Seven Against Thebes

Aeschylus

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

  1. Ah, pity you senseless men, whom friends could not persuade and evils could not wear down! To your misery you have captured your father’s house with the spear.
Chorus
  1. To their misery, indeed,
  2. they found a miserable death in the outrage done their house.
  1. Ah, you brothers who were poised to cast over the walls of your home and looked—to your sorrow—for sole rule, now you have been