Eteocles, to whom the first term fell, would not relinquish his throne AT the end of the year.
先上任的厄忒俄克勒斯在年末拒绝放弃王位。
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Thus in aeschylus the council of thebes makes what is in the circumstances the vital decision to give eteocles an honorable burial but to throw out the corpse of polynices to be devoured by dogs.