The Iliad: Book 05 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
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| Tydeus that he might excel all the other Argives and cover himself | B |
| with glory She made a stream of fire flare from his shield and helmet | C |
| like the star that shines most brilliantly in summer after its bath in | D |
| the waters of Oceanus even such a fire did she kindle upon his head | E |
| and shoulders as she bade him speed into the thickest hurly burly of | A |
| the fight | F |
| Now there was a certain rich and honourable man among the Trojans | G |
| priest of Vulcan and his name was Dares He had two sons Phegeus and | H |
| Idaeus both of them skilled in all the arts of war These two came | I |
| forward from the main body of Trojans and set upon Diomed he being | J |
| on foot while they fought from their chariot When they were close up | K |
| to one another Phegeus took aim first but his spear went over | L |
| Diomed's left shoulder without hitting him Diomed then threw and his | M |
| spear sped not in vain for it hit Phegeus on the breast near the | N |
| nipple and he fell from his chariot Idaeus did not dare to | O |
| bestride his brother's body but sprang from the chariot and took to | O |
| flight or he would have shared his brother's fate whereon Vulcan | P |
| saved him by wrapping him in a cloud of darkness that his old | Q |
| father might not be utterly overwhelmed with grief but the son of | A |
| Tydeus drove off with the horses and bade his followers take them | R |
| to the ships The Trojans were scared when they saw the two sons of | A |
| Dares one of them in fright and the other lying dead by his | M |
| chariot Minerva therefore took Mars by the hand and said Mars | S |
| Mars bane of men bloodstained stormer of cities may we not now | T |
| leave the Trojans and Achaeans to fight it out and see to which of | A |
| the two Jove will vouchsafe the victory Let us go away and thus | U |
| avoid his anger | L |
| So saying she drew Mars out of the battle and set him down upon | V |
| the steep banks of the Scamander Upon this the Danaans drove the | N |
| Trojans back and each one of their chieftains killed his man First | W |
| King Agamemnon flung mighty Odius captain of the Halizoni from his | M |
| chariot The spear of Agamemnon caught him on the broad of his back | X |
| just as he was turning in flight it struck him between the | N |
| shoulders and went right through his chest and his armour rang | Y |
| rattling round him as he fell heavily to the ground | Z |
| Then Idomeneus killed Phaesus son of Borus the Meonian who had | A2 |
| come from Varne Mighty Idomeneus speared him on the right shoulder as | B2 |
| he was mounting his chariot and the darkness of death enshrouded | C2 |
| him as he fell heavily from the car | D2 |
| The squires of Idomeneus spoiled him of his armour while | E2 |
| Menelaus son of Atreus killed Scamandrius the son of Strophius a | N |
| mighty huntsman and keen lover of the chase Diana herself had | A2 |
| taught him how to kill every kind of wild creature that is bred in | D |
| mountain forests but neither she nor his famed skill in archery could | F2 |
| now save him for the spear of Menelaus struck him in the back as he | G2 |
| was flying it struck him between the shoulders and went right through | O |
| his chest so that he fell headlong and his armour rang rattling round | Z |
| him | H2 |
| Meriones then killed Phereclus the son of Tecton who was the son of | A |
| Hermon a man whose hand was skilled in all manner of cunning | J |
| workmanship for Pallas Minerva had dearly loved him He it was that | I2 |
| made the ships for Alexandrus which were the beginning of all | J2 |
| mischief and brought evil alike both on the Trojans and on Alexandrus | B2 |
| himself for he heeded not the decrees of heaven Meriones overtook | K2 |
| him as he was flying and struck him on the right buttock The point | L2 |
| of the spear went through the bone into the bladder and death came | I |
| upon him as he cried aloud and fell forward on his knees | B2 |
| Meges moreover slew Pedaeus son of Antenor who though he was | B2 |
| a bastard had been brought up by Theano as one of her own children | P |
| for the love she bore her husband The son of Phyleus got close up | K |
| to him and drove a spear into the nape of his neck it went under | L |
| his tongue all among his teeth so he bit the cold bronze and fell | M2 |
| dead in the dust | N2 |
| And Eurypylus son of Euaemon killed Hypsenor the son of noble | O2 |
| Dolopion who had been made priest of the river Scamander and was | B2 |
| honoured among the people as though he were a god Eurypylus gave | P2 |
| him chase as he was flying before him smote him with his sword upon | V |
| the arm and lopped his strong hand from off it The bloody hand | Q2 |
| fell to the ground and the shades of death with fate that no man can | R2 |
| withstand came over his eyes | B2 |
| Thus furiously did the battle rage between them As for the son of | A |
| Tydeus you could not say whether he was more among the Achaeans or | S2 |
| the Trojans He rushed across the plain like a winter torrent that has | B2 |
| burst its barrier in full flood no dykes no walls of fruitful | O2 |
| vineyards can embank it when it is swollen with rain from heaven | P |
| but in a moment it comes tearing onward and lays many a field waste | T2 |
| that many a strong man hand has reclaimed even so were the dense | B2 |
| phalanxes of the Trojans driven in rout by the son of Tydeus and many | G2 |
| though they were they dared not abide his onslaught | U2 |
| Now when the son of Lycaon saw him scouring the plain and driving | J |
| the Trojans pell mell before him he aimed an arrow and hit the | N |
| front part of his cuirass near the shoulder the arrow went right | F |
| through the metal and pierced the flesh so that the cuirass was | B2 |
| covered with blood On this the son of Lycaon shouted in triumph | V2 |
| Knights Trojans come on the bravest of the Achaeans is wounded and | H |
| he will not hold out much longer if King Apollo was indeed with me | G2 |
| when I sped from Lycia hither | L |
| Thus did he vaunt but his arrow had not killed Diomed who withdrew | O |
| and made for the chariot and horses of Sthenelus the son of Capaneus | B2 |
| Dear son of Capaneus said he come down from your chariot and | H |
| draw the arrow out of my shoulder | L |
| Sthenelus sprang from his chariot and drew the arrow from the | N |
| wound whereon the blood came spouting out through the hole that had | A2 |
| been made in his shirt Then Diomed prayed saying Hear me daughter | L |
| of aegis bearing Jove unweariable if ever you loved my father well | M2 |
| and stood by him in the thick of a fight do the like now by me grant | W2 |
| me to come within a spear's throw of that man and kill him He has | B2 |
| been too quick for me and has wounded me and now he is boasting | J |
| that I shall not see the light of the sun much longer | L |
| Thus he prayed and Pallas Minerva heard him she made his limbs | B2 |
| supple and quickened his hands and his feet Then she went up close to | O |
| him and said Fear not Diomed to do battle with the Trojans for | S2 |
| I have set in your heart the spirit of your knightly father Tydeus | B2 |
| Moreover I have withdrawn the veil from your eyes that you know gods | B2 |
| and men apart If then any other god comes here and offers you | O |
| battle do not fight him but should Jove's daughter Venus come | X2 |
| strike her with your spear and wound her | L |
| When she had said this Minerva went away and the son of Tydeus | B2 |
| again took his place among the foremost fighters three times more | S2 |
| fierce even than he had been before He was like a lion that some | X2 |
| mountain shepherd has wounded but not killed as he is springing over | L |
| the wall of a sheep yard to attack the sheep The shepherd has | B2 |
| roused the brute to fury but cannot defend his flock so he takes | B2 |
| shelter under cover of the buildings while the sheep | Y2 |
| panic stricken on being deserted are smothered in heaps one on top of | A |
| the other and the angry lion leaps out over the sheep yard wall Even | D |
| thus did Diomed go furiously about among the Trojans | B2 |
| He killed Astynous and shepherd of his people the one with a | N |
| thrust of his spear which struck him above the nipple the other with | Z2 |
| a sword cut on the collar bone that severed his shoulder from his | B2 |
| neck and back He let both of them lie and went in pursuit of Abas | B2 |
| and Polyidus sons of the old reader of dreams Eurydamas they never | L |
| came back for him to read them any more dreams for mighty Diomed made | A3 |
| an end of them He then gave chase to Xanthus and Thoon the two | O |
| sons of Phaenops both of them very dear to him for he was now worn | B3 |
| out with age and begat no more sons to inherit his possessions But | C |
| Diomed took both their lives and left their father sorrowing bitterly | G2 |
| for he nevermore saw them come home from battle alive and his kinsmen | B3 |
| divided his wealth among themselves | B2 |
| Then he came upon two sons of Priam Echemmon and Chromius as | B2 |
| they were both in one chariot He sprang upon them as a lion fastens | B2 |
| on the neck of some cow or heifer when the herd is feeding in a | N |
| coppice For all their vain struggles he flung them both from their | C3 |
| chariot and stripped the armour from their bodies Then he gave | P2 |
| their horses to his comrades to take them back to the ships | B2 |
| When Aeneas saw him thus making havoc among the ranks he went | D3 |
| through the fight amid the rain of spears to see if he could find | E3 |
| Pandarus When he had found the brave son of Lycaon he said | E |
| Pandarus where is now your bow your winged arrows and your | S2 |
| renown as an archer in respect of which no man here can rival you nor | S2 |
| is there any in Lycia that can beat you Lift then your hands to | O |
| Jove and send an arrow at this fellow who is going so masterfully | G2 |
| about and has done such deadly work among the Trojans He has | B2 |
| killed many a brave man unless indeed he is some god who is angry | G2 |
| with the Trojans about their sacrifices and and has set his hand | Q2 |
| against them in his displeasure | L |
| And the son of Lycaon answered Aeneas I take him for none other | L |
| than the son of Tydeus I know him by his shield the visor of his | B2 |
| helmet and by his horses It is possible that he may be a god but if | F3 |
| he is the man I say he is he is not making all this havoc without | G3 |
| heaven's help but has some god by his side who is shrouded in a cloud | H3 |
| of darkness and who turned my arrow aside when it had hit him I have | I3 |
| taken aim at him already and hit him on the right shoulder my arrow | J3 |
| went through the breastpiece of his cuirass and I made sure I | K3 |
| should send him hurrying to the world below but it seems that I | K3 |
| have not killed him There must be a god who is angry with me | G2 |
| Moreover I have neither horse nor chariot In my father's stables | B2 |
| there are eleven excellent chariots fresh from the builder quite | F |
| new with cloths spread over them and by each of them there stand a | N |
| pair of horses champing barley and rye my old father Lycaon urged me | G2 |
| again and again when I was at home and on the point of starting to | O |
| take chariots and horses with me that I might lead the Trojans in | B3 |
| battle but I would not listen to him it would have been much | L3 |
| better if I had done so but I was thinking about the horses which | M3 |
| had been used to eat their fill and I was afraid that in such a great | N3 |
| gathering of men they might be ill fed so I left them at home and | H |
| came on foot to Ilius armed only with my bow and arrows These it | O3 |
| seems are of no use for I have already hit two chieftains the | N |
| sons of Atreus and of Tydeus and though I drew blood surely enough I | K3 |
| have only made them still more furious I did ill to take my bow | T |
| down from its peg on the day I led my band of Trojans to Ilius in | B3 |
| Hector's service and if ever I get home again to set eyes on my | K3 |
| native place my wife and the greatness of my house may some one cut | C |
| my head off then and there if I do not break the bow and set it on a | N |
| hot fire such pranks as it plays me | G2 |
| Aeneas answered Say no more Things will not mend till we two go | J3 |
| against this man with chariot and horses and bring him to a trial of | A |
| arms Mount my chariot and note how cleverly the horses of Tros can | B3 |
| speed hither and thither over the plain in pursuit or flight If | F3 |
| Jove again vouchsafes glory to the son of Tydeus they will carry us | B2 |
| safely back to the city Take hold then of the whip and reins | B2 |
| while I stand upon the car to fight or else do you wait this man's | B2 |
| onset while I look after the horses | B2 |
| Aeneas replied the son of Lycaon take the reins and drive if | F3 |
| we have to fly before the son of Tydeus the horses will go better | L |
| for their own driver If they miss the sound of your voice when they | P3 |
| expect it they may be frightened and refuse to take us out of the | N |
| fight The son of Tydeus will then kill both of us and take the | N |
| horses Therefore drive them yourself and I will be ready for him with | Z2 |
| my spear | Q3 |
| They then mounted the chariot and drove full speed towards the son | B3 |
| of Tydeus Sthenelus son of Capaneus saw them coming and said to | O |
| Diomed Diomed son of Tydeus man after my own heart I see two | O |
| heroes speeding towards you both of them men of might the one a | N |
| skilful archer Pandarus son of Lycaon the other Aeneas whose | B2 |
| sire is Anchises while his mother is Venus Mount the chariot and let | R3 |
| us retreat Do not I pray you press so furiously forward or you may | P3 |
| get killed | S3 |
| Diomed looked angrily at him and answered Talk not of flight | F |
| for I shall not listen to you I am of a race that knows neither | L |
| flight nor fear and my limbs are as yet unwearied I am in no mind to | O |
| mount but will go against them even as I am Pallas Minerva bids me | G2 |
| be afraid of no man and even though one of them escape their | C3 |
| steeds shall not take both back again I say further and lay my | K3 |
| saying to your heart if Minerva sees fit to vouchsafe me the glory of | A |
| killing both stay your horses here and make the reins fast to the rim | H2 |
| of the chariot then be sure you spring Aeneas' horses and drive | T3 |
| them from the Trojan to the Achaean ranks They are of the stock | U3 |
| that great Jove gave to Tros in payment for his son Ganymede and | H |
| are the finest that live and move under the sun King Anchises stole | V3 |
| the blood by putting his mares to them without Laomedon's knowledge | W3 |
| and they bore him six foals Four are still in his stables but he | G2 |
| gave the other two to Aeneas We shall win great glory if we can | B3 |
| take them | R |
| Thus did they converse but the other two had now driven close up to | O |
| them and the son of Lycaon spoke first Great and mighty son | B3 |
| said he of noble Tydeus my arrow failed to lay you low so I will | X3 |
| now try with my spear | Q3 |
| He poised his spear as he spoke and hurled it from him It struck | Y3 |
| the shield of the son of Tydeus the bronze point pierced it and | H |
| passed on till it reached the breastplate Thereon the son of Lycaon | B3 |
| shouted out and said You are hit clean through the belly you will | X3 |
| not stand out for long and the glory of the fight is mine | B3 |
| But Diomed all undismayed made answer You have missed not hit | O3 |
| and before you two see the end of this matter one or other of you | O |
| shall glut tough shielded Mars with his blood | C2 |
| With this he hurled his spear and Minerva guided it on to | O |
| Pandarus's nose near the eye It went crashing in among his white | F |
| teeth the bronze point cut through the root of his to tongue | Z3 |
| coming out under his chin and his glistening armour rang rattling | J |
| round him as he fell heavily to the ground The horses started aside | A4 |
| for fear and he was reft of life and strength | B4 |
| Aeneas sprang from his chariot armed with shield and spear | Q3 |
| fearing lest the Achaeans should carry off the body He bestrode it as | B2 |
| a lion in the pride of strength with shield and on spear before him | H2 |
| and a cry of battle on his lips resolute to kill the first that should | F2 |
| dare face him But the son of Tydeus caught up a mighty stone so huge | C4 |
| and great that as men now are it would take two to lift it | O3 |
| nevertheless he bore it aloft with ease unaided and with this he | G2 |
| struck Aeneas on the groin where the hip turns in the joint that is | B2 |
| called the cup bone The stone crushed this joint and broke both | D4 |
| the sinews while its jagged edges tore away all the flesh The hero | J3 |
| fell on his knees and propped himself with his hand resting on the | N |
| ground till the darkness of night fell upon his eyes And now | B3 |
| Aeneas king of men would have perished then and there had not his | B2 |
| mother Jove's daughter Venus who had conceived him by Anchises | B2 |
| when he was herding cattle been quick to mark and thrown her two | O |
| white arms about the body of her dear son She protected him by | K3 |
| covering him with a fold of her own fair garment lest some Danaan | B3 |
| should drive a spear into his breast and kill him | H2 |
| Thus then did she bear her dear son out of the fight But the | N |
| son of Capaneus was not unmindful of the orders that Diomed had | A2 |
| given him He made his own horses fast away from the hurly burly | G2 |
| by binding the reins to the rim of the chariot Then he sprang upon | B3 |
| Aeneas's horses and drove them from the Trojan to the Achaean ranks | B2 |
| When he had so done he gave them over to his chosen comrade | A2 |
| Deipylus whom he valued above all others as the one who was most | E4 |
| like minded with himself to take them on to the ships He then | B3 |
| remounted his own chariot seized the reins and drove with all | J2 |
| speed in search of the son of Tydeus | B2 |
| Now the son of Tydeus was in pursuit of the Cyprian goddess spear | Q3 |
| in hand for he knew her to be feeble and not one of those goddesses | B2 |
| that can lord it among men in battle like Minerva or Enyo the waster | L |
| of cities and when at last after a long chase he caught her up he | G2 |
| flew at her and thrust his spear into the flesh of her delicate | C |
| hand The point tore through the ambrosial robe which the Graces had | A2 |
| woven for her and pierced the skin between her wrist and the palm | F4 |
| of her hand so that the immortal blood or ichor that flows in the | N |
| veins of the blessed gods came pouring from the wound for the gods | B2 |
| do not eat bread nor drink wine hence they have no blood such as | B2 |
| ours and are immortal Venus screamed aloud and let her son fall | J2 |
| but Phoebus Apollo caught him in his arms and hid him in a cloud of | A |
| darkness lest some Danaan should drive a spear into his breast and | H |
| kill him and Diomed shouted out as he left her Daughter of Jove | A |
| leave war and battle alone can you not be contented with beguiling | J |
| silly women If you meddle with fighting you will get what will make | G4 |
| you shudder at the very name of war | S2 |
| The goddess went dazed and discomfited away and Iris fleet as | B2 |
| the wind drew her from the throng in pain and with her fair skin all | J2 |
| besmirched She found fierce Mars waiting on the left of the battle | O2 |
| with his spear and his two fleet steeds resting on a cloud whereon | B3 |
| she fell on her knees before her brother and implored him to let her | L |
| have his horses Dear brother she cried save me and give me your | S2 |
| horses to take me to Olympus where the gods dwell I am badly | G2 |
| wounded by a mortal the son of Tydeus who would now fight even | B3 |
| with father Jove | A |
| Thus she spoke and Mars gave her his gold bedizened steeds She | G2 |
| mounted the chariot sick and sorry at heart while Iris sat beside her | L |
| and took the reins in her hand She lashed her horses on and they flew | O |
| forward nothing loth till in a trice they were at high Olympus where | C3 |
| the gods have their dwelling There she stayed them unloosed them | R |
| from the chariot and gave them their ambrosial forage but Venus | B2 |
| flung herself on to the lap of her mother Dione who threw her arms | B2 |
| about her and caressed her saying Which of the heavenly beings | B2 |
| has been treating you in this way as though you had been doing | J |
| something wrong in the face of day | P3 |
| And laughter loving Venus answered Proud Diomed the son of | A |
| Tydeus wounded me because I was bearing my dear son Aeneas whom I | K3 |
| love best of all mankind out of the fight The war is no longer one | B3 |
| between Trojans and Achaeans for the Danaans have now taken to | O |
| fighting with the immortals | B2 |
| Bear it my child replied Dione and make the best of it We | G2 |
| dwellers in Olympus have to put up with much at the hands of men | B3 |
| and we lay much suffering on one another Mars had to suffer when Otus | B2 |
| and Ephialtes children of Aloeus bound him in cruel bonds so that | I2 |
| he lay thirteen months imprisoned in a vessel of bronze Mars would | F2 |
| have then perished had not fair Eeriboea stepmother to the sons of | A |
| Aloeus told Mercury who stole him away when he was already well nigh | K3 |
| worn out by the severity of his bondage Juno again suffered when | B3 |
| the mighty son of Amphitryon wounded her on the right breast with a | N |
| three barbed arrow and nothing could assuage her pain So also | B2 |
| did huge Hades when this same man the son of aegis bearing Jove hit | O3 |
| him with an arrow even at the gates of hell and hurt him badly | G2 |
| Thereon Hades went to the house of Jove on great Olympus angry and | H |
| full of pain and the arrow in his brawny shoulder caused him great | N3 |
| anguish till Paeeon healed him by spreading soothing herbs on the | N |
| wound for Hades was not of mortal mould Daring head strong | H4 |
| evildoer who recked not of his sin in shooting the gods that dwell | M2 |
| in Olympus And now Minerva has egged this son of Tydeus on against | I4 |
| yourself fool that he is for not reflecting that no man who fights | B2 |
| with gods will live long or hear his children prattling about his | B2 |
| knees when he returns from battle Let then the son of Tydeus see | G2 |
| that he does not have to fight with one who is stronger than you | O |
| are Then shall his brave wife Aegialeia daughter of Adrestus | G2 |
| rouse her whole house from sleep wailing for the loss of her wedded | C2 |
| lord Diomed the bravest of the Achaeans | G2 |
| So saying she wiped the ichor from the wrist of her daughter with | Z2 |
| both hands whereon the pain left her and her hand was healed But | C |
| Minerva and Juno who were looking on began to taunt Jove with | Z2 |
| their mocking talk and Minerva was first to speak Father Jove | K3 |
| said she do not be angry with me but I think the Cyprian must | N2 |
| have been persuading some one of the Achaean women to go with the | N |
| Trojans of whom she is so very fond and while caressing one or | S2 |
| other of them she must have torn her delicate hand with the gold pin | B3 |
| of the woman's brooch | J4 |
| The sire of gods and men smiled and called golden Venus to his | G2 |
| side My child said he it has not been given you to be a warrior | L |
| Attend henceforth to your own delightful matrimonial duties and | H |
| leave all this fighting to Mars and to Minerva | N |
| Thus did they converse But Diomed sprang upon Aeneas though he | G2 |
| knew him to be in the very arms of Apollo Not one whit did he fear | Q3 |
| the mighty god so set was he on killing Aeneas and stripping him of | K3 |
| his armour Thrice did he spring forward with might and main to slay | P3 |
| him and thrice did Apollo beat back his gleaming shield When he | G2 |
| was coming on for the fourth time as though he were a god Apollo | B2 |
| shouted to him with an awful voice and said Take heed son of | K3 |
| Tydeus and draw off think not to match yourself against gods for | S2 |
| men that walk the earth cannot hold their own with the immortals | G2 |
| The son of Tydeus then gave way for a little space to avoid the | N |
| anger of the god while Apollo took Aeneas out of the crowd and set | R3 |
| him in sacred Pergamus where his temple stood There within the | N |
| mighty sanctuary Latona and Diana healed him and made him glorious to | O |
| behold while Apollo of the silver bow fashioned a wraith in the | N |
| likeness of Aeneas and armed as he was Round this the Trojans and | H |
| Achaeans hacked at the bucklers about one another's breasts hewing | J |
| each other's round shields and light hide covered targets Then | B3 |
| Phoebus Apollo said to Mars Mars Mars bane of men blood stained | K4 |
| stormer of cities can you not go to this man the son of Tydeus | G2 |
| who would now fight even with father Jove and draw him out of the | N |
| battle He first went up to the Cyprian and wounded her in the hand | Q2 |
| near her wrist and afterwards sprang upon me too as though he were a | N |
| god | L4 |
| He then took his seat on the top of Pergamus while murderous Mars | G2 |
| went about among the ranks of the Trojans cheering them on in the | N |
| likeness of fleet Acamas chief of the Thracians Sons of Priam said | E |
| he how long will you let your people be thus slaughtered by the | N |
| Achaeans Would you wait till they are at the walls of Troy Aeneas | G2 |
| the son of Anchises has fallen he whom we held in as high honour as | G2 |
| Hector himself Help me then to rescue our brave comrade from the | N |
| stress of the fight | F |
| With these words he put heart and soul into them all Then | B3 |
| Sarpedon rebuked Hector very sternly Hector said he where is | G2 |
| your prowess now You used to say that though you had neither people | O2 |
| nor allies you could hold the town alone with your brothers and | H |
| brothers in law I see not one of them here they cower as hounds | G2 |
| before a lion it is we your allies who bear the brunt of the | N |
| battle I have come from afar even from Lycia and the banks of the | N |
| river Xanthus where I have left my wife my infant son and much | L3 |
| wealth to tempt whoever is needy nevertheless I head my Lycian | B3 |
| soldiers and stand my ground against any who would fight me though I | K3 |
| have nothing here for the Achaeans to plunder while you look on | B3 |
| without even bidding your men stand firm in defence of their wives | G2 |
| See that you fall not into the hands of your foes as men caught in the | N |
| meshes of a net and they sack your fair city forthwith Keep this | G2 |
| before your mind night and day and beseech the captains of your | S2 |
| allies to hold on without flinching and thus put away their | C3 |
| reproaches from you | O |
| So spoke Sarpedon and Hector smarted under his words He sprang | Y |
| from his chariot clad in his suit of armour and went about among | Z3 |
| the host brandishing his two spears exhorting the men to fight and | H |
| raising the terrible cry of battle Then they rallied and again | B3 |
| faced the Achaeans but the Argives stood compact and firm and were | L |
| not driven back As the breezes sport with the chaff upon some | X2 |
| goodly threshing floor when men are winnowing while yellow Ceres | G2 |
| blows with the wind to sift the chaff from the grain and the chaff | K3 |
| heaps grow whiter and whiter even so did the Achaeans whiten in the | N |
| dust which the horses' hoofs raised to the firmament of heaven as | G2 |
| their drivers turned them back to battle and they bore down with | Z2 |
| might upon the foe Fierce Mars to help the Trojans covered them | R |
| in a veil of darkness and went about everywhere among them | R |
| inasmuch as Phoebus Apollo had told him that when he saw Pallas | G2 |
| Minerva leave the fray he was to put courage into the hearts of the | N |
| Trojans for it was she who was helping the Danaans Then Apollo | B2 |
| sent Aeneas forth from his rich sanctuary and filled his heart with | Z2 |
| valour whereon he took his place among his comrades who were | L |
| overjoyed at seeing him alive sound and of a good courage but | C |
| they could not ask him how it had all happened for they were too busy | G2 |
| with the turmoil raised by Mars and by Strife who raged insatiably in | B3 |
| their midst | M4 |
| The two Ajaxes Ulysses and Diomed cheered the Danaans on fearless | G2 |
| of the fury and onset of the Trojans They stood as still as clouds | G2 |
| which the son of Saturn has spread upon the mountain tops when there | C3 |
| is no air and fierce Boreas sleeps with the other boisterous winds | G2 |
| whose shrill blasts scatter the clouds in all directions even so | B2 |
| did the Danaans stand firm and unflinching against the Trojans The | N |
| son of Atreus went about among them and exhorted them My friends | G2 |
| said he quit yourselves like brave men and shun dishonour in one | B3 |
| another's eyes amid the stress of battle They that shun dishonour | C3 |
| more often live than get killed but they that fly save neither life | K3 |
| nor name | I |
| As he spoke he hurled his spear and hit one of those who were in the | N |
| front rank the comrade of Aeneas Deicoon son of Pergasus whom the | N |
| Trojans held in no less honour than the sons of Priam for he was ever | C3 |
| quick to place himself among the foremost The spear of King Agamemnon | B3 |
| struck his shield and went right through it for the shield stayed | A3 |
| it not It drove through his belt into the lower part of his belly | G2 |
| and his armour rang rattling round him as he fell heavily to the | N |
| ground | Z |
| Then Aeneas killed two champions of the Danaans Crethon and | H |
| Orsilochus Their father was a rich man who lived in the strong city | G2 |
| of Phere and was descended from the river Alpheus whose broad | N4 |
| stream flows through the land of the Pylians The river begat | I2 |
| Orsilochus who ruled over much people and was father to Diocles | G2 |
| who in his turn begat twin sons Crethon and Orsilochus well | M2 |
| skilled in all the arts of war These when they grew up went to | O |
| Ilius with the Argive fleet in the cause of Menelaus and Agamemnon | B3 |
| sons of Atreus and there they both of them fell As two lions whom | O4 |
| their dam has reared in the depths of some mountain forest to | O |
| plunder homesteads and carry off sheep and cattle till they get killed | S3 |
| by the hand of man so were these two vanquished by Aeneas and fell | M2 |
| like high pine trees to the ground | Z |
| Brave Menelaus pitied them in their fall and made his way to the | N |
| front clad in gleaming bronze and brandishing his spear for Mars | G2 |
| egged him on to do so with intent that he should be killed by | K3 |
| Aeneas but Antilochus the son of Nestor saw him and sprang forward | P4 |
| fearing that the king might come to harm and thus bring all their | C3 |
| labour to nothing when therefore Aeneas and Menelaus were setting | J |
| their hands and spears against one another eager to do battle | O2 |
| Antilochus placed himself by the side of Menelaus Aeneas bold though | B2 |
| he was drew back on seeing the two heroes side by side in front of | K3 |
| him so they drew the bodies of Crethon and Orsilochus to the ranks of | K3 |
| the Achaeans and committed the two poor fellows into the hands of | K3 |
| their comrades They then turned back and fought in the front ranks | G2 |
| They killed Pylaemenes peer of Mars leader of the Paphlagonian | B3 |
| warriors Menelaus struck him on the collar bone as he was standing on | B3 |
| his chariot while Antilochus hit his charioteer and squire Mydon the | N |
| son of Atymnius who was turning his horses in flight He hit him with | Z2 |
| a stone upon the elbow and the reins enriched with white ivory fell | M2 |
| from his hands into the dust Antilochus rushed towards him and struck | Y3 |
| him on the temples with his sword whereon he fell head first from the | N |
| chariot to the ground There he stood for a while with his head and | H |
| shoulders buried deep in the dust for he had fallen on sandy soil | Q4 |
| till his horses kicked him and laid him flat on the ground as | G2 |
| Antilochus lashed them and drove them off to the host of the Achaeans | G2 |
| - | |
| But Hector marked them from across the ranks and with a loud cry | K3 |
| rushed towards them followed by the strong battalions of the Trojans | G2 |
| Mars and dread Enyo led them on she fraught with ruthless turmoil | Q4 |
| of battle while Mars wielded a monstrous spear and went about now | B3 |
| in front of Hector and now behind him | H2 |
| Diomed shook with passion as he saw them As a man crossing a wide | A4 |
| plain is dismayed to find himself on the brink of some great river | C3 |
| rolling swiftly to the sea he sees its boiling waters and starts back | X |
| in fear even so did the son of Tydeus give ground Then he said to | O |
| his men My friends how can we wonder that Hector wields the spear | C3 |
| so well Some god is ever by his side to protect him and now Mars | G2 |
| is with him in the likeness of mortal man Keep your faces therefore | C3 |
| towards the Trojans but give ground backwards for we dare not | R4 |
| fight with gods | G2 |
| As he spoke the Trojans drew close up and Hector killed two men | B3 |
| both in one chariot Menesthes and Anchialus heroes well versed in | B3 |
| war Ajax son of Telamon pitied them in their fall he came close up | K |
| and hurled his spear hitting Amphius the son of Selagus a man of | K3 |
| great wealth who lived in Paesus and owned much corn growing land but | C |
| his lot had led him to come to the aid of Priam and his sons Ajax | G2 |
| struck him in the belt the spear pierced the lower part of his belly | G2 |
| and he fell heavily to the ground Then Ajax ran towards him to | O |
| strip him of his armour but the Trojans rained spears upon him | H2 |
| many of which fell upon his shield He planted his heel upon the | N |
| body and drew out his spear but the darts pressed so heavily upon him | H2 |
| that he could not strip the goodly armour from his shoulders The | N |
| Trojan chieftains moreover many and valiant came about him with | Z2 |
| their spears so that he dared not stay great brave and valiant | S4 |
| though he was they drove him from them and he was beaten back | X |
| Thus then did the battle rage between them Presently the strong | H4 |
| hand of fate impelled Tlepolemus the son of Hercules a man both | D4 |
| brave and of great stature to fight Sarpedon so the two son and | H |
| grandson of great Jove drew near to one another and Tlepolemus spoke | T4 |
| first Sarpedon said he councillor of the Lycians why should you | O |
| come skulking here you who are a man of peace They lie who call you | O |
| son of aegis bearing Jove for you are little like those who were of | K3 |
| old his children Far other was Hercules my own brave and | H |
| lion hearted father who came here for the horses of Laomedon and | H |
| though he had six ships only and few men to follow him sacked the | N |
| city of Ilius and made a wilderness of her highways You are a coward | P4 |
| and your people are falling from you For all your strength and all | J2 |
| your coming from Lycia you will be no help to the Trojans but will | X3 |
| pass the gates of Hades vanquished by my hand | Q2 |
| And Sarpedon captain of the Lycians answered Tlepolemus your | C3 |
| father overthrew Ilius by reason of Laomedon's folly in refusing | J |
| payment to one who had served him well He would not give your | C3 |
| father the horses which he had come so far to fetch As for | C3 |
| yourself you shall meet death by my spear You shall yield glory to | O |
| myself and your soul to Hades of the noble steeds | G2 |
| Thus spoke Sarpedon and Tlepolemus upraised his spear They threw | O |
| at the same moment and Sarpedon struck his foe in the middle of his | G2 |
| throat the spear went right through and the darkness of death fell | M2 |
| upon his eyes Tlepolemus's spear struck Sarpedon on the left thigh | K3 |
| with such force that it tore through the flesh and grazed the bone | B3 |
| but his father as yet warded off destruction from him | H2 |
| His comrades bore Sarpedon out of the fight in great pain by the | N |
| weight of the spear that was dragging from his wound They were in | B3 |
| such haste and stress as they bore him that no one thought of | K3 |
| drawing the spear from his thigh so as to let him walk uprightly | M2 |
| Meanwhile the Achaeans carried off the body of Tlepolemus whereon | B3 |
| Ulysses was moved to pity and panted for the fray as he beheld | O |
| them He doubted whether to pursue the son of Jove or to make | G4 |
| slaughter of the Lycian rank and file it was not decreed however | C3 |
| that he should slay the son of Jove Minerva therefore turned him | H2 |
| against the main body of the Lycians He killed Coeranus Alastor | C3 |
| Chromius Alcandrus Halius Noemon and Prytanis and would have | K3 |
| slain yet more had not great Hector marked him and sped to the front | O |
| of the fight clad in his suit of mail filling the Danaans with | Z2 |
| terror Sarpedon was glad when he saw him coming and besought him | H2 |
| saying Son of Priam let me not he here to fall into the hands of | K3 |
| the Danaans Help me and since I may not return home to gladden the | N |
| hearts of my wife and of my infant son let me die within the walls of | K3 |
| your city | O |
| Hector made him no answer but rushed onward to fall at once upon | B3 |
| the Achaeans and kill many among them His comrades then bore | C3 |
| Sarpedon away and laid him beneath Jove's spreading oak tree Pelagon | B3 |
| his friend and comrade drew the spear out of his thigh but Sarpedon | B3 |
| fainted and a mist came over his eyes Presently he came to himself | K3 |
| again for the breath of the north wind as it played upon him gave him | H2 |
| new life and brought him out of the deep swoon into which he had | O |
| fallen | B3 |
| Meanwhile the Argives were neither driven towards their ships by | K3 |
| Mars and Hector nor yet did they attack them when they knew that | O |
| Mars was with the Trojans they retreated but kept their faces still | M2 |
| turned towards the foe Who then was first and who last to be | O |
| slain by Mars and Hector They were valiant Teuthras and Orestes | G2 |
| the renowned charioteer Trechus the Aetolian warrior Oenomaus | G2 |
| Helenus the son of Oenops and Oresbius of the gleaming girdle who | O |
| was possessed of great wealth and dwelt by the Cephisian lake with | Z2 |
| the other Boeotians who lived near him owners of a fertile country | O |
| Now when the goddess Juno saw the Argives thus falling she said | O |
| to Minerva Alas daughter of aegis bearing Jove unweariable the | N |
| promise we made Menelaus that he should not return till he had | O |
| sacked the city of Ilius will be of none effect if we let Mars rage | U4 |
| thus furiously Let us go into the fray at once | G2 |
| Minerva did not gainsay her Thereon the august goddess daughter of | K3 |
| great Saturn began to harness her gold bedizened steeds Hebe with | Z2 |
| all speed fitted on the eight spoked wheels of bronze that were on | B3 |
| either side of the iron axle tree The felloes of the wheels were of | K3 |
| gold imperishable and over these there was a tire of bronze | G2 |
| wondrous to behold The naves of the wheels were silver turning round | O |
| the axle upon either side The car itself was made with plaited | O |
| bands of gold and silver and it had a double top rail running all | M2 |
| round it From the body of the car there went a pole of silver on | B3 |
| to the end of which she bound the golden yoke with the bands of | K3 |
| gold that were to go under the necks of the horses Then Juno put her | C3 |
| steeds under the yoke eager for battle and the war cry | K3 |
| Meanwhile Minerva flung her richly embroidered vesture made with | Z2 |
| her own hands on to her father's threshold and donned the shirt of | K3 |
| Jove arming herself for battle She threw her tasselled aegis | G2 |
| about her shoulders wreathed round with Rout as with a fringe and | O |
| on it were Strife and Strength and Panic whose blood runs cold | O |
| moreover there was the head of the dread monster Gorgon grim and | O |
| awful to behold portent of aegis bearing Jove On her head she set | O |
| her helmet of gold with four plumes and coming to a peak both in | B3 |
| front and behind decked with the emblems of a hundred cities then | B3 |
| she stepped into her flaming chariot and grasped the spear so stout | O |
| and sturdy and strong with which she quells the ranks of heroes who | O |
| have displeased her Juno lashed the horses on and the gates of | K3 |
| heaven bellowed as they flew open of their own accord gates over | C3 |
| which the flours preside in whose hands are Heaven and Olympus | G2 |
| either to open the dense cloud that hides them or to close it | O |
| Through these the goddesses drove their obedient steeds and found the | N |
| son of Saturn sitting all alone on the topmost ridges of Olympus | G2 |
| There Juno stayed her horses and spoke to Jove the son of Saturn | B3 |
| lord of all Father Jove said she are you not angry with Mars for | C3 |
| these high doings how great and goodly a host of the Achaeans he | O |
| has destroyed to my great grief and without either right or reason | B3 |
| while the Cyprian and Apollo are enjoying it all at their ease and | O |
| setting this unrighteous madman on to do further mischief I hope | V4 |
| Father Jove that you will not be angry if I hit Mars hard and | O |
| chase him out of the battle | M2 |
| And Jove answered Set Minerva on to him for she punishes him more | C3 |
| often than any one else does | G2 |
| Juno did as he had said She lashed her horses and they flew | O |
| forward nothing loth midway betwixt earth and sky As far as a man can | B3 |
| see when he looks out upon the sea from some high beacon so far can | B3 |
| the loud neighing horses of the gods spring at a single bound When | B3 |
| they reached Troy and the place where its two flowing streams Simois | G2 |
| and Scamander meet there Juno stayed them and took them from the | N |
| chariot She hid them in a thick cloud and Simois made ambrosia | N |
| spring up for them to eat the two goddesses then went on flying like | W4 |
| turtledoves in their eagerness to help the Argives When they came | I |
| to the part where the bravest and most in number were gathered about | O |
| mighty Diomed fighting like lions or wild boars of great strength and | O |
| endurance there Juno stood still and raised a shout like that of | K3 |
| brazen voiced Stentor whose cry was as loud as that of fifty men | B3 |
| together Argives she cried shame on cowardly creatures brave in | B3 |
| semblance only as long as Achilles was fighting fi his spear was | G2 |
| so deadly that the Trojans dared not show themselves outside the | N |
| Dardanian gates but now they sally far from the city and fight even | B3 |
| at your ships | G2 |
| With these words she put heart and soul into them all while Minerva | N |
| sprang to the side of the son of Tydeus whom she found near his | G2 |
| chariot and horses cooling the wound that Pandarus had given him For | C3 |
| the sweat caused by the hand that bore the weight of his shield | O |
| irritated the hurt his arm was weary with pain and he was lifting up | K |
| the strap to wipe away the blood The goddess laid her hand on the | N |
| yoke of his horses and said The son of Tydeus is not such another as | G2 |
| his father Tydeus was a little man but he could fight and rushed | O |
| madly into the fray even when I told him not to do so When he went | O |
| all unattended as envoy to the city of Thebes among the Cadmeans I | K3 |
| bade him feast in their houses and be at peace but with that high | K3 |
| spirit which was ever present with him he challenged the youth of the | N |
| Cadmeans and at once beat them in all that he attempted so | G2 |
| mightily did I help him I stand by you too to protect you and I | K3 |
| bid you be instant in fighting the Trojans but either you are tired | O |
| out or you are afraid and out of heart and in that case I say that | O |
| you are no true son of Tydeus the son of Oeneus | G2 |
| Diomed answered I know you goddess daughter of aegis bearing | J |
| Jove and will hide nothing from you I am not afraid nor out of | K3 |
| heart nor is there any slackness in me I am only following your | C3 |
| own instructions you told me not to fight any of the blessed gods | G2 |
| but if Jove's daughter Venus came into battle I was to wound her | C3 |
| with my spear Therefore I am retreating and bidding the other | C3 |
| Argives gather in this place for I know that Mars is now lording it | O |
| in the field | O |
| Diomed son of Tydeus replied Minerva man after my own heart | O |
| fear neither Mars nor any other of the immortals for I will | M2 |
| befriend you Nay drive straight at Mars and smite him in close | G2 |
| combat fear not this raging madman villain incarnate first on one | B3 |
| side and then on the other But now he was holding talk with Juno | G2 |
| and myself saying he would help the Argives and attack the Trojans | G2 |
| nevertheless he is with the Trojans and has forgotten the Argives | G2 |
| With this she caught hold of Sthenelus and lifted him off the | N |
| chariot on to the ground In a second he was on the ground | O |
| whereupon the goddess mounted the car and placed herself by the side | O |
| of Diomed The oaken axle groaned aloud under the burden of the | N |
| awful goddess and the hero Pallas Minerva took the whip and reins | G2 |
| and drove straight at Mars He was in the act of stripping huge | C4 |
| Periphas son of Ochesius and bravest of the Aetolians Bloody Mars | G2 |
| was stripping him of his armour and Minerva donned the helmet of | K3 |
| Hades that he might not see her when therefore he saw Diomed he | O |
| made straight for him and let Periphas lie where he had fallen As | G2 |
| soon as they were at close quarters he let fly with his bronze spear | C3 |
| over the reins and yoke thinking to take Diomed's life but Minerva | N |
| caught the spear in her hand and made it fly harmlessly over the | N |
| chariot Diomed then threw and Pallas Minerva drove the spear into | O |
| the pit of Mars's stomach where his under girdle went round him There | C3 |
| Diomed wounded him tearing his fair flesh and then drawing his | G2 |
| spear out again Mars roared as loudly as nine or ten thousand men | B3 |
| in the thick of a fight and the Achaeans and Trojans were struck with | Z2 |
| panic so terrible was the cry he raised | O |
| As a dark cloud in the sky when it comes on to blow after heat even | B3 |
| so did Diomed son of Tydeus see Mars ascend into the broad heavens | G2 |
| With all speed he reached high Olympus home of the gods and in great | O |
| pain sat down beside Jove the son of Saturn He showed Jove the | N |
| immortal blood that was flowing from his wound and spoke piteously | M2 |
| saying Father Jove are you not angered by such doings We gods | G2 |
| are continually suffering in the most cruel manner at one another's | G2 |
| hands while helping mortals and we all owe you a grudge for having | J |
| begotten that mad termagant of a daughter who is always committing | J |
| outrage of some kind We other gods must all do as you bid us but her | C3 |
| you neither scold nor punish you encourage her because the | N |
| pestilent creature is your daughter See how she has been inciting | J |
| proud Diomed to vent his rage on the immortal gods First he went up | K |
| to the Cyprian and wounded her in the hand near her wrist and then he | O |
| sprang upon me too as though he were a god Had I not run for it I | K3 |
| must either have lain there for long enough in torments among the | N |
| ghastly corpes or have been eaten alive with spears till I had no | G2 |
| more strength left in me | O |
| Jove looked angrily at him and said Do not come whining here | C3 |
| Sir Facing bothways I hate you worst of all the gods in Olympus | G2 |
| for you are ever fighting and making mischief You have the | N |
| intolerable and stubborn spirit of your mother Juno it is all I can | B3 |
| do to manage her and it is her doing that you are now in this plight | O |
| still I cannot let you remain longer in such great pain you are my | K3 |
| own off spring and it was by me that your mother conceived you if | K3 |
| however you had been the son of any other god you are so destructive | K3 |
| that by this time you should have been lying lower than the Titans | G2 |
| He then bade Paeeon heal him whereon Paeeon spread pain killing | J |
| herbs upon his wound and cured him for he was not of mortal mould As | G2 |
| the juice of the fig tree curdles milk and thickens it in a moment | O |
| though it is liquid even so instantly did Paeeon cure fierce Mars | G2 |
| Then Hebe washed him and clothed him in goodly raiment and he took | K2 |
| his seat by his father Jove all glorious to behold | O |
| But Juno of Argos and Minerva of Alalcomene now that they had put a | N |
| stop to the murderous doings of Mars went back again to the house | G2 |
| of Jove | K3 |
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