CRE. The determination of Eteocles this, not mine.
ANT. It is absurd, and thou a fool to enforce it.
CRE. How so? Is it not just to execute injunctions?
ANT. No, if they are base, at least, and spoken with ill intent.
CRE. What! will he not with justice be given to the dogs?
ANT. No, for thus do ye not demand of him lawful justice.
CRE. We do; since he was the enemy of the state, who least ought to be an enemy.
ANT. Hath he not paid then his life to fortune?
CRE. And in his burial too let him now satisfy vengeance.
ANT. What outrage having committed, if he came after his share of the kingdom?