FROM SAMUEL BUTLER’S TRANSLATION OF THE ILIAD

(COPIED FROM WEBSITE - http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~joelja/iliad.html)
 
 

SCAMANDER

Even thus did their tribes

pour from ships and tents on to the plain of the Scamander, and the

ground rang as brass under the feet of men and horses. They stood as

thick upon the flower-bespangled field as leaves that bloom in summer.

BOOK 2