and pleasant Mantinea;
and those who held Stymphalus, and dwelt in Parrhasie; of these king
Agapenor, the son of Ancaeus, commanded sixty ships; but aboard each ship
went many Arcadian heroes skilled in war. But the son of Atreus,
Agamemnon himself, the king of heroes, gave them the well-benched ships,
to pass over the dark sea; since they had no care of naval works.

[Footnote 127: Respecting the connection of this story with the
early poetic contests, see Mueller, Gk. Lit. iv. 2, whose
interesting remarks are, unfortunately, too long for a note.]

[Footnote 128: i. e. lofty.]

Those who inhabited Buprasium and noble Elis, as much as Hyrmine, and
distant Myrsinus, and the Olenian rock, and Alisium, contain within; of
these the leaders were four; but ten swift ships followed each hero, and
many Epeans went aboard them. Amphimachus and Thalpius, sons, the one of
Cteatus, the other of Eurytus, Actor's son, commanded some: brave
Diores, son of Amarynceus, commanded others: and god-like Polyxenus, son
of Agasthenes, the son of king Augeas, commanded the fourth division.

Those from Dulichium, and the Echinades, sacred islands, which lie
beyond the sea, facing Elis.[129] Over these presided Meges, son of
Phyleus, equal to Mars, whom the knight Phyleus, beloved by Jove, begat,
who, enraged against his father, once on a time removed to Dulichium.
With him forty dark ships followed.

Moreover Ulysses led the magnanimous Cephallenians, those who possessed
Ithaca and leaf-quivering Neritos, and who dwelt in Crocylea and rugged
AEgilips, and those who possessed Zacynthus, and those who inhabited
Samos, and those who possessed the continent, and dwelt in the places
lying opposite; these Ulysses commanded, equal to Jove in council. With
him followed twelve red-sided ships.

Thoas, son of Andraemon, led the AEtolians, those who inhabited Pleuron,
and Olenus, and Pylene, and maritime Chalcis, and rocky Calydon. For the
sons of magnanimous oeneus were no more, nor was he himself surviving;
moreover, fair-haired Meleager was dead.[130] To him [Thoas,] therefore,
was intrusted the chief command, to rule the AEtolians, and with him
forty dark ships followed.

[Footnote 129: "This description of the Echinades has something
equivocal in it, which is cleared up, if we suppose it addressed
to the inhabitants of the Asiatic side of the Archipelago. But
if, with Pope, we understand the words 'beyond the sea' to re