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 * By the shifting maze of the draughts beguiled
 * Sat side by side
 * Protesilaus and he that was sprung
 * Of Poseidon's seed,
 * Palamedes: and there, by the strong arm flung

Of Diomede,
 * Did the discus leap, and he joyed therein;
 * And hard beside him
 * Was Meriones of the War-god's kin—
 * Men wondering eyed him.
 * And Laertes' son from the isle-hills far
 * Through the sea-haze gleaming;
 * And Nireus, of all that host of war
 * The goodliest-seeming.

(Mesode) There was Achilles, whose feet are as winds for the storm-rush unreined: Him I beheld who of Thetis was born, who of Cheiron was trained; Clad in his armour he raced, over sand, over shingle he strained, Matching in contest of swiftness his feet with a chariot of four, Rounding the sweep of the course for the victory:— rang evermore Shouts from Pherêtid Eumelus, and aye with the goad that he bore Smote he his horses most goodly—I saw them, saw gold-glitter deck Richly their bits; and the midmost, the car-yoke who bore on their neck,