Epeisodion 3
Creon
Not the one who did not put her hands to the burial. You are right.
Chorus
And by what mode of death do you mean to kill the other?
Creon
I will take her where the path is deserted, unvisited by men, and entomb
her alive in a rocky vault,
setting out a ration of food, but only as much as piety requires so
that all the city may escape defilement. And praying there to Hades, the
only god she worships, perhaps she will obtain immunity from death, or
else will learn, at last, even this late,
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that it is fruitless labor to revere the
dead. Exit Creon.
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