For one, most brutal of the brutal brood,

Or whether wine or beauty fired his blood,

Or both at once, beheld with lustful eyes

The bride: at once resolved to make his prize.

Down went the board, and fastening on her hair,

He seized with sudden force the frighted fair.

'Twas Eurytus began; his bestial kind

His crime pursued, and each as pleased his mind

On her, whom chance presented, took. The feast

An image of a taken town expressed."