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(Copyright by the University of Chicago)

HERALD

It is my duty to declare to you,
counselors of the people,
the resolves already taken
and the present pleasure
of this Cadmean City.

Our lord Eteocles
for his loyalty
it is determined to bury in the earth
that he so loved
Fighting its enemies he found his death here.
In the sight of his ancestral shrines
he is pure and blameless and died
where young men die right honorably.

These are my instructions
to communicate with respect to him.

His brother Polynices,
or rather his dead body,
you must cast out unburied,
for the dogs to drag and tear as fits
one who would have destroyed our country,
had not some god proved obstacle to his spear.

Even in death he shall retain this guilt
against his gods ancestral,
whom he dishonored
when he brought a foreign host
here for invasion and
would have sacked the City.
So it is resolved that he shall have,
as his penalty, a burial
granted dishonorably by the birds of the air
and that no raising of a mound by hand
attend him nor high-pitched singing of a dirge.
Unhonored shall his funeral be by friends.

This is the pleasure of the Cadmean state