Then arose Idas, a Theban, son of Onchestos [a town], and
thus arose he with burning flaming torches in his hand, and he
kept throwing them among the hosts, so that the Greek soldiery
were perturbed by him, and as he was like that, Tydeus son of
the king of Calydon, chanced to come to him, and made a strong
thrust of his spear at the man, so that he fell with the breadth
of his back on the ground, and his red torches above him, and
this is what Tydeus said to him : " No more shalt thou burn
the heroes of Lerna," to wit, the Greeks. " But indeed thou
shalt be held till thy body become small dust after it is
burned by the red-sided brands that thou thyself hast carried."
And when he had done that, he turned him about among the
host of the Thebans, like a cruel furious tiger among much
cattle, and at that onrush these five royal soldiers fell by him,
to wit, heroic Aon, most puissant Pholus, victorious Chromis,
Helicaon of famous deeds, and strong and brave Taigis (sic).
