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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, And valiant Peleus Phthia's sceptre sway'd. Next Bules came, from fam'd Cecropia far., [sic] 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: 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, 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. 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. Minerva