Now when Hypsipyle heard the scream of the dying boy, she
arose to seek him, and continued to call him. Since she did not
find him but saw the serpent, she shrieked and cried till all the
Greeks heard the maiden's weeping. Then the. young king of
Arcadia, to wit, Parthenopaeus, urged his horses towards the cry,
after he had been told by Adrastus the high-king. And when
he had heard the reason for the lamentation, he told the others ;
and when he had done so, lofty splendid Hipporaedon took a well-
proportioned close-grained stone from its earth-fastnesses, and
made a cast of a throw at the serpent. Yet that only caused it to
start. But after that Capaneus came to encounteritwith a thonged
well-casting spear in his hand, and said to it : " The cast just now
will not be similar," said he. "The gods of heaven cannot prevent
my slaying thee." And he hurled the javelin at it after that, so
that the dart struck it and pierced its breast and entrails, and
it fell dead and lifeless. Jove, however, was wroth at that thing,
to wit, that the serpent was slain by Capaneus, and he made
ready to launch a fiery thunderbolt at him there, and yet again
in turn he restrained himself from that.
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