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now wounded him in the eye under his eyebrows, tearing
the eye-ball from its socket: the spear went right through
the eye into the nape of the neck, and he fell, stretching out
both hands before him. Peneleos then drew his sword and
smote him on the neck, so that both head and helmet came
tumbling down to the ground with the spear still sticking
in the eye; he then held up the head, as though it had been
a poppy-head, and showed it to the Trojans, vaunting over
them as he did so. ‘Trojans,’ he cried, ‘bid the father and
mother of noble Ilioneus make moan for him in their house,
for the wife also of Promachus son of Alegenor will never
be gladdened by the coming of her dear husband—when we
Argives return with our ships from Troy.’
As he spoke fear fell upon them, and every man looked
round about to see whither he might fly for safety.
Tell me now, O Muses that dwell on Olympus, who was
the first of the Argives to bear away blood-stained spoils af-
ter Neptune lord of the earthquake had turned the fortune of
war. Ajax son of Telamon was first to wound Hyrtius son of
Gyrtius, captain of the staunch Mysians. Antilochus killed
Phalces and Mermerus, while Meriones slew Morys and
Hippotion, Teucer also killed Prothoon and Periphetes. The
son of Atreus then wounded Hyperenor shepherd of his peo-
ple, in the flank, and the bronze point made his entrails gush
out as it tore in among them; on this his life came hurrying
out of him at the place where he had been wounded, and his
eyes were closed in darkness. Ajax son of Oileus killed more
than any other, for there was no man so fleet as he to pursue
flying foes when Jove had spread panic among them.