Mess. [*]Yea, it lays low the whole ill-fated race.

Chor. These things give cause for gladness and for tears,

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Seeing that our city prospers, and our lords,

The generals twain, with well-wrought Skythian steel,

Have shared between them all their store of goods,

And now shall have their portion in a grave,

Borne on, as spake their father's grievous curse.[[124]]

Mess. [The city's saved, but of the brother-kings

The earth has drunk the blood, each slain by each.]