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city. This they did, flying themselves, with their
wives and children, to the country of the Illyrians,
and leaving their city empty to the triumphant foe.
The Epigoni, as the youthful victors were called,
marched in at the head of their forces, took posses-
sion, and placed Thersander, the son of Polynikes,
on the throne. And thusends the famous old legend
of the two sieges of Thebes.