id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt aeschylus-seven-2836 aeschylus-seven-2836 .txt text/plain 9311 955 95 Blood-lapping Terror, Let our oath be heardEither to raze the walls, make void the hold ETEOCLES O Zeus and Earth and city-guarding gods, A city saved doth honour to her gods! CHORUS (chanting) By grace of the gods we hold it, a city untamed LEADER Zeus, strong to smite, turn upon foes thy blow! ETEOCLES Zeus, what a curse are women, wrought by thee! I hear it arise from the city, the manifold wail of despairWoe, woe for the doom that shall be-as in grasp of the foeman they CHORUS (chanting) Home to my heart the vaunting goes, LEADER OF THE CHORUS O thou true heart, O child of Oedipus, ETEOCLES Nay-since the god is urgent for our doom, LEADER Go not thou forth to guard the seventh gate! ETEOCLES Ill which the gods have sent thou canst no-shun! But he, thy brother slain, shall he, ./cache/aeschylus-seven-2836.txt ./txt/aeschylus-seven-2836.txt