Seven Against Thebes
Aeschylus
Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, translator. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922.
- Recommend something that can be accomplished; your request need not be lengthy.
- Do not yourself take the road to the seventh gate!
- Let me assure you, you will not blunt my sharpened purpose with words.
- And yet any victory, even a cowardly one, is nonetheless held in honor by God.