Verse
Iliad
Book 23, Line 287 by Samuel Butler (English)
Thus spoke the son of Peleus and the drivers of chariots bestirred themselves. First among them all uprose Eumelos, king of men, son of Admetos, a man excellent in horsemanship. Next to him rose mighty Diomedes son of Tydeus; he yoked the Trojan horses which he had taken from Aeneas, when Apollo bore him out of the fight. Next to him, yellow-haired Menelaos son of Atreus rose and yoked his fleet horses, Agamemnon's mare Aithe, and his own horse Podagros. The mare had been given to Agamemnon by Echepolos son of Anchises, that he might not have to follow him to Ilion , but might stay at home and take his ease; for Zeus had endowed him with great wealth and he lived in spacious Sicyon . This mare, all eager for the race, did Menelaos put under the yoke.
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