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THE PHŒNICIAN MAIDENS.

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Antigone.

'Tis senseless—witless thou who giv'st it force.


Kreon.

How, were't not just to carry out his hests?


Antigone.

If they be wrong, in malice spoken—no!


Kreon.

How, were't not just to cast yon man to dogs?⁠1650


Antigone.

Nay: so ye wreak on him no lawful vengeance.


Kreon.

Yea, if to Thebes a foe, no foe by birth.[1]


Antigone.

Hath he not[2] unto fate paid forfeit life?


Kreon.

Forfeit of burial now too let him pay.


Antigone.

Wherein sinned he, who came to claim his own?⁠1655


Kreon.

This man shall have no burial, be thou sure.

  1. ↑ Nauck reads ἐχθαρτέος, "Hate is his due, if he was foe to Thebes."
  2. ↑ οὔκουν (Nauck).
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