The geography is somewhat obscure, but the words seem to refer to the portion of the islands that are named as opposite (in a southerly direction) to the promontory of the Troad. Footnote 67: Salamis in Kypros had been colonised by Teukros, the son of Aias, and had received its name in remembrance of the island in the Saronic Gulf. Footnote 68: The Mariandynoi, a Paphlagonian tribe, conspicuous for their orgiastic worship of Adonis, had become proverbial for the wildness of their plaintive dirges. Footnote 69: The name seems to have been an official title for some Inspector-General of the Army. Comp. Aristoph. _Acharn._ v. 92. Footnote 70: As in the account which Herodotos gives (vii. 60) of the way in which the army of Xerxes was numbered, _sc._, by enclosing 10,000 men in a given space, and then filling it again and again till the whole army had passed through. Footnote 71: Another reading gives— “They are buried, they are buried.” Footnote 72: Perhaps referring to the waggon-chariots in which the rider reclines at ease, either protected by a canopy, or, as in the Assyrian sculptures and perhaps in the East generally, overshadowed by a large umbrella which an eunuch holds over him. THE SEVEN WHO FOUGHT AGAINST THEBES DRAMATIS PERSONÆ ETEOCLES _Scout_ _Herald_ ISMENE ANTIGONE _Chorus of Theban Maidens_ ARGUMENT.—_When Œdipus king of Thebes discovered that he had unknowingly been the murderer of his father, and had lived in incest with his mother, he blinded himself. And his two sons, Eteocles and Polyneikes, wishing to banish the remembrance of these horrors from the eyes of men, at first kept him in confinement. And he, being wroth with them, prayed that they might divide their inheritance with the sword. And they, in fear lest the prayer should be accomplished, agreed to reign in turn, each for a year, and Eteocles, as the elder of the two, took the first turn. But when at the end of the year Polyneikes came to ask for the kingdom, Eteocles refused to give way, and sent him away empty. So Polyneikes went to Argos and married the daughter of Adrastos the king of that country, and gathered together a great army under six great captains, himself going as the seventh, and led it against Thebes. And so they compassed it about, and at each of the seven gates of the city was stationed one of the divisions of the army._ _Note._—_The Seven against Thebes_ appears to have been produced B.C. 472, the year after _The Persians_. THE SEVEN AGAINST THEBES SCENE.—THEBES _in front of the Acropolis_ _Enter_ ETEOCLES, _and crowd of_ Theban Citizens.