“Peneleus, Leïtus, Prothoënor, joyned with Arcesilaus and bold Clonius, equall in arms and in command, led Bœotia’s hosts.”
This in his fuller poem appears:
“Peneleus, Leïtus, and Prothoënor,
Join’d with Arcesilaus and bold Clonius—
Two equal men in arms and in command—
Led forth Bœotia’s hosts.”
Pope’s MS. at the British Museum reads:
“The hardy warriors whom Bœotia bred
Bold Clonius Leïtus and Peneleus led.”
But these were afterward emended to suit his verse, and the printed lines are: