Elfe, fing'd with lightning hadft thou hence been thrown, Where chain'd on burning rocks the Titans groan. Thus he who shakes Olympus with his nod; Then gave to Pæon's care the bleeding God. With gentle hand the balm he pour'd around, And heal'd th' immortal flesh, and clos'd the wound. Sudden the fluids fix, the parts combin'd; Fast by the throne of heaven's fuperior Lord. 1115 1120 THE ARGUMENT. The Episodes of Glaucus and Diomed, and of Hector and Andromache. THE Gods having left the field, the Grecians prevail. Helenus, the chief augur of Troy, commands Hector to return to the city, in order to appoint a folemn proceffion of the queen and the Trojan matrons to the temple of Minerva, to entreat her to remove Diomed from the fight. The battle relaxing during the abfence of Hector, Glaucus and Diomed have an interview between the two armies; where coming to the knowledge of the friendship and hospitality paft between their ancestors, they make exchange of their arms. Hector, having performed the the orders of Helenus, prevails upon Paris to return to the battle ;. and taking a tender leave of his wife Andromache, haftens again to the field. The fcene is first in the field of battle, between the river Simoïs and Scamander, and then changes to Troy. THE ILIA N° I A D. OW Heaven forfakes the fight: th' immortals To human force and human skill, the field: Now here, now there, the tide of combat flows; While Troy's fam'd *streams, that bound the deathful plain, On either fide run purple to the main. Great Ajax first to conqueft led the way, Broke the thick ranks, and turn'd the doubtful day. His thundering arm a deadly stroke imprest 5 10 Where the black horse-hair nodde i o'er his creft: In fair Arifbe's walls (his native place) *Scamander and Simoïs, 20 Το To ftern Tydides now he falls a prey, By great Euryalus was Drefus flain, 25 30 And two fair infants crown'd his ftrong embrace.) 35 Ulyffes' fpear Pydytes fent to hell; By Teucer's fhaft brave Aretaön bled, And Neftor's fon laid stern Ablerus dead ; 49 Who held in Pedafus his proud abode, And till'd the banks where filver Satnio flow'd. Melanthius by Eurypylus was flain; And Phylacus from Leitus flies in vain. Rush'd on a tamarisk's strong trunk, and broke 45 50 |