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[pg<br />

426]<br />

Next these a buckler, spear, and<br />

helm, he brings;<br />

Cast on the plain, the brazen burden<br />

rings:<br />

Arms which <strong>of</strong> late divine<br />

Sarpedon wore,<br />

And great Patroclus in short triumph<br />

bore.<br />

"Stand forth the bravest <strong>of</strong> our host!<br />

(he cries)<br />

Whoever dares deserve so rich a<br />

prize,<br />

Now grace the lists before our<br />

army's sight,<br />

And sheathed in steel, provoke his<br />

foe to fight.<br />

Who first the jointed armour shall<br />

explore,<br />

And stain his rival's mail with issuing<br />

gore,<br />

<strong>The</strong> sword Asteropaeus possess'd<br />

<strong>of</strong> old,

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