The army marched like fire, and the ground groaned under them. Zeus sent swift Iris to the Trojans in the likeness of Polites, Priam’s son, who kept watch from old Aesyetes’s tomb. She warned Priam that no host like this had ever come across the plain, countless as leaves or sand, and she told Hector to order the many-tongued allies each under their own captains.
Hector knew the goddess’s voice and broke up the assembly. The gates opened; footmen and horsemen poured out to the mound mortals call Batieia and immortals call Myrine’s dancing place. There Trojans and allies took their stations.
Hector led the Trojans. Aeneas, son of Anchises and Aphrodite, led the Dardanians with Archelochus and Acamas. Pandarus led the men of Zeleia under Ida. Adrastus and Amphius led Adresteia, Apaisus, Pityeia, and Tereia; Asius came from Arisbe with men from Percote, Practius, Sestus, Abydos, and the Selleis river.
Hippothous and Pylaeus led Pelasgian spearmen from Larisa; Acamas and Peirous led Thracians by the Hellespont; Euphemus led Ciconians; Pyraechmes led Paeonians from Amydon by the Axius. Pylaemenes led Paphlagonians from Eneti and its towns; Odius and Epistrophus led Halizones from Alybe, where silver is born.
Chromis and Ennomus led Mysians, though Ennomus’s augury would not save him from Achilles. Phorcys and Ascanius led Phrygians from Ascania. Mesthles and Antiphus led Maeonians under Tmolus. Nastes and Amphimachus led Carians and Maeonians from Miletus, Maeander, and Mycale; Amphimachus came decked in gold like a girl, but gold would not save him. Sarpedon and blameless Glaucus led the Lycians from far Lycia by the swirling Xanthus.