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Homer’s Iliad
one, leader of the Boeotians, and the other, friend and comrade of
Menestheus. Aeneas killed Medon and Iasus. The first was bastard
son to Oileus, and brother to Ajax, but he lived in Phylace away
from his own country, for he had killed a man, a kinsman of his
stepmother Eriopis whom Oileus had married. Iasus had become a
leader of the Athenians, and was son of Sphelus the son of
Boucolos. Polydamas killed Mecisteus, and Polites Echius, in the
front of the battle, while Agenor slew Clonius. Paris struck
Deiochus from behind in the lower part of the shoulder, as he was
flying among the foremost, and the point of the spear went clean
through him.
While they were spoiling these heroes of their armour, the
Achaeans were flying pellmell to the trench and the set stakes, and
were forced back within their wall. Hector then cried out to the
Trojans, “Forward to the ships, and let the spoils be. If I see any
man keeping back on the other side the wall away from the ships I
will have him killed: his kinsmen and kinswomen shall not give
him his dues of fire, but dogs shall tear him in pieces in front of our
city.”
As he spoke he laid his whip about his horses’ shoulders and
called to the Trojans throughout their ranks; the Trojans shouted
with a cry that rent the air, and kept their horses neck and neck with
his own. Phoebus Apollo went before, and kicked down the banks
of the deep trench into its middle so as to make a great broad
bridge, as broad as the throw of a spear when a man is trying his
strength. The Trojan battalions poured over the bridge, and Apollo
with his redoubtable aegis led the way. He kicked down the wall of
the Achaeans as easily as a child who playing on the sea-shore has
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