A herald interrupts them in the midst of their lamentations to announce to them the decree of the senate, which is that Eteocles, on account of his attachment to his country, though a fratricide, shall be honored with fitting funeral rites, but that Polynices, the would-be Overturner of his native city, shall be cast out unburied, a prey to the dogs.
"Prometheus Bound and Seven Against Thebes"
Aeschylus