unde iubetis ire, deae? gentisne canam primordia dirae, Sidonios raptus et inexorabile pactum legis Agenoreae scrutantemque aequora Cadmum? longa retro series, trepidum si Martis operti agricolam infandis condentem proelia sulcis expediam penitusque sequar, quo carmine muris iusserit Amphion Tyriis accedere montes, unde graves irae cognata in moenia Baccho, quod saevae Iunonis opus, cui sumpserit arcus infelix Athamas, cur non expaverit ingens Ionium socio casura Palaemone mater.
Where do you command me to begin, goddesses? Shall I sing the origins of the dire folk, the rape Sidonian, the inexorable compact of Agenors ordinance, and Cadmus searching the seas?  Far back goes the tale, were I to recount the affrighted husbandman of covered soldiery hiding battle in unholy furrows  and pursue to the uttermost what followed: with what music Amphion bade mountains draw nigh the Tyrian walls, what caused Bacchus fierce wrath against a kindred city,  what savage Juno wrought,  at whom hapless Athamas took up his bow, wherefore Palaemons mother did not fear the vast Ionian when she made to plunge in company with her son.
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