Togail na Tebe = The Thebiad of Statius : the Irish text

°"THE THEBAIDthis account that rich well-born king was thus: His father's andmother's original stock was Jupiter, Saturn's happy rich wellbornson. And there existed no care in that king's condition,save that he had not many children, but only two daughters,and these bright pure chaste daughters were worthy of uprightchosen youths, and out of affection for these maidens he offeredhuge swollen sacrifices to Apollo, that he might declare to himthe men whom these maidens would wed.And Apollo told himby making to him a true prophecy, that a huge rough wild pig,and a ravening raging lion, would be his sons-in-law. AndAdrastus did not understand that prophecy, and no more didhis poets or his learned men.At that time and hour, however, came heavy strongly advancingTydeus, son of Oeneus, to wit, a fine battle-victoriousprince of Calydon, and this is why he had moved out from hiscountry and his land unto this same fine strongly fortified city.Once upon a time he had gone to hunt and slaughter deer withhis own brother german, a dear and well-beloved son of Oeneus,to wit, Meleager. And they had the fortune to kill a huge wildboar that was overrunning the country and the land.The firstto wound it was Tydeus, son of Oeneus, and to him fe3—tbeslaughter of it and the vaunt of it before Meleager. But hegave the hide of that wild boar to his sweetheart, a lady warriorthat was in that hunt, to wit, Atalanta ; and moreover Tydeussaw that. He asked his brother Meleager ": Why hast thougiven to thy sweetheart the hide of the wild boar whose firstwound I vaunted ? " " It is I that killed and destroyed him,and therefore I gave it her." After that, then, Tydeus rose upto contend for the hide against the maiden, and he waged adexterous contest with Atalanta, and there the maiden wasvanquished, and Tydeus brought the hide with him. But whenMeleager heard of that deed, he was seized with anger andgreat agitation, and he set out to avenge it upon Tydeus, andMeleager fell by his brother Tydeus in that way, so that forthat he was exiled and banished. And he chanced on the same