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Trojans and fought more boldly.
There was no man of all the many Danaans who could
then boast that he had driven his horses over the trench and
gone forth to fight sooner than the son of Tydeus; long be-
fore any one else could do so he slew an armed warrior of
the Trojans, Agelaus the son of Phradmon. He had turned
his horses in flight, but the spear struck him in the back
midway between his shoulders and went right through his
chest, and his armour rang rattling round him as he fell for-
ward from his chariot.
After him came Agamemnon and Menelaus, sons of
Atreus, the two Ajaxes clothed in valour as with a garment,
Idomeneus and his companion in arms Meriones, peer of
murderous Mars, and Eurypylus the brave son of Euaemon.
Ninth came Teucer with his bow, and took his place under
cover of the shield of Ajax son of Telamon. When Ajax lift-
ed his shield Teucer would peer round, and when he had hit
any one in the throng, the man would fall dead; then Teucer
would hie back to Ajax as a child to its mother, and again
duck down under his shield.
Which of the Trojans did brave Teucer first kill? Orsilo-
chus, and then Ormenus and Ophelestes, Daetor, Chromius,
and godlike Lycophontes, Amopaon son of Polyaemon, and
Melanippus. these in turn did he lay low upon the earth, and
King Agamemnon was glad when he saw him making hav-
oc of the Trojans with his mighty bow. He went up to him
and said, ‘Teucer, man after my own heart, son of Telamon,
captain among the host, shoot on, and be at once the saving
of the Danaans and the glory of your father Telamon, who

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