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Eteocles
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Who would hear you after you have marched against your fatherland?
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Eteocles
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And who hate you.
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Eteocles
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Yes, for you came to destroy it.
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Eteocles
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Call on the gods at Mycenae, not here.
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Eteocles
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But I have not, like you, become my country’s enemy.
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Eteocles
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I will kill you in addition.
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Eteocles
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Yes, and he hears what you are doing.
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Eteocles
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It is not lawful for you to mention your mother.
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Eteocles
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Go to Argos, and invoke the waters of Lerna.
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Eteocles
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Go forth from the land!
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Eteocles
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You will not have your wish.
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Eteocles
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You will not ever see them either.
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Eteocles
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Why do you, their bitterest enemy, call on them?
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Jocasta
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Indeed I am faring well, my son!
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Jocasta
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I was born to great sorrow.
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Eteocles
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I am treated just the same.
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Eteocles
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Why do you ask me this?
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Eteocles
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I too have the same desire.
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Polyneices
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The event will show.
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Eteocles
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May destruction seize our whole house!
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Teiresias
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Do not catch hold of me.
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Teiresias
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It is your fortune that tries to escape you, not I.
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Menoeceus
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Where must I go, father?
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Menoeceus
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And where must I go from there?
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Menoeceus
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To Dodona’s holy threshold?
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Menoeceus
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What protection will I find there?
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Menoeceus
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How shall I find the means?
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Menoeceus
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A good plan of yours, father. Go now; for I will come to your sister, Jocasta, at whose breast I was suckled when bereft of my mother, a lonely orphan, to give her greeting and then I will save my life.
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Jocasta
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They have resolved on single combat.
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Jocasta
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No welcome news; follow me.
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Jocasta
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To the army.
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Jocasta
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Coyness is not for you now.
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Jocasta
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You will put an end to your brothers’ strife.
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Jocasta
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By falling at their knees with me.
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Antigone
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Why that groan?
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Antigone
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You are in pain; but if you could look towards the sun-god’s four-horse chariot and turn the light of your eyes on these corpses—