[120]. Another reading gives—
“And race of those who crowd the Agora.”
[121]. This seems to have been one form of the legends as to the cause of the curse which Œdipus had launched upon his sons, An alternative rendering is—
And with a mind enraged
At thought of what they were whom he had reared,
He at his sons did hurl
His curses dire and dark.
[122]. Sc., when Eteocles fell, Apollo took his place at the seventh gate, and turned the tide of war in favour of the Thebans.
[123]. I follow in this dialogue the arrangement which Paley adopts from Hermann.
[124]. There seems an intentional ambiguity. They are “borne on,” but it is as the corpses of the dead are borne to the sepulchre.