And, Eteocles," said he, " thine own evil will be avenged on
thee unless thou give the kingdom for this year to us, for we
seek but that."

And when bold distinguished Tydeus had thus spoken on the
threshold of the king's house, he came forward keenly and
restlessly, as came the strong huge wild-boar which Diana sent
to devastate and to swallow up the confines of Calydon. For
she was angry that no sacrifice was offered her by the people of
Calydon. And his rough grey hairy bristles rose like a wood
above his head.so that bright lightnings gleamed from his curved
hard and sharp teeth about his very hideous cheeks, with a loud
smiting of his sword or his tusks when he would crush them
together, that he might dig up and root out heavy earth-fast
rocks and the long plantations of the wood from the border
edges of the river Achelous, when the ever-swift hunters of the
Greek youths were beating them until that boar left Telamon
behind him, and overthrew the heroic champion Ixion, until the
greatly daring soldier Meleager slew him at last.
SS



E. lib 29 TOGAIL NA TEBE Eg. i88a 13

Ocus is fan samla sin ta[i]nig an treinfer calma Cailidonda^ a jj '

880 hoireacht thnuthach na Teibi, mar bad air fein dobertha era 477
'ma^ fhlaithus. Et ua tdndisnach toirbert^ an fhir sin isna
sligthibh soi?ieamlaib soimtheacAfa, 1 dodiubraic uad an fleisc*
n-o\a,chramd robai 'na laim a comartha sida. Et robatar mna
na Tiabanda seal ag sithsilleadh an gilla si?;, 1 dobadar ag

885 eadarguidi caoha huilc do Thid -) dobadar ag imradad^ uilc 481
ana n-aigentaib di rig bodein .i. Eitiocles.
