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96 The Destruction of Troy.
conflict which the men of Asia and Europe will light. The
breath of the Ethiopian will meet with the Thracian; in such
wise that they will be . . . Furious will be the mutual smiting
which the foreigners will cause, the Persian from the east of
the world, the Macedonian from the west thereof. Alas that
there was not a 'honey-tongue' who would make peace with the
Greeks in such wise that they would turn from the place
wherein they stand!"
912. Even while they were so speaking, 1 the host came
into the port of Troy. They filled the harbour with ships and
galleys. Hector, however, held the harbour against them till
Achilles came, of whom was said is totum exercitum euertit.
The same man is sent to spy and to cast an eye over them,
and he went and beheld the courses of the bands and the bat-
talions, every battalion and every host round its king and round
its captain, issuing forth out of the ships.
919. He then declared to Priam the form and shape and
habit of every king and every captain, every warrior and every
soldier of the Greeks.
This is a defect in 2 the book.
922. ... hunting Alexander, so that Aeneas put his shield
behind him and saved him from the hands of Menelaus. There-
after Alexander went to the city. Nox praelium dirimit.
925. On the morrow the champions of Europe and of the
Greeks went before the battalion of the Trojans. Terrible, in
sooth, was the kind of rage and wrath and conflict which they
brought with them into the battle — Achilles and Diomede
in the forefront of the battalion of the Greeks, Hector and
Aeneas in the forefront of the battalion of the Trojans. This
is what the captains of the Greeks brought with them (into
the battle) — the overwhelming of Hector if they could. Bitter,
in sooth, was the attack which they delivered. Furiously in
that battle bellowed the valiant stags of Asia and Europe.
1 Lit. on these words.
2 Lit. on.