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Homer’s Iliad
The sons of the Achaeans came running with a loud cry towards
him, hoping to drag him away, and they showered their darts on
the Trojans, but none of them could wound him before he was
surrounded and covered by the princes Polydamas, Aeneas,
Agenor, Sarpedon captain of the Lycians, and noble Glaucus: of the
others, too, there was not one who was unmindful of him, and they
held their round shields over him to cover him. His comrades then
lifted him off the ground and bore him away from the battle to the
place where his horses stood waiting for him at the rear of the fight
with their driver and the chariot; these then took him towards the
city groaning and in great pain. When they reached the ford of the
air stream of Xanthus, begotten of Immortal Jove, they took him
from off his chariot and laid him down on the ground; they poured
water over him, and as they did so he breathed again and opened
his eyes. Then kneeling on his knees he vomited blood, but soon
fell back on to the ground, and his eyes were again closed in
darkness for he was still sturined by the blow.
When the Argives saw Hector leaving the field, they took heart and
set upon the Trojans yet more furiously. Ajax fleet son of Oileus
began by springing on Satnius son of Enops and wounding him
with his spear: a fair naiad nymph had borne him to Enops as he
was herding cattle by the banks of the river Satnioeis. The son of
Oileus came up to him and struck him in the flank so that he fell,
and a fierce fight between Trojans and Danaans raged round his
body. Polydamas son of Panthous drew near to avenge him, and
wounded Prothoenor son of Areilycus on the right shoulder; the
terrible spear went right through his shoulder, and he clutched the
earth as he fell in the dust. Polydamas vaunted loudly over him
saying, “Again I take it that the spear has not sped in vain from the
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