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Rh. The sons of Danaus, one and all, implore thee to bury the dead.

. Why didst lead thy seven armies against Thebes?

. To confer that favour on the husbands of my daughters twain.

. To which of the Argives didst thou give thy daughters in marriage?

. I made no match for them with kinsmen of my family.

. What! didst give Argive maids to foreign lords?

. Yea, to Tydeus, and to Polynices, who was Theban-born.

. What induced thee to select this alliance?

. Dark riddles of Phœbus stole away my judgment.

. What said Apollo to determine the maidens' marriage?

. That I should give my daughters twain to a wild boar and a lion.

. How dost thou explain the message of the god?

. One night came to my door two exiles.

. The name of each declare; thou art speaking of both together.

. They fought together, Tydeus with Polynices.

. Didst thou give thy daughters to them as to wild beasts?

. Yea, for, as they fought, I likened them to those monsters twain.

. Why had they left the borders of their native land and come to thee?

. Tydeus was exiled for the murder of a kinsman.

. Wherefore had the son of Œdipus left Thebes?

. By reason of his father's curse, not to spill his brother's blood.

. Wise no doubt that voluntary exile.

. But those who stayed at home were for injuring the absent.