Thee, the stream of Castalia has seen. This city thou honorest as preeminent above all cities and thy mother taken by lightning. Chance sets upright, and chance dashes down the lucky and the unlucky, always.
Mortals have no prophet at all for what is established.
For Creon was enviable in my opinion, once. He saved this land of Cadmus from its enemies. He received sole rule omnipotent over the land and guided it straight, flourishing in the seed of children born. Whenever men forfeit their pleasures, I do not regard such a man as alive, but I consider him a living corpse. They are dead.