inflam'd."So spake the dreadful God from Troy. The Greeks, Jove's noblest
Seed
Encourag'd to keep on the chace; and, where fit spirit did need,
She gave it, marching in the midst. Then flew the fatal hour
Back on Diores, in return of Ilion's sun-burn'd pow'r;
Diores Amaryncides, whose right leg's ankle-bone,
And both the sinews, with a sharp and handful-charging stone
Pirus Imbrasides did break, that led the Thracian bands
And came from Ænos; down he fell, and up he held his hands
To his lov'd friends; his spirit wing'd to fly out of his breast
With which not satisfied, again Imbrasides address'd
His jav'lin at him, and so ripp'd his navel, that the wound,
As endlessly it shut his eyes, so, open'd, on the ground
It pour'd his entrails. As his foe went then suffic'd away,
Thoas Ætolius threw a dart, that did his pile convey,
Above his nipple, through his lungs; when, quitting his stern part,
He clos'd with him, and, from his breast first drawing out his
dart,
His sword flew in, and by the midst it wip'd his belly out;
So took his life, but left his arms; his friends so flock'd about,
And thrust forth lances of such length before their slaughter'd
king,
Which, though their foe were big and strong, and often brake the
ring
Forg'd of their lances, yet (enforc'd) he left th' affected prise.
The Thracian and Epeian dukes, laid close with closéd eyes
By either other, drown'd in dust; and round about the plain,
All hid with slaughter'd carcasses, yet still did hotly reign
The martial planet; whose effects had any eye beheld,
Free and unwounded (and were led by Pallas through the field,
To keep off jav'lins, and suggest the least fault could be found)
He could not reprehend the fight, so many strew'd the ground.
THE END OF THE FOURTH BOOK.
[1] Virgil useth these verses.
THE FIFTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS
THE ARGUMENT
King Diomed (by Pallas' spirit inspir'd
With will and pow'r) is for his acts admir'd,
Mere men, and men deriv'd from Deities,
And Deities themselves, he terrifies.
Adds wounds to terrors. His inflamed lance
Draws blood from Mars, and Venus. In a trance
He casts Æneas, with a weighty stone;
Apollo quickens him, and gets him gone.
Mars is recur'd by Pæon, but by Jove
Rebuk'd for authoring breach of human love.
ANOTHER ARGUMENT
In Epsilon, Heav'n's blood is shed
By sacred rage of Diomed.
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