And ye who reap Boeotia's fertile fields,

The plains of Elis and Parnassus' slopes:130

What riddle like to this could she propose,

That curse of Thebes, who wove destructive words

In puzzling measures? What so dark as this?

He was his grandsire's son-in-law, and yet

His father's rival; brother of his sons,135

And father of his brothers; at one birth

The granddame bore unto her husband sons,

And grandson's to herself. Who can unwind