atque ubi tardavit currus et ab axe superbo explorat causas victor poscitque benigna aure preces, ausa ante alias Capaneia coniunx: belliger Aegide, subitae cui maxima laudis semina de nostris aperit Fortuna ruinis, non externa genus, dirae nec conscia noxae turba sumus: domus Argos erat regesque mariti, non utinam et fortes! quid enim septena movere castra et Agenoreos opus emendare penates? nec querimur caesos: haec bellica iura vicesque armorum; sed non Siculis exorta sub antris monstra nec Ossaei bello cecidere bimembres.
And when the victor slowed his chariot down and from its proud height enquires their reasons and with kindly ear invites their plea, the wife of Capaneus ventures before the rest: Warrior son of Aegeus, to whom Fortune reveals great seed of unexpected glory from our ruin, we are no foreign stock, nor conscious of heinous guilt; Argos was our home and our husbands were kings and brave'would it were otherwise! For what need was there to move seven armies and set Agenors home to rights? Neither do we complain of their slaying. That was the law of war and the fortune of battle. They fell in fight, but they were no monsters risen in Sicilian caverns or twiformed creatures of Ossa.
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