The gates unfolding pour forth all their train,

Nations on nations fill the dufky plain,

980 Men, steeds, and chariots shake the trembling ground; The tumult thickens, and the fkies refound. Amidst the plain in fight of lion ftands

A rifing mount, the work of human hands; (This for Myrinne's tomb th' immortals know, 985 Tho' call'd Bateia in the world below)

Beneath their chiefs in martial order here,
Th' auxiliar troops and Trojan hofts appear.
The godlike Hector, high above the reft,
Shakes his huge fpear, and nods his plumy creft:
990 In throngs around his native bands repair,

And groves of lances glitter in the air.
Divine Æneas brings the Dardan race,
Anchifes fon, by Venus' ftol'n embrace,
Born in the fhades of Ida's fecret grove,
995 (A mortal mixing with the Queen of Love)
Archilochus and Acamas divide

The warrior's toils, and combate by his fide.
Who fair Zeleia's wealthy vallies till,

Faft by the foot of Ida's facred hill;

1000 Or drink, fepus, of thy fable flood; Were led by Pandarus, of royal blood.

To whom his art Apollo deign'd to fhow,

Grac'd with the prefent of his fhafts and bow.
From rich Apefus and Adreftia's tow'rs;
High Teree's fummits, and Pityea's bow'rs;
From these the congregated troops obey
Young Amphius and Adraftus' equal sway;
Old Merops' fons; whom, fkill'd in fate to come,
The Sire forewarn'd, and prophefy'd their doom:
Fate urg'd them on! the fire forewarn'd in vain,
They rush'd to war, and perish'd on the plain.
From Practius' ftream, Percote's pafture lands,
And Seftos and Abydos neighb'ring ftrands,
From great Arifba's walls and Selle's coaft,
5 Afius Hyrtacides conducts his hoft:

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:
20In equal arms their brother leaders fhine,
Hippothous bold, and Pyleus the divine.

.1012. From Practius' ftream, Percote's pasture lands.] Hous mer does not exprefly mention Pra&is as a river, but Strabo, tib. 13. tell us vit is to be understood fo in this paffage. The appellative of pafture lands to Percote is juftify'd in the 15th Iliad, . 646. where Melannippus the fon of Hitetdon is faid to feed his oxen in that place. ^

Next Acamas and Pyrous lead their hofts

In dread array, from Thracia's wintry coasts; Round the bleak realms where Hellefpontus roars, 1025 And Boreas beats the hoarfe-refounding shores. With great Euphemus the Ciconians move, Sprung from Træzenian Ceus, lov'd by Jove. Pyrachmes the Paonian troops attend,

Skill'd in the fight their crooked bows to bend;
1030 From Axius' ample bed he leads them on,
Axius, that laves the diftant Amydon,

Axius, that fwells with all his neighb'ring rills,
And wide around the floated region fills.
The Paphlagonians Pylamenes rules,

1035 Where rich Henetia breeds her favage mules,
Where Erythinus' rifing clifts are seen,
Thy groves of box, Cytorus! ever green;
And where gialus and Cromna lie,
And lofty Sefamus invades the fky;

. 1032. Axius, that fwells with all his neighb’ring rills] _According to the common reading this verfe fhould be tranflated, Axius that diffufes his beautiful waters over the land. But we are affured by Strabo that Axins was a muddy river, and that the ancients understood it thus, "Axius that receives into it feveral-beautiful rivers. The criticism lies in the laft word of the verse, Ain, which Strabo reads Ams, and interprets of the river a, whofe waters were pour'd into Axius. However Homer describes this river agreeable to the vulgar reading in 7:21. #.158.. 'Ağix, ös nánλisor üdwg Hi yalar iour. This verfion takes in both.

And

o And where Parthenius roll'd thro' banks of flow'rs, Reflects her bord'ring palaces and bow'rs.

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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.

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.
ojo Phoreys and brave Afcanius here unite
Th' Afcanian Phrygians, eager for the fight.
Of those who round Maonia's realms refide,
Or whom the vales in fhade of Tmolus hide,
Meftles and Antiphus the charge partake;

off Born on the banks of Gyges' filent lake.
There, from the fields where wild Maander flows,
High Mycale, and Latmes' fhady brows,

And proud Miletus, came the Carian throngs,

With mingled clamors, and with barb'rous tongues. -060 Amphimachus and Nauftes guide the train,

Nauftes the bold, Amphimachus the vain,

Who trick'd with gold, and glitt ring on his car,
Rode like a Woman to the field of war.
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Fool that he was! by fierce Achilles flain,

1065 The river swept him to the briny main:

There whelm'd with waves the gawdy warrior lies; The valiant victor feiz'd the golden prize. The forces laft in fair array fucceed, Which blameless Glaucus and Sarpedon lead; 1070 The warlike bands that distant Lycia yields, Where gulphy Xanthus foams along the fields.

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