Thy thralls forthwith must undertake this toil.TheseusMyself will look to those others; let the biers advance.AdrastusApproach your sons, unhappy mothers.TheseusThis thy proposal, Adrastus, is anything but good.AdrastusMust not the mothers touch their sons?TheseusIt would kill them to see how they are altered.Adrastus’Tis bitter, truly, to see the dead evenThe 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.TheseusWhy then wilt thou add fresh grief to them?