“What first, O Clio, shall adorn thy page,

The expiring prophet, or Aetolian’s rage?

Say, wilt thou sing how, grim with hostile blood,

Hippomedon repelled the rushing flood,

Lament the Arcadian youth’s untimely fate,

Or Jove, opposed by Capaneus, relate?”

“What first, O Clio, shall adorn thy page, The expiring prophet, or Aetolian’s rage? Say, wilt thou sing how, grim with hostile blood, Hippomedon repelled the rushing flood, Lament the Arcadian youth’s untimely fate, Or Jove, opposed by Capaneus, relate?”