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Seven Against Thebes (875-915)

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Ah, pity you senseless men, whom friends could not persuade and evils could not wear down! To your misery you have captured your father’s house with the spear.
Chorus
To their misery, indeed,
they found a miserable death in the outrage done their house.
881
Ah, you brothers who were poised to cast over the walls of your home and looked—to your sorrow—for sole rule, now you have been
reconciled by the iron sword.
The great Erinys of your father Oedipus has fulfilled it all truly.
888
Chorus
Pierced through your left sides, pierced indeed—
through those sides that were born from one womb! Ah, strange ones! Ah, the curses that demand death for death!
Right through, as you say, were they struck, with blows to house and body by an unspeakable wrath and by the doom, called down by their father’s curse, which they shared without discord.
900
Chorus
Groaning spreads throughout the city, too: the walls groan; the land that loves its sons groans. But for those who come after them there remains their property, on which account the strife
of those terrible-fated men came to fulfillment in death.
In their haste to anger they apportioned their property so that each has an equal share. To those who loved them their reconciler is not blameless,
nor is Ares agreeable.
911
Chorus
Under strokes of iron they are come to this, and under strokes of iron there await them—what, one might perhaps ask—shares in their father’s tomb.[*]
Our shrill, heart-rending wail goes with them—product of lamentation and pain felt of its own accord—a wail from a distressed mind, joyless, pouring forth tears from a heart

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