But they who dwelt in Argos, or within The strong-walled Tiryns, or Hermione And Asine with their deep, sheltering bays, Troezenè and Eïonae, and hills Of Epidaurus planted o’er with vines, And they who tilled Aeigina and the coast Of Mases⁠—Grecian warriors⁠—over these Brave Diomed bore sway, with Sthenelus, Beloved son of far-famed Campaneus, And, third in rule, Euryalus, who seemed Like to a god, Mecisteus’ royal son Who sprung from Talaus; yet the chief command Was given to Diomed, the great in war. A fleet of eighty galleys came with them.

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