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among the foremost. The spear of King Agamemnon struck
his shield and went right through it, for the shield stayed it
not. It drove through his belt into the lower part of his belly,
and his armour rang rattling round him as he fell heavily
to the ground.
Then Aeneas killed two champions of the Danaans, Cre-
thon and Orsilochus. Their father was a rich man who lived
in the strong city of Phere and was descended from the river
Alpheus, whose broad stream flows through the land of the
Pylians. The river begat Orsilochus, who ruled over much
people and was father to Diocles, who in his turn begat twin
sons, Crethon and Orsilochus, well skilled in all the arts of
war. These, when they grew up, went to Ilius with the Ar-
give fleet in the cause of Menelaus and Agamemnon sons
of Atreus, and there they both of them fell. As two lions
whom their dam has reared in the depths of some moun-
tain forest to plunder homesteads and carry off sheep and
cattle till they get killed by the hand of man, so were these
two vanquished by Aeneas, and fell like high pine-trees to
the ground.
Brave Menelaus pitied them in their fall, and made his
way to the front, clad in gleaming bronze and brandish-
ing his spear, for Mars egged him on to do so with intent
that he should be killed by Aeneas; but Antilochus the son
of Nestor saw him and sprang forward, fearing that the
king might come to harm and thus bring all their labour
to nothing; when, therefore Aeneas and Menelaus were set-
ting their hands and spears against one another eager to do
battle, Antilochus placed himself by the side of Menelaus.

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