Schol. on Il.
xi. 690, "that Homer never once describes any of them to have
either received or required purification for the crime."]

Nireus moreover led three equal ships from Syme, Nireus son of Aglaea,
and king Charopus, Nireus, the fairest of men that came to Ilium, of all
the other Greeks, next to the unblemished son of Peleus. But he was
feeble, and few troops followed him.

But those who possessed Nisyrus, and Crapathus, and Casus, and Cos, the
city of Eurypylus, and the Calydnae isles, Phidippus and Antiphus, both
sons of the Thessalian king, the son of Hercules, commanded. Thirty
hollow ships of these went in order.

But now, [O muse, recount] those, as many as inhabited Pelasgian Argos,
both those who dwelt in Alos and Alope, and Trechin, and those who
possessed Phthia, and Hellas famous for fair dames. But they are called
Myrmidons, and Hellenes, and Achaeans: of fifty ships of these was
Achilles chief. But they remembered not dire-sounding war, for there was
no one who might lead them to their ranks. For swift-footed Achilles lay
at the ships, enraged on account of the fair-haired maid Briseis, whom
he carried away from Lyrnessus, after having suffered many labours, and
having laid waste Lyrnessus and the walls of Thebes; and he killed
Mynetes and spear-skilled Epistrophus, sons of king Evenus, the son of
Selepius. On her account he lay grieving, but speedily was he about to
be roused.

Those who possessed Phylace and flowery Pyrrhasus, the consecrated
ground of Ceres, and Iton the mother of sheep, maritime Antron, and
grassy Ptelon. These warlike Protesilaus, whilst he lived, commanded;
but him the black earth then possessed. His wife, lacerated all around,
had been left at Phylace, and his palace half finished. For a Trojan man
slew him, as he leaped ashore from his ship much the first of the
Greeks. Nor were they, however, without a leader, although they longed
for their own leader; for gallant Podarces marshalled them, Podarces,
son of sheep-abounding Iphiclus, the son of Phylacis, own brother of
magnanimous Protesilaus, younger by birth; but the warlike hero
Protesilaus was older and braver. His troops wanted not a leader, but
lamented him, being brave; with him forty dark ships followed.

Those who inhabited Phaere by the lake Boebeis, Boebe, and Glaphyrae, and
well-built Iaolcus; these Eumeles, the beloved son of Admetus, commanded
in eleven ships, whom Alcestis, divine amongst women, most