SCENE: Thebes, The Prince of Eteocles confronts a crowd of Thebans.
Eteocles
You citizens of Cadmus, he must speak home
that in the ship's prow watches the event
and guides the rudder, his eye not drooped in sleep.
For if we win success, the God is the cause
but if -- may it not chance so -- there is disaster.
throughout the town, voices by its citizens,
a multitudinous swelling prelude
cries on one names, "Eteocles" with groans"
which Zeus defender keep from the city of Cadmus
even as his name implies.
tr: David Grene
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