Pindar

“ And numberless as stars
Let all the towns be then
Replenish'd thick with men,
Wise in Peace, and Bold in Wars!
Of thousand glorious towns the nation,
Of thousand glorious men each town a constellation! ”

“ Where in deaths pangs, and their own gore they folding lay.
When wise Tiresias this beginning knew,
He told with ease the things t' ensue,
From what monsters he should free
The earth, the air, and sea,
What mighty tyrants he should slay,
Greater monsters far then they.
How much at Phlægras field the distrest Gods should ow
To their great off-spring here below ”