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Homer’s Iliad
BOOK VII
With these words Hector passed through the gates, and his brother
Alexandrus with him, both eager for the fray. As when heaven
sends a breeze to sailors who have long looked for one in vain, and
have laboured at their oars till they are faint with toil, even so
welcome was the sight of these two heroes to the Trojans.
Thereon Alexandrus killed Menesthius the son of Areithous; he
lived in Ame, and was son of Areithous the Mace-man, and of
Phylomedusa. Hector threw a spear at Eioneus and struck him
dead with a wound in the neck under the bronze rim of his helmet.
Glaucus, moreover, son of Hippolochus, captain of the Lycians, in
hard hand-to-hand fight smote Iphinous son of Dexius on the
shoulder, as he was springing on to his chariot behind his fleet
mares; so he fell to earth from the car, and there was no life left in
him.
When, therefore, Minerva saw these men making havoc of the
Argives, she darted down to Ilius from the summits of Olympus,
and Apollo, who was looking on from Pergamus, went out to meet
her; for he wanted the Trojans to be victorious. The pair met by the
oak tree, and King Apollo son of Jove was first to speak. “What
would you have said he, “daughter of great Jove, that your proud
spirit has sent you hither from Olympus? Have you no pity upon
the Trojans, and would you incline the scales of victory in favour of
the Danaans? Let me persuade you- for it will be better thus- stay
the combat for to-day, but let them renew the fight hereafter till
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