The Odyssey: Book 03 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHCIJKLFMENNOP QRSTEUVWFXYUZPA2UCB2 C2UBXFD2BE2FF2G2EH2P I2J2GGK2L2PM2N2PO2P2 PEQ2IR2S2G2T2U2CV2EW 2R2EX2Y2PZ2G2A3BZB3C PC3D3HGE3G2GF3G3NH3E BI3H3E3LU2J3ZG2H3PK3 LPNPG3EL3BQ2BFM3U2FN 3EEH3G2GO3HGGBG2NCP3 GGH3PH3AFNPPFG2BC2U2 BR2ELPQ3H3PH3H3G2R3C S3NE3GY2G2T3EU3H3GH3 J2S3G2H3H3V3G2G2M3H3 F2W3GJX3E3IH3AFH3G2C Y3CL3Z3EG2G2A4H3E3AB BBH3PFB4C4BH3H3H3EDB H3PAI3GD4BH3FH3G2E4G PY2F4F2NFM3I3M3S3GGI BDPG4I3GH4NBH3G2HI4P H3G2R3J4K4L4GG2CPG2G PBH3BPH3FW3E4H3H3BBM 3L2M4EH3BGFM4G2BHBN4 O4CH3P4Q4FU2GR4H3FS4 I4T4PH3G2PGBPU4NEH3K 4G2EU2FBR4BR2G2V4EW4 BGX4O4FY4H3Z4EO4FO3E G2G2BPL3H3H3BBAH3BG2 LFH3LBHNZGI4R4| But as the sun was rising from the fair sea into the firmament of | A |
| heaven to shed Blight on mortals and immortals they reached Pylos the | B |
| city of Neleus Now the people of Pylos were gathered on the sea shore | C |
| to offer sacrifice of black bulls to Neptune lord of the Earthquake | D |
| There were nine guilds with five hundred men in each and there were | E |
| nine bulls to each guild As they were eating the inward meats and | F |
| burning the thigh bones on the embers in the name of Neptune | G |
| Telemachus and his crew arrived furled their sails brought their | H |
| ship to anchor and went ashore | C |
| Minerva led the way and Telemachus followed her Presently she said | I |
| Telemachus you must not be in the least shy or nervous you have | J |
| taken this voyage to try and find out where your father is buried | K |
| and how he came by his end so go straight up to Nestor that we may | L |
| see what he has got to tell us Beg of him to speak the truth and | F |
| he will tell no lies for he is an excellent person | M |
| But how Mentor replied Telemachus dare I go up to Nestor | E |
| and how am I to address him I have never yet been used to holding | N |
| long conversations with people and am ashamed to begin questioning | N |
| one who is so much older than myself | O |
| Some things Telemachus answered Minerva will be suggested to | P |
| you by your own instinct and heaven will prompt you further for I am | Q |
| assured that the gods have been with you from the time of your birth | R |
| until now | S |
| She then went quickly on and Telemachus followed in her steps | T |
| till they reached the place where the guilds of the Pylian people were | E |
| assembled There they found Nestor sitting with his sons while his | U |
| company round him were busy getting dinner ready and putting pieces | V |
| of meat on to the spits while other pieces were cooking When they saw | W |
| the strangers they crowded round them took them by the hand and | F |
| bade them take their places Nestor's son Pisistratus at once | X |
| offered his hand to each of them and seated them on some soft | Y |
| sheepskins that were lying on the sands near his father and his | U |
| brother Thrasymedes Then he gave them their portions of the inward | Z |
| meats and poured wine for them into a golden cup handing it to | P |
| Minerva first and saluting her at the same time | A2 |
| Offer a prayer sir said he to King Neptune for it is his | U |
| feast that you are joining when you have duly prayed and made your | C |
| drink offering pass the cup to your friend that he may do so also | B2 |
| I doubt not that he too lifts his hands in prayer for man cannot live | C2 |
| without God in the world Still he is younger than you are and is | U |
| much of an age with myself so I he handed I will give you the | B |
| precedence | X |
| As he spoke he handed her the cup Minerva thought it very right and | F |
| proper of him to have given it to herself first she accordingly began | D2 |
| praying heartily to Neptune O thou she cried that encirclest the | B |
| earth vouchsafe to grant the prayers of thy servants that call upon | E2 |
| thee More especially we pray thee send down thy grace on Nestor and | F |
| on his sons thereafter also make the rest of the Pylian people some | F2 |
| handsome return for the goodly hecatomb they are offering you Lastly | G2 |
| grant Telemachus and myself a happy issue in respect of the matter | E |
| that has brought us in our to Pylos | H2 |
| When she had thus made an end of praying she handed the cup to | P |
| Telemachus and he prayed likewise By and by when the outer meats | I2 |
| were roasted and had been taken off the spits the carvers gave | J2 |
| every man his portion and they all made an excellent dinner As soon | G |
| as they had had enough to eat and drink Nestor knight of Gerene | G |
| began to speak | K2 |
| Now said he that our guests have done their dinner it will | L2 |
| be best to ask them who they are Who then sir strangers are you | P |
| and from what port have you sailed Are you traders or do you sail | M2 |
| the seas as rovers with your hand against every man and every man's | N2 |
| hand against you | P |
| Telemachus answered boldly for Minerva had given him courage to ask | O2 |
| about his father and get himself a good name | P2 |
| Nestor said he son of Neleus honour to the Achaean name you | P |
| ask whence we come and I will tell you We come from Ithaca under | E |
| Neritum and the matter about which I would speak is of private not | Q2 |
| public import I seek news of my unhappy father Ulysses who is said | I |
| to have sacked the town of Troy in company with yourself We know what | R2 |
| fate befell each one of the other heroes who fought at Troy but as | S2 |
| regards Ulysses heaven has hidden from us the knowledge even that he | G2 |
| is dead at all for no one can certify us in what place he perished | T2 |
| nor say whether he fell in battle on the mainland or was lost at | U2 |
| sea amid the waves of Amphitrite Therefore I am suppliant at your | C |
| knees if haply you may be pleased to tell me of his melancholy end | V2 |
| whether you saw it with your own eyes or heard it from some other | E |
| traveller for he was a man born to trouble Do not soften things | W2 |
| out of any pity for me but tell me in all plainness exactly what | R2 |
| you saw If my brave father Ulysses ever did you loyal service either | E |
| by word or deed when you Achaeans were harassed among the Trojans | X2 |
| bear it in mind now as in my favour and tell me truly all | Y2 |
| My friend answered Nestor you recall a time of much sorrow to | P |
| my mind for the brave Achaeans suffered much both at sea while | Z2 |
| privateering under Achilles and when fighting before the great city | G2 |
| of king Priam Our best men all of them fell there Ajax Achilles | A3 |
| Patroclus peer of gods in counsel and my own dear son Antilochus a | B |
| man singularly fleet of foot and in fight valiant But we suffered | Z |
| much more than this what mortal tongue indeed could tell the whole | B3 |
| story Though you were to stay here and question me for five years or | C |
| even six I could not tell you all that the Achaeans suffered and you | P |
| would turn homeward weary of my tale before it ended Nine long | C3 |
| years did we try every kind of stratagem but the hand of heaven was | D3 |
| against us during all this time there was no one who could compare | H |
| with your father in subtlety if indeed you are his son I can | G |
| hardly believe my eyes and you talk just like him too no one would | E3 |
| say that people of such different ages could speak so much alike He | G2 |
| and I never had any kind of difference from first to last neither in | G |
| camp nor council but in singleness of heart and purpose we advised | F3 |
| the Argives how all might be ordered for the best | G3 |
| When however we had sacked the city of Priam and were setting | N |
| sail in our ships as heaven had dispersed us then Jove saw fit to vex | H3 |
| the Argives on their homeward voyage for they had Not all been either | E |
| wise or understanding and hence many came to a bad end through the | B |
| displeasure of Jove's daughter Minerva who brought about a quarrel | I3 |
| between the two sons of Atreus | H3 |
| The sons of Atreus called a meeting which was not as it should | E3 |
| be for it was sunset and the Achaeans were heavy with wine When they | L |
| explained why they had called the people together it seemed that | U2 |
| Menelaus was for sailing homeward at once and this displeased | J3 |
| Agamemnon who thought that we should wait till we had offered | Z |
| hecatombs to appease the anger of Minerva Fool that he was he | G2 |
| might have known that he would not prevail with her for when the gods | H3 |
| have made up their minds they do not change them lightly So the two | P |
| stood bandying hard words whereon the Achaeans sprang to their feet | K3 |
| with a cry that rent the air and were of two minds as to what they | L |
| should do | P |
| That night we rested and nursed our anger for Jove was hatching | N |
| mischief against us But in the morning some of us drew our ships into | P |
| the water and put our goods with our women on board while the rest | G3 |
| about half in number stayed behind with Agamemnon We the other | E |
| half embarked and sailed and the ships went well for heaven had | L3 |
| smoothed the sea When we reached Tenedos we offered sacrifices to the | B |
| gods for we were longing to get home cruel Jove however did not | Q2 |
| yet mean that we should do so and raised a second quarrel in the | B |
| course of which some among us turned their ships back again and | F |
| sailed away under Ulysses to make their peace with Agamemnon but I | M3 |
| and all the ships that were with me pressed forward for I saw that | U2 |
| mischief was brewing The son of Tydeus went on also with me and | F |
| his crews with him Later on Menelaus joined us at Lesbos and found | N3 |
| us making up our minds about our course for we did not know whether | E |
| to go outside Chios by the island of Psyra keeping this to our | E |
| left or inside Chios over against the stormy headland of Mimas So | H3 |
| we asked heaven for a sign and were shown one to the effect that we | G2 |
| should be soonest out of danger if we headed our ships across the open | G |
| sea to Euboea This we therefore did and a fair wind sprang up | O3 |
| which gave us a quick passage during the night to Geraestus where | H |
| we offered many sacrifices to Neptune for having helped us so far on | G |
| our way Four days later Diomed and his men stationed their ships in | G |
| Argos but I held on for Pylos and the wind never fell light from the | B |
| day when heaven first made it fair for me | G2 |
| Therefore my dear young friend I returned without hearing | N |
| anything about the others I know neither who got home safely nor | C |
| who were lost but as in duty bound I will give you without reserve | P3 |
| the reports that have reached me since I have been here in my own | G |
| house They say the Myrmidons returned home safely under Achilles' son | G |
| Neoptolemus so also did the valiant son of Poias Philoctetes | H3 |
| Idomeneus again lost no men at sea and all his followers who | P |
| escaped death in the field got safe home with him to Crete No | H3 |
| matter how far out of the world you live you will have heard of | A |
| Agamemnon and the bad end he came to at the hands of Aegisthus and | F |
| a fearful reckoning did Aegisthus presently pay See what a good thing | N |
| it is for a man to leave a son behind him to do as Orestes did who | P |
| killed false Aegisthus the murderer of his noble father You too | P |
| then for you are a tall smart looking fellow show your mettle and | F |
| make yourself a name in story | G2 |
| Nestor son of Neleus answered Telemachus honour to the | B |
| Achaean name the Achaeans applaud Orestes and his name will live | C2 |
| through all time for he has avenged his father nobly Would that | U2 |
| heaven might grant me to do like vengeance on the insolence of the | B |
| wicked suitors who are ill treating me and plotting my ruin but | R2 |
| the gods have no such happiness in store for me and for my father | E |
| so we must bear it as best we may | L |
| My friend said Nestor now that you remind me I remember to | P |
| have heard that your mother has many suitors who are ill disposed | Q3 |
| towards you and are making havoc of your estate Do you submit to this | H3 |
| tamely or are public feeling and the voice of heaven against you Who | P |
| knows but what Ulysses may come back after all and pay these | H3 |
| scoundrels in full either single handed or with a force of Achaeans | H3 |
| behind him If Minerva were to take as great a liking to you as she | G2 |
| did to Ulysses when we were fighting before Troy for I never yet | R3 |
| saw the gods so openly fond of any one as Minerva then was of your | C |
| father if she would take as good care of you as she did of him | S3 |
| these wooers would soon some of them him forget their wooing | N |
| Telemachus answered I can expect nothing of the kind it would | E3 |
| be far too much to hope for I dare not let myself think of it Even | G |
| though the gods themselves willed it no such good fortune could befall | Y2 |
| me | G2 |
| On this Minerva said Telemachus what are you talking about | T3 |
| Heaven has a long arm if it is minded to save a man and if it were | E |
| me I should not care how much I suffered before getting home | U3 |
| provided I could be safe when I was once there I would rather this | H3 |
| than get home quickly and then be killed in my own house as Agamemnon | G |
| was by the treachery of Aegisthus and his wife Still death is | H3 |
| certain and when a man's hour is come not even the gods can save | J2 |
| him no matter how fond they are of him | S3 |
| Mentor answered Telemachus do not let us talk about it any | G2 |
| more There is no chance of my father's ever coming back the gods | H3 |
| have long since counselled his destruction There is something else | H3 |
| however about which I should like to ask Nestor for he knows much | V3 |
| more than any one else does They say he has reigned for three | G2 |
| generations so that it is like talking to an immortal Tell me | G2 |
| therefore Nestor and tell me true how did Agamemnon come to die | M3 |
| in that way What was Menelaus doing And how came false Aegisthus | H3 |
| to kill so far better a man than himself Was Menelaus away from | F2 |
| Achaean Argos voyaging elsewhither among mankind that Aegisthus took | W3 |
| heart and killed Agamemnon | G |
| I will tell you truly answered Nestor and indeed you have | J |
| yourself divined how it all happened If Menelaus when he got back | X3 |
| from Troy had found Aegisthus still alive in his house there would | E3 |
| have been no barrow heaped up for him not even when he was dead | I |
| but he would have been thrown outside the city to dogs and vultures | H3 |
| and not a woman would have mourned him for he had done a deed of | A |
| great wickedness but we were over there fighting hard at Troy and | F |
| Aegisthus who was taking his ease quietly in the heart of Argos | H3 |
| cajoled Agamemnon's wife Clytemnestra with incessant flattery | G2 |
| At first she would have nothing to do with his wicked scheme for | C |
| she was of a good natural disposition moreover there was a bard | Y3 |
| with her to whom Agamemnon had given strict orders on setting out for | C |
| Troy that he was to keep guard over his wife but when heaven had | L3 |
| counselled her destruction Aegisthus thus this bard off to a desert | Z3 |
| island and left him there for crows and seagulls to batten upon after | E |
| which she went willingly enough to the house of Aegisthus Then he | G2 |
| offered many burnt sacrifices to the gods and decorated many | G2 |
| temples with tapestries and gilding for he had succeeded far beyond | A4 |
| his expectations | H3 |
| Meanwhile Menelaus and I were on our way home from Troy on good | E3 |
| terms with one another When we got to Sunium which is the point of | A |
| Athens Apollo with his painless shafts killed Phrontis the | B |
| steersman of Menelaus' ship and never man knew better how to handle a | B |
| vessel in rough weather so that he died then and there with the | B |
| helm in his hand and Menelaus though very anxious to press | H3 |
| forward had to wait in order to bury his comrade and give him his due | P |
| funeral rites Presently when he too could put to sea again and | F |
| had sailed on as far as the Malean heads Jove counselled evil against | B4 |
| him and made it it blow hard till the waves ran mountains high Here | C4 |
| he divided his fleet and took the one half towards Crete where the | B |
| Cydonians dwell round about the waters of the river Iardanus There is | H3 |
| a high headland hereabouts stretching out into the sea from a place | H3 |
| called Gortyn and all along this part of the coast as far as Phaestus | H3 |
| the sea runs high when there is a south wind blowing but arter | E |
| Phaestus the coast is more protected for a small headland can make | D |
| a great shelter Here this part of the fleet was driven on to the | B |
| rocks and wrecked but the crews just managed to save themselves As | H3 |
| for the other five ships they were taken by winds and seas to | P |
| Egypt where Menelaus gathered much gold and substance among people of | A |
| an alien speech Meanwhile Aegisthus here at home plotted his evil | I3 |
| deed For seven years after he had killed Agamemnon he ruled in | G |
| Mycene and the people were obedient under him but in the eighth year | D4 |
| Orestes came back from Athens to be his bane and killed the | B |
| murderer of his father Then he celebrated the funeral rites of his | H3 |
| mother and of false Aegisthus by a banquet to the people of Argos and | F |
| on that very day Menelaus came home with as much treasure as his | H3 |
| ships could carry | G2 |
| Take my advice then and do not go travelling about for long so far | E4 |
| from home nor leave your property with such dangerous people in | G |
| your house they will eat up everything you have among them and you | P |
| will have been on a fool's errand Still I should advise you by all | Y2 |
| means to go and visit Menelaus who has lately come off a voyage among | F4 |
| such distant peoples as no man could ever hope to get back from | F2 |
| when the winds had once carried him so far out of his reckoning | N |
| even birds cannot fly the distance in a twelvemonth so vast and | F |
| terrible are the seas that they must cross Go to him therefore by | M3 |
| sea and take your own men with you or if you would rather travel | I3 |
| by land you can have a chariot you can have horses and here are my | M3 |
| sons who can escort you to Lacedaemon where Menelaus lives Beg of him | S3 |
| to speak the truth and he will tell you no lies for he is an | G |
| excellent person | G |
| As he spoke the sun set and it came on dark whereon Minerva said | I |
| Sir all that you have said is well now however order the | B |
| tongues of the victims to be cut and mix wine that we may make | D |
| drink offerings to Neptune and the other immortals and then go to | P |
| bed for it is bed time People should go away early and not keep late | G4 |
| hours at a religious festival | I3 |
| Thus spoke the daughter of Jove and they obeyed her saying Men | G |
| servants poured water over the hands of the guests while pages filled | H4 |
| the mixing bowls with wine and water and handed it round after giving | N |
| every man his drink offering then they threw the tongues of the | B |
| victims into the fire and stood up to make their drink offerings | H3 |
| When they had made their offerings and had drunk each as much as he | G2 |
| was minded Minerva and Telemachus were forgoing on board their | H |
| ship but Nestor caught them up at once and stayed them | I4 |
| Heaven and the immortal gods he exclaimed forbid that you | P |
| should leave my house to go on board of a ship Do you think I am so | H3 |
| poor and short of clothes or that I have so few cloaks and as to be | G2 |
| unable to find comfortable beds both for myself and for my guests Let | R3 |
| me tell you I have store both of rugs and cloaks and shall not permit | J4 |
| the son of my old friend Ulysses to camp down on the deck of a ship | K4 |
| not while I live nor yet will my sons after me but they will keep | L4 |
| open house as have done | G |
| Then Minerva answered Sir you have spoken well and it will be | G2 |
| much better that Telemachus should do as you have said he therefore | C |
| shall return with you and sleep at your house but I must go back to | P |
| give orders to my crew and keep them in good heart I am the only | G2 |
| older person among them the rest are all young men of Telemachus' own | G |
| age who have taken this voyage out of friendship so I must return to | P |
| the ship and sleep there Moreover to morrow I must go to the | B |
| Cauconians where I have a large sum of money long owing to me As | H3 |
| for Telemachus now that he is your guest send him to Lacedaemon in a | B |
| chariot and let one of your sons go with him Be pleased also to | P |
| provide him with your best and fleetest horses | H3 |
| When she had thus spoken she flew away in the form of an eagle and | F |
| all marvelled as they beheld it Nestor was astonished and took | W3 |
| Telemachus by the hand My friend said he I see that you are | E4 |
| going to be a great hero some day since the gods wait upon you thus | H3 |
| while you are still so young This can have been none other of those | H3 |
| who dwell in heaven than Jove's redoubtable daughter the | B |
| Trito born who showed such favour towards your brave father among the | B |
| Argives Holy queen he continued vouchsafe to send down thy | M3 |
| grace upon myself my good wife and my children In return I will | L2 |
| offer you in sacrifice a broad browed heifer of a year old | M4 |
| unbroken and never yet brought by man under the yoke I will gild her | E |
| horns and will offer her up to you in sacrifice | H3 |
| Thus did he pray and Minerva heard his prayer He then led the | B |
| way to his own house followed by his sons and sons in law When | G |
| they had got there and had taken their places on the benches and | F |
| seats he mixed them a bowl of sweet wine that was eleven years old | M4 |
| when the housekeeper took the lid off the jar that held it As he | G2 |
| mixed the wine he prayed much and made drink offerings to Minerva | B |
| daughter of Aegis bearing Jove Then when they had made their | H |
| drink offerings and had drunk each as much as he was minded the | B |
| others went home to bed each in his own abode but Nestor put | N4 |
| Telemachus to sleep in the room that was over the gateway along with | O4 |
| Pisistratus who was the only unmarried son now left him As for | C |
| himself he slept in an inner room of the house with the queen his | H3 |
| wife by his side | P4 |
| Now when the child of morning rosy fingered Dawn appeared | Q4 |
| Nestor left his couch and took his seat on the benches of white and | F |
| polished marble that stood in front of his house Here aforetime sat | U2 |
| Neleus peer of gods in counsel but he was now dead and had gone | G |
| to the house of Hades so Nestor sat in his seat sceptre in hand | R4 |
| as guardian of the public weal His sons as they left their rooms | H3 |
| gathered round him Echephron Stratius Perseus Aretus and | F |
| Thrasymedes the sixth son was Pisistratus and when Telemachus joined | S4 |
| them they made him sit with them Nestor then addressed them | I4 |
| My sons said he make haste to do as I shall bid you I wish | T4 |
| first and foremost to propitiate the great goddess Minerva who | P |
| manifested herself visibly to me during yesterday's festivities Go | H3 |
| then one or other of you to the plain tell the stockman to look me | G2 |
| out a heifer and come on here with it at once Another must go to | P |
| Telemachus's ship and invite all the crew leaving two men only in | G |
| charge of the vessel Some one else will run and fetch Laerceus the | B |
| goldsmith to gild the horns of the heifer The rest stay all of you | P |
| where you are tell the maids in the house to prepare an excellent | U4 |
| dinner and to fetch seats and logs of wood for a burnt offering | N |
| Tell them also to bring me some clear spring water | E |
| On this they hurried off on their several errands The heifer was | H3 |
| brought in from the plain and Telemachus's crew came from the ship | K4 |
| the goldsmith brought the anvil hammer and tongs with which he | G2 |
| worked his gold and Minerva herself came to the sacrifice Nestor | E |
| gave out the gold and the smith gilded the horns of the heifer that | U2 |
| the goddess might have pleasure in their beauty Then Stratius and | F |
| Echephron brought her in by the horns Aretus fetched water from the | B |
| house in a ewer that had a flower pattern on it and in his other hand | R4 |
| he held a basket of barley meal sturdy Thrasymedes stood by with a | B |
| sharp axe ready to strike the heifer while Perseus held a bucket | R2 |
| Then Nestor began with washing his hands and sprinkling the barley | G2 |
| meal and he offered many a prayer to Minerva as he threw a lock | V4 |
| from the heifer's head upon the fire | E |
| When they had done praying and sprinkling the barley meal | W4 |
| Thrasymedes dealt his blow and brought the heifer down with a | B |
| stroke that cut through the tendons at the base of her neck whereon | G |
| the daughters and daughters in law of Nestor and his venerable wife | X4 |
| Eurydice she was eldest daughter to Clymenus screamed with | O4 |
| delight Then they lifted the heifer's head from off the ground and | F |
| Pisistratus cut her throat When she had done bleeding and was quite | Y4 |
| dead they cut her up They cut out the thigh bones all in due course | H3 |
| wrapped them round in two layers of fat and set some pieces of raw | Z4 |
| meat on the top of them then Nestor laid them upon the wood fire | E |
| and poured wine over them while the young men stood near him with | O4 |
| five pronged spits in their hands When the thighs were burned and | F |
| they had tasted the inward meats they cut the rest of the meat up | O3 |
| small put the pieces on the spits and toasted them over the fire | E |
| Meanwhile lovely Polycaste Nestor's youngest daughter washed | |
| Telemachus When she had washed him and anointed him with oil she | G2 |
| brought him a fair mantle and shirt and he looked like a god as he | G2 |
| came from the bath and took his seat by the side of Nestor When the | B |
| outer meats were done they drew them off the spits and sat down to | P |
| dinner where they were waited upon by some worthy henchmen who kept | |
| pouring them out their wine in cups of gold As soon as they had had | L3 |
| had enough to eat and drink Nestor said Sons put Telemachus's | H3 |
| horses to the chariot that he may start at once | H3 |
| Thus did he speak and they did even as he had said and yoked the | B |
| fleet horses to the chariot The housekeeper packed them up a | B |
| provision of bread wine and sweetmeats fit for the sons of | A |
| princes Then Telemachus got into the chariot while Pisistratus | H3 |
| gathered up the reins and took his seat beside him He lashed the | B |
| horses on and they flew forward nothing loth into the open country | G2 |
| leaving the high citadel of Pylos behind them All that day did they | L |
| travel swaying the yoke upon their necks till the sun went down and | F |
| darkness was over all the land Then they reached Pherae where Diocles | H3 |
| lived who was son to Ortilochus and grandson to Alpheus Here they | L |
| passed the night and Diocles entertained them hospitably When the | B |
| child of morning rosy fingered Dawn appeared they again yoked their | H |
| horses and drove out through the gateway under the echoing | N |
| gatehouse Pisistratus lashed the horses on and they flew forward | Z |
| nothing loth presently they came to the corn lands Of the open | G |
| country and in the course of time completed their journey so well | |
| did their steeds take them | I4 |
| Now when the sun had set and darkness was over the land | R4 |
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