beautiful in
form of the daughters of Pelias, brought forth by Admetus.

Those who inhabited Methone and Thaumacia, and possessed Meliboea, and
rugged Olizon; these Philoctetes, well skilled in archery, commanded in
seven ships. Fifty sailors, well skilled in archery, went on board each
to fight valiantly. But he lay in an island enduring bitter pangs, in
divine Lemnos, where the sons of the Greeks had left him suffering with
the evil sting of a deadly serpent. There he lay grieving; but soon were
the Argives at the ships destined to remember their king Philoctetes.
Nor were they however without a leader, though they longed for their own
leader; but Medon, the bastard son of Oileus, whom Rhina brought forth
by city-wasting Oileus, marshalled them.

Those who possessed Tricca, and hilly Ithome, and those who possessed
oechalia, the city of oechalian Eurytus; Podalirius and Machaon, two
excellent physicians,[133] both sons of AEsculapius, led these. With them
thirty hollow ships went in order.

[Footnote 133: Grote, vol. i. p. 348, remarks that the "renown of
Podalirius and Machaon was further prolonged in the subsequent
poem of Arctinus, the Iliu-Persis, wherein the one was
represented as unrivalled in surgical operations, the other as
sagacious in detecting and appreciating morbid symptoms. It was
Podalirius who first noticed the glaring eyes and disturbed
deportment which preceded the suicide of Ajax."]

Those who possessed Ormenium, and the fountain Hyperia, and those who
possessed Asterium and the white tops of Titanus; these Eurypylus, the
brave son of Evaemon, commanded. With him forty dark ships followed.

Those who possessed Argissa, and inhabited Gyrtone, and Orthe, and
Elone, and the white city Oloosson: these the stout warrior Polypoetes,
son of Pirithous, whom immortal Jove begat, commanded. Him renowned
Hippodamia brought forth by Pirithous, on the day when he took vengeance
on the shaggy Centaurs, and drove them from Mount Pelion, and chased
them to the AEthiceans. He was not the only leader; with him commanded
warlike Leonteus, son of magnamimous Coronus, the son of Coeneus. With
these forty dark ships followed.

But Gyneus led two-and-twenty ships from Cyphus. Him the Enienes
followed, and the Peraebi, stout warriors, who placed their habitations
by chilly Dodona, and those who tilled the fields about delightful
Titaresius, which pours its fair-flowing stream into the Peneus; n