Ulysses led the Cephallenian men, Who dwelt in Ithaca, or whose abode Was leafy Neritus, and those who came From Crocyleia, and from Aegilips The craggy, and Zacynthus, and the isle Of Samos, and Epirus, and from all The bordering lands. O’er these Ulysses ruled, A chief like Jove in council, and with him There came twelve galleys with their scarlet prows.

Then with the Aetolians came Andraemon’s son Thoas, their leader. With him were the men Of Pleuron and Pylene, Olenus, And Chalcis on the sea-coast and the rocks Of Calydon; for now no more the sons Of large-souled Oeneus were alive on earth, Nor lived the chief himself, and in his tomb Was Meleager of the golden hair; And thus the Aetolian rule to Thoas came. A fleet of fourscore galleys followed him.