But flanked by five brave sons (such is polygamy,

That she spawns warriors by the score, where none

Are prosecuted for that false crime bigamy),

He never would believe the city won

While Courage clung but to a single twig.—Am I

Describing Priam's, Peleus', or Jove's son?

Neither—but a good, plain, old, temperate man,

Who fought with his five children in the van.[468]