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The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1, Poetry - Volume 1

Note 13 — STATIUS'S THEBAIS.

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What hero, that is, of the famous seven who went up against Thebes to dispossess Eteocles for violating the compact to reign alternately with Polynices. The five persons whom Statius enumerates as joining with Polynices and Adrastus, king of Argos, are Tydeus, Amphiaraus, Hippomedon, Parthenopæus, and Capaneus.

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