<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="141">How dost thou explain the message of the god?</l></sp><sp><speaker>Adrastus</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg008.perseus-eng2" rend="indent" resp="perseus" n="142">One night came to my door two exiles.</l></sp><sp><speaker>Theseus</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg008.perseus-eng2" rend="indent" resp="perseus" n="143">The name of each declare; thou art speaking of both together.</l></sp><sp><speaker>Adrastus</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg008.perseus-eng2" rend="indent" resp="perseus" n="144">They fought together, Tydeus with Polynices.</l></sp><sp><speaker>Theseus</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg008.perseus-eng2" rend="indent" resp="perseus" n="145">Didst thou give thy daughters to them as to wild beasts?</l></sp><sp><speaker>Adrastus</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg008.perseus-eng2" rend="indent" resp="perseus" n="146">Yea, for, as they fought, I likened them to those monsters twain.</l></sp><sp><speaker>Theseus</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg008.perseus-eng2" rend="indent" resp="perseus" n="147">Why had they left the borders of their native land and come to thee?</l></sp><sp><speaker>Adrastus</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg008.perseus-eng2" rend="indent" resp="perseus" n="148">Tydeus was exiled for the murder of a kinsman.</l></sp></div></div></body></text></TEI>