From Samothrace came a stream of shieldmen, sent by their prince Emathion of the long flowing beard, himself heavy of knee, with snow-white hair, men limbed like Titans. They possessed both Myrmex on the sea and flowery Saoce, aye and the land of Teumerios, and the glades and meadows of Phestades’ land shaded with woodland copses, and divine Zerynthos of the unresting Corybants, the foundation of renowned Perseus, where the rocks are thronged with torch-bearing mystics of the Maid. There were others who lived under the many-craggy wall of the land about Brontion, and in Atrapitol which I hear of on the neighbouring shore of deepsea Poseidon. All these companies came together, who were loyal to their sib, the ancient family of Electra ; his thyrsus, Electra’s star rose with her six sisters in the sky in happy augury of the conflict; and the echoing voice of the Pleiads resounded for victory, doing grace to Dionysos who shared their sister’s blood, giving equal confidence to the host. Ogyros led their march to war, Ogyros himself a second […] his head towering high like one of the giants, Nothing could bend that great body. From his head and muscular neck, waves of hair fell to his loins, covering his back and shoulders, bristling like the spines of a hedgehog. He had a throat of immense length and thickness, like a neck of rock. Barbarian and son of a barbarian was he no other came to the Indian War in the East stronger than he was, […] Dionysos. He had sworn an oath to Victory, that he would destroy the whole land of India with his own spear alone.
The bold son of Ares, Oiagros, quitted his city of Pimpleia on the Bistonian plain, and joined the rout. He left Orpheus on Calliopeia’s knees, […] interested in his mother’s milk, still a […].
The Cyprian companies were under command of proud Litros and fine-haired Lapethos. Many took up arms : those whose lot was in Spheceia, the round brine-beaten isle ; others from Cypros, godwelcoming island of the fine-feathered Loves, which bears the name of Cypris the selfborn. Nereus had traced the boundaries of this with the deepsea prong, and shaped it like a dolphin. For when the fertile from Uranos, spilt with a mess of male gore, given infant shape to the fertile foam and brought forth the Paphian, to the land of horned Cypros came a dolphin over the deep, which with intelligent mind carried Aphrodite perched on his mane. Those also were there who held the land of Hylates, and the settlement of Sestos, Tamasos and Tembros, the town of Erythrai, and the woody precincts of Panacros in the mountains. From Soloi also came many men-at-arms, and from Lapethos ; this place was named afterwards from the leader who assembled them, who fell in the thyrsus-war and was honourably buried and left his name for his citizens. There were those also who had the city Cinyreia, that rock-island which still bears the name of ancient Cinyras ; and those from the place where Urania lies, named after the heavenly vault, because it was full of men brilliant as the stars ; and those who held Crapascia, a land surrounded by sea; and those of Paphos, garlanded harbour of softhaired Loves, landing-place of Aphrodite when she came up out of the waves, where the bride-bath of the seaborn goddess, lovely […] : here Cypris often took a […] and draped the son of Myrrha after his bath. Last is the city of ancient Perseus, for whom Teucros, fleeing from Salamis before the wrath of Telamon, fortified the younger Salamis so renowned.
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