<TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xmlns:py="http://codespeak.net/lxml/objectify/pytype" py:pytype="TREE"><text xml:lang="eng"><body><div type="translation" n="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg008.perseus-eng2" xml:lang="eng"><div type="textpart" subtype="episode"><sp><l xml:base="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg008.perseus-eng2" rend="indent" resp="perseus" n="125">Art come to me then for counsel? or wherefore?</l></sp><sp><speaker>Adrastus</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg008.perseus-eng2" rend="indent" resp="perseus" n="126">With the wish that thou, O Theseus, shouldst recover the sons of the Argives.</l></sp><sp><speaker>Theseus</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg008.perseus-eng2" rend="indent" resp="perseus" n="127">Where is your <placeName key="perseus,Argos">Argos</placeName> now? were its vauntings all in vain?</l></sp><sp><speaker>Adrastus</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg008.perseus-eng2" rend="indent" resp="perseus" n="128">Defeat and ruin are our lot. To thee for aid we come.</l></sp><sp><speaker>Theseus</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg008.perseus-eng2" rend="indent" resp="perseus" n="129"> this thy own private resolve, or the wish of all the city?</l></sp><pb xml:id="p.191"/><sp><speaker>Adrastus</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg008.perseus-eng2" rend="indent" resp="perseus" n="130">The sons of Danaus, one and all, implore thee to bury the dead.</l></sp><sp><speaker>Theseus</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg008.perseus-eng2" rend="indent" resp="perseus" n="131">Why didst lead thy seven armies against <placeName key="perseus,Thebes">Thebes</placeName>?</l></sp><sp><speaker>Adrastus</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg008.perseus-eng2" rend="indent" resp="perseus" n="132">To confer that favour on the husbands of my daughters twain.</l></sp></div></div></body></text></TEI>