ANTIGONE’S NOMOS

And yet to those With clear thoughts I did well to honor you. For I would never have assumed this burden, Defying the citizens, if it had been My children or my husband who had died And had been left to rot away out there. In deference to what law [nomou] do I say this? ― Were my husband dead, there could be another, And by that man, another child, if one Were lost. But since my mother and my father Are hidden now in Hades, no more brothers Could ever be born ― This was the law [nomôi] by which I honored you above all, O My own dear brother, but Kreon thought that I Did wrong.

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