Togail na Tebe = The Thebiad of Statius : the Irish text

THE THEBAIDentrails of your bodies after they have been slain upon theplains of Cadmus' city, even though I am hindering you ? " saidhe, " since it is a certainty that we shall all arrive there."And the priest remained silent then, and Capaneus heapedinsult again upon Armphiaraus, and said:" Remain thou, a feeblefugitive, in Greece, thou and every one whom thou wilt inspirewith fear by thy prophecy, and listen not thou to the keen andsoft Tyrrhenian trumpets. And I myself," said he, " will makea prophecy to every one who will come with me to the war."And trumpets are called Tyrrhenian for this reason, becauseTyrrhenus, king of the Tuscans, brother of Lydus, was the firstman to whom a trumpet was ever blown at the outset.And the Greeks uttered a huge crash of sound through thelong-voiced tumult they made in agreeing with Capaneus, likethe sound which a stream rushing headlong in flood makes inchill spring-time down the watersheds and the sloping glens ofthe earth. And when the night came, those heroes dispersedfrom conversing; and though many slept, it was not Argia,daughter of Adrastus, wife of Polynices, that slept owing to careand anxiety of mind regarding her husband, since she could notget that husband's company or conversation owing to anxietyand long deliberation how he should act towards his brotherregarding his share of the kingdom and the sovereignty.And at the end of the night she proceeded to her father'slofty palace, holding her own son (and her little children) by herhand, to wit, Thessander, son of Polynices. And she said to herfather :" Thou knowest, O beloved father, Adrastus," said she,