Capaneus

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[kuh-pey-nee-uhs, kap-uh-noos, -nyoos] / kəˈpeɪ ni əs, ˈkæp əˌnus, -ˌnyus /

noun

Classical Mythology.

1. one of the Seven against Thebes, who was destroyed by Zeus for blasphemy.

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Example Sentences

I'm Capaneus, and eager To climb like him to heaven.

From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us

Them the noble son280 Of Capaneus observed, and turning quick His speech to Diomede, him thus address'd.

From The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by Cowper, William

Capaneus was not, as it seems, such as the honest Chrysippus describes, in his treatise On those things which are not eligible for their own sakes.

From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us

But Capaneus is menacing, prepared for action, dishonoring the gods, and practicing his tongue in vain exultation; mortal as he is, he is sending loud-swelling words into heaven to the ears of Jove.

From Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound and the Seven Against Thebes by Buckley, Theodore Alois

So saying, she backward by his hand withdrew The son of Capaneus, who to the ground Leap'd instant; she, impatient to his place995 Ascending, sat beside brave Diomede.

From The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by Cowper, William