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BOOK VII

ITH these words Hector passed through the gates,
Wand his brother Alexandrus with him, both eager for
the fray. As when heaven sends a breeze to sailors who have
long looked for one in vain, and have laboured at their oars
till they are faint with toil, even so welcome was the sight of
these two heroes to the Trojans.
Thereon Alexandrus killed Menesthius the son of Are-
ithous; he lived in Arne, and was son of Areithous the
Mace-man, and of Phylomedusa. Hector threw a spear at
Eioneus and struck him dead with a wound in the neck un-
der the bronze rim of his helmet. Glaucus, moreover, son of
Hippolochus, captain of the Lycians, in hard hand-to-hand
fight smote Iphinous son of Dexius on the shoulder, as he
was springing on to his chariot behind his fleet mares; so he
fell to earth from the car, and there was no life left in him.
When, therefore, Minerva saw these men making havoc
of the Argives, she darted down to Ilius from the summits
of Olympus, and Apollo, who was looking on from Perga-
mus, went out to meet her; for he wanted the Trojans to be
victorious. The pair met by the oak tree, and King Apollo
son of Jove was first to speak. ‘What would you have’, said
he, ‘daughter of great Jove, that your proud spirit has sent
you hither from Olympus? Have you no pity upon the Tro-
jans, and would you incline the scales of victory in favour

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