prosequitur Tydeus: saevos ne dixeris Argos, igne tuo, Thebane, (rogum concedimus) arde! inde, velut primo tigris gavisa cruore per totum cupit ire pecus, sic Aona saxo, ense Pholum, Chromin ense, duos Helicaonas hasta transigit, Aegaeae Veneris quos Maera sacerdos ediderat prohibente dea; vos praeda cruenti Tydeos, it saevas etiamnum mater ad aras.
Tydeus follows: Call not Argos cruel. We allow you your pyre. Burn, Theban, with your own fire. Then, as a tigress rejoicing in her first kill is fain to go through the whole flock, he slays Aon with a stone, Pholus with sword and Chromis with sword, and runs the two Helicaons  through with a spear. Maera, priestess of Aegean Venus, had given them birth though the goddess forbade. Now you are the prey of bloody Tydeus, your mother still goes to the cruel altars.
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