Et. Ch. Go not thou on in this way to the seventh gate. Ch. Et. Whetted as I am, thou wilt not blunt me by argument. Et. Ch. Yet god, at all events, honors an inglorious victory. Ch. Et. It ill becomes a warrior to acquiesce in this advice. Et. Ch. What! wilt thou shed the blood of thine own brother? Ch. Et. By heaven's leave, he shall not elude destruction. Et. [Exit Eteocles. Eteocles Ch. I shudder with dread that the power that lays waste this house, not like the gods, the all-true, the evil-boding Erinnys summoned by the curses of the father, is bringing 81to a consummation the wrathful curses of distracted Œdipus.156 'Tis this quarrel, fatal to his sons, that arouses her. And the Chalybian stranger, emigrant from Scythia, is apportioning their shares, a fell divider of possessions, the stern-hearted steel,157 allotting them land to occupy, just as much as it may be theirs to possess when dead, bereft of their large domains.158 When they shall have fallen, slain by each other's hands in mutual slaughter, and the dust of the ground shall have drunk up the black-clotted
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