The Internet Classics Archive | The Seven Against Thebes by Aeschylus by The Seven Against Thebes

Author:The Seven Against Thebes [Thebes, The Seven Against]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

ETEOCLES Ah, may they meet the doom they think to bring-

They and their impious vaunts-from those on high!

So should they sink, hurled down to deepest death!

This foe, at least, by thee Arcadian styled,

Is faced by one who bears no braggart sign,

But his hand sees to smite, where blows avail-

Actor, own brother to Hyperbius!

He will not let a boast without a blow

Stream through our gates and nourish our despair,

Nor give him way who on his hostile shield

Bears the brute image of the loathly Sphinx!

Blocked at the gate, she will rebuke the man

Who strives to thrust her forward, when she feels

Thick crash of blows, up to the city wall.

With Heaven's goodwill, my forecast shall be true.

ACTOR goes out.

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