and Tanais and brave Cethegus, those at one onslaught,
and hapless Onytes, of the house of Echion, brought forth
by Peridia: that kills the brethren who came from
Apollo’s land of Lycia, and young Menœtes the Arcadian,
who shrunk from war in vain; he plied his craft and lived 10
in poverty by the fishy waters of Lerna, a stranger to the
halls of the great; and his father tilled land for hire.
Like two fires launched from different quarters on a dry
forest with bushes of crackling bay, or as when two foaming
rivers pouring from lofty heights crash along and run 15