And hath heard of Aias Telamon’s scion, and Aias’ sire. + 

Him did Alkmena’s son, to requite Laomedon’s lie, + 

Lead with his warriors of Tiryns, an ally whose soul was afire + 

For the joy of the harness of battle, in galleys led him to Troy, + 

To the land of heroes’ travail. So Pergamus-city was laid + 

In the dust by Heracles’ might. Thereafter, with Telamon’s aid, + 

The tribes of the Meropes slew he, against him in battle arrayed, + 

And the herdman huge as a mountain, Alkyoneus, whom he found + 

In Phlegra, and spared not his bowstring’s thunder-clanging rebound. + 