and sets up the prizes. Candidates flock from all 30
sides, Teucrian and Sicanian mixed. Nisus and Euryalus
the foremost. Euryalus conspicuous for beauty and blooming
youth, Nisus for the pure love he bore the boy; following
them came Diores, a royal scion of Priam’s illustrious
stock; then Salius and Patron together, one from 35
Acarnania, the other from Tegea, an Arcadian by blood;
next two Trinacrian youths, Helymus and Panopes, trained
foresters, comrades of their elder friend, Acestes, and many
others, whom dim tradition leaves in darkness. As they