Constitit immanis cerni immanisque timeri Argolicus Capaneus, ac dum nigrantia plumbo tegmina cruda boum non mollior ipse lacertis induitur, date tot iuvenum de milibus unum huc, ait, atque utinam potius de stirpe veniret aemulus Aonia, quem fas demittere leto, nec mea crudelis civili sanguine virtus.
Argive Capaneus took his stand, monstrous to view, monstrous to fear, and as he puts gloves of rawhide black with lead on his arms, he no softer than they, Give me here he says one from so many thousands of warriors'and would that my rival came rather from Aonian race whom it were no sin to send to his death, and my valour might not be cruel with a countrymans blood.
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