coeperat Ogygiae supra fastigia turris arcanum mugire polus caelumque tenebris auferri: tenet ille tamen, quas non videt, arces, fulguraque attritis quotiens micuere procellis, his, ait, in Thebas, his iam decet ignibus uti, hinc renovare faces lassamque accendere quercum.
Above the summit of the Ogygian tower the heavens began a secret rumbling and the sky to be withdrawn in darkness. Yet Capaneus still grasps the heights he no longer sees, and whenever lightning flashes from the chafed tempests: These flames, he says, ay, these, it now beseems me to use against Thebes, from them to renew my torch and kindle my wearied oak.
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