Pugilistica: The History of British Boxing, Volume 1 (of 3) / Containing Lives of the Most Celebrated Pugilists; Full Reports of Their Battles from Contemporary Newspapers, With Authentic Portraits, Personal Anecdotes, and Sketches of the Principal Patrons of the Prize Ring, Forming a Complete History of the Ring from Fig and Broughton, 1719-40, to the Last Championship Battle Between King and Heenan, in December 1863

by Henry Downes Miles

From high Trœzenè and Maseta’s plain;

And fair Ægina circled by the main,

Whom strong Tyrinthe’s lofty walls surround,

And Epidaure with viny harvest crowned,

And where fair Asinen and Hermion show

Their cliffs above and ample bay below.

These by the brave Euryalus were led,

Great Sthenelus and greater Diomed.

But chief Tydides bore the sovereign sway;

In fourscore barks they plough their watery way.”