monarch god Of ocean thus addressed, but first he took The voice of Thoas, King Andraemon’s son, Whose father ruled the Aetolians through the bounds Of Pleuron, and in lofty Calydon, And like a god was honored in the land.
“O counsellor of Crete, Idomeneus! Where are the threats which late the sons of Greece Uttered against the Trojans?” Promptly came The Cretan leader’s answer: “No man here, O Thoas, seems blameworthy, for we all Are skilled in war, nor does unmanly fear Hold any back; nor from the difficult strife Does sloth detain one warrior. So it is Doubtless that it seems good to Saturn’s son, The All-disposer, that the Greeks, afar From Argos, should ingloriously fall And perish. Thoas, thou wert ever brave, And didst exhort the laggards. Cease not now To combat, cease not to exhort the rest.”
And Neptune, he who shakes the earth, rejoined:— “Idomeneus, whoever keeps aloof From battle, willingly, today, may he Never return from Troy, but be the prey Of dogs. Take thou thy arms and