Meantime was Neptune moved with grief to see His grandson perish in that desperate fray, And passed among the Achaian tents and ships Encouraging the men, and planning woes For Ilium. There he met Idomeneus, Expert to wield the spear, as he returned From caring for a comrade who had left The battle, wounded in the knee, and whom His friends had carried in. Idomeneus Had called the surgeons to his aid, and now Was hastening to the field, intent to bear His part in battle. Him the 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.