<TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xmlns:py="http://codespeak.net/lxml/objectify/pytype" py:pytype="TREE"><text xml:lang="eng"><body><div type="translation" n="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0011.tlg007.perseus-eng2" xml:lang="eng"><div type="textpart" subtype="episode"><sp><l n="1426">Yes, for he wishes it. But I must not yield.</l></sp><sp><speaker>Antigone</speaker><l n="1427">Ah, wretched me! But who will dare follow you, when he hears what prophecies this man has uttered?</l></sp><sp><speaker>Polyneices</speaker><l n="1429">I will not report ill-tidings; a good leader should tell the better news, and not the worse.</l></sp><milestone unit="card" n="1431"/><sp><speaker>Antigone</speaker><l n="1431">Is this then your fixed decision, my brother?</l></sp><sp><speaker>Polyneices</speaker><l n="1432">Yes, and do not detain me. This path now will be my destiny, ill-fated and evil, because of my father here and his Furies. But as for you two,</l><l n="1435">may Zeus grant you good things, if you bring these things to completion for me when I am dead, since in life you will see me no more.</l><l n="1437">Now release me, and farewell; for nevermore will you behold me living.</l></sp><sp><speaker>Antigone</speaker><l n="1438a" part="F">Ah, wretched that I am!</l></sp><sp><speaker>Polyneices</speaker><l n="1439" part="I">Do not mourn for me.</l></sp><sp><speaker>Antigone</speaker><l n="1439a" part="F">And who would not mourn you, brother, when you are hurrying off</l><l n="1440">to a death foreseen?</l></sp></div></div></body></text></TEI>