No, he was honored until he put this land in jeopardy. AntigoneHe suffered evil and gave evil in return. HeraldBut this act was against all the citizens, not only one man. AntigoneDiscord is the last of the gods to close an argument. I will bury him. Put an end to your big talk. HeraldWell then, follow your own rash plan, but I forbid it. Exit.

ChorusAh, misery!O Erinyes, far-famed destroyers of families, goddesses of death who have thus laid ruin to the family of Oedipus, digging it up from the roots! What will happen to me? What should I do? What plan shall I devise? How can I have the heart neither to weep for younor escort you to your tomb? But I am afraid and turn away in terror of the citizens. You, at least, Eteocles, will have many mourners, while he, wretched man, departs without lamentationand has a dirge sung only by one sister. Now who could comply with that? First Half-ChorusLet the city take action or not take action against those who lament for Polynices. We, at all events, will go and bury him with her, following the funeral procession. For this grief is shared by all our race, and the city approves as just different things at different times. Second Half-ChorusWe will go with this other corpse, as the city and justice, too, approves.For after the blessed gods and powerful Zeus, he it was who saved the city of the Cadmeans from being capsized and flooded by a wave of foreign men—he beyond all others. Exeunt omnes.