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A peaceful guest, he sought Mycenae's<br />

towers;<br />

Armies he ask'd, and armies had<br />

been given,<br />

Not we denied, but Jove forbade<br />

from heaven;<br />

While dreadful comets glaring from<br />

afar,<br />

Forewarn'd the horrors <strong>of</strong> the<br />

<strong>The</strong>ban war. 136<br />

Next, sent by Greece from where<br />

Asopus flows,<br />

A fearless envoy, he approach'd the<br />

foes;<br />

<strong>The</strong>bes' hostile walls unguarded<br />

and alone,<br />

Dauntless he enters, and demands<br />

the throne.<br />

<strong>The</strong> tyrant feasting with his chiefs<br />

he found,<br />

And dared to combat all those<br />

chiefs around:

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