_Semi-Chor. A_. Let the city doom or not doom Those who weep for Polyneikes; We will go, and we will bury, 1070 Maidens we in sad procession; For the woe to all is common, And our State with voice uncertain, Of the claims of Right and Justice; Hither, thither, shifts its praises. _Semi-Chor. B._ We will thus, our chief attending, Speak, as speaks the State, our praises: Of the claims of Right and Justice;[135] For next those the Blessed Rulers, And the strength of Zeus, he chiefly Saved the city of Cadmeians From the doom of fell destruction, From the doom of whelming utter, In the flood of alien warriors. [_Exeunt_ ANTIGONE _and Semi-Chorus A., following the corpse of_ POLYNEIKES; ISMENE _and Semi-Chorus B. that of_ ETEOCLES. ----- Footnote 73: Probably directed against the tendency of the Athenians, as shown in their treatment of Miltiades, and later in that of Thukydides, to punish their unsuccessful generals, “_pour encourager les autres_.” Footnote 74: Teiresias, as in Sophocles (_Antig._ v. 1005), sitting, though blind, and listening, as the birds flit by him, and the flames burn steadily or fitfully; a various reading gives “apart from sight.” Footnote 75: Enyo, the goddess of war, and companion of Ares. Footnote 76: Amphiaraos the seer had prophesied that Adrastos alone should return home in safety. On his car, therefore, the other chieftains hung the clasps, or locks of hair, or other memorials which in the event of their death were to be taken to their parents. Footnote 77: The Hellenic feeling, such as the Platæans appealed to in the Peloponnesian war (Thuc. iii. 58, 59), that it was noble and right for Hellenes to destroy a city of the barbarians, but that they should spare one belonging to a people of their own stock. Footnote 78: The characteristic feature of the Argive soldiers was, that they bore a shield painted white (comp. Sophocles, _Antig._ v. 114). The leaders alone appear to have embellished this with devices and mottoes. Footnote 79: In solemn supplications, the litanies of the ancient world, especially in those to Pallas, the suppliants carried with them in procession the shawl or _peplos_ of the Goddess, and with it enwrapt her statue. To carry boughs of trees in the hands was one of the uniform, probably indispensable, accompaniments of such processions. Footnote 80: The words recall our thoughts to the original use of the trident, which became afterwards a symbol of Poseidon, as employed by the sailors of Hellas to spear or harpoon the larger fish of the Archipelago. Comp. _Pers._ v. 426, where the slaughter of a defeated army is compared to tunny-fishing. Footnote 81: