ille autem: quid me erepto, saevissime, nato terres? haec via sola fuit qua perdere posses: nec mortem horremus nec divum parcimus ulli.
But he speaks: Why seek to frighten me, fierce foe, now that my son is taken? This was the only way in which you could destroy me. We do not shrink from death, nor do we heed any of the gods.