There were to be these raiders – Amon, myself and thirty ‘other ranks’ […]

Eteocles and Polyneices are enemy brothers, that is, they are alike in spite of the difference erected by being on opposite sides of the Theban battlements.¹ By uniting them with the dual number in the description of their deaths, Sophocles has the elders speak of them as indistinguishable in their hatred, spear work, and deaths.

Bärwurz […] distilled from bear's wort (spicknel); served as a digestive

It was difficult to stay in character because I kept wanting to laugh.