The Remains of Hesiod the Ascræan, Including the Shield of Hercules / Translated into English rhyme and blank verse; with a dissertation on the life and æra, the poems and mythology of Hesiod, and copious notes.

by Hesiod

Bristling with anger: for a lion huge

Lay stretched amidst them, and two boars beside

Lifeless: the sable blood down-dropping ooz’d

Into the ground. So these with bowed backs

Lay dead beneath the terrible lions: they,

For this the more incensed, both savage boars

And tawny lions, chafing sprang to war.

There too [260]the battle of the Lapithæ

Was wrought; the spear-arm’d warriors: Cæneus king,

Hopleus, Phalérus, and Pirithous,