This at least I can do to gratify you and force you to praise me; and thus shall I prove that the love of you left me but with life. […] So saying he lifted a huge stone and threw it with all his force at the serpent. […] “I have people enough,” said Æacus, “to protect myself and spare you such a force as you need.” […] Among them you may recruit your forces. […] Capaneus, the husband of Evadne, in the ardor of the fight declared that he would force his way into the city in spite of Jove himself.