hicne hominum casus lenire et demere Fatis iura frequens? quantum subito diversus ab illo qui tripodas laurusque sequi, qui doctus in omni nube salutato volucrem cognoscere Phoebo! innumeram ferro plebem, ceu letifer annus aut iubar adversi grave sideris, immolat umbris ipse suis: iaculo Phlegyan iaculoque superbum Phylea, falcato Clonin et Chremetaona curru comminus hunc stantem metit, hunc a poplite sectum, cuspide non missa Chromin Iphinoumque Sagenque intonsumque Gyan sacrumque Lycorea Phoebo (invitus: iam fraxineum demiserat hastae robur et excussis apparuit infula cristis), Alcathoum saxo, cui circum stagna Carysti et domus et coniunx et amantes litora nati.
Is this he that so often softened human affliction and took their prerogative from the Fates? How different of a sudden from the follower of tripod and laurel, skilled to salute Phoebus and recognize the bird in every cloud! Like a season of plague or the grievous ray of a hostile star, with his steel he immolates a numberless multitude to his own shade. With javelin he slays Phlegyas, with javelin proud Phyleus, with scythed chariot mows down Clonis and Chremetaon (one standing to face him, the other severed from the knee), Chromis with a spear thrust and Iphinous and Sages and unshorn Gyas and Lycoreus sacred to Phoebus (him unwilling; he had already plunged the strength of his ashen spear when the crest was shaken off and the fillet came to view), Alcathous with a stone, who had home and wife and shore-loving children by the pools of Carystos.
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