That drew the Thracian car, unmaster’d, broke
With violence away, and turning short,
(When o’er the hippodrome with winged speed
They had completed now the seventh career),
Dash’d their wild foreheads ’gainst the Lybian car.
From this one luckless chance a train of ills
Succeeding, rudely on each other fell
Horses and charioteers, and soon was fill’d
With wrecks of shatter’d cars the Phocian plain.
“This seen, the Athenian, with consummate art,