But not for Mars nor Hector mailed in brass Fled the Achaians to their fleet; nor yet Advanced they on the foe, but step by step Gave way before him, for they had perceived The god of war was with the sons of Troy.

Whom first, whom last did Hector, Priam’s son, And iron Mars lay low? The godlike chief Teuthras, and⁠—great among the Grecian knights⁠— Orestes, and the Aetolian Trechus, famed As spearman, and Oenomaüs, and the son Of Oenops, Helemes, and after these Belted Oresbius, who in Hyla made His home, intent on gathering wealth beside The Lake Cephissus, on whose borders dwelt Boeotians many, lords of fertile lands.

The white-armed goddess Juno, when she saw The Argives falling in that cruel fray, Addressed Minerva with these wingèd words:⁠—