What sayest thou? the rest who fell—say, where are they?MessengerThey have found burial in the dells of Cithseron.AdrastusOn this or that side of the mount? And who did bury them?MessengerTheseus buried them ’neath the shadow of Eleutherae’s cliff.AdrastusWhere didst thou leave the dead he hath not buried?MessengerNot far away; earnest haste makes every goal look close.AdrastusNo doubt in sorrow slaves would gather them from the carnage.MessengerSlaves! not one of them was set to do this toil.AdrastusHermann detected the loss of a line here. Subsequent editors have followed his hint.MessengerThou wouldst say so, hadst thou been there to see his loving tendance of the dead.AdrastusDid he himself wash the bloody wounds of the hapless youths?MessengerAy, and strewed their biers and wrapped them in their shrouds.