Euboea next her martial sons
prepares,
And sends the brave Abantes to
the wars:
Breathing revenge, in arms
they take their way
From Chalcis' walls, and
strong Eretria;
The Isteian fields for
generous vines renown'd,
The fair Caristos, and the
Styrian ground;
Where Dios from her towers
o'erlooks the plain,
And high Cerinthus views the
neighbouring main.
Down their broad shoulders
falls a length of hair;
Their hands dismiss not the
long lance in air;
But with protended spears in
fighting fields
Pierce the tough corslets and
the brazen shields.
Twice twenty ships transport
the warlike bands,
Which bold Elphenor, fierce in
arms, commands.
Full fifty more from Athens
stem the main,
Led by Menestheus through the
liquid plain.
(Athens the fair, where great
Erectheus sway'd,
That owed his nurture to the
blue-eyed maid,
But from the teeming furrow
took his birth,
The mighty offspring of the
foodful earth.
Him Pallas placed amidst her
wealthy fane,
Adored with sacrifice and oxen
slain;
Where, as the years revolve,
her altars blaze,
And all the tribes resound the
goddess' praise.)
- Note liquid plain seems to allude to a understanding of multi directional reality , the liquid plain which might also be the ocean travel, ways of waters like ship sailing.
- Here is a list of the vast Ares of the Greeks from Africa to Asia to north America and of course Europe
- It includes Australia and the whole world even Antarctica
- It describes the temperament of the people of those lands, their heroic aspects. It uses people as paradigms for this exemplification.
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