antique > ancient
4 Or to Hypsipyle's, or to Tomyris':
Hypsipyle > (Daughter of Thoas, king of Lemnos; she concealed and thus saved her father when the Lemnian women killed all the men in the island) Tomyris > (Queen of the Massagetes, a Scythian people on the east coast of the Caspian Sea. In a battle in 529 BC she decapitated Cyrus, the founder of the Persian Empire, and threw his head into a bag of human blood, so that, as she said, he might finally satiate himself with it. (This follows Herodotus rather than Xenophon))
5 Her host two hundred thousand numbered is;
host > army
6 Who, while good fortune favoured her might, 7 Triumphed oft against her enemies; 8 And yet though overcome in hapless fight, 9 She triumphed on death, in enemies' despite.
in enemies' despite > [scorning her enemies]
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Her reliques Fulgent hauing gathered,
2 Fought with Seuerus, and him ouerthrew;
Yet in the chace was slaine of them, that fled:
4 So made them victours, whom he did subdew.
Then gan Carausius tirannize anew,
6 And gainst the Romanes bent their proper powre,
But him Allectus treacherously slew,
8 And tooke on him the robe of Emperoure:
Nath'lesse the same enioyed but short happy howre:
1 Her relics Fulgenius having gathered,