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Great Pelion next, as o'er the Field he rag'd, Troglodytes, victorious Chief! engag'd: Deep in the Frog his Spear a Passage found, And the warm Soul came rushing through the Wound: Pierc'd in the Heart Embasichitros lies By bold Seutlaeus. Poliphonus dies; To stern Artophagus his Death he owes; The Warrior falls, away the Spirit goes. Limnocharis, who heard his Friend's last Groan, Hurl'd at Troglodytes a weighty Stone;Full on the Middle of his Neck it rung, And sudden Darkness o'er his Eye balls hung. At him his Javelin strong Lichenor sent; Th' unerring Weapon through his Liver went. Crambophagus, astonish'd, leaves the Plain, And to the River flies, but flies in vain; Ev'n there the Chief pursu'd him, there he dy'd; The sanguine C(illegible text)nt stain'd the Silver Tide: His mangled Carcass, dawb'd with filthy Gore, And his hot Entrails smoke upon the Shore. Next him to Fate Tyroglyphus succeeds; The hoary Hero by Limnisius bleeds.
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