Xenus Was Chieftain O'Er The Rest, Son Of Agasthenes, Augeias' Son. Dulichium, And Her Sister Sacred Isles The Echinades, Whose Opposite Aspect Looks Toward Elis O'Er The Curling Waves, Sent Forth Their Powers With Meges At Their Head, Brave Son Of Phyleus, Warrior Dear To Jove. Phyleus In Wrath, His Father'S House Renounced, And To Dulichium Wandering, There Abode. Twice Twenty Ships Had Follow'D Meges Forth. Ulysses Led The Cephallenians Bold. From Ithaca, And From The Lofty Woods Of Neritus They Came, And From The Rocks Of Rude ?Gilipa. Crocylia These, And These Zacynthus Own'D; Nor Yet A Few From Samos, From Epirus Join'D Their Aid, And From The Opposite Ionian Shore. Them, Wise As Jove Himself, Ulysses Led In Twelve Fair Ships, With Crimson Prows Adorn'D. From Forty Ships, Thoas, Andr?Mon'S Son, Had Landed His ?Tolians; For Extinct Was Meleager, And Extinct The House Of Oeneus All, Nor Oeneus Self Survived; To Thoas Therefore Had ?Tolia Fallen; Him Olenos, Pylene, Chalcis Served, With Pleuro, And The Rock-Bound Calydon. Idomeneus, Spear-Practised Warrior, Led The Numerous Cretans. In Twice Forty Ships He Brought His Powers To Troy. The Warlike Bands Of Cnossus, Of Gortyna Wall'D Around, Of Lyctus, Of Lycastus Chalky-White, Of Ph?Stus, Of Miletus, With The Youth Of Rhytius Him Obey'D; Nor These Were All, But Others From Her Hundred Cities Crete Sent Forth, All Whom Idomeneus The Brave Commanded, With Meriones In Arms Dread As The God Of Battles Blood-Imbrued. Nine Ships Tlepolemus, Herculean-Born, For Courage Famed And For Superior Size, Fill'D With His Haughty Rhodians. They, In Tribes Divided, Dwelt Distinct. Jelyssus These, Those Lindus, And The Rest The Shining Soil Of White Camirus Occupied. Him Bore To Hercules, (What Time He Led The Nymph From Ephyre, And From Sellea'S Banks, After Full Many A City Laid In Dust.) Astyocheia. In His Father'S House Magnificent, Tlepolemus Spear-Famed Had Scarce Up-Grown To Manhood'S Lusty Prime When He His Father'S Hoary Uncle Slew Lycimnius, Branch Of Mars. Then Built He Ships, And, Pushing Forth To Sea, Fled From The Threats Of The Whole House Of Hercules. Huge Toil And Many Woes He Suffer'D, Till At Length At Rhodes Arriving, In Three Separate Bands He Spread Himself Abroad, Much Was He Loved Of All-Commanding Jove, Who Bless'D Him There, And Shower'D Abundant Riches On Them All. Nireus Of Syma, With Three Vessels Came; Nireus, Agl?A'S Offspring, Whom She Bore To Charopus The King; Nireus In Form, (The Faultless Son Of Peleus Sole Except,) Loveliest Of All The Grecians Call'D To Troy. But He Was Heartless And His Men Were Few.[26] Nisyrus, Casus, Crapathus, And Cos Where Reign'D Eurypylus, With All The Isles Calydn? Named, Under Two Valiant Chiefs Their Troops Disposed; Phidippus One, And One, His Brother Antiphus, Begotten Both By Thessalus, Whom Hercules Begat. In Thirty Ships They Sought The Shores Of Troy. The Warriors Of Pelasgian Argos Next, Of Alus, And Alope, And Who Held Trechina, Phthia, And For Women Fair Distinguish'D, Hellas; Known By Various Names Hellenes, Myrmidons, Ach?Ans, Them In Fifty Ships Embark'D, Achilles Ruled. But These Were Deaf To The Hoarse-Throated War, For There Was None To Draw Their Battle Forth, And Give Them Just Array. Close In His Ships Achilles, After Loss Of The Bright-Hair'D Bris?Is, Lay, Resentful; Her Obtained Not Without Labor Hard, And After Sack Of Thebes And Of Lyrnessus, Where He Slew Two Mighty Chiefs, Sons Of Evenus Both, Epistrophus And Mynes, Her He Mourn'D, And For Her Sake Self-Prison'D In His Fleet And Idle Lay, Though Soon To Rise Again. From Phylace, And From The Flowery Fields Of Pyrrhasus, A Land To Ceres Given By Consecration, And From Iton Green, Mother Of Flocks; From Antron By The Sea, And From The Grassy Meads Of Pteleus, Came A People, Whom While Yet He Lived, The Brave Protesila?S Led; But Him The Earth Now Cover'D Dark And Drear. A Wife He Left, To Rend In Phylace Her Bleeding Cheeks, And An Unfinish'D Mansion. First He Died Of All The Greeks; For As He Leap'D To Land Foremost By Far, A Dardan Struck Him Dead. Nor Had His Troops, Though Filled With Deep Regret, No Leader; Them Podarces Led, A Chief Like Mars In Battle, Brother Of The Slain, But Younger Born, And From Iphiclus Sprung Who Sprang From Phylacus The Rich In Flocks. But Him Protesila?S, As In Years, So Also In Desert Of Arms Excell'D Heroic, Whom His Host, Although They Saw Podarces At Their Head, Still Justly Mourn'D; For He Was Fierce In Battle, And At Troy With Forty Sable-Sided Ships Arrived. Eleven Galleys, Pher? On The Lake, And Boebe, And I?Lchus, And The Vale Of Glaphyr? Supplied With Crews Robust Under Eumelus; Him Alcestis, Praised For Beauty Above All Her Sisters Fair, In Thessaly To King Admetus Bore. Methone, And Olizon'S Craggy Coast, With Meliboea And Thaumasia Sent Seven Ships; Their Rowers Were Good Archers All, And Every Vessel Dipped Into The Wave Her Fifty Oars. Them Philoctetes, Skill'D To Draw With Sinewy Arm The Stubborn Bow, Commanded; But He Suffering Anguish Keen Inflicted By A Serpent'S Venom'D Tooth, Lay Sick In Lemnos; Him The Grecians There Had Left Sore-Wounded, But Were Destined Soon To Call To Dear Remembrance Whom They Left. Meantime, Though Sorrowing For His Sake, His Troops Yet Wanted Not A Chief; Them Medon Ruled, Whom Rhena To The Far-Famed Conqueror Bore O?Leus, Fruit Of Their Unsanction'D Loves. From Tricca, From Ithome Rough And Rude With Rocks And Glens, And From Oechalia, Town Of Eurytus Oechalian-Born, Came Forth Their Warlike Youth By Podalirius Led And By Machaon, Healers Both Expert Of All Disease, And Thirty Ships Were Theirs. The Men Of Ormenus, And From Beside The Fountain Hypereia, From The Tops Of Chalky Titan, And Asteria'S Band; Them Ruled Eurypylus, Ev?Mon'S Son Illustrious, Whom Twice Twenty Ships Obeyed. Orthe, Gyrtone, Olo?Sson White, Argissa And Helone; They Their Youth Gave To Control Of Polypoetes, Son Undaunted Of Piritho?S, Son Of Jove. Him, To Piritho?S, (On The Self-Same Day When He The Centaurs Punish'D And Pursued Sheer To ?Thic? Driven From Pelion'S Heights The Shaggy Race) Hippodamia Bore. Nor He Alone Them Led. With Him Was Join'D Leonteus Dauntless Warrior, From The Bold Coronus Sprung, Who C?Neus Call'D His Sire. Twice Twenty Ships Awaited Their Command. Guneus From Cyphus Twenty And Two Ships Led Forth; The Enienes Him Obey'D, And The Robust Peroebi, Warriors Bold, And Dwellers On Dodona'S Wintry Brow. To These Were Join'D Who Till The Pleasant Fields Where Titaresius Winds; The Gentle Flood Pours Into Peneus All His Limpid Stores, But With The Silver-Eddied Peneus Flows Unmixt As Oil;[27] For Stygian Is His Stream, And Styx Is The Inviolable Oath. Last With His Forty Ships, Tenthredon'S Son, The Active Protho?S Came. From The Green Banks Of Peneus His Magnesians Far And Near He Gather'D, And From Pelion Forest-Crown'D. These Were The Princes And The Chiefs Of Greece. Say, Muse, Who Most In Personal Desert Excell'D, And Whose Were The Most Warlike Steeds And Of The Noblest Strain. Their Hue, Their Age, Their Height The Same, Swift As The Winds Of Heaven And Passing Far All Others, Were The Mares Which Drew Eumelus; On Pierian Hills The Heavenly Archer Of The Silver Bow, Apollo, Bred Them. But Of Men, The Chief Was Telamonian Ajax, While Wrath-Bound Achilles Lay; For He Was Worthier Far, And More Illustrious Were The Steeds Which Bore The Noble Son Of Peleus; But Revenge On Agamemnon Leader Of The Host Was All His Thought, While In His Gallant Ships Sharp-Keel'D To Cut The Foaming Flood, He Lay. Meantime, Along The Margin Of The Deep His Soldiers Hurled The Disk, Or Bent The Bow. Or To Its Mark Dispatch'D The Quivering Lance. Beside The Chariots Stood The Unharness'D Steeds Cropping The Lotus, Or At Leisure Browsed On Celery Wild, From Watery Freshes Gleaned. Beneath The Shadow Of The Sheltering Tent The Chariot Stood, While They, The Charioteers Roam'D Here And There The Camp, Their Warlike Lord Regretting Sad, And Idle For His Sake. As If A Fire Had Burnt Along The Ground, Such Seem'D Their March; Earth Groan'D Their Steps Beneath; As When In Arimi, Where Fame Reports Typho?Us Stretch'D, The Fires Of Angry Jove Down Darted, Lash The Ground, So Groan'D The Earth Beneath Them, For They Traversed Swift The Plain. And Now From Jove, With Heavy Tidings Charged, Wind-Footed Iris To The Trojans Came. It Was The Time Of Council, When The Throng At Priam'S Gate Assembled, Young And Old: Them, Standing Nigh, The Messenger Of Heaven Accosted With The Voice Of Priam'S Son, Polites. He, Confiding In His Speed For Sure Deliverance, Posted Was Abroad On ?Syeta'S Tomb,[28] Intent To Watch When The Achaian Host Should Leave The Fleet. The Goddess In His Form Thus Them Address'D. Oh, Ancient Monarch! Ever, Evermore Speaking, Debating, As If All Were Peace; I Have Seen Many A Bright-Embattled Field, But Never One So Throng'D As This To-Day. For Like The Leaves, Or Like The Sands They Come Swept By The Winds, To Gird The City Round. But Hector! Chiefly Thee I Shall Exhort. In Priam'S Spacious City Are Allies Collected Numerous, And Of Nations Wide Disseminated Various Are The Tongues. Let Every Chief His Proper Troop Command, And Marshal His Own Citizens To War. She Ceased; Her Hector Heard Intelligent, And Quick Dissolved The Council. All Took Arms. Wide Flew The Gates; Forth Rush'D The Multitude, Horsemen And Foot, And Boisterous Stir Arose. In Front Of Ilium, Distant On The Plain, Clear All Around From All Obstruction, Stands An Eminence High-Raised, By Mortal Men Call'D Bateia, But The Gods The Tomb Have Named It Of Myrinna Swift In Fight. Troy And Her Aids There Set The Battle Forth. Huge Priameian Hector, Fierce In Arms, Led On The Trojans; With Whom March'D The Most And The Most Valiant, Dexterous At The Spear. ?Neas, (On The Hills Of Ida Him The Lovely Venus To Anchises Bore, A Goddess By A Mortal Man Embraced) Led The Dardanians; But Not He Alone; Archilochus With Him And Acamas Stood Forth, The Offspring Of Antenor, Each, And Well Instructed In All Forms Of War. Fast By The Foot Of Ida, Where They Drank The Limpid Waters Of ?Sepus, Dwelt The Trojans Of Zeleia. Rich Were They And Led By Pandarus, Lycaon'S Son, Whom Phoebus Self Graced With The Bow He Bore. Ap?Sus, Adrastea, Terie Steep, And Pitueia--Them, Amphius Clad In Mail Thick-Woven, And Adrastus, Ruled. They Were The Sons Of The Percosian Seer Merops, Expert In The Soothsayers' Art Above All Other; He His Sons Forbad The Bloody Fight, But Disobedient They Still Sought It, For Their Destiny Prevailed. The Warriors Of Percote, And Who Dwelt In Practius, In Arisba, City Fair, In Sestus, In Abydus, March'D Behind Princely Hyrtacides; His Tawny Steeds, Strong-Built And Tall, From Sellcentes' Bank And From Arisba, Had Him Borne To Troy. Hippothous And Pilmus, Branch Of Mars, Both Sons Of Lethus The Pelasgian, They, Forth From Larissa For Her Fertile Soil Far-Famed, The Spear-Expert Pelasgians Brought. The Thracians (All Whom Hellespont Includes Within The Banks Of His Swift-Racing Tide) Heroic Acamas And Pirous Led. Euphemus, Offspring Of Troezenus, Son Of Jove-Protected Ceas, Was The Chief Whom The Spear-Arm'D Ciconian Band Obey'D. P?Onia'S Archers Follow'D To The Field Pyr?Chmes; They From Amydon Remote Were Drawn, Where Axius Winds; Broad Axius, Stream Diffused Delightful Over All The Vale. Pyl?Menes, A Chief Of Giant Might From The Eneti For Forest-Mules Renowned March'D With His Paphlagonians; Dwellers They In Sesamus And In Cytorus Were, And By The Stream Parthenius; Cromna These Sent Forth, And Those ?Gialus On The Lip And Margin Of The Land, And Some, The Heights Of Erythini, Rugged And Abrupt. Epistrophus And Odius From The Land Of Alybe, A Region Far Remote, Where Veins Of Silver Wind, Led To The Field The Halizonians. With The Mysians Came Chromis Their Chief, And Ennomus; Him Skill'D In Augury, But Skill'D In Vain, His Art Saved Not, But By ?Acides[29] The Swift, With Others In The Xanthus[30] Slain, He Died. Ascanius, Lovely Youth, And Phorcis, Led The Phrygians From Ascania Far Remote, Ardent For Battle. The Moeonian Race, (All Those Who At The Foot Of Tmolus Dwelt,) Mesthles And Antiphus, Fraternal Pair, Sons Of Pyl?Menes Commanded, Both Of The Gyg?An Lake In Lydia Born. Amphimachus And Nastes Led To Fight The Carians, People Of A Barbarous Speech,[31] With The Milesians, And The Mountain-Race Of Wood-Crown'D Phthira, And Who Dwelt Beside M?Ander, Or On Mycale Sublime. Them Led Amphimachus And Nastes, Sons Renown'D Of Nomion. Like A Simple Girl Came Forth Amphimachus With Gold Bedight, But Him His Trappings From A Woful Death Saved Not, When Whirled Beneath The Bloody Tide To Peleus' Stormy Son His Spoils He Left. Sarpedon With The Noble Glaucus Led Their Warriors Forth From Farthest Lycia, Where Xanthus Deep-Dimpled Rolls His Oozy Tide.