WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.199 --> 00:00:04.960 Book twenty one. Now, when they came to the ford 2 00:00:05.040 --> 00:00:08.640 of the full flowing river Xanthus, begotten of immortal Jove, 3 00:00:09.320 --> 00:00:13.439 Achilles cut their forces in two. One half he chased 4 00:00:13.480 --> 00:00:15.599 over the plain towards the city by the same way 5 00:00:15.640 --> 00:00:18.239 that the Achaeans had taken when flying panic stricken on 6 00:00:18.280 --> 00:00:22.719 the preceding day, with Hector in full triumph. This way 7 00:00:22.800 --> 00:00:25.640 did they fly. Pell Mell and Juno sent down a 8 00:00:25.679 --> 00:00:28.519 thick mist in front of them to stay them. The 9 00:00:28.600 --> 00:00:31.679 other half were hemmed in by the deep silver eddying stream, 10 00:00:32.159 --> 00:00:36.719 and fell into it with a great uproar. The waters resounded, 11 00:00:37.039 --> 00:00:40.479 and the banks rang again, as they swam hither and thither, 12 00:00:40.560 --> 00:00:45.240 with loud cries amid the whirling eddies, as locusts flying 13 00:00:45.280 --> 00:00:47.439 to a river before the blast of a grass fire. 14 00:00:47.880 --> 00:00:50.320 The flame comes on and on till at last it 15 00:00:50.359 --> 00:00:54.240 overtakes them, and they huddle into the water. Even so 16 00:00:54.600 --> 00:00:57.640 was the eddying stream of Xanthus filled with the uproar 17 00:00:57.640 --> 00:01:03.039 of men and horses, all struggling in confusion before Achilles. Forthwith. 18 00:01:03.119 --> 00:01:05.719 The hero left his spear upon the bank, leaning it 19 00:01:05.760 --> 00:01:08.879 against a tamarisk bush, and plunged into the river like 20 00:01:08.920 --> 00:01:14.000 a god armed with his sword. Only fell was his purpose. 21 00:01:14.359 --> 00:01:17.840 As he hewed the Trojans down on every side. Their 22 00:01:17.920 --> 00:01:20.959 dying groans rose hideous as the sword smote them, and 23 00:01:21.000 --> 00:01:24.400 the river ran red with blood, as when fish fly 24 00:01:24.680 --> 00:01:27.760 scared before a huge dolphin, and fill every nook and 25 00:01:27.799 --> 00:01:30.799 corner of some fair haven, for he is sure to 26 00:01:30.840 --> 00:01:34.359 eat all he can catch. Even so did the Trojans 27 00:01:34.439 --> 00:01:37.319 cower under the banks of the mighty river. And when 28 00:01:37.359 --> 00:01:40.599 Achilles' arms grew weary with killing them, he drew twelve 29 00:01:40.599 --> 00:01:44.079 youths alive out of the water to sacrifice in revenge 30 00:01:44.079 --> 00:01:48.159 for Petroclus, son of Menoetius. He drew them out like 31 00:01:48.239 --> 00:01:52.000 dazed fawns, bound their hands behind them with the girdles 32 00:01:52.040 --> 00:01:54.719 of their own shirts, and gave them over to his 33 00:01:54.840 --> 00:01:58.560 men to take back to the ships. Then he sprang 34 00:01:58.599 --> 00:02:02.959 into the river, thirsting for still further blood. There he 35 00:02:03.040 --> 00:02:06.920 found like Caaon, son of Priam, seed of Dardanus. As 36 00:02:06.920 --> 00:02:09.800 he was escaping out of the water. He it was 37 00:02:09.840 --> 00:02:11.879 whom he had once taken prisoner when he was in 38 00:02:11.960 --> 00:02:15.360 his father's vineyard, having set upon him by night as 39 00:02:15.360 --> 00:02:17.800 he was cutting young shoots from a wild fig tree 40 00:02:17.840 --> 00:02:21.280 to make the wicker sides of a chariot. Achilles then 41 00:02:21.360 --> 00:02:24.680 caught him, to his sorrow unawares, and sent him by 42 00:02:24.680 --> 00:02:28.319 sea to Lemnos, where the son of Jason bought him. 43 00:02:28.879 --> 00:02:32.840 But a guest friend, Etian of Imbros, freed him with 44 00:02:32.879 --> 00:02:36.479 a great sum and sent him to Arisbi. Whence he 45 00:02:36.520 --> 00:02:40.319 had escaped and returned to his father's house. He had 46 00:02:40.360 --> 00:02:43.360 spent eleven days happily with his friends after he had 47 00:02:43.360 --> 00:02:46.840 come from Lemnos. But on the twelfth heaven again delivered 48 00:02:46.919 --> 00:02:49.240 him into the hands of Achilles, who was to send 49 00:02:49.280 --> 00:02:51.639 him to the house of Hades, sorely against his will. 50 00:02:53.199 --> 00:02:56.080 He was unarmed when Achilles caught sight of him, and 51 00:02:56.120 --> 00:02:59.680 had neither helmet nor shield, nor yet had he any spear, 52 00:03:00.520 --> 00:03:02.479 for he had thrown all his armor from him on 53 00:03:02.520 --> 00:03:04.960 to the bank, and was sweating with his struggles to 54 00:03:05.000 --> 00:03:07.159 get out of the river, so that his strength was 55 00:03:07.159 --> 00:03:11.439 now failing him. Then Achilles said to himself, in his surprise, 56 00:03:12.199 --> 00:03:15.199 what marvel do I see here? If this man can 57 00:03:15.280 --> 00:03:18.319 come back alive after having been sold over into Lemnos, 58 00:03:18.919 --> 00:03:21.240 I shall have the Trojans also, whom I have slain, 59 00:03:21.479 --> 00:03:25.120 rising from the world below. Could not even the waters 60 00:03:25.120 --> 00:03:28.039 of the Gray Sea imprison him as they do many another. 61 00:03:28.120 --> 00:03:31.080 Whether he will or no, this time, let him taste 62 00:03:31.080 --> 00:03:34.159 my spear, that I may know for certain whether Mother Earth, 63 00:03:34.199 --> 00:03:36.719 who can keep even a strong man down, will be 64 00:03:36.759 --> 00:03:39.919 able to hold him, or whether thence too he will return. 65 00:03:42.159 --> 00:03:46.199 Thus did he pause and ponder. But Lychaeon came up 66 00:03:46.240 --> 00:03:49.439 to him, dazed and trying hard to embrace his knees, 67 00:03:49.919 --> 00:03:54.840 for he would fain live not die. Achilles thrust at 68 00:03:54.879 --> 00:03:58.479 him with his spear, meaning to kill him, But Lychaon 69 00:03:58.599 --> 00:04:01.680 ran crouching up to him and caught his knees, whereby 70 00:04:01.759 --> 00:04:04.680 the spear passed over his back and stuck in the ground. 71 00:04:05.039 --> 00:04:08.680 Hungering though it was for blood. With one hand he 72 00:04:08.759 --> 00:04:11.800 caught Achilles's knees as he besought him, and with the 73 00:04:11.840 --> 00:04:14.800 other he clutched the spear and would not let it go. 74 00:04:16.560 --> 00:04:21.120 Then he said, Achilles, have mercy upon me and spare me, 75 00:04:22.120 --> 00:04:25.160 for I am your suppliant. It was in your tents 76 00:04:25.199 --> 00:04:27.160 that I first broke bread, on the day when you 77 00:04:27.199 --> 00:04:30.439 took me prisoner in the vineyard, after which you sold 78 00:04:30.480 --> 00:04:33.439 away to Lemnos, far from my father and my friends, 79 00:04:33.879 --> 00:04:36.120 and I brought you the price of a hundred oxen. 80 00:04:37.000 --> 00:04:40.120 I have paid three times as much to gain my freedom. 81 00:04:40.519 --> 00:04:42.399 It is but twelve days that I have come to 82 00:04:42.439 --> 00:04:47.079 Ilius after much suffering, and now cruel fate has again 83 00:04:47.240 --> 00:04:51.600 thrown me into your hands. Surely, Father Jove must hate 84 00:04:51.639 --> 00:04:54.519 me that he has given me over to you a 85 00:04:54.600 --> 00:04:59.000 second time short of life. Indeed, did my mother Laotho 86 00:04:59.160 --> 00:05:04.439 bear me, daughter of aged Altes, of Altes, who reigns 87 00:05:04.480 --> 00:05:08.600 over the warlike Lelegae and holds steep Pedasus on the 88 00:05:08.680 --> 00:05:13.480 river Satniois. Priam married his daughter along with many other women, 89 00:05:13.839 --> 00:05:16.839 and two sons were born of her, both of whom 90 00:05:17.120 --> 00:05:22.600 you will have slain. Your spear slew noble Polydorus as 91 00:05:22.639 --> 00:05:25.519 he was fighting in the front ranks. And now evil 92 00:05:25.600 --> 00:05:28.319 will hear befall me, for I fear that I shall 93 00:05:28.319 --> 00:05:32.680 not escape you, since Heaven has delivered me over to you. Furthermore, 94 00:05:32.839 --> 00:05:36.319 I say, and lay my saying to your heart. Spare me, 95 00:05:37.040 --> 00:05:39.040 for I am not of the same womb as hector 96 00:05:39.040 --> 00:05:43.519 who slew your brave and noble comrade with such words 97 00:05:43.839 --> 00:05:47.519 did the princely son of Priam beseech Achilles. But Achilles 98 00:05:47.560 --> 00:05:51.639 answered him sternly, idiot said, he talk not to me 99 00:05:51.720 --> 00:05:55.000 of ransom. Until Patroclus fell. I preferred to give the 100 00:05:55.040 --> 00:05:58.519 Trojans quarter and sold beyond the sea many of those 101 00:05:58.560 --> 00:06:01.720 whom I had taken alive. But now not a man 102 00:06:01.759 --> 00:06:04.279 shall live of those whom Heaven delivers into my hands 103 00:06:04.319 --> 00:06:08.040 before the city of Ilius, and of all Trojans, it 104 00:06:08.079 --> 00:06:12.720 shall fare hardest with the sons of Priam. Therefore, my friend, 105 00:06:13.560 --> 00:06:16.759 you too shall die. Why should you whine in this way? 106 00:06:17.720 --> 00:06:20.639 But Troclus fell, and he was a better man than 107 00:06:20.680 --> 00:06:24.519 you are. I too, see you not how I am 108 00:06:24.519 --> 00:06:27.800 great and goodly. I am son to a noble father, 109 00:06:28.480 --> 00:06:31.639 and have a goddess for my mother. But the hands 110 00:06:31.639 --> 00:06:35.639 of doom and death overshadow me all as surely the 111 00:06:35.720 --> 00:06:39.759 day will come, either at dawn or dark, or at 112 00:06:39.759 --> 00:06:43.519 the noontide, when one shall take my life, also in battle, 113 00:06:44.480 --> 00:06:47.639 either with his spear or with an arrow sped from 114 00:06:47.639 --> 00:06:51.720 his bow. Thus did he speak, and Lycaean's heart sank 115 00:06:51.800 --> 00:06:55.000 within him. He loosed his hold of the spear and 116 00:06:55.120 --> 00:06:58.639 held out both hands before him, But Achilles drew his 117 00:06:58.759 --> 00:07:01.680 keen blade and him by the collar bone on his neck. 118 00:07:02.439 --> 00:07:04.759 He plunged his two edged sword into him to the 119 00:07:04.879 --> 00:07:08.120 very hilt, whereon he lay at full length on the ground, 120 00:07:08.759 --> 00:07:11.600 with the dark blood welling from him, till the earth 121 00:07:11.680 --> 00:07:15.519 was soaked. Then Achilles caught him by the foot and 122 00:07:15.639 --> 00:07:18.839 flung him into the river to go downstream, vaunting over 123 00:07:18.920 --> 00:07:22.879 him the while and saying, lie there among the fishes, 124 00:07:23.279 --> 00:07:25.560 who will lick the blood from your wound and gloat 125 00:07:25.600 --> 00:07:28.439 over it. Your mother shall not lay you on any 126 00:07:28.439 --> 00:07:31.759 beer to mourn you, But the eddies of Scamander shall 127 00:07:31.800 --> 00:07:35.160 bear you into the broad bosom of the sea. There 128 00:07:35.160 --> 00:07:37.519 shall the fishes feed on the fat of lye Chaon 129 00:07:38.000 --> 00:07:40.560 as they dart under the dark ripple of the waters. 130 00:07:41.759 --> 00:07:44.160 So perish all of you till we reach the citadel 131 00:07:44.199 --> 00:07:48.120 of strong Ilius, you in flight, and I following after 132 00:07:48.199 --> 00:07:51.639 to destroy you. The river, with its broad silver stream 133 00:07:51.680 --> 00:07:54.600 shall serve you in no stead for all the bulls 134 00:07:54.600 --> 00:07:57.120 you offered him, and all the horses that you flung 135 00:07:57.160 --> 00:08:01.879 living into his waters. Nonetheless, miserably shall you perish till 136 00:08:01.920 --> 00:08:03.639 there is not a man of you but has paid 137 00:08:03.680 --> 00:08:06.480 in full for the death of Patroclus, and the havoc 138 00:08:06.560 --> 00:08:09.519 you wrought among the Achaeans, whom you have slain while 139 00:08:09.519 --> 00:08:15.800 I held aloof from battle, so spoke Achilles. But the 140 00:08:15.920 --> 00:08:19.480 river grew more and more angry, and pondered within himself 141 00:08:19.519 --> 00:08:22.079 how he should stay the hand of Achilles and save 142 00:08:22.199 --> 00:08:27.399 the Trojans from disaster. Meanwhile, the son of Pelias, spear 143 00:08:27.519 --> 00:08:32.240 in hand, sprang upon Astoropaeus, son of Pelagon, to kill him. 144 00:08:32.960 --> 00:08:36.039 He was son to the broad river Axius and periboea 145 00:08:36.120 --> 00:08:39.559 eldest daughter of Asisaminus. For the river had lain with her. 146 00:08:40.759 --> 00:08:43.399 Astoropaeus stood up out of the water to face him 147 00:08:43.440 --> 00:08:46.440 with a spear in either hand, and xanthus filled him 148 00:08:46.440 --> 00:08:49.799 with courage, being angry for the death of the youths 149 00:08:49.799 --> 00:08:53.799 whom Achilles was slaying ruthlessly within his waters. When they 150 00:08:53.799 --> 00:08:56.919 were close up with one another, Achilles was first to speak, 151 00:08:58.519 --> 00:09:02.320 who and whence are you? Said he who dare to 152 00:09:02.399 --> 00:09:05.519 face me? Woe to the parents whose son stands up 153 00:09:05.519 --> 00:09:09.960 against me? And the son of Pelagon, answered, great son 154 00:09:10.039 --> 00:09:13.960 of Pelias, why should you ask my lineage? I am 155 00:09:13.960 --> 00:09:18.559 from the fertile land of far Paeonia, captain of the Paonians, 156 00:09:19.039 --> 00:09:21.799 and it is now eleven days that I am at Ilius. 157 00:09:22.679 --> 00:09:26.399 I am of the blood of the river Axius, of Axius, 158 00:09:26.799 --> 00:09:30.120 that is, the fairest of all rivers that run. He 159 00:09:30.200 --> 00:09:34.080 begot the famed warrior Pelagon, whose son men call me 160 00:09:35.120 --> 00:09:39.399 let Us, now fight Achilles. Thus did he defy him, 161 00:09:39.440 --> 00:09:44.559 and Achilles raised his spear of pelianash. Asta Apaeus failed 162 00:09:44.559 --> 00:09:47.840 with both his spears, for he could use both hands alike. 163 00:09:49.279 --> 00:09:52.679 With the one spear, he struck Achilles' shield, but did 164 00:09:52.679 --> 00:09:55.960 not pierce it, for the layer of gold, gift of 165 00:09:56.000 --> 00:10:00.279 the god, stayed the point. With the other spear, he 166 00:10:00.320 --> 00:10:04.840 grazed the elbow of achilles right arm, drawing dark blood, 167 00:10:05.240 --> 00:10:08.399 But the spear itself went by him and fixed itself 168 00:10:08.440 --> 00:10:13.399 in the ground, foiled of its bloody banquet. Then Achilles, 169 00:10:13.720 --> 00:10:17.519 fain to kill him, hurled his spear at Astoropaeus, but 170 00:10:17.639 --> 00:10:20.080 failed to hit him, and struck the steep bank of 171 00:10:20.080 --> 00:10:23.039 the river, driving the spear half its length into the earth. 172 00:10:24.440 --> 00:10:27.480 The son of Pelias then drew his sword and sprang 173 00:10:27.559 --> 00:10:32.759 furiously upon him. Astoropaeus vainly tried to draw achilles spear 174 00:10:32.840 --> 00:10:35.879 out of the bank by main force. Thrice did he 175 00:10:35.919 --> 00:10:38.480 tug at it, trying with all his might to draw 176 00:10:38.519 --> 00:10:41.360 it out, and thrice he had to leave off trying. 177 00:10:42.519 --> 00:10:44.759 The fourth time he tried to bend and break it, 178 00:10:45.480 --> 00:10:48.679 but ere he could do so, Achilles smote him with 179 00:10:48.759 --> 00:10:52.720 his sword and killed him. He struck him in the 180 00:10:52.759 --> 00:10:55.559 belly near the navel, so that all his bowels came 181 00:10:55.600 --> 00:10:58.519 gushing out onto the ground, and the darkness of death 182 00:10:58.639 --> 00:11:03.279 came over him as he gasping. Then Achilles set his 183 00:11:03.279 --> 00:11:05.799 foot on his chest and spoiled him of his armor, 184 00:11:06.200 --> 00:11:10.639 vaunting over him and saying, lie there, begotten of a river. 185 00:11:10.720 --> 00:11:13.320 Though you be, it is hard for you to strive 186 00:11:13.399 --> 00:11:17.279 with the offspring of Saturn's sun. You declare yourself sprung 187 00:11:17.320 --> 00:11:19.759 from the blood of a broad river. But I am 188 00:11:19.799 --> 00:11:23.279 of the seed of mighty Jove. My father is Pelias, 189 00:11:23.799 --> 00:11:28.200 son of Aeacus, ruler over the many Myrmidons, And Aachus 190 00:11:28.279 --> 00:11:32.279 was the son of Jove. Therefore, as Jove is mightier 191 00:11:32.320 --> 00:11:35.720 than any river that flows into the sea, so are 192 00:11:35.799 --> 00:11:40.679 his children stronger than those of any river. Whatsoever. Moreover, 193 00:11:40.799 --> 00:11:43.080 you have a great river hard by, if he can 194 00:11:43.080 --> 00:11:45.279 be of any use to you. But there is no 195 00:11:45.399 --> 00:11:49.080 fighting against Jove, the son of Saturn, with whom not 196 00:11:49.200 --> 00:11:53.000 even King Acolus can compare nor the mighty stream of 197 00:11:53.039 --> 00:11:56.879 deep flowing Oceanus, from whom all rivers and seas, with 198 00:11:57.000 --> 00:12:01.559 all springs and deep wells proceed. Even Oceanus fears the 199 00:12:01.639 --> 00:12:05.559 lightnings of Great Jove and his thunder that comes crashing 200 00:12:05.600 --> 00:12:09.120 out of Heaven. With this he drew his bronze spear 201 00:12:09.200 --> 00:12:12.279 out of the bank. And now that he had killed Asteropius, 202 00:12:12.919 --> 00:12:14.840 he let him lie where he was on the sand, 203 00:12:15.279 --> 00:12:18.000 with the dark water flowing over him, and the eels 204 00:12:18.000 --> 00:12:20.440 and fishes busy nibbling and gnawing the fat that was 205 00:12:20.480 --> 00:12:24.600 about his kidneys. Then he went in chase of the Paeonians, 206 00:12:25.159 --> 00:12:26.960 who were flying along the bank of the river in 207 00:12:27.039 --> 00:12:29.919 panic when they saw their leader slain by the hands 208 00:12:29.919 --> 00:12:39.360 of the son of Pelias. Therein he slew Thersilicus, mydon Astipilus, Menesus, Thrasius, Oeneus, 209 00:12:39.399 --> 00:12:43.480 and Ophelestes, And he would have slain yet others had not. 210 00:12:43.559 --> 00:12:46.919 The river, in anger, taken human form and spoken to 211 00:12:47.000 --> 00:12:50.519 him from out the deep waters, saying, Achilles, if you 212 00:12:50.639 --> 00:12:54.519 excel all in strength, so do you also in wickedness, 213 00:12:55.399 --> 00:12:57.440 For the gods are ever with you to protect you. 214 00:12:58.679 --> 00:13:01.120 If then the son of sam And has vouchsafed it 215 00:13:01.159 --> 00:13:03.720 to you to destroy all the Trojans at any rate, 216 00:13:03.799 --> 00:13:06.559 Drive them out of my stream, and do your grim 217 00:13:06.600 --> 00:13:10.720 work on land. My fair waters are now filled with corpses. 218 00:13:11.080 --> 00:13:13.000 Nor can I find any channel by which I may 219 00:13:13.000 --> 00:13:15.639 pour myself into the sea. For I am choked with dead, 220 00:13:16.559 --> 00:13:21.519 and yet you go on mercilessly slaying. I am in despair. Therefore, O, 221 00:13:21.679 --> 00:13:26.080 captain of your host, trouble me no further, Achilles answered, 222 00:13:27.159 --> 00:13:31.480 so be its commander. Jove descended, But I will never 223 00:13:31.559 --> 00:13:34.480 cease dealing out death among the Trojans till I have 224 00:13:34.559 --> 00:13:37.440 pent them up in their city and made trial of 225 00:13:37.480 --> 00:13:40.559 Hector face to face, that I may learn whether he 226 00:13:40.639 --> 00:13:45.120 is to vanquish me or I him. As he spoke, 227 00:13:45.360 --> 00:13:47.480 he set upon the Trojans with a fury like that 228 00:13:47.639 --> 00:13:52.600 of the gods. But the river said to Apollo, surely, 229 00:13:52.759 --> 00:13:56.039 son of Jove, Lord of the silver Bow, you are 230 00:13:56.080 --> 00:13:59.159 not obeying the commands of Jove, who charged you straightly 231 00:13:59.440 --> 00:14:02.039 that you should stand by the Trojans and defend them 232 00:14:02.320 --> 00:14:09.320 till twilight fades and darkness is over in the earth. Meanwhile, 233 00:14:09.360 --> 00:14:12.240 Achilles sprang from the bank into mid stream, where on 234 00:14:12.279 --> 00:14:15.320 the river raised a high wave and attacked him. He 235 00:14:15.399 --> 00:14:18.240 swelled his stream into a torrent and swept away the 236 00:14:18.279 --> 00:14:21.440 many dead whom Achilles had slain and left within his waters. 237 00:14:22.840 --> 00:14:25.679 These he cast out onto the land, bellowing like a 238 00:14:25.679 --> 00:14:29.200 bull the while, but the living he saved alive, hiding 239 00:14:29.240 --> 00:14:33.320 them in his mighty eddies. The great and terrible wave 240 00:14:33.639 --> 00:14:37.279 gathered about Achilles, falling upon him and beating on his shield, 241 00:14:37.759 --> 00:14:41.159 so that he could not keep his feet. He caught 242 00:14:41.159 --> 00:14:43.919 hold of a great elm tree, but it came up 243 00:14:43.919 --> 00:14:46.960 by the roots and tore away the bank, damning the 244 00:14:47.000 --> 00:14:49.720 stream with its thick branches and bridging it all across. 245 00:14:50.720 --> 00:14:53.960 Whereby Achilles struggled out of the stream and fled full 246 00:14:54.000 --> 00:14:57.720 speed over the plain, for he was afraid. But the 247 00:14:57.799 --> 00:15:01.039 mighty God ceased not in his pursuit, and sprang upon 248 00:15:01.120 --> 00:15:03.919 him with a dark crested wave. To stay his hands 249 00:15:04.279 --> 00:15:08.639 and save the Trojans from destruction, the son of Pelias 250 00:15:08.759 --> 00:15:12.000 darted away a spear's throw from him, swift as the 251 00:15:12.000 --> 00:15:14.480 swoop of a black hunter eagle, which is the strongest 252 00:15:14.480 --> 00:15:18.000 and fleetest of all birds. Even so did he spring forward, 253 00:15:18.399 --> 00:15:22.080 and the armor rang loudly about his breast, He fled 254 00:15:22.120 --> 00:15:24.679 on in front, but the river, with a loud roar, 255 00:15:24.799 --> 00:15:28.759 came tearing after. As one who would water his garden 256 00:15:28.840 --> 00:15:32.200 leads a stream from some fountain over his plants and 257 00:15:32.320 --> 00:15:34.600 all his ground. Spade in hand, he clears away the 258 00:15:34.679 --> 00:15:37.639 dams to free the channels, and the little stones run 259 00:15:37.720 --> 00:15:39.879 rolling round and round with the water as it goes 260 00:15:39.919 --> 00:15:42.320 merrily down the bank, faster than the man can follow. 261 00:15:43.279 --> 00:15:46.360 Even so did the river keep catching up with Achilles, 262 00:15:47.120 --> 00:15:50.000 albeit he was a fleet runner, for the gods are 263 00:15:50.039 --> 00:15:53.039 stronger than men. As often as he would strive to 264 00:15:53.080 --> 00:15:56.039 stand his ground and see whether or no all the 265 00:15:56.039 --> 00:15:59.080 gods in heaven were in league against him, so often 266 00:15:59.120 --> 00:16:02.039 would the mighty way come beating down upon his shoulders, 267 00:16:02.399 --> 00:16:04.960 and be would have to keep flying on and on 268 00:16:05.120 --> 00:16:08.840 in great dismay, for the angry flood was tiring him 269 00:16:08.879 --> 00:16:11.600 out as it flowed past him and ate the ground 270 00:16:11.679 --> 00:16:15.840 from under his feet. Then the son of Pelias lifted 271 00:16:15.960 --> 00:16:19.759 up his voice to Heaven, saying, Father Jove, is there 272 00:16:19.840 --> 00:16:21.960 none of the gods who will take pity upon me 273 00:16:22.399 --> 00:16:25.440 and save me from the river. I do not care 274 00:16:25.519 --> 00:16:28.960 what may happen to me afterwards. I blame none of 275 00:16:29.000 --> 00:16:31.919 the other dwellers on Olympus so severely as I do 276 00:16:32.039 --> 00:16:36.440 my dear mother, who has beguiled and tricked me. She 277 00:16:36.559 --> 00:16:38.480 told me I was to fall under the walls of 278 00:16:38.559 --> 00:16:42.879 Troy by the flying arrows of Apollo. Would that Hector, 279 00:16:43.759 --> 00:16:46.759 the best man among the Trojans, might there slay me. 280 00:16:47.759 --> 00:16:50.120 Then should I fall a hero by the hand of 281 00:16:50.200 --> 00:16:54.159 a hero, whereas now it seems that I shall come 282 00:16:54.200 --> 00:16:57.480 to a most pitiable end, trapped in this river, as 283 00:16:57.519 --> 00:17:00.679 though I were some swineherd's boy who gets carried down 284 00:17:00.679 --> 00:17:04.640 a torrent while trying to cross it during a storm. 285 00:17:04.799 --> 00:17:08.119 As soon as he had spoken thus, Neptune and Minerva 286 00:17:08.160 --> 00:17:10.200 came up to him in the likeness of two men, 287 00:17:10.720 --> 00:17:14.960 and took him by the hand to reassure him. Neptune spoke, 288 00:17:15.039 --> 00:17:20.200 first son of Pelias, said, he be not so exceeding fearful. 289 00:17:20.640 --> 00:17:24.200 We are two gods come with Jove's sanction to assist you. Aye, 290 00:17:24.480 --> 00:17:28.559 and Pallas Minerva, it is not your fate to perish 291 00:17:28.559 --> 00:17:33.440 in this river. He will abate presently, as you will see. Moreover, 292 00:17:34.000 --> 00:17:37.400 we strongly advise you, if you will be guided by us, 293 00:17:37.960 --> 00:17:40.200 not to stay your hand from fighting till you have 294 00:17:40.279 --> 00:17:43.359 pent the Trojan host within the famed walls of Ilius, 295 00:17:43.559 --> 00:17:46.799 as many of them as may escape. Then kill Hector 296 00:17:47.079 --> 00:17:49.920 and go back to the ships, for we will vouchsafe 297 00:17:49.920 --> 00:17:53.400 you a triumph over him. When they had so said, 298 00:17:53.839 --> 00:17:57.400 they went back to the other immortals. But Achilles strove 299 00:17:57.519 --> 00:18:01.079 onward over the plain, encouraged by the charge the gods 300 00:18:01.119 --> 00:18:04.279 had laid upon him. All was now covered with the 301 00:18:04.279 --> 00:18:07.599 flood of waters, and much goodly armor of the youths 302 00:18:07.759 --> 00:18:11.519 that had been slain was rifting about, as also many corpses. 303 00:18:12.200 --> 00:18:15.519 But he forced his way against the stream, speeding right onwards. 304 00:18:16.160 --> 00:18:19.359 Nor could the broad waters stay him, for Minerva had 305 00:18:19.440 --> 00:18:23.799 endowed him with great strength. Nevertheless, Scamander did not slacken 306 00:18:23.839 --> 00:18:26.519 in his pursuit, but was still more furious with the 307 00:18:26.519 --> 00:18:29.759 son of Pelias. He lifted his waters into a high 308 00:18:29.799 --> 00:18:34.920 crest and cried aloud to Siemoir, saying, dear brother, let 309 00:18:34.960 --> 00:18:37.720 the two of us unite to save this man, or 310 00:18:37.759 --> 00:18:40.680 he will sack the mighty city of King Priam, and 311 00:18:40.799 --> 00:18:44.240 the Trojans will not hold out against him. Help me 312 00:18:44.279 --> 00:18:47.559 at once fill your streams with water from their sources, 313 00:18:48.240 --> 00:18:51.759 rouse all your torrents to a fury. Raise your wave 314 00:18:51.920 --> 00:18:55.519 on high, and let snags and stones come thundering down you, 315 00:18:55.759 --> 00:18:58.160 that we may make an end of this savage creature, 316 00:18:58.559 --> 00:19:01.119 who is now lauding it as though he were a god. 317 00:19:02.519 --> 00:19:07.759 Nothing shall serve him longer, not strength, nor comeliness, nor 318 00:19:07.799 --> 00:19:11.440 his fine armor, which forsooth shall soon be lying low 319 00:19:11.960 --> 00:19:15.319 in the deep waters, covered over with mud. I will 320 00:19:15.319 --> 00:19:18.200 wrap him in sand and pour tons of shingle round him, 321 00:19:18.640 --> 00:19:20.759 so that the Achaeans shall not know how to gather 322 00:19:20.839 --> 00:19:22.599 his bones for the silt in which I shall have 323 00:19:22.680 --> 00:19:26.759 hidden him. And when they celebrate his funeral, they need 324 00:19:26.839 --> 00:19:33.200 build no barrow on this. He upraised his tumultuous flood 325 00:19:33.279 --> 00:19:37.079 high against Achilles, seething as it was, with foam and 326 00:19:37.160 --> 00:19:41.319 blood and the bodies of the dead. The dark waters 327 00:19:41.319 --> 00:19:44.079 of the river stood upright and would have overwhelmed the 328 00:19:44.119 --> 00:19:48.839 son of Pelias. But Juno, trembling, lest Achilles should be 329 00:19:48.880 --> 00:19:52.240 swept away in the mighty Torrent lifted her voice on 330 00:19:52.400 --> 00:19:56.519 high and called out to Vulcan, her son crook foot. 331 00:19:56.880 --> 00:20:01.720 She cried, my child, be up and doing for I deem. 332 00:20:01.759 --> 00:20:04.200 It is with you that Xanthus is fain to fight. 333 00:20:05.119 --> 00:20:08.960 Help us at once kindle a fierce fire. I will 334 00:20:09.000 --> 00:20:11.039 then bring up the west and the white south wind 335 00:20:11.079 --> 00:20:14.039 in a mighty hurricane from the sea, that shall bear 336 00:20:14.039 --> 00:20:16.519 the flames against the heads and armor of the Trojans, 337 00:20:16.559 --> 00:20:19.839 and consume them. While you go along the banks of 338 00:20:19.920 --> 00:20:23.519 xanthus burning his trees and wrapping him round with fire. 339 00:20:24.440 --> 00:20:26.880 Let him not turn you back, neither by fair words 340 00:20:26.920 --> 00:20:30.000 nor foul, and slacken not till I shout and tell you. 341 00:20:30.799 --> 00:20:35.720 Then you may stay your flames on this Vulcan kindled 342 00:20:35.720 --> 00:20:39.039 a fierce fire, which broke out first upon the plain 343 00:20:39.440 --> 00:20:42.640 and burned the many dead whom Achilles had killed, and 344 00:20:42.680 --> 00:20:46.880 whose bodies were lying about in great numbers. By this means, 345 00:20:46.920 --> 00:20:51.079 the plane was dried and the flood stayed. As the 346 00:20:51.119 --> 00:20:54.400 north wind blowing on an orchard that has been sodden 347 00:20:54.440 --> 00:20:58.480 with autumn rain soon dries it, and the heart of 348 00:20:58.519 --> 00:21:02.599 the owner is glad. Even so, the whole plan was dried, 349 00:21:03.000 --> 00:21:07.039 and the dead bodies were consumed. Then he turned tongues 350 00:21:07.039 --> 00:21:10.400 of fire on to the river. He burned the elms, 351 00:21:10.400 --> 00:21:14.119 the willows, and the tamarisks, the lotus, also with the 352 00:21:14.200 --> 00:21:17.599 rushes and marshy herbage that grew abundantly by the banks 353 00:21:17.599 --> 00:21:21.640 of the river. The eels and fishes that go darting 354 00:21:21.680 --> 00:21:25.039 about everywhere in the water, These too were sorely harassed 355 00:21:25.039 --> 00:21:28.359 by the flames that Cunning Vulcan had kindled, and the 356 00:21:28.440 --> 00:21:32.799 river himself was scalded, so that he spoke, saying, Vulcan, 357 00:21:33.440 --> 00:21:35.559 there is no god can hold his own against you. 358 00:21:36.480 --> 00:21:38.960 I cannot fight you when you flare out your flames 359 00:21:38.960 --> 00:21:42.799 in this way. Strive with me no longer. Let Achilles 360 00:21:42.880 --> 00:21:46.359 drive the Trojans out of city immediately. What have I 361 00:21:46.440 --> 00:21:50.319 to do with quarreling and helping people? He was boiling 362 00:21:50.359 --> 00:21:54.559 as he spoke, and all his waters were seething, as 363 00:21:54.559 --> 00:21:57.400 a cauldron upon a large fire boils when it is 364 00:21:57.480 --> 00:22:00.759 melting the lard of some fatted hog, and the lard 365 00:22:00.880 --> 00:22:03.960 keeps bubbling up all over when the dry bundles of 366 00:22:03.960 --> 00:22:07.440 wood blaze under it. Even so were the goodly waters 367 00:22:07.440 --> 00:22:09.880 of Xanthus heated with the fire till they were boiling. 368 00:22:11.440 --> 00:22:14.599 He could flow no longer, but stayed his stream, so 369 00:22:14.720 --> 00:22:17.480 afflicted was he by the blasts of fire which Cunning 370 00:22:17.559 --> 00:22:21.880 Vulcan had raised. Then he prayed to Juno and besought her, 371 00:22:21.920 --> 00:22:25.880 saying Juno, why should your son vex my stream with 372 00:22:25.920 --> 00:22:29.680 such a special fury. I'm not so much to blame 373 00:22:29.720 --> 00:22:32.079 as all the others are who have been helping the Trojans. 374 00:22:32.880 --> 00:22:36.000 I will leave off since you so desire it, and 375 00:22:36.119 --> 00:22:40.640 let Sun leave off also. Furthermore, I swear never again 376 00:22:40.680 --> 00:22:43.200 will I do anything to save the Trojans from destruction, 377 00:22:44.000 --> 00:22:46.440 not even when all Troy is burning in the flames 378 00:22:46.480 --> 00:22:51.000 which the Achaeans will kindle. As soon as Juno heard this, 379 00:22:51.400 --> 00:22:56.160 she said to her son Vulcan, Sun, Vulcan, hold now 380 00:22:56.160 --> 00:22:59.000 your flames. We ought not to use such violence against 381 00:22:59.000 --> 00:23:02.480 a god for the sake of more. When she had 382 00:23:02.519 --> 00:23:06.119 thus spoken, Vulcan quenched his flames, and the river went 383 00:23:06.160 --> 00:23:10.200 back once more into his own fair bed. Xanthus was 384 00:23:10.240 --> 00:23:13.839 now beaten. So these two left off fighting, for Juno 385 00:23:13.960 --> 00:23:17.160 stayed them, though she was still angry. But a furious 386 00:23:17.200 --> 00:23:20.160 quarrel broke out among the other gods, for they were 387 00:23:20.200 --> 00:23:23.359 of divided counsels. They fell on one another with a 388 00:23:23.440 --> 00:23:28.880 mighty uproar. Earth groaned and the spacious firmament rang out 389 00:23:28.920 --> 00:23:32.279 as with a blare of trumpets. Jove heard as he 390 00:23:32.359 --> 00:23:35.119 was sitting on Olympus, and laughed for joy when he 391 00:23:35.119 --> 00:23:39.039 saw the gods coming to blows among themselves. They were 392 00:23:39.039 --> 00:23:42.880 not long about beginning, and Mars, piercer of shields, opened 393 00:23:42.920 --> 00:23:46.720 the battle sword in hand. He sprang at once upon 394 00:23:46.759 --> 00:23:51.799 Minerva and reviled her. Why, Vixen, said he, have you 395 00:23:51.880 --> 00:23:54.160 again set the gods by the ears in the pride 396 00:23:54.200 --> 00:23:57.480 and haughtiness of your heart? Have you forgotten how you 397 00:23:57.519 --> 00:24:00.519 set Diomed's son of Tideus on to wound me, and 398 00:24:00.640 --> 00:24:03.079 yourself took visible spear and drove it into me, to 399 00:24:03.079 --> 00:24:06.039 the hurt of my fair body. You shall now suffer 400 00:24:06.039 --> 00:24:09.000 for what you then did to me. As he spoke, 401 00:24:09.359 --> 00:24:13.119