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Homer’s Iliad
Then fate fell upon Diores, son of Amarynceus, for he was struck
by a jagged stone near the ancle of his right leg. He that hurled it
was Peirous, son of Imbrasus, captain of the Thracians, who had
come from Aenus; the bones and both the tendons were crushed by
the pitiless stone. He fell to the ground on his back, and in his
death throes stretched out his hands towards his comrades. But
Peirous, who had wounded him, sprang on him and thrust a spear
into his belly, so that his bowels came gushing out upon the
ground, and darkness veiled his eyes. As he was leaving the body,
Thoas of Aetolia struck him in the chest near the nipple, and the
point fixed itself in his lungs. Thoas came close up to him, pulled
the spear out of his chest, and then drawing his sword, smote him
in the middle of the belly so that he died; but he did not strip him
of his armour, for his Thracian comrades, men who wear their hair
in a tuft at the top of their heads, stood round the body and kept
him off with their long spears for all his great stature and valour; so
he was driven back. Thus the two corpses lay stretched on earth
near to one another, the one captain of the Thracians and the other
of the Epeans; and many another fell round them.
And now no man would have made light of the fighting if he could
have gone about among it scatheless and unwounded, with
Minerva leading him by the hand, and protecting him from the
storm of spears and arrows. For many Trojans and Achaeans on that
day lay stretched side by side face downwards upon the earth.
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