XIX

White with Dust.

As by the wind the flying chaff is borne

O'er sacred threshing-floor at winnowing time,
When grain and chaff beneath the sweeping blast
Are parted by the yellow Queen of Corn,

And husky heaps rise white; so then with dust
Bloomed white th' Achæan host, by hoof of horse
Struck upward to the brazen vault of heaven,
As now again they mingled in the fight,

XX

A steady Line.

Unmoved they stood, as clouds in breathless calm

Stayed by Cronion on the mountain ridge
Lie motionless, while angry Boreas sleeps,

And all the raging winds that blow amain

And scatter with shrill blast the shadowy rack.

So firm the Danaans stood, nor fled the foe.

Ε. 554-560.

οἴω τώ γε λέοντε δύω όρεος κορυφῇσιν ἐτραφέτην ὑπὸ μητρὶ βαθείης τάρφεσιν ὕλης τὼ μὲν ἄρ ̓ ἁρπάζοντε βόας καὶ ἴφια μῆλα σταθμοὺς ἀνθρώπων κεραΐζετον, ὄφρα καὶ αὐτὼ ἀνδρῶν ἐν παλάμῃσι κατέκταθεν ὀξέϊ χαλκῷ· τοίω τω χείρεσσιν ὑπ ̓ Αἰνείαο δαμέντε καππεσέτην, ἐλάτῃσιν ἐοικότες ὑψηλῇσιν.

Ε. 506-600.

τὸν δὲ ἰδὼν ῥίγησε βοὴν ἀγαθὸς Διομήδης. ὡς δ ̓ ὅτ ̓ ἀνὴρ ἀπάλαμνος, ἰὼν πολέος πεδίοιο, στήῃ ἐπ ̓ ὠκυρόῳ ποταμῷ ἄλαδε προρέοντι, ἀφρῷ μορμύροντα ἰδὼν, ἀνά τ' ἔδραμ ̓ ὀπίσσω, ὡς τότε Τυδείδης ἀνεχάζετο.

XXI

The Slayers slain.

As lions twain, upon the mountain tops
Bred by their dam in deep and tangled wood,
Preying upon the kine and lusty sheep
Make havoc of the folds, until themselves

By hand and weapon keen of man are slain :
So by Æneas' hand o'ercome these twain
Fell prone, as fall the lofty forest pines.

XXII

Diomed checked at the Sight of Ares aiding Hector.

Chilled at the sight was Diomed, good in fray.

And as a traveller o'er some weary waste

Stands helpless at a river swift of stream
Down flowing to the sea-the roaring foam
He sees, and backward starts;-so sudden then
Tydides gat him back.

E. 767-772.

ὡς ἔφατ ̓ οὐδ ̓ ἀπίθησε θεὰ λευκώλενος Ηρη μάστιξεν δ ̓ ἵππους· τω δ ̓ οὐκ ἀεκόντε πετέσθην μεσσηγὺς γαίης τε καὶ οὐρανοῦ ἀστερόεντος. ὅσσον δ ̓ ἠεροειδὲς ἀνὴρ ἴδεν ὀφθαλμοῖσιν, ἥμενος ἐν σκοπιῇ λεύσσων ἐπὶ οἴνοπα πόντον, τόσσον ἐπιθρώσκουσι θεῶν ὑψηχέες ἵπποι.

E. 864-867.

οἴη δ ̓ ἐκ νεφέων ἐρεβεννὴ φαίνεται ἀὴρ
καύματος ἐξ ἀνέμοιο δυσαέος ὀρνυμένοιο,
τοῖος Τυδείδῃ Διομήδεϊ χάλκεος "Αρης
φαίνεθ ̓ ὁμοῦ νεφέεσσιν ἰὼν εἰς οὐρανὸν εὐρύν.

E. 902-904.

ὡς δ ̓ ὅτ ̓ ὀπὸς γάλα λευκὸν ἐπειγόμενος συνέπηξεν ὑγρὸν ἐὸν, μάλα δ ̓ ὦκα περιτρέφεται κυκόωντι,

ὡς ἄρα καρπαλίμως ἰήσατο θοῦρον "Αρηα.

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XXIII

Here descends to aid the Greeks.

He spake nor white-armed Here disobeyed,
But lashed the steeds, who not unwilling flew
Midway betwixt the earth and starry sky.
And far as man may see, who with his eyes
Scans the dim offing, seated on a peak,
And o'er the dark sea gazing-e'en so far
Bounded the neighing coursers of the gods.

XXIV

Ares withdraws, wounded.

And as the air is dark with thunderclouds,
In sultry heat, when threatening swells the wind,
So brazen Ares to Tydides' sight

Darkling was seen, as all in clouds enwrapt
To the wide heaven he took his upward way.

XXV

The Wound staunched.

And quick as fig-juice curdles the white milk

Liquid before, but, as 'tis stirred around,

Fast thickening into clots-so swift the leech

Staunched with his simples the bold War-god's wound.