DEATH OF AMPHIARAUS.
Nemea ix. 41–66.
Once they led to seven-gated Thebes an army of men,
not according
To the lucky flight of birds. Nor did the Kronian,
Brandishing his lightning, impel to march
From home insane, but to abstain from the way.
But to apparent destruction
The host made haste to go, with brazen arms
And horse equipments, and on the banks
Of Ismenus, defending sweet return,
Their white-flowered bodies fattened fire.
For seven pyres devoured young-limbed
Men. But to Amphiaraus
Zeus rent the deep-bosomed earth
With his mighty thunderbolt,
And buried him with his horses,
Ere, being struck in the back
By the spear of Periclymenus, his warlike
Spirit was disgraced.
For in dæmonic fears
Flee even the sons of gods.
CASTOR AND POLLUX.
Nemea x. 153–171.
Pollux, son of Zeus, shared his immortality with his brother Castor, son of Tyndarus, and
