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Creon
[1317] Ah this guilt can never be fastened onto any other mortal so as to remove my own! It was I, yes, I, who killed you, I the wretch. [1320] I admit the truth. Lead me away, my servants, lead me from here with all haste, who am no more than a dead man! Chorus
[1325] The course you recommend is to your gain, if there can be gain amidst evil. What is briefest is best, when trouble lies at your feet.
Sophocles. The Antigone of Sophocles. Edited with introduction and notes by Sir Richard Jebb. Sir Richard Jebb. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1891.
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