Definitions for Capaneus

Capaneus Ca·pa·ne·us

Spelling: [kuh-pey-nee-uh s, kap-
IPA: /kəˈpeɪ ni əs, ˈkæp əˌnus, -ˌnyus/

Capaneus is a 8 letter English word.

You can make 267 anagrams from letters in Capaneus (aacenpsu).

Definitions for Capaneus

noun

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

Examples for Capaneus

But the son of Capaneus was not unmindful of the orders that Diomed had given him.

He even rebukes the son of Capaneus for answering Agamemnon haughtily.

But where is he who utters such dreadful insults against this city, Capaneus?

Haste, dear son of Capaneus, descend from thy chariot, that thou mayest draw from my shoulder the bitter shaft.

He ended, and his sovereign's awful voice Tydides reverencing, nought replied; But thus the son of glorious Capaneus.

On these terms this Capaneus of a poet engaged his two immortal predecessors, and his success was answerable to his enterprise.

But Capaneus has by lot obtained his station against the Electran gate.

And this agrees with the fate of Capaneus as described in Soph.

But Capaneus, not holding less notions than Mars on the approaching battle, drew up his division against the Electran gate.

Those guilty as against God, the blasphemers, lie prone like Capaneus (line 46), and are subject to the fiercest pain.

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