eteocles

eteocles

1. Thus in AEschylus the council of Thebes makes what is in the circumstances the vital decision to give Eteocles an honorable burial, but to throw out the corpse of Polynices to be devoured by dogs.

例如,在埃斯库罗斯的作品中就谈到过忒拜议事会曾作了一个对当时局势有决定意义的决定,即为伊托克利斯举行荣誉葬礼,而波吕涅克斯的尸体则扔出去让狗吃掉。

2. Eteocles, to whom the first term fell, would not relinquish his throne at the end of the year.

先上任的厄忒俄克勒斯在年末拒绝放弃王位。

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