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p.1/280. Agamemnon.

Changing edition for now. This one starts with Agamemnon. (The Delphi one is no longer available at Amazon, or not for now, so selection features don’t work…)

Current bookmark (Suppliant Maidens, line 397 in this edition)

End. (next: The Suppliant[ Maiden]s.)

Seven Against Thebes . before line 452. Exit Polyphontes.

otoh the next line here, “And in addition, … make a stronger prayer, that the gods fight on our side.” is a preferable translation to “the Greeks were monotheistic too” Victorian translation of EDA Morshead (Dover, Gutenberg Four Plays) “Pray, in their strength, that Heaven be on our side!”

(line 264) here: I welcome this sentiment of yours over what you said before.
Dover: I take that word as wiser than the rest.

Seven Against Thebes. (line 37, enter a Scout.)

The Seven Against Thebes

ATOSSA. O spirit of the race, what sorrows crowd Upon me! and this anguish stings me worst, …