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His massy spear with matchless<br />

fury sent,<br />

Through Amphius' belt and heaving<br />

belly went;<br />

Amphius Apaesus' happy soil possess'd,<br />

With herds abounding, and with<br />

treasure bless'd;<br />

But fate resistless from his country<br />

led<br />

<strong>The</strong> chief, to perish at his people's<br />

head.<br />

Shook with his fall his brazen armour<br />

rung,<br />

And fierce, to seize it, conquering<br />

Ajax sprung;<br />

Around his head an iron tempest<br />

rain'd;<br />

A wood <strong>of</strong> spears his ample shield<br />

sustain'd:<br />

Beneath one foot the yet warm<br />

corpse he press'd,

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