Iliad 2 oricles and secret ship designs

Graced with the presents of his shafts and bow.

From rich Apaesus and Adrestia's towers,

High Teree's summits, and Pityea's bowers;

From these the congregated troops obey

Young Amphius and Adrastus' equal sway;

Old Merops' sons; whom, skill'd in fates to come,

The sire forewarn'd, and prophesied their doom:

Fate urged them on! the sire forewarn'd in vain,

They rush'd to war, and perish'd on the plain.

From Practius' stream, Percote's pasture lands,

And Sestos and Abydos' neighbouring strands,

From great Arisba's walls and Selle's coast,

Asius Hyrtacides conducts his host:

High on his car he shakes the flowing reins,

His fiery coursers thunder o'er the plains.

The fierce Pelasgi next, in war renown'd,

March from Larissa's ever-fertile ground:

In equal arms their brother leaders shine,

Hippothous bold, and Pyleus the divine.

Next Acamas and Pyrous lead their hosts,

In dread array, from Thracia's wintry coasts;

Round the bleak realms where Hellespontus roars,

And Boreas beats the hoarse-resounding shores.

With great Euphemus the Ciconians move,

Sprung from Troezenian Ceus, loved by Jove.

Pyraechmes the Paeonian troops attend,

Skill'd in the fight their crooked bows to bend;

From Axius' ample bed he leads them on,

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00 here is a secret recipe for building and arming a ship

00 note they are all calling, prayiong to their gods and using oricles to gain favour form the Gods before setting off,  what is the furtune fortold,ost not that good and warnings told.
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