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The Phoenician Maidens (110-165)

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child of Leto! The plain is one lightning-flash of bronze.
Old servant
Ah! this is no ordinary home-coming of Polyneices, with the clash of many horses, many arms.
Antigone
Are the gates barred, and the brazen bolts
fitted into Amphion’s walls of stone?
Old servant
Never fear! All is safe within the town. But see the first one, if you want to know him.
Antigone
Who is that one with the white crest,
who marches before the army, lightly bearing on his arm a shield all of bronze?
Old servant
A captain, mistress.
Antigone
Who is he? Who is his family? Tell me his name, old man.
Old servant
He claims to be Mycenaean; by Lerna’s streams he dwells, the lord Hippomedon.
Antigone
Ah, ah! How proud, how fearful to see, like an earth-born giant, with stars engraved on his shield, not resembling
mortal race.
Old servant
Do you see the one crossing Dirce’s stream?
Antigone
His armor is quite different. Who is that?
Old servant
Tydeus, the son of Oeneus, Aetolian battle-spirit in his breast.
Antigone
Is this the one, old man, who married a sister of Polyneices’ wife? What a foreign look his armor has, half-barbarian!
Old servant
Yes, my child; all Aetolians carry shields,
and are most unerring marksmen with their darts.
Antigone
How do you know them so clearly, old man?
Old servant
I saw and learned the devices on their shields before, when I went with the terms of the truce to your brother, since I looked closely at them, I know the armed men.
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Antigone
Who is that youth passing by the tomb of Zethus, with long flowing hair, fierce to see? Is he a captain? For an armed crowd follows at his heels.
Old servant
That is Parthenopaeus, Atalanta’s son.
Antigone
May Artemis, who rushes over the hills with his mother, lay him low with an arrow, for coming against my city to sack it!
Old servant
May it be so, my child; but they have come here with justice,
and my fear is that the gods will take the rightful view.
Antigone
Where is the one who was born of the same mother as I was, by a painful destiny? Oh! tell me, old friend, where Polyneices is.
Old servant
He is standing by Adrastus,
near the tomb of Niobe’s seven unwed daughters. Do you see him?
Antigone
I see him, yes! but not clearly; I see the outline of his form, the likeness of his breast. Would I could speed through the sky, swift as a cloud before the wind,
towards my own dear brother, and throw my arms about my darling’s neck, so long, poor boy! an exile. How distinguished he is with his golden weapons, old man, flashing like the morning rays!

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