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102 The Destruction of Troy.
battle-breachers of hundreds, and their veterans of the battle-line,
and their slaughterous leopards have fallen in fighting against
him. He has filled with corpses the fields before Troy. Now there
was one cry of wail and lamentation throughout Greece through
dread of the same man, for their sons and their grandsons
and their fosterchildren had fallen through dread of Hector's
hand. As to the isles of the Tyrrhene sea, great is the cry of
lamentation that was therein. They had the wail of every house
from the sea of the headland of Pelorus to Pachynus and
Bosphorus. Beautiful were the grown-up girls who were making
songs and music . . . commemoration of Hector's name together
with their clear ones and friends who had fallen by his hand.
So greatly had the fame and renown of Hector run among
the chief divisions of the world that the troops and assemblies
of ladies and the joyous girls of the world, loved him for the
noble tales about him, so that they would have proceeded (?)
out of their lands to see and to contemplate Hector's form,
had not the great wars taken [him] from them. As to the
sons of the kings and nobles of Greece, they went as far
as Troy, with one will, to see Hector, and they used to step
on mounds and on enclosures to see Hector over the men's
shoulders. When he was in his full equipment of armour and
apparel, the Greeks, for fear of Hector, knew not what they
should do. They knew not how they should go in order to slay
him. Of the world's men there were none, whatever were the
excellence of their prowess and their casting of darts, that could
strike Hector because of the excellence of (his) defence and
protection. During the seven years the Greeks were unable
to overcome him, although they excelled the men of the world
in knowledge and wisdom, in cunning and valour.
1112. Then came the end of the truce. Hector and Troi-
lus went before the host of the Trojans against the Greeks.
A battle, angry, savage, edged, was fought by them on the
slaughterfield. Hector attacked the battalion of the Greeks, so
that Fhidippus fell by him in the first line of battle. He
brought confusion on them all, and slew many thousands of
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