“While o’er the battlements sprung Capaneus,

Jove struck him with his thunder, and the earth

Resounded with the crack; meanwhile mankind

Stood all aghast; from off the ladder’s height

His limbs were far asunder hurled, his hair

Flew to’ards Olympus, to the ground his blood,

His hands and feet whirled like Ixion’s wheel,

And to the earth his flaming body fell.”