What Hercules can I again bring forth

To Jupiter? What son so great as he

Will ever call Alcmena mother? Oh,

Too happy thou, my Theban husband, thou

Who didst to gloomy Tartara descend

While still Alcides lived; at thine approach1780

The infernal deities were filled with fear

Of thee, though only the reputed sire

Of Hercules. What land will welcome me,

Now old and hated by all cruel kings