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... Tydides Parted as hastens a shaft from the string and he sped on intently Swift where the beaches were bare or threading the gaps of the nations; Crossing Thebes and Epirus he passed through the Lemnian archers, Ancient Gnossus' hosts and Meriones' leaderless legions. Heedless of cry and of laughter calling over the sea-sands Swiftly he laboured, wind in his hair and the sea to him crying, Straight... 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, stern Philoctetes, These and unnumbered warlike captains marching the Argives. Last in his spacious car drove shaping the tread of his armies, Even as a shepherd who follows his flock to the green ...