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The Destruction of Troy.
also was shooting arrows at the hosts out of a battalion, and
laid low great multitudes of Greeks. Then he struck Ajax
with an arrow -shot when he was stark -naked in the battle-
line, and it pierced his side. Then when the fury and rage
wrought by the wound had entered Ajax, he charged through
the battalion to Alexander, and did not take hand from him
till he slew him and till he destroyed him. Howbeit, Ajax son
of Telamon went to his camp and plucked out his arrow, and
so died forthwith. Then Alexander's body is borne to the city.
Then, too, did Diomede rout the Trojans after Alexander had
fallen, and he inflicted slaughter upon them as far as the gates
of the city. Though there were no lessening (?) of the Trojans
save the furious attack which Diomede made that day upon them,
it was enough of slaughter and mortality: for never was there
anything more horrible than the swift hacking and the swift
hewing which he brought upon them up to the gates of the
city. Then Agamemnon, with Greeks around him, went and
sat down in the midst of the city, and watched around it until
the dawn on the morrow, for there was no one in Troy who
would give them battle after their good leader Alexander (had
fallen).
1658. Great, in sooth, was the grief and the gloom that
night in the city of the Trojans, because of the destruction of
their goodly king. Sad was the lamentation that men and
women, both old and young, 1 made there. It is then fell the
champion and last battle - soldier who upheld the warriors of
the east of the world. Truly it would be a sorrow to the
men of the earth, from sunrise to sunset, the hacking of his
body, if they had been acquainted with his appearance; because
there was no form like Alexander's form, both in size and
beauty and great dignity, both in shape and sense and speech,
both in teeth and build and raiment, both in hair and beard
and face, both in manner and wisdom and valour. To con^_
template his shape hindered the hosts of the Greeks from
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Lit. age and youth.