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Literal Translation. 85
their rust and dirt. Their spears were armed so that they
might be keen for the spoiling of foes and foreigners. Their
swords were made sharppointed and their shields were ad-
justed (?) before wending on the way. The garments and weeds
and clothes of the Athenians were made ready. Now there was
one cry throughout the whole of Greece because they divided
themselves. Some of them in woods a-felling the timber, so that
no one heard another's voice by reason of the abundance of the
wrights and the serving-men a-cutting and hewing and chipping
the trees. Another party of them in forges making arms and
things of iron, namely, making swords and hauberks and shields,
pointing and shaping 1 their weapons. There was no one, now,
in the whole of Greece without a work in that kind. They
were full of leaguers and encampments from the eastern border
of Rhaetia in the south-east to the west of the land of Thrace
on Propontis in the north-east. The Athenians were biding
there in a leaguer. The Peloponnesians (?) and Mycenaeans and
Lacedaemonians were biding in one stead. Argives and Danai
and Pelasgi were (there also). Folk of Thrace and Arcadia
and Thessalia and Achaia and Boeotia were there. The Mace-
donians and the Myrmidons and the Ionians were there. There
were the Galatians and the . . . and the Aeolians. The ga-
thering of Greece was nothing to the muster that was in the
islands of the Tyrrhene sea. Hardly (?) was an equal number
left 2 in them from the waves of the Adriatic sea to the
Maeotic marshes. These are the islands wherein was that
muster: namely, in Crete and in Cyprus and in Rhodes and
in Pylos and in Salamis and in the islands named . . . and
the isles . . . and the isle . . . There was, besides, a great
gathering in Corcyra and Ithaca . . . Cythera,
Calaureia (?),
Carpathus . . . Aegina . . . Maoris . . . Scyros and in Peparethus
and in Lemnos and in Thasos and in Imbros and in Scyros,
and in other islands besides, which win (?) fame and eminence.
1 slaide: cf. du-slaid (gl. plasmantis) Ml. 140 •>.
2 Perhaps the scribe has omitted ma: if an equal etc. Sic LL. 232a.