nd Pellene, and those who
[inhabited] AEgium, and all along the sea-coast,[125] and about spacious
Helice. Of these, king Agamemnon, the son of Atreus, commanded a
hundred ships: and with him by far the most and bravest troops followed;
and he had clothed himself in dazzling brass, exulting in his glory,
that he shone conspicuous amongst all heroes; for he was the most
eminent, and led by far the most numerous troops.[126]

[Footnote 124: An anachronism, as Corinth, before its capture by
the Dorians, was called Ephyra (as in II. vi. 152). "Neque est,
quod miremur ab Homero nominari Corinthum, nam ex persona poetae
et hanc urbem, et quasdam Ionum colonias iis nominibus appellat,
quibus vocabantur aetate ejus, multo post Ilium captum
conditae."--Vell. Paterc. i. 3.]

[Footnote 125. I. e. the later Achaia.--Arnold.]

[Footnote 126: On the superior power of Agamemnon, see Grote,
vol. i. p. 211 and compare II. ix. 69.]

But those who possessed great Lacedaemon, full of clefts, and Pharis and
Sparta, and dove-abounding Messa, and Brysiae, and pleasant Augeiae; and
those who possessed Amyclae, and Helos, a maritime city; and those who
possessed Laas, and dwelt round oetylus. Of these his brother Menelaus,
brave in battle, commanded sixty ships, but they were armed apart [from
Agamemnon's forces]. Amidst them he himself went, confiding in his
valour, inciting them to war; but especially he desired in his soul to
avenge the remorse of Helen and her groans.

Those who inhabited Pylos and pleasant Arene, and Thryos, by the fords
of Alphoeus, and well-built AEpy, and Cyparesseis and Amphigenia, and
Pteleum, and Helos, and Dorium: and there it was the Muses, meeting the
Thracian Thamyris, as he was coming from oechalia, from oechalian Eurytus,
caused him to cease his song; for he averred, boasting, that he could
obtain the victory,[127] even though the Muses themselves, the daughters
of aegis-bearing Jove, should sing. But they, enraged, made him blind,
and moreover deprived him of his power of singing, and caused him to
forget the minstrel-art. These the Gerenian horseman Nestor commanded:
and with him ninety hollow ships proceeded in order.

Those who possessed Arcadia, under the breezy[128] mountain of Cyllene,
near the tomb of AEpytus, where are close-fighting heroes; those who
inhabited Pheneus, and sheep-abounding Orchomenus, and Ripe and Stratie,
and wind-swept Enispe, and who possessed Tegea