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mountain-track, and they pant and sweat as they, go even
so did Menelaus and pant and sweat as they bore the body
of Patroclus. Behind them the two Ajaxes held stoutly out.
As some wooded mountain-spur that stretches across a
plain will turn water and check the flow even of a great riv-
er, nor is there any stream strong enough to break through
it—even so did the two Ajaxes face the Trojans and stem the
tide of their fighting though they kept pouring on towards
them and foremost among them all was Aeneas son of An-
chises with valiant Hector. As a flock of daws or starlings
fall to screaming and chattering when they see a falcon, foe
to all small birds, come soaring near them, even so did the
Achaean youth raise a babel of cries as they fled before Ae-
neas and Hector, unmindful of their former prowess. In the
rout of the Danaans much goodly armour fell round about
the trench, and of fighting there was no end.

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