semperne vicissim exsulibus servire dabor? tibi, summe deorum terrarumque sator, sociis hanc addere mentem sedit? an inde vetus Thebis extenditur omen, ex quo Sidonii nequiquam blanda iuvenci pondera Carpathio iussus sale quaerere Cadmus exsul Hyanteos invenit regna per agros, fraternasque acies fetae telluris hiatu augurium seros demisit ad usque nepotes? cernis ut erectum torva sub fronte minetur saevior assurgens dempto consorte potestas.
Am I always to be given as a slave to exiles taking turns? Did you resolve, supreme creator of heaven and earth, to make the partners  so will? Or does the ancient omen for Thebes extend from the time when Cadmus, ordered to search the Carpathian Sea in vain for the Sidonian bulls seductive freight, found in exile a kingdom in Hyantean fields and sent down fraternal warfare from the opening of pregnant earth as an augury to his remote posterity? See you how power, rising crueller with none to share it, threatens us straight of stance and stern of brow?
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