Epeisodion 3
Creon
Do not make commands where you are not the master.
Chorus
Let go, I tell you!
840
Creon
And I tell you: be off!
840
Chorus
Help, men of Colonus, bring help! The city, our city, is attacked by force! Come to our aid!
Antigone
I am being dragged away in misery. Strangers, strangers!
Oedipus
My child, where are you?
845
Antigone
I am led off by force.
845
Oedipus
Give me your hand, my child!
Oedipus
I am wretched, wretched! The guards exit with Antigone.
Creon
So those two staffs will never again support your path.
But since you wish to overcome your country and your friends, whose will I, though tyrant as well, am here discharging, then I wish you victory. For in time, I am sure, you will come to recognize all this, that now too as in time past, it is you who have done yourself no good, by indulging your anger despite your friends.
850
This has always been your ruin.
855
Chorus
Stop there, stranger!
Chorus
I will not let go, unless you give back the maidens.
Creon
Then you will soon give the city a more valuable prize, for I will lay hands on more than those two girls.
Chorus
What! What do you intend?
860
Creon
This man here will be my captive.
860