ὣς ἔφατ᾽: οὐδ᾽ ἄρα Κύκνος ἐυμμελίης ἐμενοίνα
τῷ ἐπιπειθόμενος ἐχέμεν ἐρυσάρματας ἵππους.
δὴ τότ᾽ ἀπ᾽ εὐπλεκέων δίφρων θόρον αἶψ᾽ ἐπὶ γαῖαν
παῖς τε Διὸς μεγάλου καὶ Ἐνυαλίοιο ἄνακτος.
ἡνίοχοι δ᾽ ἔμπλην ἔλασαν καλλίτριχας ἵππους:
τῶν δ᾽ ὕπο σευομένων κανάχιζε πόσ᾽ εὐρεῖα χθών.
ὡς δ᾽ ὅτ᾽ ἀφ᾽ ὑψηλῆς κορυφῆς ὄρεος μεγάλοιο
πέτραι ἀποθρῴσκωσιν, ἐπ᾽ ἀλλήλῃς δὲ πέσωσι,
πολλαὶ δὲ δρῦς ὑψίκομοι, πολλαὶ δὲ τε πεῦκαι
αἴγειροί τε τανύρριζοι ῥήγνυνται ὑπ᾽ αὐτέων
ῥίμφα κυλινδομένων, εἵως πεδίονδ᾽ ἀφίκωνται,
ὣς οἳ ἐπ᾽ ἀλλήλοισι πέσον μέγα κεκλήγοντες.
πᾶσα δὲ Μυρμιδόνων τε πόλις κλειτή τ᾽ Ἰαωλκὸς
Ἄρνη τ᾽ ἠδ᾽ Ἑλίκη Ἄνθειά τε ποιήεσσα
φωνῇ ὕπ᾽ ἀμφοτέρων μεγάλ᾽ ἴαχον: οἳ δ᾽ ἀλαλητῷ
θεσπεσίῳ σύνισαν: μέγα δ᾽ ἔκτυπε μητίετα Ζεύς.
κὰδ δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἀπ᾽ οὐρανόθεν ψιάδας βάλεν αἱματοέσσας,
σῆμα τιθεὶς πολέμοιο ἑῷ μεγαθαρσέι παιδί.
368-385 So said he. But Cycnus the stout spearman cared not to obey him and to pull up the horses that drew his chariot. Then it was that from their well-woven cars they both leaped straight to the ground, the son of Zeus and the son of the Lord of War. The charioteers drove near by their horses with beautiful manes, and the wide earth rang with the beat of their hoofs as they rushed along. As when rocks leap forth from the high peak of a great mountain, and fall on one another, and many towering oaks and pines and long-rooted poplars are broken by them as they whirl swiftly down until they reach the plain; so did they fall on one another with a great shout: and all the town of the Myrmidons, and famous Iolcus, and Arne, and Helice, and grassy Anthea echoed loudly at the voice of the two. With an awful cry they closed: and wise Zeus thundered loudly and rained down drops of blood, giving the signal for battle to his dauntless son.
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Introduction
