<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="817">Where is the deed which backs that threatening word?</l></sp><sp><speaker>Creon</speaker><l n="818">One of your two daughters I have myself just seized and sent away. The other I will drag off immediately.</l></sp><sp><speaker>Oedipus</speaker><l n="820" part="I">Oh, no!</l></sp><sp><speaker>Creon</speaker><l n="820a" part="F">You will soon find more to weep about.</l></sp><sp><speaker>Oedipus</speaker><l n="821" part="I">You have my child?</l></sp><sp><speaker>Creon</speaker><l n="821a" part="F">And I will have this one in no long time.</l></sp><sp><speaker>Oedipus</speaker><l n="822">Oh! Strangers, what will you do? Will you betray me? Will you not drive the godless man from this land?</l></sp><sp><speaker>Chorus</speaker><l n="824">Depart, stranger! Quick!</l><l n="825">Your present deed is not just, nor the deed which you have done.</l></sp><sp><speaker>Creon</speaker><stage rend="italic">To his attendants.</stage><l n="826">It is time for you to drag this girl off against her will, if she will not go freely.</l></sp><sp><speaker>Antigone</speaker><l n="828">Wretched that I am! Where can I flee? Where find help from gods or men?</l></sp><sp><speaker>Chorus</speaker><l n="829a" part="F">What are you doing, stranger?</l></sp><sp><speaker>Creon</speaker><l n="830">I will not touch this man, but her who is mine.</l></sp><sp><speaker>Oedipus</speaker><l n="831" part="I">Lords of the land!</l></sp><sp><speaker>Chorus</speaker><l n="831a" part="F">Stranger, you are acting unjustly.</l></sp><sp><speaker>Creon</speaker><l n="832" part="I">Justly.</l></sp><sp><speaker>Chorus</speaker><l n="832a" part="M">How?</l></sp><sp><speaker>Creon</speaker><l n="832b" part="F">I take my own.</l><stage rend="italic">He lays his hand on Antigone.</stage></sp><sp><speaker>Oedipus</speaker><l n="833">Oh, city !</l></sp><sp><speaker>Chorus</speaker><l n="834">What are you doing, stranger? Release her!</l><l n="835">Your strength and ours will soon come to the test.</l></sp><sp><speaker>Creon</speaker><l n="836" part="I">Stand back!</l></sp><sp><speaker>Chorus</speaker><l n="836a" part="F">Not while this is your purpose.</l></sp><sp><speaker>Creon</speaker><l n="837">There will be war with <placeName key="perseus,Thebes">Thebes</placeName> for you, if you harm me.</l></sp><sp><speaker>Oedipus</speaker><l n="838" part="I">Did I not say so?</l></sp><sp><speaker>Chorus</speaker><l n="838a" part="F">Unhand the girl at once!</l></sp><sp><speaker>Creon</speaker><l n="839">Do not make commands where you are not the master.</l></sp><sp><speaker>Chorus</speaker><l n="840" part="I">Let go, I tell you!</l></sp><sp><speaker>Creon</speaker><stage rend="italic">To his guards, who seize Antigone.</stage><l n="840a" part="F">And I tell you: be off!</l></sp><sp><speaker>Chorus</speaker><l n="841">Help, men of <placeName key="perseus,Colonus">Colonus</placeName>, bring help! The city, our city, is attacked by force! Come to our aid!</l></sp></div></div></body></text></TEI>