THE TAKING OF ILIOS 



let no man put to shanie his fame, so that each may 

 win a recompense for chivalr}- worthy of his toils." 



So he spake, leading them in counsel. And first 

 godlike Neoptolemus followed his advising, even as 

 a colt hastening over the dewy plain, which glories 

 in his trappings of new harness and outruns both the 

 lash and the threat of his driver. And after Neo- 

 ptolemus rose up Diomedes, the son of Tydeus, 

 marvelling for that even such aforetime was Achilles." 

 Followed also Cyanippus, whom Comaetho, daughter 

 of a goodly sire, even Tydeus, in brief wedlock bare 

 to shield-bearing Aegialeus * whose doom was swift. 

 Rose, too, Menelaus ; he was driven by a fierce 

 impulse to strife with Deiphobus, and his stern heart 

 boiled with eagerness to find him who a second 

 time stole away his bride. After him rose Locrian 

 Aias, the swift son of Oileus, still prudent of mind 

 and not filled with lawless passion for women." 

 And he roused up another, even Idomeneus, the 

 grizzled king of the Cretans. And with these went 

 the son of Nestor, strong Thras\Tiiedes, and Teucer 

 went, the archer son of Telamon. After them rose 

 up the son of Admetus, even Eumelus of many 

 horses. And after him hasted the seer Calchas, 

 well knowing that accomplishing their difficult 

 labour the Achaeans should now at last ride down 

 the city of Troy. Nor remained behind, turning 

 from the fray, Eunj-pylus, son of Euaemon, and goodly 

 Leonteus, and Demophoon and Acamas, the two 

 sons of Theseus, and Anticlus, son of Ortyx — who 

 died there and the Achaeans wept for him and buried 



only one of the Epigoni who was killed at Thebes (Pind. 

 P. viii. 60 f. ; Paus. ix. 5. 7). 



• Aias assaulted Cassandra in the temple of Athena 

 (E.G.F., Kinkel, p. 49). See 11. 647 ff. 



2q 593 



