Seven Against Thebes

Aeschylus

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

  1. But lord Apollo, the reverend leader of the seventh,[*](An obscure designation of Apollo, often referred to the tradition that he was born on the seventh day. The adjective looks like a military title, but divisions of seven were unknown.) took for himself the seventh gate, accomplishing upon the children of Oedipus the ancient follies of Laius.