Seven Against Thebes

Aeschylus

Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, translator. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922.

  1. Let the city take action or not take action against those who lament for Polynices. We, at all events, will go and
  2. bury him with her, following the funeral procession. For this grief is shared by all our race, and the city approves as just different things at different times.
Second Half-Chorus
  1. We will go with this other corpse, as the city and justice, too, approves.
  2. For after the blessed gods and powerful Zeus, he it was who saved the city of the Cadmeans from being capsized and flooded by a wave of foreign men—he beyond all others. Exeunt omnes.