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And with these from Kekropia Boutes, a lord of battle-fame,

Stout Teleon’s son, and Phalêrus the mighty spearman came.

It was Alkon his father that sent him forth: no sons save him

Had the ancient to cherish his age and his light of life grown dim:

Yet, albeit his only-begotten he was, and the last of his line,

He sent him, that so amidst valour of heroes his prowess should shine.{100}

But Theseus, of all the sons of Erechtheus most renowned,

At Tainarum under the earth by an unseen fetter was bound.

For he trod the Path of Fear with Peirithoüs; else that Quest

By the might of these had been lightlier compassed of all the rest.

And Tiphys, Hagnias’ son, hath forsaken the Thespians that dwell

In the city of Siphas: of all men keenest was he to foretell

The wrath of the waves on the broad sea, keen to foreknow from afar

The blasts of the storm, and to guide the galley by sun and by star.

’Twas Athênê Tritonis herself that made him eager-souled

To join that muster of heroes that longed his face to behold;{110}