And Chrysa, too, lies low, the destined cause

Of royal strife; and Tenedos, and the land

Which on its spreading pastures feeds the flocks225

Of Thracian shepherds, Scyros; Lesbos too,

Upon whose rocky shore the sea in twain

Is cleft; and Cilla, which Apollo loved.

All these my father took, and eke the towns

Whose walls Caÿcus with his vernal flood

Doth wash against. This widespread overthrow

Of tribes, this fearful and destructive scourge,