Hos ubi velle acies et dulci gliscere ferro dux videt, utque piis raptim dent oscula natis amplexusque breves, curru sic fatur ab alto: terrarum leges et mundi foedera mecum defensura cohors, dignas insumite mentes coeptibus: hac omnem divumque hominumque favorem Naturamque ducem coetusque silentis Averni stare palam est; illic Poenarum exercita Thebis agmina et anguicomae ducent vexilla Sorores.
When the leader sees them wishful for battle and warming with sweet steel, sees how they give hasty kisses and brief embraces to their loving children, he speaks thus from his tall chariot: Soldiers, who will defend with me the laws of earth and the worlds covenants, think as befits our enterprise. Plain it is that all favour of gods and men and Nature our leader and the multitudes of silent Avernus stand on our side. On the other are the hosts of the Avengers, long in service at Thebes, and the snake-haired Sisters will lead the standards.
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