Page:Batrachomyomachia, or, the Battle of the Frogs and Mice.djvu/18

Great Pelion next, as o'er the Field he rag'd,
Troglodytes, victorious Chief! engag'd:
Deep in the Frog his Spear a Passage found,
And the warm Soul came rushing through the Wound:
Pierc'd in the Heart Embasichitros lies
By bold Seutlaeus. Poliphonus dies;
To stern Artophagus his Death he owes;
The Warrior falls, away the Spirit goes.
Limnocharis, who heard his Friend's last Groan,
Hurl'd at Troglodytes a weighty Stone;
Full on the Middle of his Neck it rung,
And sudden Darkness o'er his Eye balls hung.
At him his Javelin strong Lichenor sent;
Th' unerring Weapon through his Liver went.
Crambophagus, astonish'd, leaves the Plain,
And to the River flies, but flies in vain;
Ev'n there the Chief pursu'd him, there he dy'd;
The sanguine C(illegible text)nt stain'd the Silver Tide:
His mangled Carcass, dawb'd with filthy Gore,
And his hot Entrails smoke upon the Shore.
Next him to Fate Tyroglyphus succeeds;
The hoary Hero by Limnisius bleeds.

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