“The ablest horseman brings his steeds the last, But let us, as is just, confer on him The second prize; Tydides takes the first.”

He spake, and all approved his words; and now The mare, to please the Greeks, had been bestowed Upon Eumelus, if Antilochus, Son of magnanimous Nestor, had not risen To plead for justice with Achilles thus:⁠—