Iliad two historic and presnce roll list of ways now manifest

The proud Mycene arms her martial powers,

Cleone, Corinth, with imperial towers,¹⁰³

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Fair Araethyrea, Ornia's fruitful plain,

And Ægion, and Adrastus' ancient reign;

And those who dwell along the sandy shore,

And where Pellene yields her fleecy store,

Where Helice and Hyperesia lie,

And Gonoessa's spires salute the sky.

Great Agamemnon rules the numerous band,

A hundred vessels in long order stand,

And crowded nations wait his dread command.

High on the deck the king of men appears,

And his refulgent arms in triumph wears;

Proud of his host, unrivall'd in his reign,

In silent pomp he moves along the main.

n    The reward of this bind is the triumphant oddyseus portrays and is the call to its accomplishment.

n    Next the p[rocession of penesula hreeks portraying the hight of their ways.

His brother follows, and to vengeance warms

The hardy Spartans, exercised in arms:

Phares and Brysia's valiant troops, and those

Whom Lacedaemon's lofty hills inclose;

Or Messe's towers for silver doves renown'd,

Amyclae, Laas, Augia's happy ground,

And those whom OEtylos' low walls contain,

And Helos, on the margin of the main:

These, o'er the bending ocean, Helen's cause,

In sixty ships with Menelaus draws:

Eager and loud from man to man he flies,

Revenge and fury flaming in his eyes;

While vainly fond, in fancy oft he hears

The fair one's grief, and sees her falling tears.

n    Describes the marshal cense of those who are this Helen.  The strength described by the way they look and act and the tear represents their more sensitive side.