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... her husband: "Ever thou hastest to battle, O warrior, ever thou fightest Far in the front of the ranks and thou seekest out Locrian Ajax, Turnest thy ear to the roar for the dangerous shout of Tydides; There, once heard, leaving all thou drivest, O stark in thy courage. Yet am I blest among women who tremble not, left in thy mansion, Quiet at old Anchises' feet when I see thee in vision Sole... our foemen! First over Priam's corpse stand victors in Ilion's ramparts; Discord then let arise or concord solder our nations." Rugged words and few as fit for the soul that he harboured Great Tydides spoke and ceased; and there rose up impatient Tall from the spears of the north the hero king Prothoënor, Prince in Cadmeian Thebes who with Leitus led on his thousands.     "Loudly thou vauntest... threatenings of Fate cannot conquer, Always souls are born whose courage waits not on fortune; Hellas' heart will be firm confronting the threat of the victor, Page 428 Sthenelus war and Tydides, Odysseus and Locrian Ajax, Thebes' unconquered sons and the hero chiefs of the northland. Stern and persistent as Time or the seas and as deaf to affliction We will clash on in the fight unsatisfied ...