tenet ille inclusa premitque fata deum: quiane ante duci bene credita nostro consilia et monitus, cum perfida bella vetarem? te tamen, infelix, inquit, perituraque Thebe, si taceam, nequeo miser exaudire cadentem Argolicumque oculis haurire vacantibus ignem.
He holds the decrees of the gods hidden in his heart and presses them down: Say you so because in time past my counsels and warnings were wisely entrusted to our leader when I forbade perfidious warfare? And yet, unhappy Thebes, doomed if I am silent, I cannot bear to hear you falling and drink Argive flames with these vacant eyes.
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