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100 The Destruction of Troy.
together with twain of the royal soldiers of the Trojans who
were slain by him, to wit Mesthles and . . .
1020. Now when Agamemnon beheld the kings of the
Greeks and many captains of his people slain, and a slaughter
of his army made, it was proclaimed to his people to retreat
and to leave the line of battle. This, then, is done. The Trojans
marched to their city with victory and triumph. But as to
Agamemnon, the kings and chieftains of the Greeks were summoned
unto him, and he began to hearten them so that they
should not be dispirited though multitudes of them had fallen;
for that hosts and great multitudes would come to them from
Mysia on the morrow.
1029. Howbeit on the morrow Agamemnon comes with
the Greeks, so that they were biding on the battle-field; and
he began to hearten the heroes and the kings to march with
all their soldiers and warriors to the battle on that day.
1033. On the other side came the Trojans. A furious
battle is fought there at every point. Great in sooth was the
duration of that battle, for the space of eighty days, without
staying, without pausing, without ceasing, but each of them
a-smiting the other. Sooth, many thousands of the heroes of
Asia and Europe fell in that battling. Though each of the
two hosts had no loss save what was slain at that season,
great were the loss. As to the valiant deeds that Hector did
at that time, if they were thoroughly known there would be
enough of noble tales for the men of the world.
1041. Howbeit, as Agamemnon beheld many thousands of
his people falling every day, and when he beheld the great
overthrow that Hector inflicted upon them, and when he beheld
the fields full of the bodies and of the entrails and of the
bones, so that the great plain was not traversable, from the
walls of Troy even to the camp of the Greeks, owing to the
abundance of bodies and the clots of blood. — As to Little
Asia, it was not inhabitable at all, from the bight of the
Pontic sea in the north as far as Ephesus in the south, with
the evil stench of the blood and of the bodies decaying, and