Then Guneus came, with two and twenty ships From Cythus. Under his command he held The Enienes, and that sturdy race, The Periboean warriors, and the men Who built on cold Dodona, or who tilled The fields where pleasant Titaresius flows And into Peneus pours his gentle stream, Yet with its silver eddies mingles not, But floats upon the current’s face like oil— A Stygian stream by which the immortals swear.
With Prothous, Tenthredon’s son, there came The warriors of Magnesia, who abode By Peneus, and by Pelion hung with woods; Swift-footed Prothous led these. They came With forty dark-hulled galleys to the war.
These were the chiefs and princes of the Greeks. Say, Muse, who most excelled among the kings, And which the noblest steeds, of all that came With the two sons of Atreus to the war? The noblest steeds were those in Pherae bred, That, guided by Eumelus, flew like birds— Alike in hue and age; the plummet showed Their height the same, and both were mares, and, reared By Phoebus of the silver bow among The meadows of Pieria, they became