summe deum, tibi namque meae primordia Thebae (liveat infandum licet Argos et aspera Iuno) debent, Sidonios ex quo per litora raptor turbasti thiasos, dignatus virgine nostra terga premi et placidas falsum mugire per undas, nec te vana fides iterum Cadmeia adeptum conubia et Tyrios nimium irrupisse penates: tandem, inquam, soceros dilectaque moenia gratus respicis assertorque tonas; ceu regia caeli attemptata tui, sic te pro turribus altis vidimus urguentem nubes, laetique benignum fulmen et auditos proavis agnovimus ignes.
Highest of gods, for to you my Thebes owes her beginning, though accursed Argos and fierce Juno be jealous, from the time when in your ravishing you broke up the Sidonian dances on the shore, deigning to bear on your back a maiden of our race  and utter false lowings over the calm water'nor is the story idle that you found Cadmean wedlock a second time and too lustily invaded a Tyrian home:  at last, I say, you think in gratitude of your marriage kin and the cherished walls and thunder as their champion. As though your own heavenly palace were attempted, we saw you driving the clouds to defend our lofty towers, we recognized joyfully the friendly bolt and the fire our ancestors heard.
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