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High on his car he shakes the flowing reins,
His fiery courfers thunder o'er the plains.

The fierce Pelafgi next, in war renown'd,
March from Lariffa's ever-fertile ground.
In equal arms their brother leaders shine
Hippothous bold, and Pyleus the divine.

Next Acamus and Pyrous lead their hofts,

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In dread array, from Thracia's wintery coafts
Round the bleak realms where Hellefpontus roars,
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With great Euphemus the Ciconians move,
Sprung from Trazenian Ceus, lov'd by Jove.

Pyræchmus the Poonian troops attend,

Skill'd in the fight, their crooked bows to bend ;
From Axius' ample bed he leads them on,
Axius, that laves the distant Amydon.

Axius, that fwells with all his neighbouring rills,
And wide around the floating region fills.

The Paphlagonians Pyloemenes rules,
Where rich Henetia breeds her favage mules,
Where Erythinus' rifing clifts are feen,
Thy groves of box, Cytorus! ever green;
And where Ægyalus and Cromna lie..
And lofty Sefamus invades the fky;

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And where Parthenius, roll'd through banks of flowers,
Reflects her bordering palaces and bowers.
Here march'd in arms the Halizonian band,
Whom Odius and Epiftrophus command,
From those far regions where the fun refines
The ripening filver in Alybean. mines..

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There, mighty Chromis led the Myfian train,
And augur Ennomus, infpir'd in vain,
For ftern Achilles lopt his facred head,
Roll'd down Scamander with the vulgar dead.
Phorcis and brave Afcanius here unite
Th' Afcanian Phrygians, eager for the fight.
Of those who round Mæonia's realms refide,
Or whom the vales in fhades of Tmolus hide,
Meftles and Antiphus the charge partake;
Born on the banks of Gyges' filent lake,

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There, from the fields where wild Meander flows,
High Mycalè, and Latmos' fhady brows,

And proud Miletes, came the Carian throngs,

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With mingled clamours, and with barbarous tongues.
Amphimachus and Nauftes guide the train,
Nauftes the bold, Amphimachus the vain,

Who, trick'd with gold, and glittering on his car,
Rode like a woman to the field of war,
Fool that he was! by fierce Achilles flain,
The river swept him to the briny main :

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There whelm'd with waves the gaudy warriour lies; The valiant victor feiz'd the golden prize.

The forces laft in fair array fucceed,

Which blameless Glaucus and Sarpedon lead;
The warlike bands that diftant Lycia yields,
Where gulphy Xanthus foams along the fields.

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THE

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ARGUMENT.

The Duel of Menelaus and Paris.

The Armies being ready to engage, a fingle combat is agreed upon between Menelaus and Paris (by the intervention of Hector) for the determination of the war. Iris is fent to call Helena to behold the fight. She leads her to the walls of Troy, where Priam fat with his counsellors, obferving the Grecian leaders on the plain below, to whom Helen gives an account of the chief of them. The kings on either part take the folemn oath for the conditions of the combat. The duel enfues; wherein Paris being overcome, he is fnatched away in a cloud by Venus, and tranfported to his apartment. She then calls Helen from the walls, and brings the lovers together. Agamemnon, on the part of the Grecians, demands the restoration of Helen, and the performance of the articles.

The three and twentieth day ftill continues throughout this book. The fcene is fometimes in the Fields before Troy, and sometimes in Troy itself.

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HUS by their leader's care each martial band
Moves into ranks, and ftretches o'er the land.
With fhouts the Trojans rufhing from afar,
Proclaim their motions, and provok'd the war;
So when inclement winter vex the plain
With piercing frofts, or thick-defcending rain,
To warmer feas, the Cranes embody'd fly,
With noife, and order, through the mid-way sky;
To pigmy nations wounds and death they bring,
And all the war defcends upon the wing.
But filent, breathing rage, refolv'd and 'skill'd
By mutual aids to fix a doubtful field,
Swift march the Greeks: the rapid dust around
Darkening arifes from the labour'd ground.
Thus from his flaggy wings when Notus sheds
A night of vapours round the mountain-heads,
Swift gliding mifts the dufky fields invade,

To thieves more grateful than the midnight fhade;
While fcarce the fwains their feeding flocks furvey,
Loft and confus'd amidst the thicken'd'day:
So, wrapt in gathering duft, the Grecian train,
A moving cloud, Twept on, and hid the plain.

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