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O great Zeus and the divine powers that guard our city, you who indeed protect these walls of Cadmus, [825] should I rejoice and shout in triumph for the unharmed safety of the city, or should I lament our leaders in war, [830] now wretched, ill-fated and childless? Indeed, in exact accordance with their name and as “men of much strife,” they have perished through their impious intent.
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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