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 287 Dappled were they, with a hair here and there like a snow-smitten fleck.

They that in traces without round the perilous turning-post swept, Bays were they, spotted their fetlocks: Peleides beside them on-leapt: Sheathed in his harness, unflagging by car-rail and axle he kept. (Str. 2)
 * And I came where the host of the war-ships lies,—
 * A marvel past telling,—
 * To fill with the vision my maiden eyes
 * And my heart joy-swelling.
 * And there, on the rightward wing arrayed,
 * Was Phlia's Myrmidon battle-aid,
 * Fifty galleys swift for the war,
 * With the ranks of oars by their bulwarks swayed,
 * And high on their sterns in effigies golden

The Nereid Goddesses gleamed afar,
 * The sign by Achilles' host upholden.

(Ant. 2)
 * Hard by, keels equal by tale unto these
 * Did the Argives gather;
 * With Talaüs' fosterling passed they the seas,
 * Mekisteus his father,—
 * And with Sthenelus, Kapaneus' son, at his side.
 * And there did the galleys of Attica ride
 * With the scion of Theseus, the next to the left,—
 * Ships threescore,—and the peerless pride

Of their blazonry was a winged car, bearing
 * Pallas, with horses of hooves uncleft,
 * A blessed sign unto folk sea-faring.