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rather than of battle, whereas it is of battle that the Trojans
are insatiate.’
So saying Menelaus stripped the blood-stained armour
from the body of Pisander, and handed it over to his men;
then he again ranged himself among those who were in the
front of the fight.
Harpalion son of King Pylaemenes then sprang upon
him; he had come to fight at Troy along with his father, but
he did not go home again. He struck the middle of Menel-
aus’s shield with his spear but could not pierce it, and to save
his life drew back under cover of his men, looking round
him on every side lest he should be wounded. But Meriones
aimed a bronze-tipped arrow at him as he was leaving the
field, and hit him on the right buttock; the arrow pierced
the bone through and through, and penetrated the blad-
der, so he sat down where he was and breathed his last in
the arms of his comrades, stretched like a worm upon the
ground and watering the earth with the blood that flowed
from his wound. The brave Paphlagonians tended him with
all due care; they raised him into his chariot, and bore him
sadly off to the city of Troy; his father went also with him
weeping bitterly, but there was no ransom that could bring
his dead son to life again.
Paris was deeply grieved by the death of Harpalion, who
was his host when he went among the Paphlagonians; he
aimed an arrow, therefore, in order to avenge him. Now
there was a certain man named Euchenor, son of Polyidus
the prophet, a brave man and wealthy, whose home was in
Corinth. This Euchenor had set sail for Troy well knowing

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