Seven Against Thebes

Aeschylus

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

  1. Ah, me
Ismene
  1. Ah, me
Antigone
  1. Sorrows hard to behold—
Ismene
  1. He showed me when he returned from exile.
Antigone
  1. But he made no return after he had killed.
Ismene
  1. He was saved, but lost his life.
Antigone
  1. He lost it, all too truly.
Ismene
  1. And took this one’s life away.
Antigone
  1. Wretched family!