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The Suppliants (750-759)

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But wherefore these reflections? This I fain would learn, the way thou didst escape; and after that I will ask thee of the rest.
Messenger
During the uproar which prevailed in the city owing to the battle, I passed the gates, just as the host had entered them.
Adrastus
Are ye bringing the bodies, for the which the strife arose?
Messenger
Ay, each of the seven chiefs who led their famous hosts.
Adrastus
What sayest thou? the rest who fellsay, where are they?
Messenger
They have found burial in the dells of Cithseron.
Adrastus
On this or that side of the mount? And who did bury them?
Messenger
Theseus buried them neath the shadow of Eleutheraes cliff.

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