Seven Against Thebes

Aeschylus

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

  1. A soldier must not embrace that maxim.
Chorus
  1. But are you willing to harvest the blood of your own brother?
Eteocles
  1. When it is the gods who give you evils, you cannot flee them. Exit.
Chorus
  1. I shudder in terror at the goddess who lays ruin to homes, a goddess unlike other divinities, who is an unerring omen of evil to come. I shudder that the Erinys invoked by the father’s prayer will fulfil the over-wrathful