(2.815-834) And here his destined fate smote Idmon, son of Abas, skilled in soothsaying; but not at all did his soothsaying save him, for necessity drew him on to death. For in the mead of the reedy river there lay, cooling his flanks and huge belly in the mud, a white-tusked boar, a deadly monster, whom even the nymphs of the marsh dreaded, and no man knew it; but all alone he was feeding in the wide fell. But the son of Abas was passing along the raised banks of the muddy river, and the boar from some unseen lair leapt out of the reed-bed, and charging gashed his thigh and severed in twain the sinews and the bone. And with a sharp cry the hero fell to the ground; and as he was struck his comrades flocked together with answering cry. And quickly Peleus with his hunting spear aimed at the murderous boar as he fled back into the fen; and again he turned and charged; but Idas wounded him, and with a roar he fell impaled upon the sharp spear. And the boar they left on the ground just as he had fallen there; but Idmon, now at the last gasp, his comrades bore to the ship in sorrow of heart, and he died in his comrades' arms.
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815 Ἔνθα δ' Ἀβαντιάδην πεπρωμένη ἤλασε μοῖρα
816 Ἴδμονα, μαντοσύνῃσι κεκασμένον. ἀλλά μιν οὔτι
817 μαντοσύναι ἐσάωσαν, ἐπεὶ χρεὼ ἦγε δαμῆναι:
818 κεῖτο γὰρ εἱαμενῇ δονακώδεος ἐν ποταμοῖο
819 ψυχόμενος λαγόνας τε καὶ ἄσπετον ἰλύι νηδὺν
820 κάπριος ἀργιόδων, ὀλοὸν τέρας, ὅν ῥα καὶ αὐταὶ
821 νύμφαι ἑλειονόμοι ὑπεδείδισαν: οὐδέ τις ἀνδρῶν
822 ἠείδει: οἶος δὲ κατὰ πλατὺ βόσκετο τῖφος.
823 αὐτὰρ ὅγ' ἰλυόεντος ἀνὰ θρωσμοὺς ποταμοῖο
824 fίσσετ' Ἀβαντιάδης: ὁ δ' ἄρ' ἔκποθεν ἀφράστοιο
825 ὕψι μάλ' ἐκ δονάκων ἀνεπάλμενος ἤλασε μηρὸν
826 ἀίγδην, μέσσας δὲ σὺν ὀστέῳ ἶνας ἔκερσεν.
827 ὀξὺ δ' ὅγε κλάγξας οὔδει πέσεν: οἱ δὲ τυπέντος
828 ἀθρόοι ἀντιάχησαν. ὀρέξατο δ' αἶψ' ὀλοοῖο
829 Πηλεὺς αἰγανέῃ φύγαδ' εἰς ἕλος ὁρμηθέντος
830 καπρίου: ἔσσυτο δ' αὖτις ἐναντίος: ἀλλά μιν Ἴδας
831 οὔτασε, βεβρυχὼς δὲ θοῷ περικάππεσε δουρί.
832 καὶ τὸν μὲν χαμάδις λίπον αὐτόθι πεπτηῶτα:
833 τὸν δ' ἕταροι ἐπὶ νῆα φέρον ψυχορραγέοντα,
834 ἀχνύμενοι, χείρεσσι δ' ἑῶν ἐνικάτθαν' ἑταίρων.
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