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		<title>Sophocles -- Antigone, l. 1055ff (441 BC) [tr. Woodruff (2001)]</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[CREON: Prophecies? All your tribe wants is to make money. TIRESIAS: And what about tyrants? Filthy lucre is all you want! [Κρέων: τὸ μαντικὸν γὰρ πᾶν φιλάργυρον γένος. Τειρεσίας: τὸ δ᾽ ἐκ τυράννων αἰσχροκέρδειαν φιλεῖ.] Argument between Creon, the king, and Teiresias, his seer. Original Greek. Alternate translations: KREON: The race of seers is wholly [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>CREON: Prophecies? All your tribe wants is to make money.<br />
TIRESIAS: And what about tyrants? Filthy lucre is all you want!</p>
<p>[Κρέων: τὸ μαντικὸν γὰρ πᾶν φιλάργυρον γένος.<br />
Τειρεσίας: τὸ δ᾽ ἐκ τυράννων αἰσχροκέρδειαν φιλεῖ.]</p>
<br><b>Sophocles</b> (496-406 BC) Greek tragic playwright<br><i>Antigone</i>, l. 1055ff (441 BC) [tr. Woodruff (2001)] 
									<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(<a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Antigone/4180HoH81RgC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA25&printsec=frontcover&bsq=%22prophecies%20all%20your%20tribe%22" target="_blank">Source</a>)
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Argument between Creon, the king, and Teiresias, his seer.  <a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0185%3Acard%3D1033">Original Greek</a>. Alternate translations:<br><br>

<blockquote>KREON: The race of seers is wholly given to pelf.<br>
TEIRESIAS: The tyrant-race is given to filthy lucre.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Antigone_of_Sophocles_in_Greek_and_E/HMQNAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA101&printsec=frontcover&bsq=%22given%20to%20pelf%22">Donaldson</a> (1848)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>CREON: Prophets are all a money-getting tribe.<br>
TEIRESIAS: And kings are all a lucre-loving race.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/31/31-h/31-h.htm#linkantigone:~:text=frauds.-,CREON,And%20kings%20are%20all%20a%20lucre%2Dloving%20race.">Campbell</a> (1873)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>CREON: Desire of money is the prophet's plague.<br>
TIRESIAS: And ill-sought lucre is the curse of kings.<br>
[tr. <a href="http://www.loyalbooks.com/download/text/Electra-Sophocles.txt#:~:text=CR.%20Desire%20of%20money%20is%20the,lucre%20is%20the%20curse%20of%20kings.">Storr</a> (1859)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>CREON: Yes, for the prophet-clan was ever fond of money.<br>
TEIRESIAS: And the race sprung from tyrants loves shameful gain.<br>
[tr. <a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0186%3Acard%3D1033#text_main:~:text=falsely.-,Creon,And%20the%20race%20sprung%20from%20tyrants%20loves%20shameful%20gain.">Jebb</a> (1891)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>CREON: Your prophetic race are lovers all of gold.<br>
TIRESIAS: Tyrants are so, howe'er illgotten.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Antigone/7HVQAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA20&printsec=frontcover&bsq=%22your%20prophetic%20race%22">Werner</a> (1892)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>CREON: Well, the prophet-tribe was ever fond of money.<br>
TEIRESIAS: And the race bred of tyrants loves base gain.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Tragedies_of_Sophocles_(Jebb_1917)/Antigone#pageindex_174:~:text=Cr.%20Well%2C%20the%20prophet%2Dtribe%20was%20ever,bred%20of%20tyrants%20loves%20base%20gain.">Jebb</a> (1917)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>CREON: The generation of prophets has always loved gold.<br>
TEIRESIAS: The generation of kings has always loved brass.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://mthoyibi.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/antigone_2.pdf">Fitts/Fitzgerald</a> (1939)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>CREON: I say all prophets seek their own advantage.<br>
TEIRESIAS: All kings, I say, seek gain unrighteously.<br>
[tr. <a href="http://images.pcmac.org/SiSFiles/Schools/PA/GreenvilleArea/GreenvilleJrSrHigh/Uploads/DocumentsSubCategories/Documents/Antigone--E.F._Watling_1.pdf">Watling</a> (1947)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>CREON: Well, the whole crew of seers are money-mad.<br>
TEIRESIAS: And the whole tribe of tyrants grab at gain.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.aspeninstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/files/content/docs/SOPHOCLES_ANTIGONE_(AS08).PDF">Wyckoff</a> (1954)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>CREON: Prophets have always been too fond of gold.<br>
TEIRESIAS: And tyrants, of the shameful use of power.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Antigone_Oedipus_the_King_Electra/I9Ely1BXWAQC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA19&printsec=frontcover&bsq=%22too%20fond%20of%20gold%22">Kitto</a> (1962)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>CREON: You and the whole breed of seers are mad for money!<br>
TIRESIAS: And the whole race of tyrants lusts for filthy gain.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.olma.org/ourpages/auto/2013/9/5/51879406/Antigone.pdf">Fagles</a> (1982), l. 1171ff]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>CREON: Yes, for the whole family of prophets is <em>philos </em>to silver.<br>
TIRESIAS: And the family of absolute rulers holds disgraceful profits as <em>philoi</em>.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://diotima-doctafemina.org/translations/greek/sophocles-antigone/#post-1273:~:text=prophecy%20falsely.-,Creon,And%20the%20family%20of%20absolute%20rulers%20holds%20disgraceful%20profits%20as%20philoi.">Tyrell/Bennett</a> (2002)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>CREON: The whole race of prophets loves money.<br>
TEIRESIAS: And the kings love their shameful profits.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Greek/Antigone.php#content:~:text=CreonThe%20whole%20race%20of%20prophets%20loves,the%20kings%20love%20their%20shameful%20profits.">Theodoridis</a> (2004)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>CREON:  The tribe of prophets --<br>
all of them -- are fond of money.<br>
TEIRESIAS: And kings?<br>
Their tribe loves to benefit dishonestly.<br>
[tr. <a href="http://johnstoi.web.viu.ca//sophocles/antigone.htm#:~:text=false.-,CREON,Their%20tribe%20loves%20to%20benefit%20dishonestly.">Johnston</a> (2005), l. 1180ff]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>TEIRESIAS: The race of tyrants loves shameful profit.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://sententiaeantiquae.com/2018/09/22/sophoclean-sententiae-saturday-ii/#post-21981:~:text=%E2%80%9CThe%20race%20of%20tyrants%20loves%20shameful,%CE%B4%E1%BE%BD%20%E1%BC%90%CE%BA%20%CF%84%CF%85%CF%81%CE%AC%CE%BD%CE%BD%CF%89%CE%BD%20%CE%B1%E1%BC%B0%CF%83%CF%87%CF%81%CE%BF%CE%BA%CE%AD%CF%81%CE%B4%CE%B5%CE%B9%CE%B1%CE%BD%20%CF%86%CE%B9%CE%BB%CE%B5%E1%BF%96.%20%5B1056%5D">@senstantiq</a> (2018)]</blockquote>						</span>
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		<title>Brecht, Bertholt -- &#8220;Solidarity song [Solidaritätslied]&#8221; (1931) [tr. Willett]</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>All the gang of those who rule us<br />
Hope our quarrels never stop<br />
Helping them to split and fool us<br />
So they can remain on top.</p>
<br><b>Bertolt Brecht</b> (1898-1956) German poet, playwright, director, dramaturgist<br>&#8220;Solidarity song <i>[Solidaritätslied]</i>&#8221; (1931) [tr. Willett] 
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