Ab.Still their zeal

Increases: ’tis as fire spread from a spark.

Lyc. A spark? well—Menelaus. At this time

What numbers hath he drawn, and whence?

Ab.The ships

Number above a thousand: a tenth of these

Are sent by Corinth, Sicyon and Mycenæ;

Sixty are Spartan, and king Agamemnon

Provides as many as these all told together.

Then from Ægina, Epidaurus, Argos,