<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"><div type="textpart" subtype="iambic"><sp><l xml:base="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg008.perseus-eng2" rend="indent" resp="perseus" n="925">As for the noble son of Oecleus, him, while yet he lived, the gods snatched hence to the bowels of the earth, and. his chariot too, manifestly blessing him; while I myself may truthfully tell the praises of the son of Oedipus, that is, Polynices, </l><l xml:base="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg008.perseus-eng2" resp="perseus" n="930">for he was my guest-friend ere he left the town of Cadmus and crossed to <placeName key="perseus,Argos">Argos</placeName> in voluntary exile. But dost thou know what I would have thee do in this matter?</l></sp><sp><speaker>Adrastus</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg008.perseus-eng2" rend="indent" resp="perseus" n="933">I know naught save this,—to yield obedience to thy hests. </l></sp><sp><speaker>Theseus</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg008.perseus-eng2" rend="indent" resp="perseus" n="934">As for yon Capaneus, stricken by the bolt of Zeus—</l></sp><pb xml:id="p.215"/><sp><speaker>Adrastus</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg008.perseus-eng2" rend="indent" resp="perseus" n="935">Wilt bury him apart as a consecrated corpse? </l></sp><sp><speaker>Theseus</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg008.perseus-eng2" rend="indent" resp="perseus" n="936">Even so; but all the rest on one funeral pyre. </l></sp><sp><speaker>Adrastus</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg008.perseus-eng2" rend="indent" resp="perseus" n="937">Where wilt thou set the tomb apart for him? </l></sp><sp><speaker>Theseus</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg008.perseus-eng2" rend="indent" resp="perseus" n="938">Here near this temple have I builded him a sepulchre.</l></sp></div></div></div></body></text></TEI>