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Homer’s Iliad
however, that he should slay the son of Jove; Minerva, therefore,
turned him against the main body of the Lycians. He killed
Coeranus, Alastor, Chromius, Alcandrus, Halius, Noemon, and
Prytanis, and would have slain yet more, had not great Hector
marked him, and sped to the front of the fight clad in his suit of
mail, filling the Danaans with terror. Sarpedon was glad when he
saw him coming, and besought him, saying, “Son of Priam, let me
not he here to fall into the hands of the Danaans. Help me, and
since I may not return home to gladden the hearts of my wife and
of my infant son, let me die within the walls of your city.”
Hector made him no answer, but rushed onward to fall at once
upon the Achaeans and. kill many among them. His comrades then
bore Sarpedon away and laid him beneath Jove’s spreading oak
tree. Pelagon, his friend and comrade drew the spear out of his
thigh, but Sarpedon fainted and a mist came over his eyes.
Presently he came to himself again, for the breath of the north wind
as it played upon him gave him new life, and brought him out of
the deep swoon into which he had fallen.
Meanwhile the Argives were neither driven towards their ships by
Mars and Hector, nor yet did they attack them; when they knew
that Mars was with the Trojans they retreated, but kept their faces
still turned towards the foe. Who, then, was first and who last to be
slain by Mars and Hector? They were valiant Teuthras, and Orestes
the renowned charioteer, Trechus the Aetolian warrior, Oenomaus,
Helenus the son of Oenops, and Oresbius of the gleaming girdle,
who was possessed of great wealth, and dwelt by the Cephisian
lake with the other Boeotians who lived near him, owners of a
fertile country.
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