Page 98 - the-iliad

Aeneas, bold though he was, drew back on seeing the two
heroes side by side in front of him, so they drew the bod-
ies of Crethon and Orsilochus to the ranks of the Achaeans
and committed the two poor fellows into the hands of their
comrades. They then turned back and fought in the front
ranks.
They killed Pylaemenes peer of Mars, leader of the
Paphlagonian warriors. Menelaus struck him on the collar-
bone as he was standing on his chariot, while Antilochus
hit his charioteer and squire Mydon, the son of Atymnius,
who was turning his horses in flight. He hit him with a
stone upon the elbow, and the reins, enriched with white
ivory, fell from his hands into the dust. Antilochus rushed
towards him and struck him on the temples with his sword,
whereon he fell head first from the chariot to the ground.
There he stood for a while with his head and shoulders bur-
ied deep in the dust—for he had fallen on sandy soil till his
horses kicked him and laid him flat on the ground, as An-
tilochus lashed them and drove them off to the host of the
Achaeans.
But Hector marked them from across the ranks, and
with a loud cry rushed towards them, followed by the strong
battalions of the Trojans. Mars and dread Enyo led them
on, she fraught with ruthless turmoil of battle, while Mars
wielded a monstrous spear, and went about, now in front of
Hector and now behind him.
Diomed shook with passion as he saw them. As a man
crossing a wide plain is dismayed to find himself on the
brink of some great river rolling swiftly to the sea—he sees