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.
Creon:
Friends, countrymen, I learn King Oedipus
Hath laid against me a most grievous charge,
And come to you protesting. If he deems
That I have harmed or injured him in aught
By word or deed in this our present trouble,
I care not to prolong the span of life,
Thus ill-reputed; for the calumny
Hits not a single blot, but blasts my name,
If by the general voice I am denounced
False to the State and false by you my friends.
Chorus:
This taunt, it well may be, was blurted out
In petulance, not spoken advisedly.
Creon:
Did any dare pretend that it was I
Prompted the seer to utter a forged charge?
Chorus:
Such things were said; with what intent I know not.
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