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Antigone
Is this then your fixed decision, my brother?

Polyneices
Yes, and do not detain me. This path now will be my destiny, ill-fated and evil, because of my father here and his Furies. But as for you two, [1435] may Zeus grant you good things, if you bring these things to completion for me when I am dead, since in life you will see me no more.

Now release me, and farewell; for nevermore will you behold me living.

Antigone
Ah, wretched that I am!

Polyneices
Do not mourn for me.

Antigone
And who would not mourn you, brother, when you are hurrying off [1440] to a death foreseen?

Polyneices
If it is fated, then I must die.

Antigone
No, no, listen to my prayer!

Polyneices
Do not plead for what must not be.

Antigone
Then I, indeed, am utterly wretched, if I must lose you!

Polyneices
It rests with the divinity, this way or that. But as for you two, [1445] I pray to the gods that you may never meet with evil; for in all men's eyes you do not deserve to suffer.Polyneices exits.

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