To old Peisander’s Spartan blood hath Aristagoras claim, + 

Well may ye trow: from Amyklae he with Orestes came, + 

And hither led Aeolian ranks in brazen battle-gear. + 

His mother’s brother Melanippus’ blood with his, we know, + 

Was by Ismenus blent. The might of days of long ago + 