prompt: Generate a sentence with "a1" difficulty and starts with: "the king then".
label: The king then contrived two further ordeals for him, by sending him out against the Solymoi, a bellicose people of the area, and the Amazons, female warriors who were a match for any man; but he returned safe in each case after slaughtering the enemy, and the king subjected him to a final ordeal by picking out a chosen band of warriors from throughout his land.