But Achilles the golden-haired, while in Philyra’s home yet he stayed, + 

Child though he were, made mighty deeds but his sport: he swayed + 

The short-headed dart in his hands, and, swift as the wild wind’s pinions, + 

Death to the lions he dealt whom he tracked through their forest-dominions. + 

Boars also he slew, and the pulsing bodies of boar and lion + 

Still would he hale to the cave of the Centaur, Zeus’s scion, + 

At the first when but six years old, but thereafter through all those days, + 

So that Artemis, yea, and Athene the dauntless beheld with amaze, + 