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Crash on crash of the sea, / straining to wreck men, sea-boards, continents, / raging against the world, furious, / stay at last, for against your fury / and your mad fight, / the line of heroes stands, god-like:
Akroneos, Oknolos, Elatreus, / helm-of-boat, loosener-of-helm, dweller-by-sea, / Nauteus, sea-man, / Prumneos, stern-of-ship, / Agchialos, sea-girt, / Elatreus, oar-shaft: / lover-of-the-sea, lover-of-the-sea-ebb, / lover-of-the-swift-sea, / Ponteus, Proreus, Ooos: / Anabesneos, one caught between / wave-shock and wave-shock: / Eurualos, broad sea-wrack, / like Ares, man's death, / and Naubolides, best in shape, / of all first in size: / Phaekous, seas' thunderbolt -- / ah, crash on crash of great names -- / man-tamer, man's-help, perfect Laodamos: / and last the sons of great Alkinoos, / Laodamos, Halios and god-like Clytomeos.