Seven Against Thebes

Aeschylus

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

  1. You too, Ares—pity us!—guard the city named for Cadmus and make evident your closeness[*](κῆδος means both kinship and care. The wife of Cadmus was Harmonia, daughter of Ares and Aphrodite.) to us!