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The Trojans first drave back the dark-eyed Greeks, For one was in the onset smitten down, Digitized by Google J Book XVI. 119 Not the least valiant of the Myrmidons, — 715 The son of brave Agacles, nobly bom Epeigeus, who aforetime, when he ruled The populous Budeium, having slain A noble kinsman, fled a suppliant To Peleus and the silver-footed queen, 730 Thetis, his consort, and by them was sent, With terrible Achilles, to the coast Of courser-breeding Ilium and the siege Of Troy. As now he s...tooped to seize the dead, Illustrious Hector smote him with a stone 72s Upon the forehead, cleaving it in two In the strong helmet ; headlong on the corse He fell, and cruel death crept over him. With grief Patroclus saw his comrade slain. And broke his way among the foremost ranks. 730 As a swift hawk that chases through the air Starlings and daws, so didst thou dart among Trojans and Lycians, for thy wrath was roused, O knight Patroclus ! by thy comrade's death. And now his hand struck Sthenelaiis down, 73s The dear son of Ithaemenes ; he flung A stone that crushed the sinews of the neck.
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