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 METAMORPHOSES BOOK VIII were Eurytion, quick in action, and Echion, of un conquered speed; Locrian Lelex, Panopeus, Hyleus and Hippasus, keen for the fray ; Nestor, then in the prime of his years; and those whom Hippocoön sent from ancient Amyclae; the father-in-law or Penelope,1 and Arcadian Ancaeus; Ampycus' pro- phetic son,2 and the son3 of Oecleus, who had not yet been ruined by his wife; and Atalanta of Tegea, the pride of the Arcadian woods. A polished buckle clasped her robe at the neck; her hair, plainly dressed, was caught up in one knot. From her left shoulder hung an ivory quiver, resounding as she moved, with its shafts, and her left hand held a bow. Such was she in dress. As for her face, it was one which you could truly say was maidenly for a boy or boyish for a maiden. As soon as his eyes fell on her, the Calydonian hero straightway longed for her (but God forbade); he felt the flames of love steal through his heart; and "O happy man," he said, " if ever that maiden shall deem any man worthy to be hers." Neither the occasion nor his own modesty permitted him more words; the greater task of the mighty conflict urged him to action. There was a dense forest, that past ages had never touched with the axe, rising from the plain and look- ing out on the downward-sloping fields. When the heroes came to this, some stretched the hunting-nets, some slipped the leashes from the dogs, some fol- lowed the well-marked trail as they longed to come at their dangerous enemy. There was a deep del where the rain-water from above drained down; the lowest part of this marshy spot was covered with a growth of pliant willows, sedge-grass and swamp- rushes, osiers and tall bulrushes, with an under- 1 Laërtes. 2 Mopsus 3 Amphiaraüs. 429