Ingloriously, they sentence to receive

His full deserts; and none may take in hand

To heap up there a tomb, nor honour him

With shrill-voiced wailings; but he still must lie,

Without the meed of burial by his friends.

So do the high Cadmeian powers decree.

Ant. And I those rulers of Cadmeians tell,[[133]]

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That if no other care to bury him,

I will inter him, facing all the risk,