GetPassage urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0085.tlg004.perseus-eng2:680 urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0085.tlg004.perseus-eng2:680

are advancing to close combat with Argives. That bloodshed can be expiated. But when men of the same blood kill each other as you desire, the pollution from this act never grows old.