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... by Penthesilea, Famous, give to her grasp the spear that shall smite down Achilles." Smiling answered Aeneas, "Surely will, Eurus, thy prowess Carry thee far to the front; thou shalt fight with Epeus and slay him. Who shall say that this hand was not chosen to pierce Menelaus? But for a while with the ball should it rather strive, O hero, Till in the play and the wrestle its softness is trained... their hundreds. There in the wide-winged tent of the council that peered o'er the margin, High where the grass and the meadow-bloom failed on the sand-rifted sward-edge, Pouring his argent voice Epeus spoke to the princes, Rapid in battle and speech; and even as a boy in a courtyard Tosses his ball in the air and changes his hands for the seizing So he played with counsel and thought and rejoiced... thick came numerous even as the sea-sands Forth from the line of the leaguer that skirted the far-sounding waters, Ranked behind Tydeus' son and the Spartan, bright Menelaus, Ithaca's chief and Epeus, Idomeneus lord of the Cretans, Acamas, Nestor, Neleus' son, and the brave Ephialtus, Prothous, Meges, Leitus the bold and the king Prothoënor, Page 440 Wise Alceste's son and the Lemnian ...