Them he scared in flight towards the plain; but he went back again to the ship, while he still saw the furrows free of the earthborn men.

And all round his comrades heartened him with their shouts.

And in the helmet he drew from the river's stream and quenched his thirst with the water.

Then he bent his knees till they grew supple, and filled his mighty heart with courage, raging like a boar, when it sharpens its teeth against the hunters, while from its wrathful mouth plenteous foam drips to the ground.

By now the earthborn men were springing up over all the field; and the plot of Ares, the death-dealer, bristled with sturdy shields and double-pointed spears and shining helmets; and the gleam reached Olympus from beneath, flashing through the air.