And valiant Itymoneus fell before Oineus’ son amid these,

And Artakes with him, a chieftain of men: and unto this day

Unto all these slain do the people the worship of heroes pay.

Then wavered the ranks and broke; then fled they in panic affright,

As before the swift-winged hawks doth a cloud of doves take flight. {1050}

Through the gates in a huddled rout they poured, and the town straightway

With the war-yell was filled, and backward rolled was the woeful fray.

But at dawn were they ware, both these and those, of the cureless ill,

Of the ruinous error; and now did bitter anguish fill

The Minyan heroes, beholding before them Aineus’ child