You three have done quite enough today: all of you and your feckless, treacherous god.
Everything that anyone respects is what men naturally excel at: fighting, accruing wealth, playing at power.
What wastrel mankind destroyed takes time for nature to put to rights.
There are stranger things here than Thebans know about.
Valor was in Nikodemos, unquestionable, and commitment like trees to stand or night to fall.
Haste breeds error; error breeds woe.