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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Page 66

Chorus: What fresh woes bring'st thou to the royal house?

Messenger: Both dead, and they who live deserve to die.

Chorus: Who is the slayer, who the victim? speak.

Messenger: Haemon; his blood shed by no stranger hand.

Chorus: What mean ye? by his father's or his own?

Messenger: His own; in anger for his father's crime.

Chorus: O prophet, what thou spakest comes to pass.

Messenger: So stands the case; now 'tis for you to act.

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