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And so that company, in bronze armor, and with their horses in war-harnesses, was hastening to arrive at manifest doom. And planting ἐρεισάμενοι. Wilamowitz: “ reditum in Ismeni ripa sibi fixerunt. ” their sweet return on the banks of the Ismenus, they fattened the white-flowering smoke with their corpses Reading σώμασι πίαναν (Bergk). . For seven funeral pyres feasted on their bodies’ young limbs. But, for the sake of Amphiaraus, Zeus with his all-powerful thunderbolt
split the deep-breasted earth, and concealed him together with his horses,
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before he could be struck in the back by the spear of Periclymenus, and his warlike spirit disgraced. For amid divinely-sent panic even the children of gods flee. If it is possible, son of Cronus, I would like to put off for as long as I can this fierce trial of empurpled spears, this contest for life and death;
and I pray to you, grant to the children of the Aetnaeans the long-lived blessing of good laws,
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father Zeus, and join the people with splendid celebrations in their city. There they have men who love horses and whose souls are superior to wealth. My words are hard to believe; for reverence, which brings renown, is secretly beguiled by the love of gain. If you had been Chromius’ shield-bearer among foot-soldiers and horses, and in ship-battles,
you would have been able to judge the danger of the sharp battle-cry,
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because in battle it was that goddess, Reverence, who armed his warrior-spirit to repel the destruction of the war-god. But few are able to conspire with hand and heart to turn back against the ranks of the enemy the cloud of slaughter that presses close upon them. Indeed men say that glory blossomed for Hector beside the flowing Scamander;
and around the steep cliffs of the Helorus’ banks
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