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EURIPIDES.
Polyneikes.
To Adrastus Loxias spake an oracle.
Jocasta.
What was it? How mean'st thou? I cannot guess.
Polyneikes.
"Thy daughters wed to a lion and a boar."
Jocasta.
Son, with a brute's name what hadst thou to do?
Polyneikes.
'Twas night: to Adrastus' palace-porch I came.415
Jocasta.
Seeking a couch?—or but as exiles roam?
Polyneikes.
Even that. Another exile thither came.
Jocasta.
Who? In what hapless plight was he withal?
Polyneikes.
Tydeus, who sprang, men say, of Oineus' loins.
Jocasta.
Why to Adrastus seemed ye as wild beasts?420
Polyneikes.
For that we fell to fighting for our couch.
