The Iliad: Book 14 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDEFGHEIJKJELCMKJ CKHNOPMJQRKSTNUVWXNK KKYJZJJYIDA2B2KUC2ID 2E2LKJF2SUG2NEJKSH2I 2KJ2NKYKK2HHL2IVNM2N KN2KJ2KA2KO2P2Q2R2S2 T2JYNIFKSU2YKJJOKYIV 2W2NF2MX2NJY2Z2A3EKK B3JWNC3T2D3NX2E3TYF3 NYG3YN2H3YOHKNXYXI3K J3SUKM2KKKF2WEK3BL3Y KJH2LNJNJKE2M2UYIUJB MFMK2M3H2UB3Y2ZKJQ2Q 2KSIONIKJN2YN3JXEKYM O3P3Q3EJNYJMKJOR3S3N M3IIKNET3Q2U3MIUKNMK X2MTJNKR3KUIMKV3F2W3 NNM2LX3KKN3KTX2LA3KJ KJU3KY3Z3NA4D3YEB4Y2 UC4NL3IXNF3MJKKKD4IN N3E4EKJW3F4NJFNKKKYN HNJQ3JKNG4JJNH4H4KEH ANNF2M3I4MOJ4J4W3KJ4 KKF2R3KKMIJ4JMH4KHYF 3NJ4J4J4IJ4KKH4J4JKK YB4KBXJ4J4NK4KXMH4L4 NJ4NNM4JH2NIYJJKKKHN 4VNMYQ3| Nestor was sitting over his wine but the cry of battle did not | A |
| escape him and he said to the son of Aesculapius What noble | B |
| Machaon is the meaning of all this The shouts of men fighting by our | C |
| ships grow stronger and stronger stay here therefore and sit over | C |
| your wine while fair Hecamede heats you a bath and washes the clotted | D |
| blood from off you I will go at once to the look out station and | E |
| see what it is all about | F |
| As he spoke he took up the shield of his son Thrasymedes that was | G |
| lying in his tent all gleaming with bronze for Thrasymedes had taken | H |
| his father's shield he grasped his redoubtable bronze shod spear and | E |
| as soon as he was outside saw the disastrous rout of the Achaeans who | I |
| now that their wall was overthrown were flying pell mell before the | J |
| Trojans As when there is a heavy swell upon the sea but the waves | K |
| are dumb they keep their eyes on the watch for the quarter whence the | J |
| fierce winds may spring upon them but they stay where they are and | E |
| set neither this way nor that till some particular wind sweeps down | L |
| from heaven to determine them even so did the old man ponder | C |
| whether to make for the crowd of Danaans or go in search of | M |
| Agamemnon In the end he deemed it best to go to the son of Atreus | K |
| but meanwhile the hosts were fighting and killing one another and the | J |
| hard bronze rattled on their bodies as they thrust at one another | C |
| with their swords and spears | K |
| The wounded kings the son of Tydeus Ulysses and Agamemnon son | H |
| of Atreus fell in Nestor as they were coming up from their ships for | N |
| theirs were drawn up some way from where the fighting was going on | O |
| being on the shore itself inasmuch as they had been beached first | P |
| while the wall had been built behind the hindermost The stretch of | M |
| the shore wide though it was did not afford room for all the | J |
| ships and the host was cramped for space therefore they had placed | Q |
| the ships in rows one behind the other and had filled the whole | R |
| opening of the bay between the two points that formed it The kings | K |
| leaning on their spears were coming out to survey the fight being in | S |
| great anxiety and when old Nestor met them they were filled with | T |
| dismay Then King Agamemnon said to him Nestor son of Neleus honour | N |
| to the Achaean name why have you left the battle to come hither I | U |
| fear that what dread Hector said will come true when he vaunted among | V |
| the Trojans saying that he would not return to Ilius till he had fired | W |
| our ships and killed us this is what he said and now it is all | X |
| coming true Alas others of the Achaeans like Achilles are in anger | N |
| with me that they refuse to fight by the sterns of our ships | K |
| Then Nestor knight of Gerene answered It is indeed as you say | K |
| it is all coming true at this moment and even Jove who thunders | K |
| from on high cannot prevent it Fallen is the wall on which we | Y |
| relied as an impregnable bulwark both for us and our fleet The | J |
| Trojans are fighting stubbornly and without ceasing at the ships look | Z |
| where you may you cannot see from what quarter the rout of the | J |
| Achaeans is coming they are being killed in a confused mass and the | J |
| battle cry ascends to heaven let us think if counsel can be of any | Y |
| use what we had better do but I do not advise our going into | I |
| battle ourselves for a man cannot fight when he is wounded | D |
| And King Agamemnon answered Nestor if the Trojans are indeed | A2 |
| fighting at the rear of our ships and neither the wall nor the trench | B2 |
| has served us over which the Danaans toiled so hard and which they | K |
| deemed would be an impregnable bulwark both for us and our fleet I | U |
| see it must be the will of Jove that the Achaeans should perish | C2 |
| ingloriously here far from Argos I knew when Jove was willing to | I |
| defend us and I know now that he is raising the Trojans to like | D2 |
| honour with the gods while us on the other hand he bas bound hand | E2 |
| and foot Now therefore let us all do as I say let us bring down | L |
| the ships that are on the beach and draw them into the water let us | K |
| make them fast to their mooring stones a little way out against the | J |
| fall of night if even by night the Trojans will desist from fighting | F2 |
| we may then draw down the rest of the fleet There is nothing wrong in | S |
| flying ruin even by night It is better for a man that he should fly | U |
| and be saved than be caught and killed | G2 |
| Ulysses looked fiercely at him and said Son of Atreus what are | N |
| you talking about Wretch you should have commanded some other and | E |
| baser army and not been ruler over us to whom Jove has allotted a | J |
| life of hard fighting from youth to old age till we every one of us | K |
| perish Is it thus that you would quit the city of Troy to win | S |
| which we have suffered so much hardship Hold your peace lest some | H2 |
| other of the Achaeans hear you say what no man who knows how to give | I2 |
| good counsel no king over so great a host as that of the Argives | K |
| should ever have let fall from his lips I despise your judgement | J2 |
| utterly for what you have been saying Would you then have us draw | N |
| down our ships into the water while the battle is raging and thus | K |
| play further into the hands of the conquering Trojans It would be | Y |
| ruin the Achaeans will not go on fighting when they see the ships | K |
| being drawn into the water but will cease attacking and keep | K2 |
| turning their eyes towards them your counsel therefore Sir captain | H |
| would be our destruction | H |
| Agamemnon answered Ulysses your rebuke has stung me to the heart | L2 |
| I am not however ordering the Achaeans to draw their ships into | I |
| the sea whether they will or no Some one it may be old or young | V |
| can offer us better counsel which I shall rejoice to hear | N |
| Then said Diomed Such an one is at hand he is not far to seek if | M2 |
| you will listen to me and not resent my speaking though I am younger | N |
| than any of you I am by lineage son to a noble sire Tydeus who lies | K |
| buried at Thebes For Portheus had three noble sons two of whom | N2 |
| Agrius and Melas abode in Pleuron and rocky Calydon The third was | K |
| the knight Oeneus my father's father and he was the most valiant | J2 |
| of them all Oeeneus remained in his own country but my father as | K |
| Jove and the other gods ordained it migrated to Argos He married | A2 |
| into the family of Adrastus and his house was one of great abundance | K |
| for he had large estates of rich corn growing land with much | O2 |
| orchard ground as well and he had many sheep moreover he excelled | P2 |
| all the Argives in the use of the spear You must yourselves have | Q2 |
| heard whether these things are true or no therefore when I say well | R2 |
| despise not my words as though I were a coward or of ignoble birth | S2 |
| I say then let us go to the fight as we needs must wounded though | T2 |
| we be When there we may keep out of the battle and beyond the | J |
| range of the spears lest we get fresh wounds in addition to what we | Y |
| have already but we can spur on others who have been indulging their | N |
| spleen and holding aloof from battle hitherto | I |
| Thus did he speak whereon they did even as he had said and set out | F |
| King Agamemnon leading the way | K |
| Meanwhile Neptune had kept no blind look out and came up to them in | S |
| the semblance of an old man He took Agamemnon's right hand in his own | U2 |
| and said Son of Atreus I take it Achilles is glad now that he | Y |
| sees the Achaeans routed and slain for he is utterly without remorse | K |
| may he come to a bad end and heaven confound him As for yourself the | J |
| blessed gods are not yet so bitterly angry with you but that the | J |
| princes and counsellors of the Trojans shall again raise the dust upon | O |
| the plain and you shall see them flying from the ships and tents | K |
| towards their city | Y |
| With this he raised a mighty cry of battle and sped forward to | I |
| the plain The voice that came from his deep chest was as that of nine | V2 |
| or ten thousand men when they are shouting in the thick of a fight | W2 |
| and it put fresh courage into the hearts of the Achaeans to wage war | N |
| and do battle without ceasing | F2 |
| Juno of the golden throne looked down as she stood upon a peak of | M |
| Olympus and her heart was gladdened at the sight of him who was at | X2 |
| once her brother and her brother in law hurrying hither and thither | N |
| amid the fighting Then she turned her eyes to Jove as he sat on the | J |
| topmost crests of many fountained Ida and loathed him She set | Y2 |
| herself to think how she might hoodwink him and in the end she deemed | Z2 |
| that it would be best for her to go to Ida and array herself in rich | A3 |
| attire in the hope that Jove might become enamoured of her and | E |
| wish to embrace her While he was thus engaged a sweet and careless | K |
| sleep might be made to steal over his eyes and senses | K |
| She went therefore to the room which her son Vulcan had made | B3 |
| her and the doors of which he had cunningly fastened by means of a | J |
| secret key so that no other god could open them Here she entered | W |
| and closed the doors behind her She cleansed all the dirt from her | N |
| fair body with ambrosia then she anointed herself with olive oil | C3 |
| ambrosial very soft and scented specially for herself if it were so | T2 |
| much as shaken in the bronze floored house of Jove the scent pervaded | D3 |
| the universe of heaven and earth With this she anointed her | N |
| delicate skin and then she plaited the fair ambrosial locks that | X2 |
| flowed in a stream of golden tresses from her immortal head She put | E3 |
| on the wondrous robe which Minerva had worked for her with | T |
| consummate art and had embroidered with manifold devices she | Y |
| fastened it about her bosom with golden clasps and she girded herself | F3 |
| with a girdle that had a hundred tassels then she fastened her | N |
| earrings three brilliant pendants that glistened most beautifully | Y |
| through the pierced lobes of her ears and threw a lovely new veil | G3 |
| over her head She bound her sandals on to her feet and when she | Y |
| had arrayed herself perfectly to her satisfaction she left her room | N2 |
| and called Venus to come aside and speak to her My dear child said | H3 |
| she will you do what I am going to ask of you or will refuse me | Y |
| because you are angry at my being on the Danaan side while you are on | O |
| the Trojan | H |
| Jove's daughter Venus answered Juno august queen of goddesses | K |
| daughter of mighty Saturn say what you want and I will do it for | N |
| at once if I can and if it can be done at all | X |
| Then Juno told her a lying tale and said I want you to endow me | Y |
| with some of those fascinating charms the spells of which bring all | X |
| things mortal and immortal to your feet I am going to the world's end | I3 |
| to visit Oceanus from whom all we gods proceed and mother Tethys | K |
| they received me in their house took care of me and brought me up | J3 |
| having taken me over from Rhaea when Jove imprisoned great Saturn in | S |
| the depths that are under earth and sea I must go and see them that I | U |
| may make peace between them they have been quarrelling and are so | K |
| angry that they have not slept with one another this long while if | M2 |
| I can bring them round and restore them to one another's embraces | K |
| they will be grateful to me and love me for ever afterwards | K |
| Thereon laughter loving Venus said I cannot and must not refuse | K |
| you for you sleep in the arms of Jove who is our king | F2 |
| As she spoke she loosed from her bosom the curiously embroidered | W |
| girdle into which all her charms had been wrought love desire and | E |
| that sweet flattery which steals the judgement even of the most | K3 |
| prudent She gave the girdle to Juno and said Take this girdle | B |
| wherein all my charms reside and lay it in your bosom If you will | L3 |
| wear it I promise you that your errand be it what it may will not be | Y |
| bootless | K |
| When she heard this Juno smiled and still smiling she laid the | J |
| girdle in her bosom | H2 |
| Venus now went back into the house of Jove while Juno darted down | L |
| from the summits of Olympus She passed over Pieria and fair | N |
| Emathia and went on and on till she came to the snowy ranges of the | J |
| Thracian horsemen over whose topmost crests she sped without ever | N |
| setting foot to ground When she came to Athos she went on over the | J |
| waves of the sea till she reached Lemnos the city of noble Thoas | K |
| There she met Sleep own brother to Death and caught him by the hand | E2 |
| saying Sleep you who lord it alike over mortals and immortals if | M2 |
| you ever did me a service in times past do one for me now and I | U |
| shall be grateful to you ever after Close Jove's keen eyes for me | Y |
| in slumber while I hold him clasped in my embrace and I will give you | I |
| a beautiful golden seat that can never fall to pieces my | U |
| clubfooted son Vulcan shall make it for you and he shall give it a | J |
| footstool for you to rest your fair feet upon when you are at table | B |
| Then Sleep answered Juno great queen of goddesses daughter of | M |
| mighty Saturn I would lull any other of the gods to sleep without | F |
| compunction not even excepting the waters of Oceanus from whom all of | M |
| them proceed but I dare not go near Jove nor send him to sleep | K2 |
| unless he bids me I have had one lesson already through doing what | M3 |
| you asked me on the day when Jove's mighty son Hercules set sail from | H2 |
| Ilius after having sacked the city of the Trojans At your bidding I | U |
| suffused my sweet self over the mind of aegis bearing Jove and laid | B3 |
| him to rest meanwhile you hatched a plot against Hercules and set | Y2 |
| the blasts of the angry winds beating upon the sea till you took | Z |
| him to the goodly city of Cos away from all his friends Jove was | K |
| furious when he awoke and began hurling the gods about all over the | J |
| house he was looking more particularly for myself and would have | Q2 |
| flung me down through space into the sea where I should never have | Q2 |
| been heard of any more had not Night who cows both men and gods | K |
| protected me I fled to her and Jove left off looking for me in | S |
| spite of his being so angry for he did not dare do anything to | I |
| displease Night And now you are again asking me to do something on | O |
| which I cannot venture | N |
| And Juno said Sleep why do you take such notions as those into | I |
| your head Do you think Jove will be as anxious to help the Trojans | K |
| as he was about his own son Come I will marry you to one of the | J |
| youngest of the Graces and she shall be your own Pasithea whom | N2 |
| you have always wanted to marry | Y |
| Sleep was pleased when he heard this and answered Then swear it | N3 |
| to me by the dread waters of the river Styx lay one hand on the | J |
| bounteous earth and the other on the sheen of the sea so that all | X |
| the gods who dwell down below with Saturn may be our witnesses and | E |
| see that you really do give me one of the youngest of the Graces | K |
| Pasithea whom I have always wanted to marry | Y |
| Juno did as he had said She swore and invoked all the gods of | M |
| the nether world who are called Titans to witness When she had | O3 |
| completed her oath the two enshrouded themselves in a thick mist | P3 |
| and sped lightly forward leaving Lemnos and Imbrus behind them | Q3 |
| Presently they reached many fountained Ida mother of wild beasts and | E |
| Lectum where they left the sea to go on by land and the tops of the | J |
| trees of the forest soughed under the going of their feet Here | N |
| Sleep halted and ere Jove caught sight of him he climbed a lofty | Y |
| pine tree the tallest that reared its head towards heaven on all Ida | J |
| He hid himself behind the branches and sat there in the semblance of | M |
| the sweet singing bird that haunts the mountains and is called Chalcis | K |
| by the gods but men call it Cymindis Juno then went to Gargarus the | J |
| topmost peak of Ida and Jove driver of the clouds set eyes upon | O |
| her As soon as he did so he became inflamed with the same | R3 |
| passionate desire for her that he had felt when they had first enjoyed | S3 |
| each other's embraces and slept with one another without their dear | N |
| parents knowing anything about it He went up to her and said What | M3 |
| do you want that you have come hither from Olympus and that too | I |
| with neither chariot nor horses to convey you | I |
| Then Juno told him a lying tale and said I am going to the world's | K |
| end to visit Oceanus from whom all we gods proceed and mother | N |
| Tethys they received me into their house took care of me and | E |
| brought me up I must go and see them that I may make peace between | T3 |
| them they have been quarrelling and are so angry that they have | Q2 |
| not slept with one another this long time The horses that will take | U3 |
| me over land and sea are stationed on the lowermost spurs of | M |
| many fountained Ida and I have come here from Olympus on purpose to | I |
| consult you I was afraid you might be angry with me later on if I | U |
| went to the house of Oceanus without letting you know | K |
| And Jove said Juno you can choose some other time for paying your | N |
| visit to Oceanus for the present let us devote ourselves to love | M |
| and to the enjoyment of one another Never yet have I been so | K |
| overpowered by passion neither for goddess nor mortal woman as I am at | X2 |
| this moment for yourself not even when I was in love with the wife of | M |
| Ixion who bore me Pirithous peer of gods in counsel nor yet with | T |
| Danae the daintily ancled daughter of Acrisius who bore me the | J |
| famed hero Perseus Then there was the daughter of Phoenix who bore | N |
| me Minos and Rhadamanthus there was Semele and Alcmena in Thebes | K |
| by whom I begot my lion hearted son Hercules while Semele became | R3 |
| mother to Bacchus the comforter of mankind There was queen Ceres | K |
| again and lovely Leto and yourself but with none of these was I | U |
| ever so much enamoured as I now am with you | I |
| Juno again answered him with a lying tale Most dread son of | M |
| Saturn she exclaimed what are you talking about Would you have us | K |
| enjoy one another here on the top of Mount Ida where everything can | V3 |
| be seen What if one of the ever living gods should see us sleeping | F2 |
| together and tell the others It would be such a scandal that when | W3 |
| I had risen from your embraces I could never show myself inside your | N |
| house again but if you are so minded there is a room which your | N |
| son Vulcan has made me and he has given it good strong doors if | M2 |
| you would so have it let us go thither and lie down | L |
| And Jove answered Juno you need not be afraid that either god | X3 |
| or man will see you for I will enshroud both of us in such a dense | K |
| golden cloud that the very sun for all his bright piercing beams | K |
| shall not see through it | N3 |
| With this the son of Saturn caught his wife in his embrace | K |
| whereon the earth sprouted them a cushion of young grass with | T |
| dew bespangled lotus crocus and hyacinth so soft and thick that | X2 |
| it raised them well above the ground Here they laid themselves down | L |
| and overhead they were covered by a fair cloud of gold from which | A3 |
| there fell glittering dew drops | K |
| Thus then did the sire of all things repose peacefully on the | J |
| crest of Ida overcome at once by sleep and love and he held his | K |
| spouse in his arms Meanwhile Sleep made off to the ships of the | J |
| Achaeans to tell earth encircling Neptune lord of the earthquake | U3 |
| When he had found him he said Now Neptune you can help the Danaans | K |
| with a will and give them victory though it be only for a short | Y3 |
| time while Jove is still sleeping I have sent him into a sweet | Z3 |
| slumber and Juno has beguiled him into going to bed with her | N |
| Sleep now departed and went his ways to and fro among mankind | A4 |
| leaving Neptune more eager than ever to help the Danaans He darted | D3 |
| forward among the first ranks and shouted saying Argives shall we | Y |
| let Hector son of Priam have the triumph of taking our ships and | E |
| covering himself with glory This is what he says that he shall now | B4 |
| do seeing that Achilles is still in dudgeon at his ship We shall get | Y2 |
| on very well without him if we keep each other in heart and stand by | U |
| one another Now therefore let us all do as I say Let us each | C4 |
| take the best and largest shield we can lay hold of put on our | N |
| helmets and sally forth with our longest spears in our hands will | L3 |
| lead you on and Hector son of Priam rage as he may will not dare to | I |
| hold out against us If any good staunch soldier has only a small | X |
| shield let him hand it over to a worse man and take a larger one for | N |
| himself | F3 |
| Thus did he speak and they did even as he had said The son of | M |
| Tydeus Ulysses and Agamemnon wounded though they were set the | J |
| others in array and went about everywhere effecting the exchanges | K |
| of armour the most valiant took the best armour and gave the worse | K |
| to the worse man When they had donned their bronze armour they | K |
| marched on with Neptune at their head In his strong hand he grasped | D4 |
| his terrible sword keen of edge and flashing like lightning woe to | I |
| him who comes across it in the day of battle all men quake for fear | N |
| and keep away from it | N3 |
| Hector on the other side set the Trojans in array Thereon Neptune | E4 |
| and Hector waged fierce war on one another Hector on the Trojan and | E |
| Neptune on the Argive side Mighty was the uproar as the two forces | K |
| met the sea came rolling in towards the ships and tents of the | J |
| Achaeans but waves do not thunder on the shore more loudly when | W3 |
| driven before the blast of Boreas nor do the flames of a forest | F4 |
| fire roar more fiercely when it is well alight upon the mountains nor | N |
| does the wind bellow with ruder music as it tears on through the | J |
| tops of when it is blowing its hardest than the terrible shout | F |
| which the Trojans and Achaeans raised as they sprang upon one another | N |
| Hector first aimed his spear at Ajax who was turned full towards | K |
| him nor did he miss his aim The spear struck him where two bands | K |
| passed over his chest the band of his shield and that of his | K |
| silver studded sword and these protected his body Hector was angry | Y |
| that his spear should have been hurled in vain and withdrew under | N |
| cover of his men As he was thus retreating Ajax son of Telamon | H |
| struck him with a stone of which there were many lying about under | N |
| the men's feet as they fought brought there to give support to the | J |
| ships' sides as they lay on the shore Ajax caught up one of them | Q3 |
| and struck Hector above the rim of his shield close to his neck the | J |
| blow made him spin round like a top and reel in all directions As | K |
| an oak falls headlong when uprooted by the lightning flash of father | N |
| Jove and there is a terrible smell of brimstone no man can help | G4 |
| being dismayed if he is standing near it for a thunderbolt is a | J |
| very awful thing even so did Hector fall to earth and bite the | J |
| dust His spear fell from his hand but his shield and helmet were | N |
| made fast about his body and his bronze armour rang about him | H4 |
| The sons of the Achaeans came running with a loud cry towards him | H4 |
| hoping to drag him away and they showered their darts on the Trojans | K |
| but none of them could wound him before he was surrounded and | E |
| covered by the princes Polydamas Aeneas Agenor Sarpedon captain | H |
| of the Lycians and noble Glaucus of the others too there was not | A |
| one who was unmindful of him and they held their round shields over | N |
| him to cover him His comrades then lifted him off the ground and bore | N |
| him away from the battle to the place where his horses stood waiting | F2 |
| for him at the rear of the fight with their driver and the chariot | M3 |
| these then took him towards the city groaning and in great pain | I4 |
| When they reached the ford of the air stream of Xanthus begotten of | M |
| Immortal Jove they took him from off his chariot and laid him down on | O |
| the ground they poured water over him and as they did so he breathed | J4 |
| again and opened his eyes Then kneeling on his knees he vomited | J4 |
| blood but soon fell back on to the ground and his eyes were again | W3 |
| closed in darkness for he was still sturined by the blow | K |
| When the Argives saw Hector leaving the field they took heart and | J4 |
| set upon the Trojans yet more furiously Ajax fleet son of Oileus | K |
| began by springing on Satnius son of Enops and wounding him with his | K |
| spear a fair naiad nymph had borne him to Enops as he was herding | F2 |
| cattle by the banks of the river Satnioeis The son of Oileus came | R3 |
| up to him and struck him in the flank so that he fell and a fierce | K |
| fight between Trojans and Danaans raged round his body Polydamas | K |
| son of Panthous drew near to avenge him and wounded Prothoenor son of | M |
| Areilycus on the right shoulder the terrible spear went right through | I |
| his shoulder and he clutched the earth as he fell in the dust | J4 |
| Polydamas vaunted loudly over him saying Again I take it that the | J |
| spear has not sped in vain from the strong hand of the son of | M |
| Panthous an Argive has caught it in his body and it will serve him | H4 |
| for a staff as he goes down into the house of Hades | K |
| The Argives were maddened by this boasting Ajax son of Telamon | H |
| was more angry than any for the man had fallen close be him so he | Y |
| aimed at Polydamas as he was retreating but Polydamas saved himself | F3 |
| by swerving aside and the spear struck Archelochus son of Antenor for | N |
| heaven counselled his destruction it struck him where the head | J4 |
| springs from the neck at the top joint of the spine and severed | J4 |
| both the tendons at the back of the head His head mouth and | J4 |
| nostrils reached the ground long before his legs and knees could do | I |
| so and Ajax shouted to Polydamas saying Think Polydamas and | J4 |
| tell me truly whether this man is not as well worth killing as | K |
| Prothoenor was he seems rich and of rich family a brother it may | K |
| be or son of the knight Antenor for he is very like him | H4 |
| But he knew well who it was and the Trojans were greatly angered | J4 |
| Acamas then bestrode his brother's body and wounded Promachus the | J |
| Boeotian with his spear for he was trying to drag his brother's | K |
| body away Acamas vaunted loudly over him saying Argive archers | K |
| braggarts that you are toil and suffering shall not be for us only | Y |
| but some of you too shall fall here as well as ourselves See how | B4 |
| Promachus now sleeps vanquished by my spear payment for my brother's | K |
| blood has not long delayed a man therefore may well be thankful | B |
| if he leaves a kinsman in his house behind him to avenge his fall | X |
| His taunts infuriated the Argives and Peneleos was more enraged | J4 |
| than any of them He sprang towards Acamas but Acamas did not stand | J4 |
| his ground and he killed Ilioneus son of the rich flock master | N |
| Phorbas whom Mercury had favoured and endowed with greater wealth | K4 |
| than any other of the Trojans Ilioneus was his only son and Peneleos | K |
| now wounded him in the eye under his eyebrows tearing the eye ball | X |
| from its socket the spear went right through the eye into the nape of | M |
| the neck and he fell stretching out both hands before him | H4 |
| Peneleos then drew his sword and smote him on the neck so that both | L4 |
| head and helmet came tumbling down to the ground with the spear | N |
| still sticking in the eye he then held up the head as though it | J4 |
| had been a poppy head and showed it to the Trojans vaunting over | N |
| them as he did so Trojans he cried bid the father and mother | N |
| of noble Ilioneus make moan for him in their house for the wife | M4 |
| also of Promachus son of Alegenor will never be gladdened by the | J |
| coming of her dear husband when we Argives return with our ships from | H2 |
| Troy | N |
| As he spoke fear fell upon them and every man looked round about to | I |
| see whither he might fly for safety | Y |
| Tell me now O Muses that dwell on Olympus who was the first of the | J |
| Argives to bear away blood stained spoils after Neptune lord of the | J |
| earthquake had turned the fortune of war Ajax son of Telamon was | K |
| first to wound Hyrtius son of Gyrtius captain of the staunch Mysians | K |
| Antilochus killed Phalces and Mermerus while Meriones slew Morys | K |
| and Hippotion Teucer also killed Prothoon and Periphetes The son | H |
| of Atreus then wounded Hyperenor shepherd of his people in the flank | N4 |
| and the bronze point made his entrails gush out as it tore in among | V |
| them on this his life came hurrying out of him at the place where | N |
| he had been wounded and his eyes were closed in darkness Ajax son of | M |
| Oileus killed more than any other for there was no man so fleet as he | Y |
| to pursue flying foes when Jove had spread panic among them | Q3 |
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