The Euboeans breathing valor, they who held Chalcis, Eretria, and the vineyard slopes Of Histiaea, and the lofty walls Of Dium and Cerinthus by the sea, And Styra, and Earystus; these obeyed Elphenor of the line of Mars, and son Of the large-souled Chalcodon ruler o’er The Abantes. Him with loosely flowing locks The Abantes followed, swift of foot and fierce In combat, and expert to break the mail Upon the enemies’ breasts with ashen spears; With forty dark-hulled barques they followed him.