Note 282 — ARRIAN ON COURSING.
William Dansey translation
Τοὺς ἐκγόνους δὲ τῶν ἐπὶ Θήβας σὺν Πολυνείκῃ. The Homeric line cited by Arrian from the speech of Sthenelus, in the fourth book of the Iliad, alludes to the victors of the second Theban war, wherein the sons of the seven captains subdued the city, before which their fathers had perished:
Pope’s Iliad. B. iv. 460.
With fewer troops we storm’d the Theban wall, And happier saw the sev’n-fold city fall. In impious acts the guilty fathers died; The sons subdued, for heav’n was on their side.
Capaneus, the sire of Sthenelus, was thunder-struck, while blaspheming Jupiter—
Statii Thebaid. L. x. 927.
Talia dicentem toto Jove fulmen adactum Corripuit.