Then they who dwelt within the hollow vale Of queenly Lacedsemon, they who held Phare and Sparta, Messa full of doves, Bryseiae, and Augeia’s rich domain, Amyclae and the town of Helos, built Close to the sea, and those who had their homes In Laäs and the fields of Oetylus; All these obeyed the brother of the king, The valiant Menelaus. Sixty ships They brought, but these he ranged apart from those Of Agamemnon. Through the ranks he went, And, trusting in his valor, quickened theirs For battle; for his heart within him burned To avenge the wrongs of Helen and her tears.