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belly, so that his bowels came gushing out upon the ground,
and darkness veiled his eyes. As he was leaving the body,
Thoas of Aetolia struck him in the chest near the nipple, and
the point fixed itself in his lungs. Thoas came close up to
him, pulled the spear out of his chest, and then drawing
his sword, smote him in the middle of the belly so that he
died; but he did not strip him of his armour, for his Thra-
cian comrades, men who wear their hair in a tuft at the
top of their heads, stood round the body and kept him off
with their long spears for all his great stature and valour; so
he was driven back. Thus the two corpses lay stretched on
earth near to one another, the one captain of the Thracians
and the other of the Epeans; and many another fell round
them.
And now no man would have made light of the fight-
ing if he could have gone about among it scatheless and
unwounded, with Minerva leading him by the hand, and
protecting him from the storm of spears and arrows. For
many Trojans and Achaeans on that day lay stretched side
by side face downwards upon the earth.

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