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Seven Against Thebes (335-369)

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a loathsome journey from their homes. What? I declare that the dead will do better than the captives; for when a city is subdued—ah, ah!—many and miserable are its sufferings.
Man drags off man, or kills, or sets fires; the whole city is defiled with smoke. Mad Ares storms, subduing the people and polluting reverence.
345
Chorus
Tumults swell through the town, and against it a towering net is advancing. Man falls before man beneath the spear. Sobs and wails over gore-covered babes, just nursed at their mothers’ breasts,
resound. Rape and pillage of those fleeing through the city are the deeds of one’s own blood. Plunderer joins up with plunderer; the empty-handed calls to the empty-handed, wishing to have a partner,
each greedy for neither less nor equal share. Reason exists for imagining what will come after this.
357
Chorus
The earth’s varied fruits, fallen to the ground, give pain, a bitter sight for the maid-servants.
In jumbled confusion the abundant gifts of earth are carried away by reckless looting waves. Young women, enslaved, suffer a new evil: a bed of misery, prize of the conquering enemy’s spear, as though of a prospering husband—
they can expect the coming of the nightly rite, which gives aid to tears and anguish![*]
369
The Scout is seen approaching from one side; Eteocles from the other.
LEADER OF THE FIRST HALF-CHORUS
The scout, I believe,

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