Nireus with three good ships from Syma came, Nireus, Aglaia’s son by Charopus The monarch⁠—Nireus who in comeliness Surpassed all Greeks that came to Ilium, save The faultless son of Peleus. Yet was he Unwarlike and few people followed him.

The dwellers of Nisyrus, Crapathus, And Cos, the city of Eurypylus, Casus, and the Calydnian isles, obeyed Phidippus and his brother Antiphus, Sons of the monarch Thessalus, who sprang From Hercules. With thirty ships they came.