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Book II

fields of Pheneus and possessed Orchomenus with all its flocks, or dwelt In Ripa and in Stratia, and the bleak Enispe, beaten with perpetual winds, And in Tegea, and the lovely land Of Mantinea, and in Stymphalus And in Parrhasia, came in sixty ships To Troy, with Agapenor for their chief, Son of Ancaeus. Every ship was thronged With warriors of Arcadia, for the king Of men, Atrides, gave them well-oared barques To cross the dark blue deep, since not to them Pertained the cares and labors of the sea.

Then from Buprasium and the sacred coast Of Elis, from Hyrmine and remote Myrsinus and the Olenian precipice, And from Alisium came, with chieftains four, The warriors, ten swift galleys following Each chieftain, crowded with Epean troops. And part obeyed Amphimacus, the son Of Cteatus, and part with Thalpius came, The son of Eurytus Actorides, And part with brave Diores, of the line Of Amarynceus. Last, Polyxenus, The godlike offspring of Agasthenes, Whose father was Augeias, led the rest.

They from Dulichium and the Echinades, Those holy isles

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