And in the Euxine Sea a sunbright island + 

Achilles rules; and in the Phthian highland + 

Still Thetis queens it; in the pastures green + 

Of broad Epirus, where long forelands lean + 

From oakwoods of Dodona downward trending + 

To the Ionian sea-gulf’s rippling sheen, + 

Neoptolemus rules a people cattle-tending. + 

But the land under Pelion capt with cloud, + 

Iolkos, was of old to thraldom bowed + 

When Peleus turned thereon a warring hand, + 

And to Haimonians gave the traitor’s land; + 