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the ranks of his own people.
Apollo then went up to Hector and spurred him on to
fight, in the likeness of Phaenops son of Asius who lived in
Abydos and was the most favoured of all Hector’s guests.
In his likeness Apollo said, ‘Hector, who of the Achaeans
will fear you henceforward now that you have quailed be-
fore Menelaus who has ever been rated poorly as a soldier?
Yet he has now got a corpse away from the Trojans single-
handed, and has slain your own true comrade, a man brave
among the foremost, Podes son of Eetion.’
A dark cloud of grief fell upon Hector as he heard, and he
made his way to the front clad in full armour. Thereon the
son of Saturn seized his bright tasselled aegis, and veiled
Ida in cloud: he sent forth his lightnings and his thunders,
and as he shook his aegis he gave victory to the Trojans and
routed the Achaeans.
The panic was begun by Peneleos the Boeotian, for
while keeping his face turned ever towards the foe he had
been hit with a spear on the upper part of the shoulder; a
spear thrown by Polydamas had grazed the top of the bone,
for Polydamas had come up to him and struck him from
close at hand. Then Hector in close combat struck Leitus
son of noble Alectryon in the hand by the wrist, and dis-
abled him from fighting further. He looked about him in
dismay, knowing that never again should he wield spear
in battle with the Trojans. While Hector was in pursuit of
Leitus, Idomeneus struck him on the breastplate over his
chest near the nipple; but the spear broke in the shaft, and
the Trojans cheered aloud. Hector then aimed at Idome-