ὃς καὶ Κύκνον ἔπεφνεν, Ἀρητιάδην μεγάθυμον.
εὗρε γὰρ ἐν τεμένει ἑκατηβόλου Ἀπόλλωνος
αὐτὸν καὶ πατέρα ὅν Ἄρην, ἄατον πολέμοιο,
τεύχεσι λαμπομένους σέλας ὣς πυρὸς αἰθομένοιο,
ἑσταότ᾽ ἐν δίφρῳ: χθόνα δ᾽ ἔκτυπον ὠκέες ἵπποι
νύσσοντες χηλῇσι, κόνις δέ σφ᾽ ἀμφιδεδήει
κοπτομένη πλεκτοῖσιν ὑφ᾽ ἅρμασι καὶ ποσὶν ἵππων.
ἅρματα δ᾽ εὐποίητα καὶ ἄντυγες ἀμφαράβιζον
ἵππων ἱεμένων: κεχάρητο δὲ Κύκνος ἀμύμων,
ἐλπόμενος Διὸς υἱὸν ἀρήιον ἡνίοχόν τε
χαλκῷ δηιώσειν καὶ ἀπὸ κλυτὰ τεύχεα δύσειν.
57-67 Heracles battles Cycnus, son of Ares:
And he slew Cycnus, the gallant son of Ares. For he found him in the close of far-shooting Apollo, him and his father Ares, never sated with war. Their armour shone like a flame of blazing fire as they two stood in their car: their swift horses struck the earth and pawed it with their hoofs, and the dust rose like smoke about them, pounded by the chariot wheels and the horses’ hoofs, while the well-made chariot and its rails rattled around them as the horses plunged. And blameless Cycnus was glad, for he looked to slay the warlike son of Zeus and his charioteer with the sword, and to strip off their splendid armour.
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