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The sons of Æacus, intrepid race!
Separate advanc'd, and from a different place.
For when their brother unawares they slew,
From fair Ægina diverse they withdrew.
Fair Salamis king Talemon obey'd,⁠115
And valiant Peleus Phthia's sceptre sway'd.
Next Bules came, from fam'd Cecropia far.
Brave Teleon's son, a chief renown'd in war.
To wield the deadly lance Phalerus boasts,
Who, by his sire commission'd, joins the hosts:⁠120
No son, save this, e'er bless'd the hoary sage,
And this heaven gave him in declining age:
Yet him he sent, disdaining abject fears,
To shine conspicuous 'midst his valiant peers.
Theseus, for more than all his race renown'd,⁠125
Fast in the cave of Tænarus was bound
With adamantine fetters, (dire abode!)
E'er since he trod th' irremeable road
With his belov'd Pirithoüs: had they sail'd,
Much had their might, their courage much avail'd.⁠130
Bœotian Tiphus came, experienc'd well,
Old ocean's foaming surges to foretell,
Experienc'd well the stormy winds to shun,
And steer his vessel by the stars, or sun.

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