Thy thralls forthwith must undertake this toil. Theseus Myself will look to those others; let the biers advance. Adrastus Approach your sons, unhappy mothers. Theseus This thy proposal, Adrastus, is anything but good. Adrastus Must not the mothers touch their sons? Theseus It would kill them to see how they are altered. Adrastus ’Tis bitter, truly, to see the dead even The MS. reading, χἄμα τῷ τέλει νεκρῶν has been conjecturally altered by Toup into αἶμα κώτειλαὶ νεκρῶν which bold emendation has been followed by several editors. Hartung has χρῶμα κὠτειλαὶ . at the moment of death. Theseus Why then wilt thou add fresh grief to them?