Seven Against Thebes

Aeschylus

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

  1. Well, then, has a helmsman ever found a way to safety by fleeing from stern to prow,
  2. when his ship is foundering in high seas?
Chorus
  1. But trusting in the gods I came in haste to their ancient statues, when the deadly blizzard of falling stones thundered against the gates. Just then I set out in fear to pray to the Blessed Ones
  2. that they spread their protection over the city.