And passed the Melian gulf, where through the plain
Spercheius rolls his fructifying flood.
Then faint and famished the Achaean land
Received us, and fair Thessaly’s city; there
The most of hunger died and thirst; for with
This double plague we struggled. Next Magnesia
And Macedonian ground we traversed; then
The stream of Axius, reedy Bolbe’s mere,
The Edonian fields, and the Pangaean hills.
But here some god[f30] stirred winter premature,