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head of cattle down, and had promised later on to give a
thousand sheep and goats mixed, from the countless flocks
of which he was possessed. Agamemnon son of Atreus then
despoiled him, and carried off his armour into the host of
the Achaeans.
When noble Coon, Antenor’s eldest son, saw this, sore
indeed were his eyes at the sight of his fallen brother. Un-
seen by Agamemnon he got beside him, spear in hand, and
wounded him in the middle of his arm below the elbow, the
point of the spear going right through the arm. Agamem-
non was convulsed with pain, but still not even for this did
he leave off struggling and fighting, but grasped his spear
that flew as fleet as the wind, and sprang upon Coon who
was trying to drag off the body of his brother—his father’s
son—by the foot, and was crying for help to all the bravest
of his comrades; but Agamemnon struck him with a bronze-
shod spear and killed him as he was dragging the dead body
through the press of men under cover of his shield: he then
cut off his head, standing over the body of Iphidamas. Thus
did the sons of Antenor meet their fate at the hands of the
son of Atreus, and go down into the house of Hades.
As long as the blood still welled warm from his wound
Agamemnon went about attacking the ranks of the enemy
with spear and sword and with great handfuls of stone, but
when the blood had ceased to flow and the wound grew
dry, the pain became great. As the sharp pangs which the
Eilithuiae, goddesses of childbirth, daughters of Juno and
dispensers of cruel pain, send upon a woman when she is in
labour—even so sharp were the pangs of the son of Atreus.

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