166Massicus leads, cutting the waters in the bronze-clad Tiger: under him are a thousand young men, who left the walls of Clusium and the city of Cosae, whose weapons are arrows, light quivers on their shoulders and the deadly bow. 170With him goes grim Abas: his whole column shone with splendid arms, and his ship with a gilded Apollo. 172To him mother Populonia had given six hundred of her young men, tried in war, and Ilva three hundred, an island rich in the inexhaustible mines of the Chalybes. 175Third, Asilas, that interpreter between men and gods, whom the entrails of beasts obey, and the stars of the sky, and the tongues of birds and the fires of prophetic lightning, sweeps along a thousand men, dense in their ranks and bristling with spears.
179These men Pisa orders to obey him, Alphean in origin, a city Etruscan in its soil. 180Astur follows, most handsome, Astur trusting in his horse and his many-coloured arms. 182Three hundred more are added (all of one mind to follow), whose home is Caere, who dwell in the fields of the Minio, and ancient Pyrgi and fever-ridden Graviscae.