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Homer’s Iliad
and Alastor, came up and bore him to the ships groaning in his
great pain.
Jove now again put heart into the Trojans, and they drove the
Achaeans to their deep trench with Hector in all his glory at their
head. As a hound grips a wild boar or lion in flank or buttock when
he gives him chase, and watches warily for his wheeling, even so
did Hector follow close upon the Achaeans, ever killing the
hindmost as they rushed panic-stricken onwards. When they had
fled through the set stakes and trench and many Achaeans had
been laid low at the hands of the Trojans, they halted at their ships,
calling upon one another and praying every man instantly as they
lifted up their hands to the gods; but Hector wheeled his horses
this way and that, his eyes glaring like those of Gorgo or
murderous Mars.
Juno when she saw them had pity upon them, and at once said to
Minerva, “Alas, child of aegis-bearing Jove, shall you and I take no
more thought for the dying Danaans, though it be the last time we
ever do so? See how they perish and come to a bad end before the
onset of but a single man. Hector the son of Priam rages with
intolerable fury, and has already done great mischief.”
Minerva answered, “Would, indeed, this fellow might die in his
own land, and fall by the hands of the Achaeans; but my father Jove
is mad with spleen, ever foiling me, ever headstrong and unjust.
He forgets how often I saved his son when he was worn out by the
labours Eurystheus had laid on him. He would weep till his cry
came up to heaven, and then Jove would send me down to help
him; if I had had the sense to foresee all this, when Eurystheus sent
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