Capaneus
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Them the noble son280 Of Capaneus observed, and turning quick His speech to Diomede, him thus address'd.
From The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by William Cowper
Parthenopæus, one of the seven, was killed by a stone, and another, Capaneus, while furiously mounting the walls from a scaling-ladder, was slain by a thunderbolt cast by Jupiter, and fell dead to the earth.
From Historic Tales, vol 10 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Charles Morris
Capaneus and Hippomedon are terrific warriors of gigantic stature and truculent speech, but they are wholly uninteresting.
From Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Harold Edgeworth Butler
But the son of Capaneus was not unmindful of the orders that Diomed had given him.
From The Iliad by Homer
I'm Capaneus, and eager To climb like him to heaven.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
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