Then came the men who tilled the Pylean coast And sweet Arenè, Thrya at the fords Of Alpheus, and the stately palace homes Of Aepy, or in Cyparissus dwelt, Or in Amphigeneia, Pteleum, Helos and Dorium, where the Muses once Met, journeying from Oecalian Eurytus, The Thracian Thamyris, and took from him His power of voice. For he had made his boast To overcome in song the daughters nine Of Jove the Aegis-bearer. They in wrath Smote him with blindness, took the heavenly gift Of song away, and made his hand forget Its cunning with the harp. All those were led By Nestor, the Gerenian knight, who came To war on Troy with fourscore ships and ten.