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His action drags heavily through the first ten books, and then is summarily finished in the last two, the accession of Creon after Oedipus's exile, his prohibition to bury Polynices, the interference of Theseus, and the death of Creon being all dismissed in fifteen hundred lines. The two most striking features in the poem are the descriptions of battles and the similes.
Menon was muttering between his teeth: "Hermes, be his aid! Great Zeus look upon him! Herakles give him wind!" Now they were near the goal, and Leotichides was still leading by a stride. Then Creon threw back his head and stretched out his legs and with ten great leaps he had touched the altar a good pace ahead. He had won the race. The crowd went wild with shouting.
"What deed? What meanest thou?" "To pay due honour to this dead corpse." "What? Wilt thou bury him when the King hath forbidden it?" "Yea, for he is my brother and also thine, though, perchance, thou wouldst not have it so. And I will not play him false." "O my sister, wilt thou do this when Creon hath forbidden it?" "Why should he stand between me and mine?"
He struck a long, ringing chord and raised his clear voice in a dancing song: When Creon, son of Menon, bore off the Olympic olive, Mount Kronion shook with shouting of Hellas' hosts assembled. They praised his manly beauty, his grace and strength of body. They praised his eyes' alertness, the smoothness of his muscles. They blessed his happy father and wished themselves his brothers.
With great dignity he clears himself, warning the King of the pains which hasty temper brings upon itself. Their quarrel brings out Jocasta, the Queen and sister of Creon, who succeeds in settling the unseemly strife. She bids Oedipus take no notice of oracles; one such had declared that Laius would be slain by his own son, who would marry her, his mother.
King Creon hath made a proclamation that they shall bury Eteocles with all honor, but that Polynices shall lie unburied, that the birds of the air and the beasts of the field may devour him, and that whosoever shall break this decree shall suffer death by stoning." "But if it be so, my sister, how can we avail to change it?" "Think whether or no thou wilt share with me the doing of this deed."
Demosthenes, feeling the poison work for such it was that he had concealed in the reed now bade him lead on. "You may now," said he, "enact the part of Creon, and cast me out unburied; but at least, O gracious Poseidon, I have not polluted thy temple by my death which Antipater and his Macedonians would not have scrupled at."
He began circling around Timon as Eudorus had circled around him. He dodged out from under Timon's arms. He wriggled from between his hands. The benches rang with cheers and laughs. "He is an eel," cried one man. Suddenly Creon ducked under Timon's arms, caught him by his legs and tripped him. The two boys were even. In the next bout Timon ran at Creon like a wild bull.
Menelaus entering commands Teucer to leave the corpse where it is, for an enemy shall receive no burial. He strikes the same note as Creon: "It is the mark of an ill-conditioned man that he, a commoner, should see fit to disobey the powers that be.
On the news of her sentence he seeks Creon, and after a violent scene between the two, which has neither the power nor the dignity common to Sophocles, departs with vague menaces.
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