iamque premunt muros (et adhuc nova funera narrat Amphion) miseramque intrarant protinus urbem, ni Megareus specula citus exclamasset ab alta: claude, vigil, subeunt hostes, claude undique portas! Est ubi dat vires nimius timor: ocius omnis porta coit; solas dum tardius artat Echion Ogygias, audax animis Spartana iuventus.
And now they are at the walls (and still Amphion is relating the new reverse) and would have entered the unhappy city there and then but that Megareus called in haste from a high watchtower: Close up, sentry, enemy coming, close gates all round. Sometimes excess of fear lends strength. Swiftly every gate shuts to. Only through the Ogygian, as Echion is slow to close it, do Spartas bold warriors break in and fall slain upon the threshold:
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