And Orchomen, where flocks of sheep the shepherds clust’ring drive, In Ripe, and in Stratié, the fair Mantinean town, And strong Enispe, that for height is ever weather-blown, Tegea, and in Stymphalus, Parrhasia strongly wall’d, All these Alcæus’ son to field (king Agapenor) call’d; In sixty barks he brought them on, and ev’ry bark well-mann’d With fierce Arcadian’s, skill’d to use the utmost of a band. King Agamemnon, on these men, did well-built ships bestow To pass the gulfy purple sea, that did no sea rites know. They, who in Hermin, Buphrasis, and Elis, did remain, What Olen’s cliffs, Alisius, and Myrsin did contain, Were led to war by twice-two dukes (and each ten ships did bring, Which many vent’rous Epians did serve for burthening,) Beneath Amphimachus’s charge, and valiant Thalpius, (Son of Eurytus-Actor one, the other Cteatus,) Diores Amaryncides the other did employ, The fourth divine Polixenus (Agasthenes’s joy). The king of fair Angeiades, who from Dulichius came, And from Echinaus’ sweet isles, which hold their holy frame By ample Elis region, Meges Phylides led; Whom duke Phyleus, Jove’s belov’d, begat, and whilome fled To large Dulichius, for the wrath that fir’d his father’s breast. Twice-twenty ships with ebon sails were in his charge address’d. The warlike men of Cephale, and those of Ithaca, Woody Neritus, and the men of wet Crocylia, Sharp Ægilipa, Samos’ isle, Zacynthus sea inclos’d, Epirus, and the men that hold the continent oppos’d, All these did wise Ulysses lead, in counsel peer to Jove; Twelve ships he brought, which in their course vermilion sterns did move. Thoas, Andremon’s well-spoke son, did guide th’ Ætolians well, Those that in Pleuron, Olenon, and strong Pylene dwell, Great Chalcis, that by sea-side stands, and stony Calydon; (For now no more of Œneus’ sons surviv’d; they all were gone; No more his royal self did live, no more his noble son The golden Meleager now, their glasses all were run) All things were left to him in charge, th’ Ætolians’ chief he was, And forty ships to Trojan wars the seas with him did pass. The royal soldier Idomen did lead the Cretans stout, The men of Gnossus, and the town Gortyna wall’d about, Of Lictus, and Miletus’ tow’rs, of white Lycastus’ state, Of Phæstus, and of Rhytius, the cities fortunate. And all the rest inhabiting the hundred towns of Crete; Whom warlike Idomen did lead, co-partner in the fleet With kill-man Merion. Eighty ships with them did Troy invade. Tlepolemus Heraclides, right strong and bigly made, Brought nine tall ships of war from Rhodes, which haughty Rhodians mann’d, Who dwelt in three dissever’d parts of that most pleasant land, Which Lyndus and Jalissus were, and bright Camirus, call’d. Tlepolemus commanded these, in battle unappall’d; Whom fair Astyoche brought forth, by force of Hercules, Led out of Ephyr with his hand, from river Selleës, When many towns of princely youths he levell’d with the ground.