Spear-slain, are fain to lay them in the grave,
Wherefrom the victors let them, and refuse
The corpses, setting the gods’ laws at nought;
and Theseus says[172]:
But lifeless bodies—harming not your State, ...
I claim to bury: lo! all Hellas’ law
Do I uphold.
The Messenger thus describes the words of the herald[173]:
Silence, ye people! Hush, ye ranks of Cadmus!