Part 10 (1/2)

Divine aeneas brings the Dardan race, Anchises' son, by Venus' stolen erove; (Awith the queen of love;) Archilochus and Acamas divide The warrior's toils, and combat by his side

Who fair Zeleia's wealthy valleys till,(106) Fast by the foot of Ida's sacred hill, Or drink, aesepus, of thy sable flood, Were led by Pandarus, of royal blood; To whon'd to show, Graced with the presents of his shafts and bow

Froh Teree's suated troops obey Young Amphius and Adrastus' equal sway; Old Merops' sons; whom, skill'd in fates to coed them on! the sire forewarn'd in vain, They rush'd to war, and perish'd on the plain

From Practius' streahbouring strands, Froreat Arisba's walls and Selle's coast, Asius Hyrtacides conducts his host: High on his car he shakes the flowing reins, His fiery coursers thunder o'er the plains

The fierce Pelasgi next, in war renown'd, March froround: In equal arms their brother leaders shi+ne, Hippothous bold, and Pyleus the divine

Next Acamas and Pyrous lead their hosts, In dread array, from Thracia's wintry coasts; Round the bleak realms where hellespontus roars, And Boreas beats the hoarse-resounding shores

With great Euphe from Troezenian Ceus, loved by Jove

Pyraechht their crooked bows to bend; From Axius' ample bed he leads them on, Axius, that laves the distant A rills, And wide around the floating region fills

The Paphlagonians Pylaee roves of box, Cytorus! ever green, And where aegialus and Cromna lie, And lofty Sesah banks of flowers, Reflects her bordering palaces and bowers

Here march'd in arms the Halizonian band, Whoions where the sun refines The ripening silver in Alybean hty Chrour Ennomus, inspired in vain; For stern Achilles lopp'd his sacred head, Roll'd down Scaar dead

Phorcys and brave Ascanius here unite The Ascanian Phrygians, eager for the fight

Of those who round Maeonia's realms reside, Or whom the vales in shades of Te partake, Born on the banks of Gyges' silent lake

There, froh Mycale, and Lats, With ues(107) Auide the train, Naustes the bold, A on his car, Rode like a woman to the field of war

Fool that he was! by fierce Achilles slain, The river swept hiaudy warrior lies The valiant victor seized the golden prize

The forces last in fair array succeed, Which blameless Glaucus and Sarpedon lead The warlike bands that distant Lycia yields, Where gulfy Xanthus foa the fields

BOOK III

ARGUMENT

THE DUEL OF MENELAUS AND PARIS

The arreed upon between Menelaus and Paris (by the intervention of Hector) for the determination of the war Iris is sent to call Helen to behold the fight She leads her to the walls of Troy, where Pria the Grecian leaders on the plain below, to whos on either part take the solemn oath for the conditions of the co overcome, he is snatched away in a cloud by Venus, and transported to his aparts 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 still continues throughout this book The scene is sometimes in the fields before Troy, and sometimes in Troy itself

Thus by their leaders' care each martial band Moves into ranks, and stretches o'er the land

With shouts the Trojans, rushi+ng from afar, Proclaim their motions, and provoke the war So when incle frosts, or thick-descending rain, To warmer seas the cranes eh the , And all the war descends upon the wing, But silent, breathing rage, resolved and skill'd(109) By mutual aids to fix a doubtful field, Swiftarises fros when Notus sheds A night of vapours round therateful than theflocks survey, Lost and confused a dust, the Grecian train, Acloud, swept on, and hid the plain

Now front to front the hostile arht, and only wait command; When, to the van, before the sons of fame Whom Troy sent forth, the beauteous Paris came: In form a God! the panther's speckled hide Flow'd o'er his armour with an easy pride: His bended bow across his shoulders flung, His sword beside hirace, And dared the bravest of the Grecian race

As thus, with glorious air and proud disdain, He boldly stalk'd, the foremost on the plain, Him Menelaus, loved of Mars, espies, With heart elated, and with joyful eyes: So joys a lion, if the branching deer, Or er he seizes and devours the slain, Press'd by bold youths and baying dogs in vain

Thus fond of vengeance, with a furious bound, In clanging arh chariot: hi near, The beauteous champion vieith marks of fear, Smit with a conscious sense, retires behind, And shuns the fate he well deserved to find

As when so trees(110) Shot forth to view, a scaly serpent sees, Treht And all confused precipitates his flight: So froed amid the thickest Trojans lies

As Godlike Hector sees the prince retreat, He thus upbraids hienerous heat: ”Unhappy Paris! but to women brave!(111) So fairly form'd, and only to deceive!