And then Euryalus struck Dresus down, And smote Opheltius, and went on to slay Aesepus and his brother Pedasus;⁠— A river-nymph, Abarbareia, bore Both children to Bucolion the renowned. Bucolion was the eldest of the sons Of great Laomedon. His mother reared The boy in secret. While he fed his sheep, He with the river-nymph was joined in love And marriage, and she bore him twins; and these, Brave and of shapely limb, Mecisteus’ son Struck down, and from their shoulders tore the mail. The warlike Polypoetes overthrew Astyalus; Ulysses smote to earth Pidytes the Percosian with the spear, And Teucer Aretaon, nobly born. The glittering javelin of Antilochus, The son of Nestor, laid Ablerus low; And Agamemnon, king of men, struck down Elatus, who on lofty Pedasus Dwelt, by the smoothly flowing Satnio’s stream. Brave Leitus slew Phylacus in flight, And by Eurypylus Melanthius fell. Then valiant Menelaus took alive

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