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whiter and whiter—even so did the Achæans whiten of Saturn has spread upon the mountain tops when in the dust which the horses’ hoofs raised to the there is no air and fierce Boreas sleeps with the other firmament of heaven, as their drivers turned them boisterous winds whose shrill blasts scatter the back to battle, and they bore down with might upon clouds in all directions—even so did the Danaans the foe. Fierce Mars, to help the Trojans, covered stand firm and unflinching against the Trojans. The them in a veil of darkness, and went about every-son of Atreus went about among them and exhorted where among them, inasmuch as Phoebus Apollo them. “My friends,” said he, “quit yourselves like had told him that when he saw Pallas, Minerva leave brave men, and shun dishonour in one another’s the fray he was to put courage into the hearts of eyes amid the stress of battle. They that shun the Trojans—for it was she who was helping the dishonour more often live than get killed, but they Danaans. Then Apollo sent Æneas forth from his that fly save neither life nor name.” rich sanctuary, and filled his heart with valour, As he spoke he hurled his spear and hit one of whereon he took his place among his comrades, who those who were in the front rank, the comrade of were overjoyed at seeing him alive, sound, and of a Æneas, Deicoon son of Pergasus, whom the Trojans good courage; but they could not ask him how it held in no less honour than the sons of Priam, for had all happened, for they were too busy with the he was ever quick to place himself among the fore-turmoil raised by Mars and by Strife, who raged most. The spear of King Agamemnon struck his insatiably in their midst.
shield and went right through it, for the shield The two Ajaxes, Ulysses and Diomed, cheered the stayed it not. It drove through his belt into the lower Danaans on, fearless of the fury and onset of the part of his belly, and his armour rang rattling round Trojans. They stood as still as clouds which the son him as he fell heavily to the ground.
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Then Æneas killed two champions of the but Antilochus the son of Nestor saw him and Danaans, Crethon and Orsilochus. Their father was sprang forward, fearing that the king might come a rich man who lived in the strong city of Phere and to harm and thus bring all their labour to nothing; was descended from the river Alpheus, whose broad when, therefore Æneas and Menelaus were setting stream flows through the land of the Pylians. The their hands and spears against one another eager to river begat Orsilochus, who ruled over much people do battle, Antilochus placed himself by the side of and was father to Diocles, who in his turn begat Menelaus. Æneas, bold though he was, drew back twin sons, Crethon and Orsilochus, well skilled in on seeing the two heroes side by side in front of all the arts of war. These, when they grew up, went him, so they drew the bodies of Crethon and to Ilius with the Argive fleet in the cause of Menelaus Orsilochus to the ranks of the Achæans and com-and Agamemnon sons of Atreus, and there they both mitted the two poor fellows into the hands of their of them fell. As two lions whom their dam has reared comrades. They then turned back and fought in in the depths of some mountain forest to plunder the front ranks.
homesteads and carry off sheep and cattle till they They killed Pylæmenes peer of Mars, leader of get killed by the hand of man, so were these two the Paphlagonian warriors. Menelaus struck him on vanquished by Æneas, and fell like high pine-trees the collar-bone as he was standing on his chariot, to the ground.
while Antilochus hit his charioteer and squire Brave Menelaus pitied them in their fall, and made Mydon, the son of Atymnius, who was turning his his way to the front, clad in gleaming bronze and horses in flight. He hit him with a stone upon the brandishing his spear, for Mars egged him on to do elbow, and the reins, enriched with white ivory, fell so with intent that he should be killed by Æneas; from his hands into the dust. Antilochus rushed 77
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towards him and struck him on the temples with god is ever by his side to protect him, and now Mars his sword, whereon he fell head first from the chariot is with him in the likeness of mortal man. Keep to the ground. There he stood for a while with his your faces therefore towards the Trojans, but give head and shoulders buried deep in the dust—for he ground backwards, for we dare not fight with gods.” had fallen on sandy soil till his horses kicked him As he spoke the Trojans drew close up, and Hec-and laid him flat on the ground, as Antilochus lashed tor killed two men, both in one chariot, Menesthes them and drove them off to the host of the Achæans.
and Anchialus, heroes well versed in war. Ajax son But Hector marked them from across the ranks, of Telamon pitied them in their fall; he came close and with a loud cry rushed towards them, followed up and hurled his spear, hitting Amphius the son of by the strong battalions of the Trojans. Mars and Selagus, a man of great wealth who lived in Pæsus dread Enyo led them on, she fraught with ruthless and owned much corn-growing land, but his lot had turmoil of battle, while Mars wielded a monstrous led him to come to the aid of Priam and his sons.
spear, and went about, now in front of Hector and Ajax struck him in the belt; the spear pierced the now behind him.
lower part of his belly, and he fell heavily to the Diomed shook with passion as he saw them. As a ground. Then Ajax ran towards him to strip him of man crossing a wide plain is dismayed to find him-his armour, but the Trojans rained spears upon him, self on the brink of some great river rolling swiftly many of which fell upon his shield. He planted his to the sea—he sees its boiling waters and starts back heel upon the body and drew out his spear, but the in fear—even so did the son of Tydeus give ground.
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about him with their spears, so that he dared not gates of Hades vanquished by my hand.” stay; great, brave and valiant though he was, they And Sarpedon, captain of the Lycians, answered, drove him from them and he was beaten back.
“Tlepolemus, your father overthrew Ilius by reason Thus, then, did the battle rage between them.
of Laomedon’s folly in refusing payment to one who Presently the strong hand of fate impelled had served him well. He would not give your father Tlepolemus, the son of Hercules, a man both brave the horses which he had come so far to fetch. As for and of great stature, to fight Sarpedon; so the two, yourself, you shall meet death by my spear. You son and grandson of great Jove, drew near to one shall yield glory to myself, and your soul to Hades another, and Tlepolemus spoke first. “Sarpedon,” of the noble steeds.”
said he, “councillor of the Lycians, why should you Thus spoke Sarpedon, and Tlepolemus upraised come skulking here you who are a man of peace?
his spear. They threw at the same moment, and They lie who call you son of ægis-bearing Jove, for Sarpedon struck his foe in the middle of his throat; you are little like those who were of old his chil-the spear went right through, and the darkness of dren. Far other was Hercules, my own brave and death fell upon his eyes. Tlepolemus’s spear struck lion-hearted father, who came here for the horses Sarpedon on the left thigh with such force that it of Laomedon, and though he had six ships only, tore through the flesh and grazed the bone, but his and few men to follow him, sacked the city of Ilius father as yet warded off destruction from him.
and made a wilderness of her highways. You are a His comrades bore Sarpedon out of the fight, in coward, and your people are falling from you. For great pain by the weight of the spear that was drag-all your strength, and all your coming from Lycia, ging from his wound. They were in such haste and you will be no help to the Trojans but will pass the stress as they bore him that no one thought of draw-79
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ing the spear from his thigh so as to let him walk among them. His comrades then bore Sarpedon uprightly. Meanwhile the Achæans carried off the away and laid him beneath Jove’s spreading oak body of Tlepolemus, whereon Ulysses was moved tree. Pelagon, his friend and comrade drew the spear to pity, and panted for the fray as he beheld them.
out of his thigh, but Sarpedon fainted and a mist He doubted whether to pursue the son of Jove, or came over his eyes. Presently he came to himself to make slaughter of the Lycian rank and file; it again, for the breath of the north wind as it played was not decreed, however, that he should slay the upon him gave him new life, and brought him out son of Jove; Minerva, therefore, turned him against of the deep swoon into which he had fallen.
the main body of the Lycians. He killed Coeranus, Meanwhile the Argives were neither driven towards Alastor, Chromius, Alcandrus, Halius, Noemon, and their ships by Mars and Hector, nor yet did they at-Prytanis, and would have slain yet more, had not tack them; when they knew that Mars was with the great Hector marked him, and sped to the front of Trojans they retreated, but kept their faces still turned the fight clad in his suit of mail, filling the Danaans towards the foe. Who, then, was first and who last to with terror. Sarpedon was glad when he saw him be slain by Mars and Hector? They were valiant coming, and besought him, saying, “Son of Priam, Teuthras, and Orestes the renowned charioteer, Trechus let me not he here to fall into the hands of the the Ætolian warrior, Oenomaus, Helenus the son of Danaans. Help me, and since I may not return home Oenops, and Oresbius of the gleaming girdle, who was to gladden the hearts of my wife and of my infant possessed of great wealth, and dwelt by the Cephisian son, let me die within the walls of your city.” lake with the other Boeotians who lived near him, Hector made him no answer, but rushed onward owners of a fertile country.
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falling, she said to Minerva, “Alas, daughter of ægis-Meanwhile Minerva flung her richly embroidered bearing Jove, unweariable, the promise we made vesture, made with her own hands, on to her father’s Menelaus that he should not return till he had sacked threshold, and donned the shirt of Jove, arming the city of Ilius will be of none effect if we let Mars herself for battle. She threw her tasselled ægis about.
rage thus furiously. Let us go into the fray at once.” her shoulders, wreathed round with Rout as with a Minerva did not gainsay her. Thereon the august fringe, and on it were Strife, and Strength, and Panic goddess, daughter of great Saturn, began to harness whose blood runs cold; moreover there was the head her gold-bedizened steeds. Hebe with all speed fit-of the dread monster Gorgon,, grim and awful to ted on the eight-spoked wheels of bronze that were behold, portent of ægis-bearing Jove. On her head on either side of the iron axle-tree. The felloes of the she set her helmet of gold, with four plumes, and wheels were of gold, imperishable, and over these coming to a peak both in front and behind—decked there was a tire of bronze, wondrous to behold. The with the emblems of a hundred cities; then she naves of the wheels were silver, turning round the stepped into her flaming chariot and grasped the axle upon either side. The car itself was made with spear, so stout and sturdy and strong, with which plaited bands of gold and silver, and it had a double she quells the ranks of heroes who have displeased top-rail running all round it. From the body of the her. Juno lashed the horses on, and the gates of car there went a pole of silver, on to the end of which heaven bellowed as they flew open of their own she bound the golden yoke, with the bands of gold accord -gates over which the flours preside, in whose that were to go under the necks of the horses Then hands are Heaven and Olympus, either to open the Juno put her steeds under the yoke, eager for battle dense cloud that hides them, or to close it. Through and the war-cry.
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found the son of Saturn sitting all alone on the top-place where its two flowing streams Simois and most ridges of Olympus. There Juno stayed her Scamander meet, there Juno stayed them and took horses, and spoke to Jove the son of Saturn, lord of them from the chariot. She hid them in a thick all. “Father Jove,” said she, “are you not angry with cloud, and Simois made ambrosia spring up for them Mars for these high doings? how great and goodly a to eat; the two goddesses then went on, flying like host of the Achæans he has destroyed to my great turtledoves in their eagerness to help the Argives.
grief, and without either right or reason, while the When they came to the part where the bravest and Cyprian and Apollo are enjoying it all at their ease most in number were gathered about mighty and setting this unrighteous madman on to do fur-Diomed, fighting like lions or wild boars of great ther mischief. I hope, Father Jove, that you will not strength and endurance, there Juno stood still and be angry if I hit Mars hard, and chase him out of raised a shout like that of brazen-voiced Stentor, the battle.”
whose cry was as loud as that of fifty men together.
And Jove answered, “Set Minerva on to him, for
“Argives,” she cried; “shame on cowardly creatures, she punishes him more often than any one else brave in semblance only; as long as Achilles was does.”
fighting, fi his spear was so deadly that the Trojans Juno did as he had said. She lashed her horses, dared not show themselves outside the Dardanian and they flew forward nothing loth midway betwixt gates, but now they sally far from the city and fight earth and sky. As far as a man can see when he even at your ships.”
looks out upon the sea from some high beacon, so With these words she put heart and soul into them far can the loud-neighing horses of the gods spring all, while Minerva sprang to the side of the son of at a single bound. When they reached Troy and the Tydeus, whom she found near his chariot and horses, 82
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cooling the wound that Pandarus had given him.
ter of ægis-bearing Jove, and will hide nothing from For the sweat caused by the hand that bore the you. I am not afraid nor out of heart, nor is there weight of his shield irritated the hurt: his arm was any slackness in me. I am only following your own weary with pain, and he was lifting up the strap to instructions; you told me not to fight any of the wipe away the blood. The goddess laid her hand on blessed gods; but if Jove’s daughter Venus came into the yoke of his horses and said, “The son of Tydeus battle I was to wound her with my spear. Therefore is not such another as his father. Tydeus was a little I am retreating, and bidding the other Argives gather man, but he could fight, and rushed madly into the in this place, for I know that Mars is now lording it fray even when I told him not to do so. When he in the field.”
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“Diomed, son of Tydeus,” replied Minerva, “man among the Cadmeans, I bade him feast in their after my own heart, fear neither Mars nor any other houses and be at peace; but with that high spirit of the immortals, for I will befriend you. Nay, drive which was ever present with him, he challenged the straight at Mars, and smite him in close combat; youth of the Cadmeans, and at once beat them in fear not this raging madman, villain incarnate, first all that he attempted, so mightily did I help him. I on one side and then on the other. But now he was stand by you too to protect you, and I bid you be holding talk with Juno and myself, saying he would instant in fighting the Trojans; but either you are help the Argives and attack the Trojans; neverthe-tired out, or you are afraid and out of heart, and in less he is with the Trojans, and has forgotten the that case I say that you are no true son of Tydeus Argives.”
the son of Oeneus.”
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he was on the ground, whereupon the goddess in the thick of a fight, and the Achæans and Tro-mounted the car and placed herself by the side of jans were struck with panic, so terrible was the cry Diomed. The oaken axle groaned aloud under the he raised.
burden of the awful goddess and the hero; Pallas As a dark cloud in the sky when it comes on to Minerva took the whip and reins, and drove straight blow after heat, even so did Diomed son of Tydeus at Mars. He was in the act of stripping huge see Mars ascend into the broad heavens. With all Periphas, son of Ochesius and bravest of the speed he reached high Olympus, home of the gods, Ætolians. Bloody Mars was stripping him of his and in great pain sat down beside Jove the son of armour, and Minerva donned the helmet of Hades, Saturn. He showed Jove the immortal blood that that he might not see her; when, therefore, he saw was flowing from his wound, and spoke piteously, Diomed, he made straight for him and let Periphas saying, “Father Jove, are you not angered by such lie where he had fallen. As soon as they were at doings? We gods are continually suffering in the close quarters he let fly with his bronze spear over most cruel manner at one another’s hands while the reins and yoke, thinking to take Diomed’s life, helping mortals; and we all owe you a grudge for but Minerva caught the spear in her hand and made having begotten that mad termagant of a daughter, it fly harmlessly over the chariot. Diomed then who is always committing outrage of some kind.
threw, and Pallas Minerva drove the spear into the We other gods must all do as you bid us, but her pit of Mars’s stomach where his under-girdle went you neither scold nor punish; you encourage her round him. There Diomed wounded him, tearing because the pestilent creature is your daughter. See his fair flesh and then drawing his spear out again.
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the Cyprian and wounded her in the hand near her the fig-tree curdles milk, and thickens it in a mo-wrist, and then he sprang upon me too as though ment though it is liquid, even so instantly did Pæeon he were a god. Had I not run for it I must either cure fierce Mars. Then Hebe washed him, and have lain there for long enough in torments among clothed him in goodly raiment, and he took his seat the ghastly corpes, or have been eaten alive with by his father Jove all glorious to behold.
spears till I had no more strength left in me.” But Juno of Argos and Minerva of Alalcomene, Jove looked angrily at him and said, “Do not come now that they had put a stop to the murderous do-whining here, Sir Facing-bothways. I hate you worst ings of Mars, went back again to the house of Jove.
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stubborn spirit of your mother Juno: it is all I can do to manage her, and it is her doing that you are THE FIGHT BETWEEN Trojans and Achæans was now now in this plight: still, I cannot let you remain left to rage as it would, and the tide of war surged longer in such great pain; you are my own off-spring, hither and thither over the plain as they aimed their and it was by me that your mother conceived you; bronze-shod spears at one another between the if, however, you had been the son of any other god, streams of Simois and Xanthus.
you are so destructive that by this time you should First, Ajax son of Telamon, tower of strength to have been lying lower than the Titans.” the Achæans, broke a phalanx of the Trojans, and He then bade Pæeon heal him, whereon Pæeon came to the assistance of his comrades by killing spread pain-killing herbs upon his wound and cured Acamas son of Eussorus, the best man among the him, for he was not of mortal mould. As the juice of Thracians, being both brave and of great stature.
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The spear struck the projecting peak of his helmet: spear of Nestor’s son Antilochus, and Agamemnon, its bronze point then went through his forehead king of men, killed Elatus who dwelt in Pedasus by into the brain, and darkness veiled his eyes.
the banks of the river Satnioeis. Leitus killed Then Diomed killed Axylus son of Teuthranus, a Phylacus as he was flying, and Eurypylus slew rich man who lived in the strong city of Arisbe, and Melanthus.
was beloved by all men; for he had a house by the Then Menelaus of the loud war-cry took Adrestus roadside, and entertained every one who passed; alive, for his horses ran into a tamarisk bush, as howbeit not one of his guests stood before him to they were flying wildly over the plain, and broke save his life, and Diomed killed both him and his the pole from the car; they went on towards the squire Calesius, who was then his charioteer—so city along with the others in full flight, but Adrestus the pair passed beneath the earth.
rolled out, and fell in the dust flat on his face by Euryalus killed Dresus and Opheltius, and then the wheel of his chariot; Menelaus came up to him went in pursuit of Æsepus and Pedasus, whom the spear in hand, but Adrestus caught him by the knees naiad nymph Abarbarea had borne to noble begging for his life. “Take me alive,” he cried, “son Bucolion. Bucolion was eldest son to Laomedon, of Atreus, and you shall have a full ransom for me: but he was a bastard. While tending his sheep he my father is rich and has much treasure of gold, had converse with the nymph, and she conceived bronze, and wrought iron laid by in his house. From twin sons; these the son of Mecisteus now slew, and this store he will give you a large ransom should he he stripped the armour from their shoulders.
hear of my being alive and at the ships of the Polypoetes then killed Astyalus, Ulysses Pidytes of Achæans.”
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ing and giving him to a squire to take to the ships With these words he put heart and soul into them of the Achæans, but Agamemnon came running up all. And now the Trojans would have been routed to him and rebuked him. “My good Menelaus,” said and driven back into Ilius, had not Priam’s son he, “this is no time for giving quarter. Has, then, Helenus, wisest of augurs, said to Hector and Æneas, your house fared so well at the hands of the Tro-
“Hector and Æneas, you two are the mainstays of jans? Let us not spare a single one of them—not the Trojans and Lycians, for you are foremost at all even the child unborn and in its mother’s womb; times, alike in fight and counsel; hold your ground let not a man of them be left alive, but let all in here, and go about among the host to rally them in Ilius perish, unheeded and forgotten.” front of the gates, or they will fling themselves into Thus did he speak, and his brother was persuaded the arms of their wives, to the great joy of our foes.
by him, for his words were just. Menelaus, there-Then, when you have put heart into all our compa-fore, thrust Adrestus from him, whereon King nies, we will stand firm here and fight the Danaans Agamemnon struck him in the flank, and he fell: however hard they press us, for there is nothing else then the son of Atreus planted his foot upon his to be done. Meanwhile do you, Hector, go to the breast to draw his spear from the body.
city and tell our mother what is happening. Tell her Meanwhile Nestor shouted to the Argives, say-to bid the matrons gather at the temple of Minerva ing, “My friends, Danaan warriors, servants of Mars, in the acropolis; let her then take her key and open let no man lag that he may spoil the dead, and bring the doors of the sacred building; there, upon the back much booty to the ships. Let us kill as many knees of Minerva, let her lay the largest, fairest robe as we can; the bodies will lie upon the plain, and she has in her house—the one she sets most store you can despoil them later at your leisure.” by; let her, moreover, promise to sacrifice twelve 87
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yearling heifers that have never yet felt the goad, in and tell the old men of our council and our wives the temple of the goddess, if she will take pity on to pray to the gods and vow hecatombs in their the town, with the wives and little ones of the Tro-honour.”
jans, and keep the son of Tydeus from falling on With this he went his way, and the black rim of the goodly city of Ilius; for he fights with fury and hide that went round his shield beat against his neck fills men’s souls with panic. I hold him mightiest of and his ancles.
them all; we did not fear even their great champion Then Glaucus son of Hippolochus, and the son Achilles, son of a goddess though he be, as we do of Tydeus went into the open space between the this man: his rage is beyond all bounds, and there hosts to fight in single combat. When they were is none can vie with him in prowess” close up to one another Diomed of the loud war-Hector did as his brother bade him. He sprang cry was the first to speak. “Who, my good sir,” said from his chariot, and went about everywhere among he, “who are you among men? I have never seen the host, brandishing his spears, urging the men on you in battle until now, but you are daring beyond to fight, and raising the dread cry of battle. Thereon all others if you abide my onset. Woe to those fa-they rallied and again faced the Achæans, who gave thers whose sons face my might. If, however, you ground and ceased their murderous onset, for they are one of the immortals and have come down from deemed that some one of the immortals had come heaven, I will not fight you; for even valiant down from starry heaven to help the Trojans, so Lycurgus, son of Dryas, did not live long when he strangely had they rallied. And Hector shouted to took to fighting with the gods. He it was that drove the Trojans, “Trojans and allies, be men, my friends, the nursing women who were in charge of frenzied and fight with might and main, while I go to Ilius Bacchus through the land of Nysa, and they flung 88
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their thyrsi on the ground as murderous Lycurgus Sisyphus lived, who was the craftiest of all man-beat them with his oxgoad. Bacchus himself plunged kind. He was the son of Æolus, and had a son named terror-stricken into the sea, and Thetis took him to Glaucus, who was father to Bellerophon, whom her bosom to comfort him, for he was scared by the heaven endowed with the most surpassing comeli-fury with which the man reviled him. Thereon the ness and beauty. But Proetus devised his ruin, and gods who live at ease were angry with Lycurgus and being stronger than he, drove him from the land of the son of Saturn struck him blind, nor did he live the Argives, over which Jove had made him ruler.
much longer after he had become hateful to the For Antea, wife of Proetus, lusted after him, and immortals. Therefore I will not fight with the blessed would have had him lie with her in secret; but gods; but if you are of them that eat the fruit of the Bellerophon was an honourable man and would not, ground, draw near and meet your doom.” so she told lies about him to Proteus. ‘Proetus,’ said And the son of Hippolochus answered, son of she, ‘kill Bellerophon or die, for he would have had Tydeus, why ask me of my lineage? Men come and converse with me against my will.’ The king was go as leaves year by year upon the trees. Those of angered, but shrank from killing Bellerophon, so autumn the wind sheds upon the ground, but when he sent him to Lycia with lying letters of introduc-spring returns the forest buds forth with fresh vines.
tion, written on a folded tablet, and containing Even so is it with the generations of mankind, the much ill against the bearer. He bade Bellerophon new spring up as the old are passing away. If, then, show these letters to his father-in-law, to the end you would learn my descent, it is one that is well that he might thus perish; Bellerophon therefore known to many. There is a city in the heart of Argos, went to Lycia, and the gods convoyed him safely.
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Lycia, the king received him with all goodwill, so he kept him in Lycia, gave him his daughter in feasted him nine days, and killed nine heifers in his marriage, and made him of equal honour in the king-honour, but when rosy-fingered morning appeared dom with himself; and the Lycians gave him a piece upon the tenth day, he questioned him and desired of land, the best in all the country, fair with vine-to see the letter from his son-in-law Proetus. When yards and tilled fields, to have and to hold.
he had received the wicked letter he first com-
“The king’s daughter bore Bellerophon three chil-manded Bellerophon to kill that savage monster, dren, Isander, Hippolochus, and Laodameia. Jove, the Chimæra, who was not a human being, but a the lord of counsel, lay with Laodameia, and she goddess, for she had the head of a lion and the tail bore him noble Sarpedon; but when Bellerophon of a serpent, while her body was that of a goat, and came to be hated by all the gods, he wandered all she breathed forth flames of fire; but Bellerophon desolate and dismayed upon the Alean plain, gnaw-slew her, for he was guided by signs from heaven.
ing at his own heart, and shunning the path of man.