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Antigone, l. 495ff [Creon] (441 BC) [tr. Fagles (1982), l. 552ff] - Sophocles | WIST Quotations
Oh, but I hate it more when a traitor, caught red-handed, tries to glorify his crimes. [μισῶ γε μέντοι χὤταν ἐν κακοῖσί τις ἁλοὺς ἔπειτα τοῦτο καλλύνειν θέλῃ.] Original Greek. Alternate translations: Howbeit, to me it is no less abhorrent, When, caught in criminality, the culprit Seeks with fine words…