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Chorus
Never so long as I live may this divine assembly abandon us, [220] nor may I live to see the city overrun and the army seizing it with hostile fire! Eteocles
When you invoke the gods, do not be ill-advised. For Obedience is [225] the mother of Success, wife of Salvation—as the saying goes.
Aeschylus. Aeschylus, with an English translation by Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph. D. in two volumes. 1. Seven Against Thebes. Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph. D. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. 1926.
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