tenet una dies noctesque recursans cura virum, si quando humilem decedere regno germanum et semet Thebis opibusque potitum cerneret; hac aevum cupiat pro luce pacisci.
One thought obsesses him day and night, ever recurring: would he one day see his brother humbly leave the throne and himself in possession of Thebes and power? For that day he would willingly barter a lifetime.
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