races great and
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: strange to hear Antigony, ye mock me, then, alas why
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: wait ye not by all our father's gods, I ask you,
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: till I have passed away, But flout me while I
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: live O city that I love O men that claim
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: as yours, that city stored with wealth, Oh derki fairest
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: found O grove of thebes that boasts her chariot host.
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: I bid you witness all, how, with no friends to
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: weep by what stern laws condemned, I go to that
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: strong dungeon of the tomb for burial. Strange Ah me
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: nor dwelling with the living, nor the dead chorus forward
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: and forward still to farthest verge of daring, hast thou gone?
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: And now, o child, thou hast rushed violently where right
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: erects her throne. Surely thou payest to the uttermost thy
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: father's dead of guilt antigony, Ah, thou hast touched the
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: quick of all my grief, the thrice told tale of
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: all my father's woe, the fate which dogs us all,
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: the old love daked race of ancient fame, woe for
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: the curses dire of that defiled bed with foulest incense,
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: as stained my mother's with my sire, whence I myself
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: have sprung most miserable. And now I go to them
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: to sojourn in the grave, accursed and unwed, Ah brother,
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: thou didst find thy marriage fraught with ill, and thou
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: thou dead, hast smitten down my life. Chorus acts reverent
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: and devout may claim devotion's name. But power in one
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: to whom power comes as trust may never be defied.
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: And thee thy, stubborn mood self chosen, layeth low Antigony,
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: unwept without a friend, unwed, and whelm'd in woe. I
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: journey on this road that open lies. No more shall
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: it be mine O misery to look upon Yon Daylight's
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: holy I. And yet of all my friends, not one
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: bewails my fate. No kindly tear is shed. Enter Creon.
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: End of part two recording by Expatriot in Bangor Maine.
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: Part three of Antigony by Sophocles, translated by Edward Hayes's
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: Plump Tree eighteen twenty one to eighteen ninety one. This
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: librivat's recording is in the public domain. Recording by Expatriot
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: in Bangor Maine, Part three, Creon, And know ye not
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: if men have leave to speak their songs and wailings,
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: thus to stave off death, that they will never stop.
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: Lead lead her on without delay, And as I have said,
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: immure in Yon cavernous tomb, and then depart, leave her
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: to choose, or drear in lonely death, or living in
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: the tomb, to find her home. Our hands are clean
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: in all that touches her, but she no more shall
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: dwell on earth with us antigony, turning towards the covers
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: o tomb, my bridal chamber, vaulted home, guarded right well
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: forever where I go to join mine own, of whom
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: the greater part among the dead doth persefasa hold, and
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: I of all the last and saddest, when my way
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: below life's little span unfilled, And yet I go and
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: feed myself with hopes that I shall meet them by
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: my father, loved dear to my mother, well beloved of
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: thee thou darling brother. I, with these my hands watched
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: each dear corpse arraye. You poured libations in rights of
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: burial and in care for thee thy body poliniqies, honoring.
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: I gained this recompense. And yet in sight of all
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: that rightly judged the deed was good, I had not
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: done it. Had I come to be a mother with
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: her children, had not dared though tore a husband dead
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: that moldered there against my country's will to bear this toil,
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: and am I asked what law can strain me? Thus
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: I answer, had I lost a husband, dear, I might
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: have had another other sons by other spouse, if one
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: were lost to me. But when my father and my
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: mother's sleep in hades, then no brother more can come.
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: And therefore giving THEE the foremost place I seemed in
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: Creon's eyes, O brother dear to sin in boldest daring.
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: Therefore now he leads me, having taken me by force,
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: cut off from marriage bed and marriage song, untasting wife's
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: true joy or mother's bliss, with infant at her breast,
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: but all forlorn, bereaved of friends, in utter misery, alive,
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: I tread the chambers of the dead. What law of
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: heaven have I transgressed against? What use for me? Ill
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: starred one still to look to any god for succor,
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: or to call on any friend for aid? For a
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: holiest deed? I bear this charge of rank unholiness. If
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: acts like these the gods on high approve, we taught
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: by pain, shall own that we have sinned. But if
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: these sin looking at Creon, I pray THEE suffer not
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: worse evils than the wrongs they do to me. Chorus,
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: still do the same wild blasts vex her who standeth
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: there Creon. Therefore shall these her guards weep sore for
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: this delay? Chorus, ah me, this word of thine tells
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: of death, drawing nigh Creon. I cannot bid thee hope
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: for other end than this antigony, Oh, citadel of Thebes,
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: my native land, Ye gods of ancient days, I go
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: and linger not behold me, o, ye senators of Thebes,
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: the last lone scion of the kingly race? What things
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: I suffer? And from whom they come? Revering still the
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: laws of reverence guards lead antigony away Strophe I Chorus,
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: So did the form of Danae bear of Old, in
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: brazen palace hid to lose the light of heaven, and
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: in her tomb life like chamber was enclosed. Yet she,
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: o child, was noble in her race, and well she
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: stored the golden shower of Zeus, but great and dread
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: the might of destiny, nor kingly wealth, nor war, nor tower,
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: nor dark hulled ships beaten by waves escape an thaistrophe.
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: So too was shut and closed in dungeon cave bitter
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: and fierce in mood, the son of Drias, king of
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: yon Edonian tribes, for vile reproach by Dionysu's hands, and
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: so his strength and soul or mad waste drop by
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: drop away. And so he learnt that he, against the
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: god spake his mad words of scorn, for he the
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: meanad throng and bright fire fain, had stopped and roused
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: the muses wrath Strophi too. And by the double sea
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: of those dark rocks are shores of Bosporus and Thracian
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: Isle assolmidasas known where Aris, whom they served, god of
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: the region round saw the dire, blinding wound that smote
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: the twin born sons of Phineas by relentless step Dame's hand,
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: dark wound on dark doomed eyes, not with a stroke
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: of sword, but blood stained hands in point of spindle
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: sharp antistrophy two. And they, in misery, miserable fate, wasting away,
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: wept sore, born of a mother wedded with a curse,
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: and she who claimed descent from men of ancient fame,
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: the old erechthighed race amid her father's winds, daughter of
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: Boreous in far distant caves, was reared a child of gods,
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: swift moving as the steed or lofty crag, And yet
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: the ever living fates bore hard on her enter Taracius,
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: guided by a boy, Teracius, Princes of Thebes, we come
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: as travelers, joined one, seeing for both. For still the
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: blind must use a guide's assistance to direct his steps, Creon,
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: And what new thing to Rasius brings thee? Here, Rasius,
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: I'll tell thee, and do thou the seer obey, Creon
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: of Old? I was not wont to slight thy thoughts, Terasius.
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: So didst thou steer our city's course full well, Creon,
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: I bear my witness from good profit gained to Rasius.
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: Know then thou walk'st on fortune's razor edge? Creon? What
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: means this? How I shudder at thy speech, Terasius. Soon
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: shalt thou know as thou dost hear the signs of
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: my dread art For sitting as of old, upon my
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: ancient seat of Augury, where every bird finds haven, lo,
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: I hear strange cry of winged creatures shouting shrill with
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: inarticulate passion, And I knew that they were tearing each
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: the other's flesh with bloody talons. For their worrying ways
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: made that quite clear and straightway. Iye, in fear, made
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: trial of the sacrifice that lay on fiery altar, and
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: hephestus flame shone not from out the offering, but there
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: oozed upon the ashes trickling from the bones of moisture,
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: and it smoldered, and its spat, and lo, the gall
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: was scattered to the air, and forth from out the
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: fact that wrapped them round the thigh bones fell such
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: omens of decay from holy sacrifice. I learnt from him,
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: this boy who now stands here, for he is still
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: a guide to me, as I to others am. And
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: all this evil falls upon the state from out thy counsels.
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: For our altars, all our sacred hearths, are full of
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: food for dogs and birds, unclean the flesh of that
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: poor wretch who fell, the son of Oedipus. And so
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: the gods no more hear prayers of sacrifice, nor own
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: the flame that burns the victim's limbs, nor do the
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: birds give cry of omen good, but feed on carrion
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: of a slaughtered corpse. Think'st thou on this my son
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: to err indeed is common unto all. But having erred,
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: he is no longer reckless or unblessed. Who, having fallen
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: into evil, seeks for healing, nor continues still unmoved self
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: will must bear the charge of stubbornness, yield to the
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: dead and outrage, not a corpse. What prowess is it?
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: Fallen foes to slay? Good counsel, Give I planning good
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: for thee and of all joys, the sweetest is to
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: learn from one who speaketh well? Should that bring gain?
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: Creon old men as archers aiming at their mark. So
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: ye shoot forth your venom darts at me. I know
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: your Augur's tricks, and by your tribe, long since am
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: tricked and sold. Yes, gain your gains. Get sardis, amber, metal,
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: Indian gold. That corpse, Ye shall not hide in any tomb,
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: not though the eagles birds of Zeus, should bear their
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: carrion morsels to the throne of God, not even fearing
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: this pollution dire, while I consent to burial. Well, I
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: know that man is powerless to pollute the gods, but
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: many fold Tasius dotard Old, a shameful faal who glows
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: their shameful words for Lucre's sake, with surface show of
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: good Tacius, ah me, does no man know? Does none
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: consider Crion? Consider what what trite poor soul comes? Now, Rasius?
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: How far good counsel is of all things best? Crion?
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: So far I trow as folly is worst ill, Terracius,
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: of that disease, thy soul alas is full, Crion. I
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: will not meet a seer with evil words, Teracius. Thou
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: dost so saying I divine with lies Creon. The race
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: of seers is ever fond of gold, Tasius, and that
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  Speaker 1: of tyrants still loves Lucre fowl. Creon, dost know thou
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  Speaker 1: speak'st thy words of those that rule? Terasius. I know
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  Speaker 1: through me thou rulest a city saved, Creon, Wise Seer,
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  Speaker 1: art thou yet given over much to wrong? Terasius. Thou
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  Speaker 1: stir me to speak out my soul's dreads secrets. Creon
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  Speaker 1: out with them, only speak them, not for gain, Terasius.
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  Speaker 1: So is it I trow in all that touches thee? Creon,
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  Speaker 1: know that thou shalt not bargain with my will? Terasius,
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  Speaker 1: know then, and know it well that thou shalt see
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  Speaker 1: not many winding circuits of the sun. Before thou givest
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: as quittans for the dead, a corpse by thee begotten,
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  Speaker 1: for that thou hast to the ground cast one that
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  Speaker 1: walked on earth, and foully placed within a sepulcher a
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  Speaker 1: living soul. And now thou keep'st from them the gods below,
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  Speaker 1: the corpse of one, unblessed, unwept, unhallowed. And in thee
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: these things thou canst claim no part, nor yet the
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: gods above. But they, by thee are outraged, and they
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: wait the sure, those slow avengers of the grave, the
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  Speaker 1: dread errynis of the mighty gods, for thee in these
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: same evils to be snared. Search well, if I say
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  Speaker 1: this as one who sells his soul for money, yet
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  Speaker 1: a little while, and in thy house the wail of
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  Speaker 1: men and women shall make it plain, and every city
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  Speaker 1: stirs itself in arms against thee, owning those whose limbs
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: the dogs have buried, or fierce wolves or winged birds
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  Speaker 1: have brought thee accursed taint to region, consecrate doom like
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  Speaker 1: to this sure, darting as an arrow to its mark,
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  Speaker 1: I'd launch at thee, for thou dost vex me sore
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  Speaker 1: and archer, aiming at the very heart, and thou shalt
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: not escape as fiery sting. And now, oh boy, lead
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  Speaker 1: thou me home again, that he may vent his spleen
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  Speaker 1: on younger men and learn to keep his tongue more
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  Speaker 1: or with better thoughts than this his present mood. Exit chorus.
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  Speaker 1: The man has gone, O King, predicting woe. And well
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  Speaker 1: we know since first our raven hair was mixed with gray,
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  Speaker 1: that never yet his words were uttered to our state
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  Speaker 1: and failed of truth. Chreon. I know it too, tis
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 1: that that troubles me. To yield is hard, but holding
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: out to smite one's soul with sorrow, this is harder still. Chorus.
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: We need wise counsel, O Minichius's son, Chreon, What shall
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: I do? Speak thou, and I'll obey? Chorus, Go then,
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: and free the maiden from her tomb, and give a
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: grave to him who lies exposed Chreon. Is this thy counsel,
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: dost thou bid me yield? Chorus, without delay, O King,
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: For lo they come the God's swift footed ministers of ill,
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: and in an instant lay the self willed low chreon
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 1: ah me tis hard, and yet I bend my will
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: to do thy bidding with necessity. We must not fight
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  Speaker 1: at such overwhelming odds. Chorus, Go then and act commit
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 1: it not to others. Chrion e'en as I am, I'll go. Come, Come,
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: my men present or absent, Come and in your hands
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 1: bring axes. Come to yonder eminence. And I, since now
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 1: my judgment leans that way, who myself bound her Now
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 1: myself will loose too much. I fear lest it should
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 1: wisest prove maintaining ancient laws to end my life Exit
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 1: strophy ie chorus O, Thou of many names of that
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: Cadmaeon made the glory and the joy, whom Zeus as
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 1: offspring owns. Zeus thundering, deep and loud, who watchest over
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: feigned Italia and ranged over all the bays at Deo
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 1: claims on fair elusis coast Bacchus, who dwellst in thebes,
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  Speaker 1: the mother town of all thy bacchant train among is
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 1: manas stream and with the dragon's brood Anti Strophe I
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  Speaker 1: thee or the double peak of yonder height, the blaze
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 1: of flashing fire beholds where nymphs of corricos, go forth
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: and back it dance, and by the flowery stream of
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: Castelli and thee the ivied slopes of Nias Hills and
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 1: vine clad promontory, while words of more than mortal melody
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 1: shout out the well known name. Send forth the guardian,
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 1: lord of the wide streets of thebes Strophe too, above
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: all cities, Thou, with her thy mother, whom the thunder slew,
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 1: dost look on it with love. And now, since all
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 1: the city bendeth low beneath the sullen plague, come thou
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 1: with cleansing tread or the Parnassian slopes, or o'er the
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 1: moaning straits Anti Strophe two, O thou who lead'st the band,
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  Speaker 1: the coral band of stars, still breathing fire Lord of
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 1: the hymns of night, the child of highest Zeus appear
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 1: O King with thy yean maidens wild, who all night
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 1: long and danced with frenzied chorus, sing thy praise their
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 1: lord Iacchus Enter messenger, messenger, Ye men of Codmus and
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 1: Amphian's house. I know no life of mortal man which
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 1: I would either praise or blame. Tis Fortune's chance that
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 1: raiseth up, and fortune bringeth low the man who lives
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 1: in good or evil plight and prophet of men's future.
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 1: There is none for creons. So I deem deserved to
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: be at once admired and envied. Having saved this land
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 1: of Cadmos from the hands of foes, and having ruled
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 1: with fullest sovereignty, he lived and prosper'd joyous in a
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 1: race of goodly offspring. Now all this is gone, For
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 1: when men lose the joys that sweeten life, I cannot
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 1: deem they live, or rather count as if a breathing
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 1: corpse is heaped up. Stores of wealth are large, so
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 1: be it, and he lives with all a sovereign state.
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 1: And yet if joy be absent, all the rest I
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 1: count as nought, and would not weigh them against pleasure's
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 1: charm more than a vapor's shadow. Chorus What is this?
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 1: What new disaster tells thou of our chiefs? Messenger? Dead
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 1: are they? And the living cause their death? Chorus? Who
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 1: slays and who is slaughtered? Tell thy tale? Messenger Himan
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  Speaker 1: is dead, slain, weltering in his blood Chorus by his
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 1: own act or by his father's hand. Messenger his own
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  Speaker 1: in wrath against his father's crime. Chorus, O prophet true,
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 1: most true, those words of thine messenger. Since things stand
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 1: thus we well may counsel take chorus. Lo Creon's white
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: come sad eurydikey. She from the house approaches, hearing speech
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 1: about her son or else by accident, enter euryddiki Eurydici.
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 1: I on my way, my friends, as suppliant, bound to
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 1: pay my vows at Pallas Shrine, have heard your words,
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 1: and so I chanced to draw the bolt of the
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 1: half open door. When lo, a sound falls on my
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 1: ears of evil, striking home and terror struck. I fall
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 1: in deadly swoon, back in my handmaid's arms. Yet tell
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 1: it me, tell the tale once again, for I shall
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 1: hear by long experienced discipline to grief Messenger, dear lady,
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 1: I will tell thee I was by, and will not
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 1: leave one word of truth untold. Why should we smooth
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 1: and glows, where all too soon we should be found
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 1: as liars? Truth is still the only safety. Lo. I
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 1: went with him thy husband, in attendance, to the edge
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 1: of yonder plain, where still all ruthlessly the the corpse
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: of Poliniqies lay exposed, mangled by dogs and having prayed
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 1: to her, the Goddess of all pathways, and to Pluto
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 1: to temper wrath with pity him. They washed with holy washing,
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 1: and what yet was left we burnt in branches freshly cut,
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 1: and heaped a high, raised grave from out his native soil.
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 1: And then we entered on the stone paved home death's
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 1: marriage chamber for the ill starred maid. And some one
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 1: hears while standing yet afar shre a voice of wailing
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 1: near the bridal bower by funeral rites unhallowed, and he
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 1: comes and tells my master Creon on his ears. Advancing
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: nearer falls a shriek, confused a bitter sorrow, and with
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 1: groaning loud he utters one sad cry me miserable? And
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 1: am I then a prophet? Do I wend this day
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 1: the dreariest way of all my life? My son's voice
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 1: greets me go. My servants go quickly, draw near, and
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 1: standing by the tomb, search ye and see, and where
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 1: the stone torn out shall make an opening, look ye
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 1: in and say if I hear Haiman's voice, or if
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 1: my soul is cheated by the gods. And then we
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 1: searched as he our master in his frenzy bade us,
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 1: and in the furthest corner of the vault, we saw
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 1: her hanging by her neck, with cord of linen threads
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 1: entwined in him, we found clasping her form in passionate embrace,
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 1: and mourning o'er the doom that robbed him of her
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 1: his father's deed, and that his marriage beds so full
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 1: of woe. When Creon saw him there, groaning aloud in
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 1: bitterness of heart, he goes to him and calls, in
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 1: wailing voice, poor boy, what hast thou done? Hast thou
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 1: then lost thy reason? In what evil sinkest thou? Come forth,
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 1: my child? On bended knee, I ask thee. And then
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 1: the boy with fierce, wild, gleaming eyes glared at him,
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 1: spat upon his face, and draws still answer not the
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 1: sharp two handled sword, missing his aim, his father from
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 1: the blow, turning aside in anger with himself, the poor
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 1: ill doomed one. Even as he was fell on his
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 1: sword and drove it through his breast, full half its length,
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 1: and clasping yet alive the maiden's arms still soft, he
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 1: there breathes out in broken gasps upon her fair white cheek,
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 1: swift stream of bloody shower. So they lie dead bridegroom
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 1: with dead bride, and he is gained poor boy. His
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: marriage writes in Hades's home, and left to all men
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 1: witnessed terrible. The man's worst ill is want of counsel.
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 1: Wise exit e riddicy chorus. What dost thou make of this?
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 1: She turneth back before one word or good or ill?
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 1: She speaks, Messenger, I too am full of wonder, yet
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 1: with hopes I feed myself. She will not think it
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 1: meet hearing her son's woes openly to wail out in
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 1: the town. But to her handmaids there will give command
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 1: to wail her woe at home, to train to judgment.
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 1: Has she so to err Chorus? I know not to
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 1: my mind. Or silence, hard or vain wild cries are
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 1: signs of bitter woe, Messenger. Soon we shall know within
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 1: the house advancing, if in the passion of her heart
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 1: she hides a secret purpose. Truly dost thou speak? There
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 1: is a terror in that silence hard chorus. Seeing Chreon
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 1: approaching with a corpse of Himon in his arms, and
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 1: lo the king himself is drawing nigh, and in his
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 1: hands he bears a record clear know woe if I
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 1: may speak by others caused himself, the great offender. Enter Chreon,
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 1: bearing Himon's body. Chreon. Woe for the sins of souls
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 1: of evil mood stern, mighty to destroy, O, ye who
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 1: look on those of kindred race the slayers in the slain.
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 1: Woe for mine own rash plans that prosper, not woe
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 1: for thee son, but new in life's career, and by
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 1: a new fate, dying woe. Woe Thou diest, Thou art
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 1: gone not by thine evil counsel, but by mine Chorus
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 1: ah Me, Too late, thou seem'st to see the right Creon.
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 1: Ah Me, I learn the grievous lesson on my head,
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 1: God pressing sore, hath smitten me and vexed in ways
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 1: most rough and terrible, ah Me, shattering my joy as
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 1: trampled under foot. Woe woe. Man's labors are but labor lost.
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 1: Enter second Messenger, Second Messenger, my master, Thou as one
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 1: who hast full store one source of sorrow, bearest in
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 1: thine arms and others in thy house. Too soon, it
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 1: seems thou needst must come and see Creon and what
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 1: remains worse evil than the evils that we bear. Second Messenger,
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 1: Thy wife is dead, that corpse's mother, true ill starred
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 1: one smitten with a blow, Just dealt creon, Oh agony,
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 1: haven of death, that none may pacify. Why dost thou
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 1: thus destroy me? Turning to Messenger, O thou who comest
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 1: bringing in thy train? Woe's horrible to tell thou tramplest
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 1: on a man already slain? What say'st thou? What new
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 1: tidings brings to me? Ah? Me? Uh? He is it that?
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 1: Now there waits in store for me my own wife's
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 1: death to crown my misery? Chorus full clearly thou mayst
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 1: see no longer? Now dost yon recess, conceal her, the
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 1: gates open and show the dead body of your riddicky creon.
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 1: Woe is me? This second ill? I gaze on miserable?
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 1: What fate? Yea, what still lies in wait for me?
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 1: Here in my arms I bear what was my son?
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 1: And there O misery, look upon the dead, Ah, wretched mother, ah,
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 1: my son, my son. Second Messenger, In frenzy wild she
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 1: round the altar, clung and closed her darkening eyelids, and
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 1: bewailed the noble fate of Megarius, who died long since,
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 1: and then again that corpse, Thou hast and last of all,
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 1: she cried a bitter cry against thy deeds, the murderer
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 1: of thy sons, Creon. Woe woe, alas, I shudder in
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 1: my fear. Will no one strike a deadly blow with
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 1: sharp two edged sword, fearful my fate, alas, and with
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 1: a fearful woe, full sore beset Second Messenger, She, in
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 1: her death, charged THEE with being the cause of all
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 1: their sorrows, these and those of old Creon. And in
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 1: what way struck she the murderous blow? Second Messenger? With
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 1: her own hand below her heart, she stabbed, hearing her
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 1: son's most pitiable fate. Chreon, Oh me, the fault is
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 1: mine on no one else of all that live, The
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 1: fearful guilt can come. I even I did slay THEE.
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 1: Woe is me, ay, yes, I speak the truth. Lead me, ye, guards,
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 1: lead me forth, quickly, lead me out of sight, more
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 1: crushed to nothing than is nothing's self. Chorus, Thou counselss
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 1: gain if gain there be, and ills for present ills
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 1: when shortest then are best. Chreon, Oh come thou then
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 1: come thou, the last of all my dooms, that brings
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 1: to me best boon my life's last day. Come then, oh,
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 1: come that never more I look upon the light chorus.
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 1: These things are in the future, what is near that
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 1: we must do, or what is yet to come? They
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 1: watch to whom that work of right belongs. Creon, I
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 1: did but pray for what I most desire Chorus, pray
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 1: thou for nothing. Then, for mortal man, there is no
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 1: issue from a doom decreed Creon, looking at the two corpses,
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 1: lead me then forth vain shadow that I am who
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 1: slew thee O my son unwillingly, and thee too, O
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 1: my sorrow. And I know not which way to look
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 1: or turn. All near at hand is turned to evil,
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 1: and upon my head there falls a doom far worse
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 1: than I can bear. Chorus. Man's highest blessedness in wisdom
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 1: chiefly stands, and in the things that touch upon the
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 1: gods tis best in word or deed. To shun unholy pride.
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 1: Great words of boasting bring great punishments, and so to
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 1: gray haired age teach wisdom. At the last end of
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 1: part three, recording by expatriate in Bangor Maine. End of
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 1: Antigony by Sophocles, translated by Edward Hayes Plumptree eighteen twenty
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 1: one to eighteen ninety one