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Ęschylus, Tr. Into Engl. Prose by F.a. Paley
schylus Tr Into Engl Prose by Fa Paley Author:Aeschylus General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1871 Original Publisher: Deighton, Bell Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can ... more »select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: SEVEN AGAINST THEBES. PERSON'S REPRESENTED, Eteocles. A Messengeb. Chortts or Theban Virgins. Ismene. Antigone. A Hehald. Eteocles. People of the city of Cadmus! a man ought to speak words that are to the point,1 when he has the care of affairs at the pilot's seat in the stern, and manages the helm of the state without closing his eyelids in sleep. For should we have gained success, it is caused by the god2; but if on the contrary (which heaven forbid !) calamity should have befallen us, then Eteocles alone would be plentifully abused by the inhabitants all over the city in noisy songs and wailings, of which may Zeus the Averter become averter, as his name implies, to the city of the Cadmeian people. But for the presenj; it behoves you -- both him who is yet short of the full vigour of youth, and him who is past the period of manly strength, but still keeps up a vigorous growth of body, and each one who is yet in his prime, as is proper for you all3 -- to bring aid to your city, and to the altars of your country's gods, that their sacrifices may never become extinct, and to your children and your common mother the Earth, your 1 Cic. de Orut. i. § 112, 'ipsum di-« less