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Under strokes of iron they are come to this, and under strokes of iron there await them—what, one might perhaps ask—shares in their father's tomb.¹

[915] Our shrill, heart-rending wail goes with them—product of lamentation and pain felt of its own accord—a wail from a distressed mind, joyless, pouring forth tears from a heart [920] that wastes away as I weep for these two princes.

1 As the brothers were to divide the substance of their dead father, their equal inheritance was the tomb. λαχαί means both “apportioning of possessions” and “digging.”

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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