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Once they led to seven-gated Thebes an army of men,

not according

To the lucky flight of birds. Nor did the Kronian,

Brandishing his lightning, impel to march

From home insane, but to abstain from the way.

But to apparent destruction

The host made haste to go, with brazen arms

And horse equipments, and on the banks

Of Ismenus, defending sweet return,

Their white-flowered bodies fattened fire.

For seven pyres devoured young-limbed

Men. But to Amphiaraus

Zeus rent the deep-bosomed earth

With his mighty thunderbolt,

And buried him with his horses,

Ere, being struck in the back

By the spear of Periclymenus, his warlike

Spirit was disgraced.

For in dæmonic fears

Flee even the sons of gods.

Pollux, son of Zeus, shared his immortality with his brother Castor, son of Tyndarus, and