non armis, non sanguine opus: quid inutile ferrum stringimus in Thebas? currus humus impia sorbet armaque bellantesque viros; fugere ecce videtur hic etiam, quo stamus, ager.
No need for arms and bloodshed. Why do we draw ineffectual steel against Thebes? The accursed soil sucks in chariots and arms and fighting men. Even this field on which we stand seems, see, to be in flight.
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