No yield to the dead! Never stab the fighter when he's down. Where's the glory, killing the dead twice over?
Sophocles (1984). “The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus”, p.86, Penguin

No yield to the dead! Never stab the fighter when he's down. Where's the glory, killing the dead twice over?