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Homer’s Iliad
said, “Hector, who of the Achaeans will fear you henceforward now
that you have quailed before Menelaus who has ever been rated
poorly as a soldier? Yet he has now got a corpse away from the
Trojans single-handed, and has slain your own true comrade, a
man brave among the foremost, Podes son of Eetion.
A dark cloud of grief fell upon Hector as he heard, and he made his
way to the front clad in full armour. Thereon the son of Saturn
seized his bright tasselled aegis, and veiled Ida in cloud: he sent
forth his lightnings and his thunders, and as he shook his aegis he
gave victory to the Trojans and routed the Achaeans.
The panic was begun by Peneleos the Boeotian, for while keeping
his face turned ever towards the foe he had been hit with a spear on
the upper part of the shoulder; a spear thrown by Polydamas had
grazed the top of the bone, for Polydamas had come up to him and
struck him from close at hand. Then Hector in close combat struck
Leitus son of noble Alectryon in the hand by the wrist, and
disabled him from fighting further. He looked about him in
dismay, knowing that never again should he wield spear in battle
with the Trojans. While Hector was in pursuit of Leitus, Idomeneus
struck him on the breastplate over his chest near the nipple; but the
spear broke in the shaft, and the Trojans cheered aloud. Hector then
aimed at Idomeneus son of Deucalion as he was standing on his
chariot, and very narrowly missed him, but the spear hit Coiranus,
a follower and charioteer of Meriones who had come with him
from Lyctus. Idomeneus had left the ships on foot and would have
afforded a great triumph to the Trojans if Coiranus had not driven
quickly up to him, he therefore brought life and rescue to
Idomeneus, but himself fell by the hand of murderous Hector. For
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