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EURIPIDES.

Antigone.

Ah, be the gates secure, be the brass-clamped bolts made sure
In the walls that Amphion in days bygone
Fashioned of stone?


Old Servant.

Fear not; the city wards all safe within.
Mark yonder foremost chief, if thou wouldst know him.


Antigone.

Who is he with the white helm-crest
Who marcheth in front of their war-array,120
And a brazen buckler fencing his breast
Lightly his arm doth sway?


Old Servant.

A captain, princess.


Antigone.

What his land, his birth?
Make answer, ancient. What name beareth he?


Old Servant.

Yon chief proclaims him of Mycenian race:
By streams of Lerna King Hippomedon dwells.


Antigone.

Ah me, how haughty, how fearful he is to see,
Like to a Giant, a child of Earth!
Star-blazonry gleams on his shield: not like is he
Unto one of mortal birth.130