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Thestor all gaping from his chariot; he then threw him down on his
face and he died while falling. On this, as Erylaus was on to attack
him, he struck him full on the head with a stone, and his brains
were all battered inside his helmet, whereon he fell headlong to the
ground and the pangs of death took hold upon him. Then he laid
low, one after the other, Erymas, Amphoterus, Epaltes, Tlepolemus,
Echius son of Damastor, Pyris, lpheus, Euippus and Polymelus son
of Argeas.
Now when Sarpedon saw his comrades, men who wore ungirdled
tunics, being overcome by Patroclus son of Menoetius, he rebuked
the Lycians saying. “Shame on you, where are you flying to? Show
your mettle; I will myself meet this man in fight and learn who it is
that is so masterful; he has done us much hurt, and has stretched
many a brave man upon the ground.”
He sprang from his chariot as he spoke, and Patroclus, when he
saw this, leaped on to the ground also. The two then rushed at one
another with loud cries like eagle-beaked crook-taloned vultures
that scream and tear at one another in some high mountain
fastness.
The son of scheming Saturn looked down upon them in pity and
said to Juno who was his wife and sister, “Alas, that it should be
the lot of Sarpedon whom I love so dearly to perish by the hand of
Patroclus. I am in two minds whether to catch him up out of the
fight and set him down safe and sound in the fertile land of Lycia,
or to let him now fall by the hand of the son of Menoetius.”
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