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Homer’s Iliad
He it was that made the ships for Alexandrus, which were the
beginning of all mischief, and brought evil alike both on the
Trojans and on Alexandrus himself; for he heeded not the decrees
of heaven. Meriones overtook him as he was flying, and struck him
on the right buttock. The point of the spear went through the bone
into the bladder, and death came upon him as he cried aloud and
fell forward on his knees.
Meges, moreover, slew Pedaeus, son of Antenor, who, though he
was a bastard, had been brought up by Theano as one of her own
children, for the love she bore her husband. The son of Phyleus got
close up to him and drove a spear into the nape of his neck: it went
under his tongue all among his teeth, so he bit the cold bronze, and
fell dead in the dust.
And Eurypylus, son of Euaemon, killed Hypsenor, the son of noble
Dolopion, who had been made priest of the river Scamander, and
was honoured among the people as though he were a god.
Eurypylus gave him chase as he was flying before him, smote him
with his sword upon the arm, and lopped his strong hand from off
it. The bloody hand fell to the ground, and the shades of death,
with fate that no man can withstand, came over his eyes.
Thus furiously did the battle rage between them. As for the son of
Tydeus, you could not say whether he was more among the
Achaeans or the Trojans. He rushed across the plain like a winter
torrent that has burst its barrier in full flood; no dykes, no walls of
fruitful vineyards can embank it when it is swollen with rain from
heaven, but in a moment it comes tearing onward, and lays many a
field waste that many a strong man hand has reclaimed- even so
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