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The Suppliants (137-162)

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What induced thee to select this alliance?
Adrastus
Dark riddles of Phoebus stole away my judgment.
Theseus
What said Apollo to determine the maidens’ marriage?
Adrastus
That I should give my daughters twain to a wild boar and a lion.
Theseus
How dost thou explain the message of the god?
Adrastus
One night came to my door two exiles.
Theseus
The name of each declare; thou art speaking of both together.
Adrastus
They fought together, Tydeus with Polynices.
Theseus
Didst thou give thy daughters to them as to wild beasts?
Adrastus
Yea, for, as they fought, I likened them to those monsters twain.
Theseus
Why had they left the borders of their native land and come to thee?
Adrastus
Tydeus was exiled for the murder of a kinsman.
Theseus
Wherefore had the son of Oedipus left Thebes?
Adrastus
By reason of his father’s curse, not to spill his brother’s blood.
Theseus
Wise no doubt that voluntary exile.
Adrastus
But those who stayed at home were for injuring the absent.
Theseus
What! did brother rob brother of his inheritance?
Adrastus
To avenge this I set out; hence my ruin.
Theseus
Didst consult seers, and gaze into the flame of burnt-offerings?
Adrastus
Ah me! thou pressest on the very point, wherein I most did fail.
Theseus
It seems thy going was not favoured by heaven.
Adrastus
Worse; I went in spite even of Amphiaraus.
Theseus
And so heaven lightly turned[*] its face from thee.
Adrastus
I was carried away by the clamour of younger men.
Theseus
Thou didst favour courage instead of discretion.
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Adrastus
[*]True; and many a general owes defeat to that. O king of Athens, bravest of the sons of Hellas, I blush

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