...is violent assault. You are taking captives at will and subjugating them by force, as if you believed that my city was void of men, or manned by slaves, and that I counted for nothing. Yet it was not Thebes that trained you to be evil. Thebes is not accustomed to rearing unjust men;— nor would she praise you, if she learned that you are despoiling me, and despoiling the gods, when by force you dri...