Seven Against Thebes

Aeschylus

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

  1. For the compensation is heavy when curses uttered long ago are fulfilled, and once the deadly curse has come into existence, it does not pass away. When the fortune of seafaring merchants has grown too great,
  2. it must be thrown overboard.
Chorus
  1. For whom have the gods and divinities that share their altar and the thronging assembly of men ever admired
  2. so much as they honored Oedipus then, when he removed that deadly, man-seizing plague from our land?