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Received Œclides, hapless seer,

Who urged the stormy war's career,

Nor less in nymphs with lovely hair

Refulgent shines the city's fame.

This Jupiter's descents proclaim

To Danae and Alcmena fair:

He who to harmony inclined

Adrastus' sire and Lynceus' mind;

And rear'd Amphitryo to the fight;

But he who rules supreme in might

Grafted upon the parent tree

His own immortal progeny:

For when in brazen armour dight

He the repulsed Teleboans slew,

His hall th' immortal ruling god,

Robed in the hero's likeness, trod,

Bearing the intrepid seed to view

Herculean—him whose youthful bride,

Fairest among the goddess train,

Walks by the genial mother's side,

Throughout Olympus' high domain.

Brief my song's limits to declare

What Argos holds of good and fair;

And hard the labour to control

In man satiety of soul.

But the well-chorded lyre awake,

And as a theme the wrestling take.

Oft as adjudged the brazen prize

Draws crowds to Juno's sacrifice.

Whence Ulias' son twice victor bore

Oblivion of his labours o'er.