The wife of N6id shook her sparkling blazing garments as she
urged them, so that the shimmer of the arms being unsheathed
by the heroes against one another became very great flames at
that time, and the strong vast earth shook as if it were to fall
from its place and position, owing to the approach of those
champions to one another.
Then arose to view them the people of the city upon pleasant
places of concourse, and on the lofty great walls of the town.
There in their presence were the gloomy vehement common
people of the Thebans, their anxious seniors ever sorrowing,
naked-sided mothers loudly wailing, and children silently com-
plaining at the battle of those twain.
And there from hell came the souls of those Thebans and
Greeks who had been slain in the war of Thebes, so that they
filled the great smooth plain in which those soldiers were ; and
they were engaged in cries, whistling, and fluttering awfully
around them everywhere.
