Met. 5.74Ecce Syēnītēs, genitus Metione, Phorbās
75et Libys Amphimedōn, avidī committere pugnam,
sanguine, quō lātē tellūs madefacta tepēbat,
conciderant lapsī: surgentibus obstitit ēnsis,
alterīus costīs, iugulō Phorbantis adāctus.See, Phorbas of Syene, son of Metion, and Amphimedon the Libyan, eager to join battle, had slipped and fallen in the blood with which the ground, soaked far and wide, was warm: as they rose a sword stopped them, driven into the ribs of the one, the throat of Phorbas. Met. 5.79At nōn Actoridēn Erytum, cui lāta bipennis
80tēlum erat, hāmātō Perseus petit ēnse, sed altīs
exstantem signīs multaeque in pondere massae
ingentem manibus tollit crātēra duābus
īnflīgitque virō;But Erytus, son of Actor, whose weapon was a broad double axe, Perseus does not attack with his hooked sword, but lifts in both hands a huge mixing-bowl, standing out with high reliefs and of great weight of metal, and dashes it against the man; Met. 5.83rutilum vomit ille cruōrem
et resupīnus humum moribundō vertice pulsat.he vomits red gore, and, falling on his back, beats the ground with his dying head.
Met. 5.85Inde Semīramiō Polydegmona sanguine crētum
Caucasiumque Abarin Sperchīonidēnque Lycetum
intōnsumque comās Helicēn Phlegyānque Clytumque
sternit et exstrūctōs morientum calcat acervōs.Then he lays low Polydegmon, sprung from the blood of Semiramis, and Caucasian Abaris, and Lycetus son of Spercheus, and Helix with his unshorn hair, and Phlegyas and Clytus, and treads on the heaped-up piles of the dying. Met. 5.89Nec Phīneus ausus concurrere comminus hostī,
90intorquet iaculum: quod dētulit error in Īdān,
expertem frūstrā bellī et neutra arma secūtum.Nor did Phineus dare to meet his enemy hand to hand; he hurls a javelin: chance carried it astray onto Idas, who had kept out of the war in vain and followed neither side. Met. 5.92Ille tuēns oculīs inmītem Phīnea torvīs
"quandōquidem in partēs" ait "abstrahor, accipe, Phīneu,
quem fēcistī hostem pēnsāque hōc vulnere vulnus";He, glaring at pitiless Phineus with fierce eyes, says, 'Since I am dragged into taking sides, receive, Phineus, the enemy you have made, and pay for wound with this wound'; Met. 5.95iamque remissūrus trāctum dē vulnere tēlum
sanguine dēfectōs cecidit conlapsus in artūs.and now, about to hurl back the weapon drawn from his wound, he fell, collapsing on limbs drained of blood.
Met. 5.97Hīc quoque Cēphēnum post rēgem prīmus Hodītēs
ēnse iacet Clymenī;Here too Hodites, first of the Cephenes after the king, lies slain by the sword of Clymenus; Met. 5.98Prothoēnora percutit Hypseus,
Hypsea Lyncidēs.Hypseus strikes Prothoenor, Lynceus' descendant strikes Hypseus. Met. 5.99Fuit et grandaevus in illīs
100Ēmathiōn, aequī cultor timidusque deōrum;There was among them too the aged Emathion, a lover of justice and one who feared the gods; Met. 5.101quī, quoniam prohibent annī bellāre, loquendō
pugnat et incessīt scelerātaque dēvovet arma.who, since his years prevent him from waging war, fights by speaking, and advances and curses the wicked arms. Met. 5.103Huic Chromis amplexō tremulīs altāria palmīs
dēcutit ēnse caput;As he clasps the altar with trembling hands, Chromis strikes off his head with a sword; Met. 5.104quod prōtinus incidit ārae
105atque ibi sēmianimī verba exsecrantia linguā
ēdidit, et mediōs animam exspīrāvit in ignēs.which fell straight onto the altar, and there with half-living tongue uttered words of cursing, and breathed out its life amid the flames. Met. 5.107Hinc geminī frātrēs Brotēāsque et caestibus Ammōn
invictī, vincī sī possent caestibus ēnsēs,
Phīneā cecidēre manū, Cererisque sacerdōs
110Ampycus, albentī vēlātus tempora vittā.Then twin brothers, Broteas and Ammon, unconquered with the boxing-glove, if swords could be conquered by gloves, fell by the hand of Phineus, and Ceres' priest Ampycus, his temples veiled with a white fillet.
Met. 5.111Tū quoque, Lampetidē, nōn hōs adhibendus ad ūsūs,
sed quī, pācis opus, citharam cum vōce movērēs,
iussus erās celebrāre dapēs fēstumque canendō.You too, son of Lampetus, not meant to be put to such uses, but to play the lyre with your voice, a work of peace, had been bidden to grace the banquet and the festival with singing. Met. 5.114Quem procul adstantem plēctrumque imbelle tenentem
115Pettalus inrīdēns "Stygiīs cane cētera" dīxit
"mānibus" et laevō mūcrōnem tempore fīxit.As he stood apart, holding his unwarlike plectrum, Pettalus, mocking him, said, 'Sing the rest to the Stygian shades,' and fixed his point in his left temple. Met. 5.117Concidit et digitīs morientibus ille retemptat
fīla lyrae, cāsūque fuit miserābile carmen.He falls, and with dying fingers touches the strings of the lyre once more, and by chance the song was piteous. Met. 5.119Nec sinit hunc impūne ferōx cecidisse Lycormās
120raptaque dē dextrō rōbusta repāgula postī
ossibus inlīsit mediae cervīcis: at ille
prōcubuit terrae mactātī mōre iuvencī.Fierce Lycormas does not let him fall unavenged, and, snatching the stout bar from the right doorpost, dashed it against the bones in the middle of his neck: and he sank to the ground like a slaughtered bullock.
Met. 5.123Dēmere temptābat laevī quoque rōbora postis
Cīnyphius Pelatēs: temptantī dextera fīxa est
125cuspide Marmaridae Corythī lignōque cohaesit.Cinyphian Pelates was trying to pull away the oak bar of the left doorpost too: as he tried, his right hand was pinned by the spear of Corythus the Marmaridian and stuck fast to the wood. Met. 5.126Haerentī latus hausit Abās: nec corruit ille,
sed retinente manum moriēns ē poste pependit.As he stuck there, Abas pierced his side: and he did not collapse, but hung dying from the doorpost, which held his hand fast. Met. 5.128Sternitur et Menaleus, Persēia castra secūtus,
et Nasamōniacī Dorylās dītissimus agrī,
130dīves agrī Dorylās, quō nōn possēderat alter
lātius aut totidem tollēbat tūris acervōs.Menaleus too is laid low, who had followed Perseus' camp, and Dorylas, richest in Nasamonian land, Dorylas rich in land, than whom no other had owned land more widely or raised so many heaps of incense. Met. 5.132Huius in oblīquō missum stetit inguine ferrum:
lētifer ille locus.The iron thrown at him stood fixed in his groin, slantwise: that is a deadly place.
Met. 5.133Quem postquam vulneris auctor
singultantem animam et versantem lūmina vīdit
135Bactrius Halcyoneus "hoc, quod premis" inquit, "habētō
dē tot agrīs terrae" corpusque exsangue relīquit.When the author of the wound, Bactrian Halcyoneus, saw him sobbing out his life and rolling his eyes, he said, 'Of all your lands, keep this patch of earth you lie on,' and left the bloodless body. Met. 5.137Torquet in hunc hastam calidō dē vulnere raptam
ultor Abantiadēs;The avenger, Abas' descendant, hurls at him the spear snatched from the warm wound; Met. 5.138mediā quae nāre recepta
cervīce exācta est in partēsque ēminet ambās.which, taken in the middle of the nose, was driven out through the neck and juts out on both sides. Met. 5.140Dumque manum Fortūna iuvat, Clytiumque Claninque,
mātre satōs ūnā, dīversō vulnere fūdit:
nam Clytiī per utrumque gravis lībrāta lacertō
fraxinus ācta femur, iaculum Clanis ōre momordit.And while Fortune aids his hand, he laid low Clytius and Clanis, born of one mother, with different wounds: for the heavy ash, poised by his strong arm, was driven through both thighs of Clytius, while Clanis bit the javelin with his mouth.
Met. 5.144Occidit et Celadōn Mendēsius, occidit Astreus,
145mātre Palaestīnā, dubiō genitōre creātus,
Aethiōnque sagāx quondam ventūra vidēre
(tunc ave dēceptus falsā), rēgisque Thoactēs
armiger et caesō genitōre īnfāmis Agyrtēs.Mendesian Celadon falls too; Astreus falls, born of a Palestinian mother and an uncertain father, and Aethion, once shrewd at seeing what was to come (then deceived by a false bird), and Thoactes, the king's armour-bearer, and Agyrtes, infamous for slaying his father. Met. 5.149Plūs tamen exhaustō superest: namque omnibus ūnum
150opprimere est animus, coniūrāta undique pugnant
agmina prō causā meritum impugnante fidemque:
hāc prō parte socer frūstrā pius et nova coniūnx
cum genetrīce favent ululātūque ātria complent.Yet more remains than has been spent: for all have one aim, to crush one man; on every side the sworn bands fight for a cause that assails merit and good faith: on his side his father-in-law, loyal in vain, and his new bride with her mother lend support and fill the halls with wailing. Met. 5.154Sed sonus armōrum superat gemitusque cadentum,
155pollūtōsque semel multō Bellōna penātēs
sanguine perfundit renovātaque proelia miscet.But the clash of arms drowns them, and the groans of the falling, and Bellona drenches with much blood the household gods once polluted, and stirs up the battle anew.
Met. 5.157Circueunt ūnum Phīneus et mīlle secūtī
Phīnea: tēla volant hībernā grandine plūra
praeter utrumque latus praeterque et lūmen et aurēs.Phineus and the thousand who followed Phineus surround the one man: weapons fly thicker than winter hail past both his sides and past his eyes and ears. Met. 5.160Applicat hic umerōs ad magnae saxa columnae,
tūtaque terga gerēns adversaque in agmina versus
sustinet īnstantēs.He sets his shoulders against the stones of a great column, and, keeping his back safe and turned to face the opposing ranks, he withstands their onslaught. Met. 5.162Īnstābat parte sinistrā
Chaonius Molpeus, dextrā Nabataeus Echemmōn.On the left pressed Chaonian Molpeus, on the right Nabataean Echemmon. Met. 5.164Tigris ut audītīs dīversā valle duōrum
165exstimulāta fame mūgītibus armentōrum
nescit, utrō potius ruat, et ruere ārdet utrōque,
sīc dubius Perseus, dextrā laevāne ferātur,
Molpea trāiectī submōvit vulnere crūris,
contentusque fugā est: neque enim dat tempus Echemmōn,
170sed furit et, cupiēns saltū dare vulnera collō,
nōn circumspectīs exāctum vīribus ēnsem
frēgit, et extrēmā percussae parte columnae
lammina dissiluit dominīque in gutture fīxa est.As a tigress, goaded by hunger, when she hears the lowing of two herds in different valleys, does not know which to rush upon first and burns to rush on both, so Perseus, uncertain whether to turn right or left, drove off Molpeus with a wound that pierced his leg, and is content with his flight: for Echemmon gives him no time, but rages, and, eager to deal a wound to his neck with a leap, driving his sword with force not looked to, he broke it, and the blade, striking the very edge of the column, flew apart and lodged in its master's throat.
Met. 5.174Nōn tamen ad lētum causās satis illa valentēs
175plaga dedit: trepidum Perseus et inermia frūstrā
bracchia tendentem Cyllēnide cōnfōdit harpē.Yet that blow did not give causes strong enough for death: as he trembled and stretched out his unarmed arms in vain, Perseus ran him through with the Cyllenian curved sword.