Some of his friends possessed copies, and the poem was thus preserved. […] While thus engaged, Antigone was seized and brought before Creon. […] It was thus that Herodotus read his history to assembled Greece. […] The wretched murderers, thus betrayed by their own guilty fears, confessed the crime, and suffered the punishment they had deserved. […] The Persians thus believed in two independent principles, one of good, and one of evil, but they worshipped only the first.