What induced thee to select this alliance?AdrastusDark riddles of Phoebus stole away my judgment.TheseusWhat said Apollo to determine the maidens’ marriage? AdrastusThat I should give my daughters twain to a wild boar and a lion.TheseusHow dost thou explain the message of the god?AdrastusOne night came to my door two exiles.TheseusThe name of each declare; thou art speaking of both together.AdrastusThey fought together, Tydeus with Polynices.TheseusDidst thou give thy daughters to them as to wild beasts?AdrastusYea, for, as they fought, I likened them to those monsters twain.TheseusWhy had they left the borders of their native land and come to thee?AdrastusTydeus was exiled for the murder of a kinsman.TheseusWherefore had the son of Oedipus left Thebes?AdrastusBy reason of his father’s curse, not to spill his brother’s blood.TheseusWise no doubt that voluntary exile.AdrastusBut those who stayed at home were for injuring the absent.