I have used the old English word to express a term of like technical use in Athenian law processes. As the “sumpnour” called witnesses or parties to a suit into court, so Tydeus had summoned the Erinnys to do her work of destruction. Footnote 108: _Sc._, so pronounced his name as to emphasise the significance of its two component parts, as indicating that he who bore it was a man of much contention. Footnote 109: The words are obscure, but seem to refer to the badge of Polyneikes, the figure of Justice described in v. 643 as on his shield. How shall that Justice, the seer asks, console Jocasta for her son's death? Another rendering gives, “And how shall Justice quench a mother's life?” the “mother” being the country against which Polyneikes wars. Footnote 110: The words had a twofold fulfilment (1) in the burial of Amphiaraos, in the Theban soil; and (2) in the honour which accrued to Thebes after his death, through the fame of the oracle at his shrine. Footnote 111: The passage cannot be passed over without noticing the old tradition (Plutarch, _Aristeid._ c. 3), that when the actor uttered these words, he and the whole audience looked to Aristeides, surnamed the Just, as recognising that the words were true of him as they were of no one else. “Best,” instead of “just,” is, however, a very old various reading. Footnote 112: If the former reference to Aristeides be admitted, we can scarcely avoid seeing in this passage an allusion to Themistocles, as one with whose reckless and democratic policy it was dangerous for the more conservative leader to associate himself. Footnote 113: The far-off city, not of Thebes, but of Hades. In the legend of Thebes, the earth opened and swallowed up Amphiaraos, as in 583. Footnote 114: The short spear was usually carried under the shelter of the shield; when brought into action it was, of course, laid bare. Footnote 115: Perhaps “since death is at nigh hand.” Footnote 116: The Chorus means that if Eteocles would allow himself to be overcome in this contest of his wishes with their prayers the Gods would honour that defeat as if it were indeed a victory. He makes answer that the very thought of being overcome implied in the word “defeat” in anything is one which the true warrior cannot bear. Footnote 117: The “Chalyb stranger” is the sword, thought of as taking its name from the Skythian tribe of the Chalybes, between Colchis and Armenia, and passing through the Thrakians into Greece. Footnote 118: The two brothers, _i.e._, are set at one again, but it is not in the bonds of friendship, but in those of death. Footnote 119: