fluvione (pudet!), Mars inclute,merges hanc animam, segnesque lacus et stagna subibo ceu pecoris custos, subiti torrentis iniquis interceptus aquis? adeone occumbere ferro non merui? tandem precibus commota Tonantem Iuno subit: quonam miseros, sator inclute divum, Inachidas, quonam usque premes? iam Pallas et odit Tydea, iam rapto tacuerunt augure Delphi: en meus Hippomedon, cui gentis origo Mycenae Argolicique lares numenque ante omnia Iuno (sic ego fida meis?), pelagi crudelibus ibit praeda feris? certe tumulos supremaque victis busta dabas: ubi Cecropiae post proelia flammae, Theseos ignis ubi est? non spernit coniugis aequas ille preces, leviterque oculos ad moenia Cadmi rettulit, et viso sederunt flumina nutu.
For shame, renowned Mars, will you sink this my spirit in a river? Shall I go down beneath sluggish meres and pools like a shepherd caught in the hostile waters of a sudden torrent? Was I so unworthy to die by steel? Moved at last by his prayers, Juno accosts the Thunderer: How far, famed begetter of the gods, will you bear down upon the sons of Inachus, how far? Already Pallas has come to hate Tydeus,  already Delphi has fallen silent, her prophet reft. And now shall my Hippomedon, whose race stems from Mycenae,  whose home is in Argos, whose deity is Juno above all (is this my loyalty to my own?), shall he go a prey to the cruel beasts of the sea? Surely you used to grant tombs and final pyres to the vanquished. Where are Cecropian flames after battles, where Theseus fire?  He spurns not his consorts fair plea and lightly casts his eyes back to Cadmus walls; seeing his nod, the river subsided.
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