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Seven Against Thebes (920-958)

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that wastes away as I weep for these two princes.
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Chorus
Over these poor men it can be said that they did much to harm our citizens and also the ranks of all the foreigners
who died in abundance in the fighting.
Ill-fated beyond all women who are called by the name of mother is she who bore them. After she made her own child her own husband,
she gave birth to these sons, who have thus ended their lives with kindred hands giving death for death.
933
Chorus
Of the same seed, in truth, they were utterly destroyed in unloving divisions,
in maddened discord, in the ending of their strife.
Their hatred has ceased. Their life has been mingled in the blood-soaked earth. Now truly their blood is one.
Ruthless is that which resolved their strife, the stranger from across the sea, sharpened iron rushed from the fire. Ruthless, too, was Ares, the cruel divider of their property, who made their father’s curses come true.
945
Chorus
They hold in misery their allotted portion of god-given sorrows. Beneath their corpses there will be boundless wealth of earth.
Ah, you have wreathed
your race with many troubles! In the final outcome the Curses have raised their piercing cry, now that the family is turned to flight in all directions. A trophy to Ruin now stands at the gate
where they struck each other and where, having conquered them both, the divine power stayed its hand.
957
The following antiphonal dirge is sung by the two sisters—Antigone standing by the bier of Polynices, Ismene by that of Eteocles.
Antigone
You were struck as you struck.
Ismene
You died as you killed.
Antigone
By the spear you killed—

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