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Penthesilea fought there, namely, a conflict with the hero who
was mightiest in the east of the world and who had slain great
multitudes of the hosts.
1729. One clay (however) Penthesilea gave a thrust to
Pyrrhus and wounded him roughly. Then the anger and fury
wrought by the wound entered Pyrrhus so that, in attacking
Penthesilea, he knew neither dread nor fear. They fight a duel.
Manly, then, was this conflict. Howbeit Pyrrhus' valour was
(the) mightier. Penthesilea fell in the duel.
1734. Now after the fall of the queen, the Burnt-paps and
the Trojans were routed, and Pyrrhus and Diomede set a great
slaughter upon them, so that they reached the gates of the city.
After this, the Greeks close round the city, and the battle is
fought all round about it.
1738. So when the kings and leaders of the Trojans beheld
the hosts outside, and (saw) that they were around the city,
they went to have speech of Priam. These were the leaders
that came there, to wit, Antenor and Polydamas and Aeneas.
To take counsel then they came, to know what they should do
against the mighty hosts that had attacked (?) then. All his
leaders were summoned to Priam, and he asked them what
they wished to do. Then said Antenor to them. „It is a
mockery for you," saith he, „to fight against the Greeks, for
your soldiers have died, your heroes have been laid low, your
leaders have fallen: Priam's sons have been slain, and every
one who came out of the foreign lands to help you. Howbeit,
the leaders of the Greeks remain, to wit, Menelaus and Pyrrhus
son of Achilles, who is not weaker than his father, and Dio-
mede, and Locrian Ajax and Nestor and Ulysses. Now ye have
been forced into the city, and the gates of the city have been
shut upon you. This, then, is good for you," saith he: „let
Helen be given up by you to the Greeks, and the booty, be-
sides, that Alexander brought from the island Cythera. Then
the Greeks will go to their home with peace and good will."
1754. When they had been for a while proceeding to
make peace, Amphimachus the son of Priam rose in the as-