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Over these poor men it can be said that they did much to harm our citizens and also the ranks of all the foreigners [925] who died in abundance in the fighting. Ill-fated beyond all women who are called by the name of mother is she who bore them. After she made her own child her own husband, [930] she gave birth to these sons, who have thus ended their lives with kindred hands giving death for death.
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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