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killed Molion who was his squire. These they let lie, now that they
had stopped their fighting; the two heroes then went on playing
havoc with the foe, like two wild boars that turn in fury and rend
the hounds that hunt them. Thus did they turn upon the Trojans
and slay them, and the Achaeans were thankful to have breathing
time in their flight from Hector.
They then took two princes with their chariot, the two sons of
Merops of Percote, who excelled all others in the arts of divination.
He had forbidden his sons to go to the war, but they would not
obey him, for fate lured them to their fall. Diomed son of Tydeus
slew them both and stripped them of their armour, while Ulysses
killed Hippodamus and Hypeirochus.
And now the son of Saturn as he looked down from Ida ordained
that neither side should have the advantage, and they kept on
killing one another. The son of Tydeus speared Agastrophus son of
Paeon in the hip-joint with his spear. His chariot was not at hand
for him to fly with, so blindly confident had he been. His squire
was in charge of it at some distance and he was fighting on foot
among the foremost until he lost his life. Hector soon marked the
havoc Diomed and Ulysses were making, and bore down upon
them with a loud cry, followed by the Trojan ranks; brave Diomed
was dismayed when he saw them, and said to Ulysses who was
beside him, “Great Hector is bearing down upon us and we shall
be undone; let us stand firm and wait his onset.”
He poised his spear as he spoke and hurled it, nor did he miss his
mark. He had aimed at Hector’s head near the top of his helmet,
but bronze was turned by bronze, and Hector was untouched, for
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