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Homer’s Iliad
and Achaeans to fight it out, and see to which of the two Jove will
vouchsafe the victory? Let us go away, and thus avoid his anger.”
So saying, she drew Mars out of the battle, and set him down upon
the steep banks of the Scamander. Upon this the Danaans drove the
Trojans back, and each one of their chieftains killed his man. First
King Agamemnon flung mighty Odius, captain of the Halizoni,
from his chariot. The spear of Agamemnon caught him on the
broad of his back, just as he was turning in flight; it struck him
between the shoulders and went right through his chest, and his
armour rang rattling round him as he fell heavily to the ground.
Then Idomeneus killed Phaesus, son of Borus the Meonian, who
had come from Varne. Mighty Idomeneus speared him on the right
shoulder as he was mounting his chariot, and the darkness of death
enshrouded him as he fell heavily from the car.
The squires of Idomeneus spoiled him of his armour, while
Menelaus, son of Atreus, killed Scamandrius the son of Strophius, a
mighty huntsman and keen lover of the chase. Diana herself had
taught him how to kill every kind of wild creature that is bred in
mountain forests, but neither she nor his famed skill in archery
could now save him, for the spear of Menelaus struck him in the
back as he was flying; it struck him between the shoulders and
went right through his chest, so that he fell headlong and his
armour rang rattling round him.
Meriones then killed Phereclus the son of Tecton, who was the son
of Hermon, a man whose hand was skilled in all manner of
cunning workmanship, for Pallas Minerva had dearly loved him.
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