Where with fat streams Asopus feeds the plain,

Themselves to feed it fatter: in Bœotia

Much woe awaits them justly, the fair price

Of their own godless pride, that did not fear

When first they entered Greece, to rob the altars

Of the eternal gods, to fire their temples,

Uproot the old foundations of their shrines,

And from their basements in commingled wreck

Dash down the images. Much harm they worked,

And much shall suffer. From no shallow bed