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HO The Destruction of Troy.
that they were biding on the battlefield. The Trojans, however,
came from the other side with Deiphobus son of Priam. How-
beit, on that day, Achilles, for wrath and bitterness, entered
not the battle. The greater, then, was the fury and tempest
of Palamedes thereat. He broke a breach of a hundred in the
battle, till he came to the place wherein Deiphobus, son of
Priam, was biding; and cut his head off him over shield.
1314. Thereafter arose a very mighty and savage contest.
Woeful on this side and on that was that conflict.
1315. Many thousands fell on each of the two sides, so
that the earth was crimson underfoot with the clots of the
blood. Then came Sarpedon Lycius with great fury and great
anger to fight against Palamedes. Palamedes awaited him, so
that Sarpedon Lycius fell by him. So when Palamedes had
done these deeds, he was biding joyfully before the line of
battle. So when he was boasting that two royal battle-soldiers
of the Trojans had fallen by his hands, Alexander loosed his
bow, and sent a shot of an arrow at Palamedes, so that it
entered him. When the Trojans saw that, they all cast their
spears at him, so that of him was made a mill-sieve. Pala-
medes fell in that place. After the fall of the king of the
Greeks, they were hunted as far as the camp, and they passed
in their fleeing to the midst of it. The Trojans close round
the fortress to destroy the camp, and they burn the ships.
This is told to Achilles. „That is untrue!" saith Achilles.
„Defeat on the new king, and his falling by his foes!" That was
mockery on his part. Ajax son of Telamon was in the rear of
the host, and he gave hard battle to the Trojans in such wise
that it was the night that severed their fighting, so that each
of them went to his stronghold at the end of the day. Now
the Greeks that night bewailed Palamedes for the goodness
of his form and his shape and his build; for the greatness of
his wisdom and his lore and his knowledge; and for the
greatness of his bounty and his deeds and his valour. The
Trojans, moreover, lamented Sarpedon and Deiphobus, their
royal leaders and their chief battle-soldiers.