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many another trembles, and you reck nothing of the doom
that is already close upon you. You have killed his comrade
so brave and strong, but it was not well that you should strip
the armour from his head and shoulders. I do indeed endow
you with great might now, but as against this you shall not
return from battle to lay the armour of the son of Peleus be-
fore Andromache.’
The son of Saturn bowed his portentous brows, and Hec-
tor fitted the armour to his body, while terrible Mars entered
into him, and filled his whole body with might and valour.
With a shout he strode in among the allies, and his armour
flashed about him so that he seemed to all of them like the
great son of Peleus himself. He went about among them
and cheered them on—Mesthles, Glaucus, Medon, Ther-
silochus, Asteropaeus, Deisenor and Hippothous, Phorcys,
Chromius and Ennomus the augur. All these did he exhort
saying, ‘Hear me, allies from other cities who are here in
your thousands, it was not in order to have a crowd about
me that I called you hither each from his several city, but
that with heart and soul you might defend the wives and
little ones of the Trojans from the fierce Achaeans. For this
do I oppress my people with your food and the presents
that make you rich. Therefore turn, and charge at the foe,
to stand or fall as is the game of war; whoever shall bring
Patroclus, dead though he be, into the hands of the Trojans,
and shall make Ajax give way before him, I will give him
one half of the spoils while I keep the other. He will thus
share like honour with myself.’
When he had thus spoken they charged full weight upon