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the weapons on either side took effect and the people fell,
but when he shook it straight in the face of the Danaans
and raised his mighty battle-cry their hearts fainted within
them and they forgot their former prowess. As when two
wild beasts spring in the dead of night on a herd of cattle or
a large flock of sheep when the herdsman is not there—even
so were the Danaans struck helpless, for Apollo filled them
with panic and gave victory to Hector and the Trojans.
The fight then became more scattered and they killed one
another where they best could. Hector killed Stichius and
Arcesilaus, the one, leader of the Boeotians, and the other,
friend and comrade of Menestheus. Aeneas killed Medon
and Iasus. The first was bastard son to Oileus, and brother
to Ajax, but he lived in Phylace away from his own country,
for he had killed a man, a kinsman of his stepmother Erio-
pis whom Oileus had married. Iasus had become a leader of
the Athenians, and was son of Sphelus the son of Boucolos.
Polydamas killed Mecisteus, and Polites Echius, in the front
of the battle, while Agenor slew Clonius. Paris struck De-
iochus from behind in the lower part of the shoulder, as he
was flying among the foremost, and the point of the spear
went clean through him.
While they were spoiling these heroes of their armour,
the Achaeans were flying pell-mell to the trench and the set
stakes, and were forced back within their wall. Hector then
cried out to the Trojans, ‘Forward to the ships, and let the
spoils be. If I see any man keeping back on the other side
the wall away from the ships I will have him killed: his kins-
men and kinswomen shall not give him his dues of fire, but

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