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And so to a doom foreshown to their eyes that company marched with spear and targe

All-brazen, and war-steed trappings;⁠—and there for ever they left on Ismenus’ marge

Sweet hope of their home-return, and fed with their war-grej^ corpses the smoke upsoaring.

Seven pyres ravined up those young men’s limbs; but for Amphiaraus Zeus with the might

Of his thunderbolt clave broad-breasted earth, and hid the man and his steeds from sight