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Literal Translation. 105
confusion that Hector brought on the hosts, he pondered in his
mind how he should set about slaying Hector, for the Greeks had
no hero a match for him save Achilles only. He was sure that
unless Hector should fall quickly not one of the nine and forty
kings who had come from Greece on this hosting, would escape,
and that he would deliver a sudden attack on the host besides,
so that no living man of them should escape from him. Now
while Achilles was thus pondering, a valiant battle-soldier of the
Greeks, namely Polyboetes, set shield against shield to Hector.
It was not long that he endured Hector, so that he fell by him.
This struck the Greeks dumb 1
, the quickness with which the
hero had been slain in their presence. Then the Greeks betook
themselves to a lying, snaring stratagem behind his back, since
they could no nothing before his face, because of the constancy
of (his) valour. This was the stratagem: they cast their clothes
off them, and made thereof a mound in front of them, and
Achilles, with his spear in his hand, was set in the middle
of the mound. They then pretended to flee. The battle-soldier,
Hector, ran after them, and began cutting down and hewing
the soldiers and causing 1 * the slaughter, and took to spoiling the
slain Iclomeneus. Thereat Achilles comes to him. When the
hosts saw that, they gave one cry out of them, both Greeks
and Trojans and the people of the city in the middle; but it
was with a diverse intention: this was the intention of the
Trojans, to make known the wile to Hector: the intention of
the Greeks, however, was to shout at him so that he should
not hear (the Trojans). Then Hector started up, and turned
against Achilles, and gave a thrust of a lance at him, so that
it pierced his thigh, and began to go into the midst of his
own people. Him followed the terrible hero, the mightiest who
was in the west of the world, to wit, Achilles, when the valour
and fury and anger wrought by the wound had sprung into
him; and a blow of the great spear that lay in his hand he
dealt into Hector's back and broke the bone of his back before
Lit. put the Greeks into silence.
2 Lit. striking.