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Sophocles' ANTIGONE Complete

Translated by F. Storr. From the Loeb Library Edition, Originally published by Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA and William Heinemann Ltd, London. First published in 1912.

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Antigone: To reverence kith and kin can bring no shame.

Creon: Was his dead foeman not thy kinsman too?

Antigone: One mother bare them and the self-same sire.

Creon: Why cast a slur on one by honoring one?

Antigone: The dead man will not bear thee out in this.

Creon: Surely, if good and evil fare alive.

Antigone: The slain man was no villain but a brother.

Creon: The patriot perished by the outlaw's brand.

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