WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.080 --> 00:00:06.120 Book sixteen. Thus did they fight about the ship of Protosilaus. 2 00:00:07.519 --> 00:00:10.919 Then Patroclus drew near to Achilles, with tears welling from 3 00:00:10.919 --> 00:00:14.919 his eyes, as from some spring whose crystal stream falls 4 00:00:14.960 --> 00:00:18.640 over the ledges of a high precipice. When Achilles saw 5 00:00:18.679 --> 00:00:23.120 him thus weeping, he was sorry for him, and said, why, Patroclus, 6 00:00:24.000 --> 00:00:26.359 do you stand there weeping? Like some silly child that 7 00:00:26.399 --> 00:00:29.160 comes running to her mother and begs to be taken 8 00:00:29.280 --> 00:00:33.079 up and carried. She catches hold of her mother's dress 9 00:00:33.079 --> 00:00:35.119 to stay her, though she is in a hurry, and 10 00:00:35.159 --> 00:00:40.359 looks tearfully up until her mother carries her. Even such tears, Patroclus, 11 00:00:41.479 --> 00:00:44.640 are you now shedding? Have you anything to say to 12 00:00:44.679 --> 00:00:47.920 the Mirmidons or to myself? Or have you had news 13 00:00:47.920 --> 00:00:52.439 from thea which you alone know? They tell me Menoetius, 14 00:00:52.439 --> 00:00:55.880 son of Actor, is still alive, as also Pelias, son 15 00:00:55.920 --> 00:00:59.159 of Aiarchus, among the Mermadon's men, whose loss we two 16 00:00:59.240 --> 00:01:02.520 should bitterly do applau Or are you grieving about the 17 00:01:02.640 --> 00:01:05.120 archives and the way in which they are being killed 18 00:01:05.120 --> 00:01:09.280 at the ships through their own high handed doings? Do 19 00:01:09.359 --> 00:01:12.200 not hide anything from me, but tell me that both 20 00:01:12.200 --> 00:01:16.480 of us may know about it, then, O Night Patroclus, 21 00:01:16.920 --> 00:01:20.760 with a deep sigh, you answered, Achilles, son of Pelias, 22 00:01:21.000 --> 00:01:24.799 foremost champion of the Achaeans, do not be angry, but 23 00:01:24.920 --> 00:01:28.120 I weep for the disaster that has now befallen the archives. 24 00:01:29.079 --> 00:01:31.200 All those who have been their champions so far are 25 00:01:31.280 --> 00:01:36.319 lying at the ships, wounded by sword or spear. Brave Diomed, 26 00:01:36.400 --> 00:01:39.879 son of Tiedeus, has been hit with a spear, while 27 00:01:39.920 --> 00:01:45.120 famed Ulysses and Agamemnon have received sword wounds. Eurypulus again 28 00:01:45.159 --> 00:01:48.480 has been struck with an arrow in the thigh. Skilled 29 00:01:48.480 --> 00:01:51.680 apothecaries are attending to these heroes and healing them of 30 00:01:51.719 --> 00:01:57.159 their wounds. Are you still, o Achilles, so inexorable? May 31 00:01:57.159 --> 00:01:59.319 it never be my lot to nurse such a passion 32 00:01:59.319 --> 00:02:01.560 as you have done, to the banning of your own 33 00:02:01.599 --> 00:02:05.159 good name? Who in future story will speak well of you? 34 00:02:05.560 --> 00:02:08.960 Unless you now save the Argives from ruin? You know 35 00:02:09.080 --> 00:02:12.960 no pity, Knight Pelleas was not your father, nor Thetis 36 00:02:12.960 --> 00:02:16.360 your mother. But the gray Sea bore you, and the 37 00:02:16.400 --> 00:02:21.960 sheer cliffs begot you. So cruel and remorseless are you, if, however, 38 00:02:22.000 --> 00:02:25.280 you are kept back through knowledge of some oracle, or 39 00:02:25.319 --> 00:02:27.479 if your mother Thetis has told you something from the 40 00:02:27.479 --> 00:02:30.840 mouth of Jove, at least send me and the Murmaduns 41 00:02:30.879 --> 00:02:34.120 with me. If I may bring deliverance to the Danans. 42 00:02:35.000 --> 00:02:38.599 Let me moreover, wear your armor. The Trojans may thus 43 00:02:38.639 --> 00:02:41.400 mistake me for you, and quit the field, so that 44 00:02:41.439 --> 00:02:44.680 the hard pressed sons of the Achaeans may have breathing time, 45 00:02:45.039 --> 00:02:48.560 which while they are fighting may hardly be. We, who 46 00:02:48.599 --> 00:02:51.680 are fresh, might soon drive tired men back from our 47 00:02:51.719 --> 00:02:56.280 ships and tents to their own city. He knew not 48 00:02:56.360 --> 00:02:58.840 what he was asking, nor that he was suing for 49 00:02:58.879 --> 00:03:04.680 his own destruction. Achilles was deeply moved and answered, what, 50 00:03:05.240 --> 00:03:09.319 noble Patroclus, are you saying? I know no prophesyings which 51 00:03:09.360 --> 00:03:12.120 I am heeding, nor has my mother told me anything 52 00:03:12.120 --> 00:03:14.879 from the mouth of Jove. But I am cut to 53 00:03:14.919 --> 00:03:17.000 the very heart that one of my own ranks should 54 00:03:17.039 --> 00:03:19.719 dare to rob me, because he is more powerful than 55 00:03:19.759 --> 00:03:24.360 I am. This, after all that I have gone through, 56 00:03:25.080 --> 00:03:28.439 is more than I can endure. The girl whom the 57 00:03:28.439 --> 00:03:31.759 sons of the Achaeans chose for me, whom I won 58 00:03:32.039 --> 00:03:34.759 as the fruit of my spear, on having sacked a city, 59 00:03:35.879 --> 00:03:38.360 her has King Agamemnon taken from me as though I 60 00:03:38.360 --> 00:03:44.439 were some common vagrant. Still, let bygones be bygones. No 61 00:03:44.599 --> 00:03:48.039 man may keep his anger forever I said, I would 62 00:03:48.080 --> 00:03:50.520 not relent till battle and the cry of war had 63 00:03:50.520 --> 00:03:55.199 reached my own ships. Nevertheless, now gird my armor about 64 00:03:55.240 --> 00:03:58.400 your shoulders and lead the Mermidons to battle. For the 65 00:03:58.479 --> 00:04:01.479 dark cloud of Trojans has burn furiously over our fleet. 66 00:04:02.159 --> 00:04:05.280 The Argives are driven back onto the beach, cooped within 67 00:04:05.319 --> 00:04:08.240 a narrow space, and the whole people of Troy has 68 00:04:08.280 --> 00:04:11.360 taken heart to sally out against them, because they see 69 00:04:11.400 --> 00:04:14.759 not the visor of my helmet gleaming near them. Had 70 00:04:14.800 --> 00:04:17.360 they seen this, there would not have been a creek 71 00:04:17.600 --> 00:04:20.279 nor grip that had not been filled with their dead 72 00:04:20.560 --> 00:04:23.879 as they fled back again. And so it would have 73 00:04:23.920 --> 00:04:27.160 been if only King Agamemnon had dealt fairly by me. 74 00:04:28.920 --> 00:04:32.839 As it is, the Trojans have beset our host. Diomed 75 00:04:32.959 --> 00:04:36.000 son of Tideus, no longer wields his spear to defend 76 00:04:36.000 --> 00:04:39.319 the Danaeons. Neither have I heard the voice of the 77 00:04:39.319 --> 00:04:42.800 son of Atreus coming from his hated head, whereas that 78 00:04:42.959 --> 00:04:45.920 of murderous hector rings in my ears, as he gives 79 00:04:46.040 --> 00:04:49.160 orders to the Trojans, who triumph over the Achaeans and 80 00:04:49.240 --> 00:04:52.839 fill the whole plane with their cry of battle. But 81 00:04:53.000 --> 00:04:57.079 even so, Patroclus fall upon them and save the fleet, 82 00:04:57.600 --> 00:05:00.439 lest the Trojans fire it and prevent us from being 83 00:05:00.480 --> 00:05:04.319 able to return. Do, however, as I now bid you, 84 00:05:04.360 --> 00:05:07.000 that you may win me great honor from all the Dinans, 85 00:05:07.399 --> 00:05:09.560 and that they may restore the girl to me again, 86 00:05:10.079 --> 00:05:13.920 and give me rich gifts into the bargain. When you 87 00:05:13.959 --> 00:05:16.920 have driven the Trojans from the ships, come back again. 88 00:05:18.519 --> 00:05:21.680 Though Juno's thundering husband should put triumph within your reach. 89 00:05:22.600 --> 00:05:26.360 Do not fight the Trojans further in my absence, or 90 00:05:26.360 --> 00:05:29.519 you will rob me of glory that should be mine. 91 00:05:29.879 --> 00:05:32.079 And do not, for lust of battle, go on killing 92 00:05:32.120 --> 00:05:36.959 the Trojans, nor lead the Achaeans on to Ilius, lest 93 00:05:37.000 --> 00:05:39.240 one of the ever living gods from Olympus attack you. 94 00:05:40.319 --> 00:05:44.439 For Phoebus Apollo loves them well. Return when you have 95 00:05:44.480 --> 00:05:48.120 freed the ships from peril, and let others wage war 96 00:05:48.199 --> 00:05:52.959 upon the plane. Would by Father Jove, Minerva and Apollo, 97 00:05:53.480 --> 00:05:55.879 that not a single man of all the Trojans might 98 00:05:55.920 --> 00:05:59.720 be left alive, nor yet of the archives, but that 99 00:05:59.759 --> 00:06:02.199 we two might be alone, left to tear aside the 100 00:06:02.240 --> 00:06:06.759 mantle that veils the brow of Troy. Thus did they converse. 101 00:06:08.319 --> 00:06:11.120 But Ajax could no longer hold his ground, for the 102 00:06:11.120 --> 00:06:14.279 shower of darts that rained upon him, the will of 103 00:06:14.399 --> 00:06:17.160 Jove and the javelins of the Trojans were too much 104 00:06:17.199 --> 00:06:21.680 for him. The helmet that gleamed about his temples rang 105 00:06:21.800 --> 00:06:24.720 with the continuous clatter of the missiles that kept pouring 106 00:06:24.759 --> 00:06:27.560 onto it, and on to the cheek pieces that protected 107 00:06:27.600 --> 00:06:31.839 his face. Moreover, his left shoulder was tired with having 108 00:06:31.879 --> 00:06:35.480 held his shield so long. Yet for all this, let 109 00:06:35.519 --> 00:06:38.600 fly at him as they would, they could not make 110 00:06:38.680 --> 00:06:43.079 him give ground. He could hardly draw his breath. The 111 00:06:43.079 --> 00:06:46.079 sweat rained from every pore of his body. He had 112 00:06:46.079 --> 00:06:49.160 not a moment's respite, And on all sides he was 113 00:06:49.199 --> 00:06:54.639 beset by danger upon danger. And now tell me, o, 114 00:06:54.920 --> 00:06:58.639 muses that hold your mansions on Olympus, how fire was 115 00:06:58.720 --> 00:07:03.079 thrown upon the ships of thes. Hector came close up 116 00:07:03.480 --> 00:07:05.720 and let drive with his great sword at the ash 117 00:07:05.759 --> 00:07:09.199 and spear of Ajax. He cut it clean in two, 118 00:07:09.480 --> 00:07:12.040 just behind where the point was fastened onto the shaft 119 00:07:12.079 --> 00:07:15.839 of the spear. Ajax therefore had now nothing but a 120 00:07:15.839 --> 00:07:19.279 headless spear, while the bronze point flew some way off 121 00:07:19.279 --> 00:07:23.319 and came ringing down onto the ground. Ajax knew the 122 00:07:23.399 --> 00:07:26.480 hand of Heaven in this, and was dismayed at seeing 123 00:07:26.480 --> 00:07:29.680 that Jove had now left him utterly defenseless, and was 124 00:07:29.720 --> 00:07:34.199 willing victory for the Trojans. Therefore, he drew back, and 125 00:07:34.279 --> 00:07:37.120 the Trojans flung fire upon the ship, which was at 126 00:07:37.160 --> 00:07:41.079 once wrapped in flame. The fire was now flaring about 127 00:07:41.079 --> 00:07:44.959 the ship's stern, whereon Achilles smote his two thighs, and 128 00:07:45.000 --> 00:07:49.560 said to Patroclus, up, noble knight, for I see the 129 00:07:49.560 --> 00:07:53.240 glare of hostile fire at our fleet. Up lest they 130 00:07:53.279 --> 00:07:56.000 destroy our ships, and there be no way by which 131 00:07:56.040 --> 00:07:59.759 we may retreat. Gird on your armor at once, while 132 00:07:59.759 --> 00:08:06.160 I call our people together. As he spoke, Patroclus put 133 00:08:06.199 --> 00:08:09.839 on his armor. First, he grieved his legs with greaves 134 00:08:09.879 --> 00:08:12.920 of good make, and fitted with ankle clasps of silver. 135 00:08:13.839 --> 00:08:17.480 After this he donned the quiras of the son of Aeacus, 136 00:08:18.120 --> 00:08:22.759 richly inlaid and studded. He hung his silver studded sword 137 00:08:22.759 --> 00:08:26.040 of bronze about his shoulders, and then his mighty shield 138 00:08:27.240 --> 00:08:30.399 on his comely head. He set his helmet, well wrought 139 00:08:30.759 --> 00:08:33.879 with a crest of horsehair that nodded menacingly. Above it. 140 00:08:34.600 --> 00:08:38.039 He grasped two redoubtable spears that suited his hands. But 141 00:08:38.159 --> 00:08:40.799 he did not take the spear of Noble Achilles, so 142 00:08:41.000 --> 00:08:43.799 stout and strong, for none other of the Achaeans could 143 00:08:43.799 --> 00:08:47.759 wield it, though Achilles could do so easily. This was 144 00:08:47.799 --> 00:08:51.000 the ashen spear from Mount Pelion, which Chiron had cut 145 00:08:51.039 --> 00:08:54.279 upon a mountaintop and had given to Pelias, wherewith to 146 00:08:54.320 --> 00:08:58.759 deal out death among heroes, he bade Automodon yoke his 147 00:08:58.840 --> 00:09:01.720 horses with all speed, for he was the man whom 148 00:09:01.720 --> 00:09:04.679 he held in honor, next after Achilles, and on whose 149 00:09:04.720 --> 00:09:09.519 support in battle he could rely most firmly. Automodon therefore 150 00:09:09.600 --> 00:09:13.600 yoked the fleet horses Xanthus and Balius, steeds that could 151 00:09:13.639 --> 00:09:17.240 fly like the wind. These were they whom the harpy 152 00:09:17.279 --> 00:09:20.240 Podage bore to the west wind as she was grazing 153 00:09:20.279 --> 00:09:22.679 in a meadow by the waters of the river Oceanus. 154 00:09:23.919 --> 00:09:27.279 In the side traces he set the noble horse Pedasus, 155 00:09:27.720 --> 00:09:30.440 whom Achilles had brought away with him when he sacked 156 00:09:30.440 --> 00:09:34.279 the city of Etian, and who mortal steed though he was, 157 00:09:34.799 --> 00:09:38.759 could take his place along with those that were immortal. Meanwhile, 158 00:09:38.759 --> 00:09:42.080 Achilles went about everywhere among the tents, and bade his 159 00:09:42.159 --> 00:09:46.639 mermidons put on their armor, Even as fierce ravening wolves 160 00:09:46.639 --> 00:09:49.000 that are feasting upon a horned stag, which they have 161 00:09:49.080 --> 00:09:52.360 killed upon the mountains, and their jaws are red with blood. 162 00:09:53.200 --> 00:09:54.919 They go in a pack to lap water from the 163 00:09:54.960 --> 00:09:58.080 clear spring with their long, thin tongues, and they reek 164 00:09:58.159 --> 00:10:01.879 of blood and slaughter. They know not what fear is, 165 00:10:02.440 --> 00:10:05.679 for it is hunger drives them. Even so did the 166 00:10:05.720 --> 00:10:08.720 leaders and counselors of the Myrmidons gather round the good 167 00:10:08.720 --> 00:10:11.600 squire of the fleet, descendant of Aeacus, and among them 168 00:10:11.600 --> 00:10:15.960 stood Achilles himself, cheering on both men and horses. Fifty 169 00:10:16.000 --> 00:10:18.840 ships had Noble Achilles brought to Troy, and in each 170 00:10:18.919 --> 00:10:21.960 there was a crew of fifty oarsmen. Over these he 171 00:10:22.039 --> 00:10:24.879 set five captains whom he could trust, while he was 172 00:10:24.960 --> 00:10:29.399 himself commander over them all Menestheus of the gleaming Corselet, 173 00:10:29.840 --> 00:10:32.799 son to the river Sperchius that streams from Heaven, was 174 00:10:32.879 --> 00:10:37.480 captain of the first company fair Polydora, daughter of Pelias, 175 00:10:37.600 --> 00:10:41.159 bore him to ever flowing Sperchius, a woman mated with 176 00:10:41.200 --> 00:10:44.120 a god, but he was called son of Borus, son 177 00:10:44.159 --> 00:10:47.159 of Perieres, with whom his mother was living as his 178 00:10:47.240 --> 00:10:50.320 wedded wife, and who gave great wealth to gain her. 179 00:10:51.919 --> 00:10:55.639 The second company was led by noble Eudorus, son to 180 00:10:55.720 --> 00:11:00.879 an unwedded woman. Polimillae, daughter of Phyllis, the graceful dancer, 181 00:11:01.039 --> 00:11:04.639 bore him. The mighty slayer of Argos, was enamored of 182 00:11:04.679 --> 00:11:07.080 her as he saw her among the singing women at 183 00:11:07.080 --> 00:11:10.840 a dance held in honor of Diana, the rushing Huntress 184 00:11:10.840 --> 00:11:15.519 of the Golden Arrows. He therefore, Mercury, giver of all good, 185 00:11:15.840 --> 00:11:18.320 went with her into an upper chamber and lay with 186 00:11:18.399 --> 00:11:22.039 her in secret, whereon she bore him a noble son, Eudorus, 187 00:11:22.679 --> 00:11:27.240 singularly fleet of foot and in fight valiant. When Elithuia, 188 00:11:27.320 --> 00:11:29.799 goddess of the pains of child birth, brought him to 189 00:11:29.840 --> 00:11:32.120 the light of day and he saw the face of 190 00:11:32.159 --> 00:11:36.440 the sun, mighty Echecles, son of Actor, took the mother 191 00:11:36.519 --> 00:11:40.399 to wife and gave great wealth to gain her. But 192 00:11:40.480 --> 00:11:43.480 her father Phylas brought the child up and took care 193 00:11:43.519 --> 00:11:46.320 of him, doting as fondly upon him as though he 194 00:11:46.399 --> 00:11:50.559 were his own son. The third company was led by Pisander, 195 00:11:50.639 --> 00:11:54.279 son of Maemalus, the finest spearman among all the Myrmidons, 196 00:11:54.360 --> 00:11:58.320 next to achilles own comrade, Patroclus, the old Knight Phoenix 197 00:11:58.399 --> 00:12:02.159 was captain of the fourth company, and Alcimodon, noble son 198 00:12:02.200 --> 00:12:06.279 of Laoshius, of the fifth. When Achilles had chosen his 199 00:12:06.360 --> 00:12:09.960 men and had stationed them all with their captains, he 200 00:12:10.120 --> 00:12:15.120 charged them straightly, saying, Myrmidons, remember your threats against the 201 00:12:15.159 --> 00:12:17.519 Trojans while you were at the ships in the time 202 00:12:17.559 --> 00:12:20.279 of my anger, and you were all complaining of me, 203 00:12:21.799 --> 00:12:25.679 cruel son of Pelias. You would say your mother must 204 00:12:25.720 --> 00:12:29.480 have suckled you on Gaul. So ruthless are you you 205 00:12:29.639 --> 00:12:32.600 keep us here at the ships against our will. If 206 00:12:32.639 --> 00:12:35.440 you are so relentless, it were better we went home 207 00:12:35.519 --> 00:12:40.000 over the sea. Often have you gathered and thus chided 208 00:12:40.039 --> 00:12:43.600 with me. The hour is now come for those high 209 00:12:43.600 --> 00:12:48.480 feats of arms that you have so long been pining for. Therefore, 210 00:12:48.559 --> 00:12:51.039 keep high hearts, each one of you to do battle 211 00:12:51.080 --> 00:12:55.720 with the Trojans. With these words, he put heart and 212 00:12:55.799 --> 00:12:59.440 soul into them all, and they serried their companies yet 213 00:12:59.519 --> 00:13:02.240 more closely when they heard the voice of their king, 214 00:13:03.960 --> 00:13:06.799 as the stones which a builder sets in the wall 215 00:13:06.840 --> 00:13:09.639 of some high house, which is to give shelter from 216 00:13:09.639 --> 00:13:14.559 the winds. Even so closely were the helmets and bossed 217 00:13:14.559 --> 00:13:19.600 shields set against one another, shield pressed on shield, helm 218 00:13:19.679 --> 00:13:23.759 on helm, and man on man. So close were they 219 00:13:23.919 --> 00:13:26.399 that the horsehair plumes on the gleaming ridges of their 220 00:13:26.440 --> 00:13:30.799 helmets touched each other as they bent their heads in 221 00:13:30.840 --> 00:13:32.960 front of them. All two men put on their armor. 222 00:13:33.320 --> 00:13:38.080 Patroclus and automedon two men with but one mind to 223 00:13:38.200 --> 00:13:41.840 lead the mermidons. Then Achilles went inside his tent and 224 00:13:42.000 --> 00:13:44.759 opened the lid of the strong chest which silver footed 225 00:13:44.799 --> 00:13:47.200 Thetis had given him to take on board ship, and 226 00:13:47.279 --> 00:13:50.159 which she had filled with shirts, cloaks to keep out 227 00:13:50.159 --> 00:13:54.360 the cold, and good thick rugs. In this chest he 228 00:13:54.399 --> 00:13:57.320 had a cup of rare workmanship, from which no man 229 00:13:57.360 --> 00:14:00.440 but himself might drink, nor would he make off from 230 00:14:00.440 --> 00:14:03.120 it to any other God, save only to Father Jove. 231 00:14:04.600 --> 00:14:06.440 He took the cup from the chest and cleansed it 232 00:14:06.480 --> 00:14:09.360 with sulfur. This done, he rinsed it in clean water, 233 00:14:09.879 --> 00:14:12.399 and after he had washed his hands, he drew wine. 234 00:14:13.879 --> 00:14:15.879 Then he stood in the middle of the court and prayed, 235 00:14:16.159 --> 00:14:19.600 looking towards Heaven, and making his drink offering of wine. 236 00:14:20.279 --> 00:14:23.440 Nor was he unseen of Jove, whose joy is in thunder. 237 00:14:24.919 --> 00:14:29.200 King Jove, he cried, Lord of do Dona, God of 238 00:14:29.240 --> 00:14:33.200 the Pelaski, who dwells afar you, who hold wintry, Do 239 00:14:33.200 --> 00:14:36.720 donor in your sway where your prophets. The celli dwell 240 00:14:36.759 --> 00:14:39.799 around you, with their feet unwashed and their couches made 241 00:14:39.840 --> 00:14:43.000 upon the ground. If you heard me when I prayed 242 00:14:43.000 --> 00:14:45.799 to you aforetime, and did me honor while you sent 243 00:14:45.879 --> 00:14:49.240 disaster on the Achaeans, vouchsafe me now the fulfillment of 244 00:14:49.320 --> 00:14:52.279 yet this further prayer. I shall stay here where my 245 00:14:52.320 --> 00:14:54.759 ships are lying, but I shall send my comrade into 246 00:14:54.799 --> 00:14:57.919 battle at the head of many mirmidons. Grant O all 247 00:14:57.960 --> 00:15:01.360 seeing Jove, that victory may go with him. Put your 248 00:15:01.360 --> 00:15:03.720 courage into his heart, that hector may learn whether my 249 00:15:03.840 --> 00:15:06.639 squire is man enough to fight alone, or whether his 250 00:15:06.759 --> 00:15:10.240 might is only then so indomitable when I myself enter 251 00:15:10.279 --> 00:15:14.440 the turmoil of war. Afterwards, when he has chased the 252 00:15:14.440 --> 00:15:17.639 fight and the cry of battle from the ships, grant 253 00:15:17.679 --> 00:15:20.679 that he may return unharmed, with his armor and his 254 00:15:20.799 --> 00:15:26.240 comrades fighters in close combat. Thus did he pray, and 255 00:15:26.360 --> 00:15:30.240 all counseling Jove heard his prayer. Part of it. He did, 256 00:15:30.279 --> 00:15:34.399 indeed vouchsafe him, but not the whole. He granted that 257 00:15:34.399 --> 00:15:37.240 Petroclus should thrust back war and battle from the ships, 258 00:15:37.840 --> 00:15:40.360 but refuse to let him come safely out of the fight. 259 00:15:41.679 --> 00:15:44.559 When he had made his drink offering and had thus prayed, 260 00:15:45.200 --> 00:15:48.200 Achilles went inside his tent and put back the cup 261 00:15:48.240 --> 00:15:52.039 into his chest. Then he again came out, for he 262 00:15:52.120 --> 00:15:54.519 still loved to look upon the fierce fight that raged 263 00:15:54.519 --> 00:15:58.720 between the Trojans and the Chaeans. Meanwhile, the armed band 264 00:15:58.720 --> 00:16:02.360 that was about Petroclus marched on till they sprang high 265 00:16:02.440 --> 00:16:05.840 in hope. Upon the Trojans. They came, swarming out like 266 00:16:05.960 --> 00:16:09.399 wasps whose nests are by the roadside, and whom silly 267 00:16:09.480 --> 00:16:13.039 children love to tease, whereon any one who happens to 268 00:16:13.080 --> 00:16:16.919 be passing may get stung. Or again, if a wayfarer 269 00:16:16.960 --> 00:16:20.480 going along the road vexes them by accident, every wasp 270 00:16:20.559 --> 00:16:22.840 will come flying out in a fury to defend his 271 00:16:22.919 --> 00:16:26.159 little ones. Even with such rage and courage. Did the 272 00:16:26.159 --> 00:16:29.600 Myrmidons swarm from their ships, and their cry of battle 273 00:16:29.720 --> 00:16:33.759 rose heavenwards. Patroclus called out to his men at the 274 00:16:33.759 --> 00:16:38.200 top of his voice, Myrmidons, followers of Achilles, son of Pelias, 275 00:16:38.320 --> 00:16:41.320 be men, my friends, fight with might and with main, 276 00:16:41.639 --> 00:16:44.080 that we may win glory for the son of Pelias, 277 00:16:44.519 --> 00:16:46.639 who is far the foremost man at the ships of 278 00:16:46.679 --> 00:16:51.279 the Argives. He and his close fighting followers, the son 279 00:16:51.360 --> 00:16:54.360 of Atreus, King Agamemnon, will thus learn his folly in 280 00:16:54.440 --> 00:16:58.480 showing no respect to the bravest of the Achaeans. With 281 00:16:58.600 --> 00:17:01.240 these words, he put high art and soul into them all, 282 00:17:01.919 --> 00:17:05.039 and they fell in a body upon the Trojans. The 283 00:17:05.119 --> 00:17:07.960 ships rang again with the cry which the Achaeans raised, 284 00:17:08.440 --> 00:17:11.160 And when the Trojans saw the brave son of Menoetius 285 00:17:11.240 --> 00:17:15.039 and his squire all gleaming in their armor, they were daunted, 286 00:17:15.559 --> 00:17:19.119 and their battalions were thrown into confusion, for they thought 287 00:17:19.160 --> 00:17:21.839 the fleet son of Pelias must now have put aside 288 00:17:21.880 --> 00:17:26.720 his anger and have been reconciled to Agamemnon. Everyone therefore 289 00:17:27.039 --> 00:17:30.039 looked round about to see whither he might fly for safety. 290 00:17:31.400 --> 00:17:34.319 Patroclus first aimed a spear into the middle of the press, 291 00:17:34.559 --> 00:17:37.519 where men were packed most closely by the stern of 292 00:17:37.559 --> 00:17:41.920 the ship of Protosilaus. He hit Pyrechms, who had led 293 00:17:41.960 --> 00:17:45.279 his Paeonian horsemen from the Amidon and the broad waters 294 00:17:45.279 --> 00:17:48.160 of the river Axius. The spear struck him on the 295 00:17:48.200 --> 00:17:51.359 right shoulder, and with a groan, he fell backwards in 296 00:17:51.400 --> 00:17:55.359 the dust. On this his men were thrown into confusion, 297 00:17:55.640 --> 00:17:58.519 for by killing their leader, who was the finest soldier 298 00:17:58.519 --> 00:18:02.839 among them, Proclus struck panic into them all. He thus 299 00:18:02.920 --> 00:18:05.599 drove them from the ship and quenched the fire that 300 00:18:05.759 --> 00:18:09.680 was then blazing, leaving the half burnt ship to lie 301 00:18:09.720 --> 00:18:13.839 where it was. The Trojans were now driven back with 302 00:18:13.960 --> 00:18:18.160 a shout that rent the skies, while the Danions poured 303 00:18:18.200 --> 00:18:23.119 after them from their ships, shouting also without ceasing, as 304 00:18:23.160 --> 00:18:27.799 when Jove, gatherer of the thundercloud, spreads a dense canopy 305 00:18:27.839 --> 00:18:30.920 on the top of some lofty mountain, and all the peaks, 306 00:18:31.319 --> 00:18:34.359 the jutting headlands and forest glades show out in the 307 00:18:34.400 --> 00:18:38.519 great light that flashes from the bursting heavens. Even so, 308 00:18:39.160 --> 00:18:41.720 when the Danions had now driven back the fire from 309 00:18:41.759 --> 00:18:45.599 their ships, they took breath for a little while, but 310 00:18:45.680 --> 00:18:48.440 the fury of the fight was not yet over, for 311 00:18:48.519 --> 00:18:51.440 the Trojans were not driven back in utter rout, but 312 00:18:51.559 --> 00:18:55.039 still gave battle and were ousted from their ground only 313 00:18:55.079 --> 00:19:01.200 by sheer fighting. The fight then became more scattered, and 314 00:19:01.279 --> 00:19:04.039 the chieftains killed one another when and how they could. 315 00:19:05.640 --> 00:19:09.039 The valiant son of Menoetius first drove his spear into 316 00:19:09.039 --> 00:19:12.079 the thigh of Areeilichus, just as he was turning round. 317 00:19:12.920 --> 00:19:15.799 The point went clean through and broke the bone, so 318 00:19:15.880 --> 00:19:19.960 that he fell forward. Meanwhile, Menelaus struck Thoas in the 319 00:19:20.039 --> 00:19:22.920 chest where it was exposed near the rim of his shield, 320 00:19:23.599 --> 00:19:27.200 and he fell dead. The son of Phyleus saw Amphyclus 321 00:19:27.240 --> 00:19:30.039 about to attack him, and ere he could do so, 322 00:19:30.400 --> 00:19:33.000 took aim at the upper part of his thigh, where 323 00:19:33.000 --> 00:19:36.559 the muscles are thicker than in any other part. The 324 00:19:36.640 --> 00:19:39.799 spear tore through all the sinews of the leg, and 325 00:19:39.880 --> 00:19:44.000 his eyes were closed. In darkness. Of the sons of 326 00:19:44.039 --> 00:19:49.359 nesta I, Antilochus speared Atymnius, driving the point of the 327 00:19:49.400 --> 00:19:53.920 spear through his throat, and down he fell. Maris then 328 00:19:54.000 --> 00:19:56.799 sprang on Antilochus in hand to hand fight to avenge 329 00:19:56.839 --> 00:20:00.839 his brother and bestrode the body, spear in hand, But 330 00:20:01.000 --> 00:20:04.200 valiant Thrasymides was too quick for him, and in a 331 00:20:04.200 --> 00:20:06.359 moment had struck him in the shoulder. Ere he could 332 00:20:06.359 --> 00:20:10.359 deal his blow. His aim was true, and the spear 333 00:20:10.480 --> 00:20:12.519 severed all the muscles at the root of his arm 334 00:20:12.920 --> 00:20:15.599 and tore them right down to the bone. So he 335 00:20:15.680 --> 00:20:18.440 fell heavily to the ground, and his eyes were closed 336 00:20:18.440 --> 00:20:22.680 in darkness. Thus did these two noble comrades of Sarpadon 337 00:20:22.960 --> 00:20:26.440 go down to Erebus, slain by the two sons of Nestor. 338 00:20:27.519 --> 00:20:31.039 They were the warrior sons of Amisodorus, who had reared 339 00:20:31.079 --> 00:20:35.359 the invincible Chimaeira to the bane of many. Ajax, son 340 00:20:35.400 --> 00:20:37.799 of Elias, sprang on Cleobulus and took him alive as 341 00:20:37.839 --> 00:20:40.599 he was entangled in the crush. But he killed him 342 00:20:40.640 --> 00:20:42.640 then and there by a sword blow on the neck. 343 00:20:43.799 --> 00:20:47.240 The sword reeked with his blood, while dark death and 344 00:20:47.319 --> 00:20:51.119 the strong hand of fate gripped him and closed his eyes. 345 00:20:52.000 --> 00:20:55.440 Peneleus and Lichen now met in close fight. For they 346 00:20:55.480 --> 00:20:58.480 had missed each other with their spears, they had both 347 00:20:58.559 --> 00:21:03.079 thrown without effect. So now they drew their swords Lican 348 00:21:03.160 --> 00:21:07.319 struck the plumed crest of Penelius's helmet, but his sword 349 00:21:07.440 --> 00:21:11.039 broke at the hilt. While Penelius smote Lichen on the 350 00:21:11.079 --> 00:21:15.559 neck under the ear, the blade sank so deep that 351 00:21:15.640 --> 00:21:17.759 the head was held on by nothing but the skin, 352 00:21:18.440 --> 00:21:22.000 and there was no more life left in him. Mariones 353 00:21:22.079 --> 00:21:24.960 gave chase to Achamus on foot and caught him up. 354 00:21:25.039 --> 00:21:27.920 Just as he was about to mount his chariot. He 355 00:21:28.039 --> 00:21:30.000 drove a spear through his right shoulder, so that he 356 00:21:30.079 --> 00:21:33.240 fell headlong from the car, and his eyes were closed 357 00:21:33.240 --> 00:21:38.279 in darkness. I Domineus speared aremis in the mouth. The 358 00:21:38.279 --> 00:21:41.000 bronze point of the spear went clean through it beneath 359 00:21:41.039 --> 00:21:44.559 the brain, crashing in among the white bones and smashing 360 00:21:44.599 --> 00:21:48.200 them up. His teeth were all of them knocked out, 361 00:21:48.519 --> 00:21:50.880 and the blood came gushing in a stream from both 362 00:21:50.920 --> 00:21:54.200 his eyes. It also came gurgling up from his mouth 363 00:21:54.240 --> 00:21:58.119 and nostrils, and the darkness of death enfolded him round about. 364 00:21:59.720 --> 00:22:02.880 Thus did these chieftains of the Dannarns, each of them 365 00:22:03.000 --> 00:22:07.920 kill his man as ravening wolves seese on kids, or 366 00:22:08.000 --> 00:22:10.720 lambs fastening on them when they are alone on the 367 00:22:10.799 --> 00:22:14.119 hillsides and have strayed from the main flock through the 368 00:22:14.160 --> 00:22:17.920 carelessness of the shepherd. And when the wolves see this, 369 00:22:18.440 --> 00:22:22.079 they pounce upon them at once, because they cannot defend themselves. 370 00:22:23.640 --> 00:22:26.680 Even so did the Daneans now fall on the Trojans, 371 00:22:27.119 --> 00:22:30.319 who fled with ill omened cries in their panic, and 372 00:22:30.400 --> 00:22:35.200 had no more fight left in them. Meanwhile, Great Ajax 373 00:22:35.279 --> 00:22:38.000 kept on trying to drive a spear into Hector, But 374 00:22:38.119 --> 00:22:41.359 Hector was so skillful that he held his broad shoulders 375 00:22:41.440 --> 00:22:44.680 well under cover of his ox hide shield. Ever on 376 00:22:44.759 --> 00:22:47.519 the lookout for the whizzing of the arrows and the 377 00:22:47.559 --> 00:22:50.799 heavy thud of the spears. He well knew that the 378 00:22:50.799 --> 00:22:53.960 fortunes of the day had changed, but still stood his 379 00:22:54.000 --> 00:22:58.279 ground and tried to protect his comrades, as when a 380 00:22:58.319 --> 00:23:01.319 cloud goes up into heaven from a limb rising out 381 00:23:01.319 --> 00:23:03.880 of a clear sky, when Jove is brewing a gale. 382 00:23:04.559 --> 00:23:07.720 Even with such panic stricken rout, did the Trojans now fly, 383 00:23:08.359 --> 00:23:11.960 and there was no order in their going. Hector's fleet 384 00:23:11.960 --> 00:23:14.279 horses bore him and his armor out of the fight, 385 00:23:14.799 --> 00:23:16.960 and he left the Trojan host penned in by the 386 00:23:16.960 --> 00:23:21.200 deep trench against their will. Many a yoke of horses 387 00:23:21.240 --> 00:23:23.599 snapped the pole of their chariots in the trench, and 388 00:23:23.720 --> 00:23:28.279 left their master's car behind them. Patroclus gave chase, calling 389 00:23:28.279 --> 00:23:32.799 impetuously on the Danaans, and full of fury against the Trojans, who, 390 00:23:32.880 --> 00:23:35.480 being now no longer in a body, filled all the 391 00:23:35.559 --> 00:23:38.920 ways with their cries of panic and rout. The air 392 00:23:39.039 --> 00:23:41.839 was darkened with the clouds of dust they raised, and 393 00:23:41.920 --> 00:23:44.519 the horses strained every nerve in their flight from the 394 00:23:44.559 --> 00:23:49.440 tents and ships towards the city. Patroclus kept on heading 395 00:23:49.480 --> 00:23:52.920 his horses wherever he saw most men flying in confusion, 396 00:23:53.279 --> 00:23:57.200 cheering on his men. The while chariots were being smashed 397 00:23:57.200 --> 00:24:00.240 in all directions, and many a man came tumbling down 398 00:24:00.240 --> 00:24:02.359 from his own car to fall beneath the wheels of 399 00:24:02.400 --> 00:24:06.319 that of Petroclus, whose immortal steeds, given by the gods 400 00:24:06.319 --> 00:24:09.240 to Pelias, sprang over the trench at a bound. As 401 00:24:09.240 --> 00:24:13.039