Uair rabui d' aichni^' a eangni«?na aici-sium nar-ba doig les
cifraid da commaidem, na mik'ci da marbad, na hairsidi d'
arrach^2 {^n fhir sin [can fis Eg.]. Et gid ed o cualaig-siuni a 39
deimin^'', rosocht fair coma cruaidhitW ri crandlseni gach"* n-alt

3365 "I gach n-aigi de o chind co bond, -j robanad imi mar scoith-
[sh]eamair^' no mar lenid ar na lantuar, 1 roerich ceo comdorcha

•■ Eg. toirrisi ^ Eg. na Grecach ' Eg. flohjeroi 7 aininne " Eg. Gveoaig
* Eg. lughaide E. lubaidi * Eg. n-imidligt^iccft udeonnda .i. duine do ithe

' Eg. dei ' Eg. dorinne ' Eg. roeirgetar '» Eg. amal ua

1' Eg. dilsi •- Eg. ri '' Eg. nidedh '* Eg. soichthi .i. na Grecaigh

1' Eg. lainmera 1* Eg. Grecaigh i' Eg. ea ndighlaidis fair

" Eg. do ithi 1" Eg. dorighne. As andsin 20 pjg. ej gedo 21 Eg. ^obi
do aithne ^^ Eg. na airsidh da fharracft ^^ Eg. dochuala-sium a dhemin
2* Eg. \amah,rand atha each *' Eg. scothsemur

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THE THEBAIC



BOOK IX



Now vast was the sorrow and despondency of the Greeks at
that deed. But when the Thebans heard that bloody and furious
Tydeus had gnawed and eaten Melanippus' head, a fury of rage
and vast anger seized them. As for the Greeks, however, their
grief and their complaining were the less respecting Tydeus. For
the transgression of a rational human law, viz. to eat a man,
they held a crime. And this was said there also that Mars, the
god of battle, left the battle that day from horror at that deed
which Tydeus had done. 