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has instructed in all kinds of useful arts—even so level was
the issue of the fight between the two sides, as they fought
some round one and some round another.
Hector made straight for Ajax, and the two fought fierce-
ly about the same ship. Hector could not force Ajax back
and fire the ship, nor yet could Ajax drive Hector from the
spot to which heaven had brought him.
Then Ajax struck Caletor son of Clytius in the chest
with a spear as he was bringing fire towards the ship. He
fell heavily to the ground and the torch dropped from his
hand. When Hector saw his cousin fallen in front of the
ship he shouted to the Trojans and Lycians saying, ‘Trojans,
Lycians, and Dardanians good in close fight, bate not a jot,
but rescue the son of Clytius lest the Achaeans strip him of
his armour now that he has fallen.’
He then aimed a spear at Ajax, and missed him, but he
hit Lycophron a follower of Ajax, who came from Cythera,
but was living with Ajax inasmuch as he had killed a man
among the Cythereans. Hector’s spear struck him on the
head below the ear, and he fell headlong from the ship’s
prow on to the ground with no life left in him. Ajax shook
with rage and said to his brother, ‘Teucer, my good fellow,
our trusty comrade the son of Mastor has fallen, he came to
live with us from Cythera and whom we honoured as much
as our own parents. Hector has just killed him; fetch your
deadly arrows at once and the bow which Phoebus Apollo
gave you.’
Teucer heard him and hastened towards him with his
bow and quiver in his hands. Forthwith he showered his

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