Seven Against Thebes

Aeschylus

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

  1. If, then, you hear that men are dying or wounded, do not seize on the news with loud wailing. For this is the food of Ares, human blood.
Chorus
  1. Oh, but I hear horses snorting!
Eteocles
  1. Hear them, then, but not too clearly.
Chorus
  1. The city groans from deep in the earth, as though we are surrounded.