"Hyla" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... slew then the mighty son Of Priam, Hector, and the brazen Mars! First godlike Teuthras, an equestrian Chief, Orestes, Trechus of AEtolian race, 835 OEnomaues, Helenus from OEnops' sprung, And brisk[17] in fight Oresbius; rich was he, And covetous of more; in Hyla dwelt Fast by the lake Cephissus, where abode Boeotian Princes numerous, rich themselves 840 And rulers of a people wealth-renown'd. But Juno, such dread slaughter of the Greeks Noting, thus, ardent, to Minerva spake. Daughter of Jove invincible! ...
— The Iliad of Homer - Translated into English Blank Verse • Homer |
