But wherefore these reflections? This I fain would learn, the way thou didst escape; and after that I will ask thee of the rest.MessengerDuring the uproar which prevailed in the city owing to the battle, I passed the gates, just as the host had entered them.AdrastusAre ye bringing the bodies, for the which the strife arose?MessengerAy, each of the seven chiefs who led their famous hosts.AdrastusWhat sayest thou? the rest who fell—say, where are they?MessengerThey have found burial in the dells of Cithseron.AdrastusOn this or that side of the mount? And who did bury them?MessengerTheseus buried them ’neath the shadow of Eleutherae’s cliff.