WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.199 --> 00:00:06.040 Book twenty two. Thus the Trojans in the city, scared 2 00:00:06.120 --> 00:00:09.640 like fawns, wiped the sweat from off them, and drank 3 00:00:09.720 --> 00:00:13.800 to quench their thirst, leaning against the goodly battlements, while 4 00:00:13.839 --> 00:00:16.679 the Achaeans, with their shields laid upon their shoulders, drew 5 00:00:16.760 --> 00:00:21.160 close up to the walls. But stern Fate bade Hector 6 00:00:21.199 --> 00:00:24.399 stay where he was before Ilius and the Scaean gates. 7 00:00:25.480 --> 00:00:29.719 Then Phoebus Apollo spoke to the son of Pelias, saying, why, 8 00:00:30.600 --> 00:00:34.399 son of Pelias, do you, who are but man, give 9 00:00:34.479 --> 00:00:37.479 chase to me, who am immortal? Have you not yet 10 00:00:37.520 --> 00:00:39.520 found out that it is a god whom you pursue 11 00:00:39.560 --> 00:00:42.960 so furiously? You did not harass the Trojans whom you 12 00:00:43.039 --> 00:00:46.799 had routed, and now they are within their walls, while 13 00:00:46.799 --> 00:00:50.159 you have been decoyed. Hither away from them. Me you 14 00:00:50.240 --> 00:00:53.159 cannot kill, for death can take no hold upon me. 15 00:00:54.280 --> 00:00:58.079 Achilles was greatly angered and said, you have bulked me 16 00:00:58.200 --> 00:01:01.679 far data most malicious of all gods, and have drawn 17 00:01:01.719 --> 00:01:04.280 me away from the wall, where many another man would 18 00:01:04.280 --> 00:01:07.239 have bitten the dust ere he got within Ilius. You 19 00:01:07.319 --> 00:01:09.680 have robbed me of great glory and have saved the 20 00:01:09.719 --> 00:01:12.560 Trojans at no risk to yourself, for you have nothing 21 00:01:12.599 --> 00:01:15.480 to fear. But I would indeed have my revenge if 22 00:01:15.519 --> 00:01:18.439 it were in my power to do so. On this 23 00:01:19.239 --> 00:01:22.319 with fell intent he made towards the city, and, as 24 00:01:22.359 --> 00:01:24.959 the winning horse in a chariot race, strains every nerve 25 00:01:25.000 --> 00:01:27.920 when he is flying over the plane, even so fast 26 00:01:27.959 --> 00:01:31.280 and furiously did the limbs of Achilles bear him onwards. 27 00:01:32.560 --> 00:01:34.920 King Priam was first to note him as he scoured 28 00:01:34.959 --> 00:01:37.920 the plane, all radiant as the star which men call 29 00:01:38.040 --> 00:01:42.000 Orion's hound, and whose beams blaze forth in time of harvest, 30 00:01:42.079 --> 00:01:44.719 more brilliantly than those of any other that shines by night, 31 00:01:45.680 --> 00:01:48.560 brightest of them all. Though he be, he yet bodes 32 00:01:48.599 --> 00:01:51.840 ill for mortals, for he brings fire and fever in 33 00:01:51.879 --> 00:01:56.319 his train. Even so did Achilles's armor gleam on his 34 00:01:56.439 --> 00:02:00.159 breast as he sped onwards. Priam raised a cry and 35 00:02:00.200 --> 00:02:02.799 beat his head with his hands as he lifted them up, 36 00:02:02.840 --> 00:02:05.879 and shouted out to his dear son, imploring him to return. 37 00:02:07.280 --> 00:02:10.439 But Hector still stayed before the gates, for his heart 38 00:02:10.560 --> 00:02:14.159 was set upon doing battle with Achilles. The old man 39 00:02:14.199 --> 00:02:16.800 reached out his arms towards him and bade him for 40 00:02:16.840 --> 00:02:22.840 pity's sake, Come within the walls, hector, he cried, my son, 41 00:02:23.879 --> 00:02:27.639 stay not to face this man alone and unsupported, or 42 00:02:27.680 --> 00:02:29.360 you will meet death at the hands of the son 43 00:02:29.400 --> 00:02:33.800 of Pelias. For he is mightier than you. Monster that 44 00:02:33.879 --> 00:02:36.639 he is, would indeed that the gods loved him no 45 00:02:36.759 --> 00:02:39.800 better than I do, For so dogs and vultures would 46 00:02:39.800 --> 00:02:43.000 soon devour him as he lay stretched on earth, and 47 00:02:43.039 --> 00:02:45.159 a load of grief would be lifted from my heart. 48 00:02:45.800 --> 00:02:47.960 For many a brave son has he reft from me, 49 00:02:48.560 --> 00:02:50.719 either by killing them or selling them away in the 50 00:02:50.719 --> 00:02:53.840 islands that are beyond the sea. Even now I miss 51 00:02:53.879 --> 00:02:56.360 two sons from among the Trojans who have thronged within 52 00:02:56.400 --> 00:03:00.680 the city, like Chaon and Polydorus, whom Layothepyiris among women 53 00:03:00.759 --> 00:03:04.000 bore me. Should they be still alive and in the 54 00:03:04.000 --> 00:03:07.240 hands of the Achaeans, we will ransom them with gold 55 00:03:07.240 --> 00:03:10.919 and bronze, of which we have store, for the old 56 00:03:10.960 --> 00:03:14.479 man Altes endowed his daughter richly. But if they are 57 00:03:14.520 --> 00:03:17.800 already dead and in the house of Hades, sorrow will 58 00:03:17.800 --> 00:03:22.080 it be to us two who were their parents? Albeit 59 00:03:22.240 --> 00:03:25.240 the grief of others will be more short lived, Unless you, 60 00:03:25.360 --> 00:03:29.520 too perish at the hands of Achilles. Come then my 61 00:03:29.639 --> 00:03:32.800 son within the city, to be the guardian of Trojan 62 00:03:32.840 --> 00:03:36.120 men and Trojan women, or you will both lose your 63 00:03:36.120 --> 00:03:38.960 own life and afford a mighty triumph to the son 64 00:03:39.000 --> 00:03:44.159 of Pelias. Have pity also on your unhappy father, while 65 00:03:44.199 --> 00:03:48.639 life yet remains to him, On me, whom the son 66 00:03:48.719 --> 00:03:51.319 of Saturn will destroy by a terrible doom on the 67 00:03:51.360 --> 00:03:55.120 threshold of old age. After I have seen my son slain, 68 00:03:55.199 --> 00:03:59.639 and my daughters hailed away as captives, my bridal chambers, pillaged, 69 00:04:00.319 --> 00:04:03.479 little children dashed to earth amid the rage of battle, 70 00:04:04.360 --> 00:04:07.479 and my son's wives dragged away by the cruel hands 71 00:04:07.479 --> 00:04:12.319 of the Achaeans. In the end, fierce hounds will tear 72 00:04:12.360 --> 00:04:15.120 me in pieces at my own gates, after someone has 73 00:04:15.159 --> 00:04:17.879 beaten the life out of my body with sword or 74 00:04:17.920 --> 00:04:21.319 spear hounds that I myself reared and fed at my 75 00:04:21.360 --> 00:04:24.720 own table to guard my gates. But who will yet 76 00:04:24.800 --> 00:04:28.560 lap my blood and then lie all distraught at my doors. 77 00:04:29.759 --> 00:04:32.120 When a young man falls by the sword in battle, 78 00:04:32.639 --> 00:04:35.160 he may lie where he is, and there is nothing 79 00:04:35.240 --> 00:04:39.560 unseemly let what will be seen. All is honorable in death. 80 00:04:40.480 --> 00:04:42.959 But when an old man is slain. There is nothing 81 00:04:43.000 --> 00:04:45.800 in this world more pitiable than that dogs should defile 82 00:04:45.920 --> 00:04:49.800 his gray hair and beard, and all that men hide 83 00:04:49.839 --> 00:04:53.759 for shame. The old man tore his gray hair as 84 00:04:53.759 --> 00:04:56.639 he spoke, but he moved not the heart of Hector. 85 00:04:57.439 --> 00:05:00.600 His mother hard By, wept and moaned aloud as she 86 00:05:00.680 --> 00:05:03.279 bared her bosom and pointed to the breast which had 87 00:05:03.319 --> 00:05:10.240 suckled him Hector. She cried, weeping bitterly, the while Hector, 88 00:05:10.519 --> 00:05:13.959 my son, spurn not this breast. But have pity upon 89 00:05:14.000 --> 00:05:17.399 me too. If I have ever given you comfort from 90 00:05:17.399 --> 00:05:20.600 my own bosom, Think on it now, dear son, and 91 00:05:20.680 --> 00:05:22.920 come within the wall to protect us from this man. 92 00:05:23.560 --> 00:05:27.480 Stand not without to meet him. Should the wretch kill you, 93 00:05:28.279 --> 00:05:31.319 Neither I nor your richly doured wife shall ever weep, 94 00:05:31.639 --> 00:05:34.920 dear offshoot of myself, over the bed on which you lie, 95 00:05:35.240 --> 00:05:39.720 for dogs will devour you at the ships of the Achaeans. 96 00:05:41.000 --> 00:05:43.519 Thus did the two, with many tears, implore their son, 97 00:05:44.279 --> 00:05:47.279 But they moved not the heart of Hector, and he 98 00:05:47.319 --> 00:05:50.800 stood his ground, awaiting huge Achilles. As he drew nearer 99 00:05:50.839 --> 00:05:54.839 towards him. A serpent in its den upon the mountains, 100 00:05:55.240 --> 00:05:58.759 full fed with deadly poisons waits for the approach of man. 101 00:05:59.360 --> 00:06:02.079 He is filled with fury, and his eyes glare terribly 102 00:06:02.120 --> 00:06:05.560 as he goes writhing round his den. Even so, Hector 103 00:06:05.639 --> 00:06:08.079 leaned his shield against a tower that jutted out from 104 00:06:08.120 --> 00:06:13.399 the wall, and stood where he was undaunted. Alas said 105 00:06:13.399 --> 00:06:15.879 he to himself, in the heaviness of his heart, if 106 00:06:15.879 --> 00:06:18.800 I go within the gates, Polydamus will be the first 107 00:06:18.800 --> 00:06:21.600 to heap reproach upon me, For it was he that 108 00:06:21.800 --> 00:06:23.839 urged me to lead the Trojans back to the city 109 00:06:23.879 --> 00:06:27.959 on that awful night when Achilles again came forth against us. 110 00:06:28.680 --> 00:06:31.480 I would not listen. But it would have been indeed 111 00:06:31.519 --> 00:06:35.040 better if I had done so. Now that my folly 112 00:06:35.079 --> 00:06:38.439 has destroyed the host, I dare not look Trojan men 113 00:06:38.480 --> 00:06:41.560 and Trojan women in the face, lest a worse man 114 00:06:41.600 --> 00:06:45.560 should say Hector has ruined us by his self confidence. 115 00:06:47.120 --> 00:06:49.399 Surely it would be better for me to return after 116 00:06:49.439 --> 00:06:53.079 having fought Achilles and slain him, or to die gloriously 117 00:06:53.120 --> 00:06:57.240 here before the city. What again, if were to lay 118 00:06:57.279 --> 00:07:00.199 down my shield and helmet, lean my spear again since 119 00:07:00.279 --> 00:07:03.720 the wall, and go straight up to noble Achilles. What 120 00:07:03.839 --> 00:07:06.199 if I were to promise to give up Helen, who 121 00:07:06.240 --> 00:07:08.399 was the fountain head of all this war, and all 122 00:07:08.439 --> 00:07:10.959 the treasure that Alexandras brought with him in his ships 123 00:07:10.959 --> 00:07:14.480 to Troy. I and to let the Achaeans divide the 124 00:07:14.519 --> 00:07:18.759 half of everything that the city contains among themselves. I 125 00:07:18.839 --> 00:07:21.759 might make the Trojans, by the mouths of their princes, 126 00:07:22.199 --> 00:07:25.360 take a solemn oath that they would hide nothing, but 127 00:07:25.439 --> 00:07:28.319 would divide into two shares all that is within the city. 128 00:07:29.279 --> 00:07:32.759 But why argue with myself in this way? Were I 129 00:07:32.839 --> 00:07:34.720 to go up to him, he would show me no 130 00:07:34.839 --> 00:07:37.680 kind of mercy. He would kill me then and there, 131 00:07:37.720 --> 00:07:40.040 as easily as though I were a woman, when I 132 00:07:40.079 --> 00:07:44.079 had off my armor. There is no parleying with him 133 00:07:44.120 --> 00:07:46.879 from some rock or oak tree, as young men and 134 00:07:46.959 --> 00:07:50.639 maidens prattle with one another. Better fight him at once 135 00:07:51.279 --> 00:07:54.040 and learn to which of us Jove will vouchsay victory. 136 00:07:55.759 --> 00:07:58.839 Thus did he stand and ponder, But Achilles came up 137 00:07:58.839 --> 00:08:01.959 to him, as it were Mars himself, plumed lord of battle. 138 00:08:03.480 --> 00:08:06.120 From his right shoulder he brandished his terrible spear of 139 00:08:06.160 --> 00:08:09.560 Pelian ash, and the bronze gleamed around him like flashing 140 00:08:09.600 --> 00:08:14.240 fire or the rays of the rising sun. Fear fell 141 00:08:14.319 --> 00:08:16.920 upon Hector as he beheld him, and he dared not 142 00:08:16.959 --> 00:08:20.199 stay longer where he was, but fled in dismay from 143 00:08:20.199 --> 00:08:23.240 before the gates, while Achilles darted after him at his 144 00:08:23.399 --> 00:08:28.600 utmost speed, as a mountain falcon, swiftest of all birds, 145 00:08:29.160 --> 00:08:33.919 swoops down upon some cowering dove. The dove flies before him, 146 00:08:34.200 --> 00:08:37.440 but the falcon, with a shrill scream, follows close after, 147 00:08:38.080 --> 00:08:42.320 resolved to have her. Even so did Achilles make straight 148 00:08:42.360 --> 00:08:45.240 for Hector with all his might, while Hector fled under 149 00:08:45.279 --> 00:08:47.559 the Trojan wall as fast as his limbs could take 150 00:08:47.600 --> 00:08:51.360 him on. They flew along the wagon road that ran 151 00:08:51.480 --> 00:08:54.720 hard by under the wall, past the lookout station, and 152 00:08:54.799 --> 00:08:57.559 passed the weather beaten wild fig tree till they came 153 00:08:57.600 --> 00:09:01.679 to two fair springs which feed the rivers. Commander. One 154 00:09:01.679 --> 00:09:04.679 of these two springs is warm, and steam rises from 155 00:09:04.720 --> 00:09:07.320 it as smoke from a burning fire. But the other, 156 00:09:07.399 --> 00:09:10.120 even in summer, is as cold as hail or snow, 157 00:09:10.600 --> 00:09:15.159 or the ice that forms on water. Here hard by 158 00:09:15.200 --> 00:09:19.080 the springs are the goodly washing troughs of stone, where, 159 00:09:19.120 --> 00:09:21.600 in the time of peace before the coming of the Achaeans, 160 00:09:21.960 --> 00:09:24.440 the wives and fair daughters of the Trojans used to 161 00:09:24.559 --> 00:09:28.879 wash their clothes. Past these did they fly, the one 162 00:09:28.919 --> 00:09:33.039 in front and the other giving har behind him. Good 163 00:09:33.200 --> 00:09:35.879 was the man that fled, but better far was he 164 00:09:35.960 --> 00:09:40.320 that followed after. And swiftly indeed did they run for 165 00:09:40.360 --> 00:09:44.159 the prize. Was no mere beast for sacrifice, or bullock's hide, 166 00:09:44.799 --> 00:09:47.799 as it might be for a common foot race. But 167 00:09:47.879 --> 00:09:51.480 they ran for the life of Hector. As horses in 168 00:09:51.519 --> 00:09:54.639 a chariot race speed round the turning posts when they 169 00:09:54.679 --> 00:09:58.720 are running for some great prize, a tripod or woman 170 00:09:59.519 --> 00:10:01.639 at the gate, as in honor of some dead hero. 171 00:10:02.000 --> 00:10:04.720 So did these two run full speed three times round 172 00:10:04.720 --> 00:10:08.279 the city of Priam. All the gods watched them, and 173 00:10:08.360 --> 00:10:10.519 the sire of gods and men was the first to 174 00:10:10.559 --> 00:10:15.519 speak alas said he, my eyes behold a man who 175 00:10:15.559 --> 00:10:18.440 is dear to me, being pursued round the walls of Troy. 176 00:10:19.559 --> 00:10:22.480 My heart is full of pity for Hector, who has 177 00:10:22.519 --> 00:10:25.200 burned the thigh bones of many a heifer in my honor, 178 00:10:25.840 --> 00:10:29.200 at one while on thee of Many valied Ida, and 179 00:10:29.279 --> 00:10:33.200 again on the citadel of Troy. And now I see 180 00:10:33.320 --> 00:10:36.000 Noble Achilles in full pursuit of him round the city 181 00:10:36.039 --> 00:10:40.960 of Priam, what say you consider among yourselves and decide 182 00:10:41.000 --> 00:10:43.440 whether we shall now save him or let him fall? 183 00:10:44.240 --> 00:10:50.279 Valiant though he be before Achilles, son of Pelias. Then 184 00:10:50.360 --> 00:10:55.120 Minerva said, father, wielder of the lightning, lord of cloud 185 00:10:55.200 --> 00:10:59.200 and storm, what mean you would you pluck this mortal, 186 00:10:59.399 --> 00:11:01.879 whose doom has long been decreed out of the jaws 187 00:11:01.919 --> 00:11:05.519 of death. Do as you will, but we others shall 188 00:11:05.559 --> 00:11:08.799 not be of a mind with you. And Jove answered 189 00:11:09.600 --> 00:11:14.240 my child tritoborn. Take heart, I did not speak in 190 00:11:14.279 --> 00:11:16.919 full earnest, and I will let you have your way. 191 00:11:17.919 --> 00:11:22.960 Do without let or hindrance, as you are minded. Thus 192 00:11:23.039 --> 00:11:26.159 did he urge Minerva, who was already eager, and down 193 00:11:26.279 --> 00:11:30.919 she darted from the topmost summits of Olympus. Achilles was 194 00:11:30.960 --> 00:11:34.159 still in full pursuit of Hector, as a hound chasing 195 00:11:34.159 --> 00:11:36.240 a fawn which he has started from its covert on 196 00:11:36.279 --> 00:11:40.840 the mountains and hunts through glade and thicket. The fawn 197 00:11:40.879 --> 00:11:42.840 may try to elude him by crouching under cover of 198 00:11:42.879 --> 00:11:45.879 a bush, but he will scent her out and follow 199 00:11:45.919 --> 00:11:49.120 her up until he gets her. Even so, there was 200 00:11:49.159 --> 00:11:51.919 no escape for Hector from the fleet, son of Pelias. 201 00:11:52.919 --> 00:11:55.159 Whenever he made a set to get near the Dardanian 202 00:11:55.200 --> 00:11:57.960 gates and under the walls, that his people might help 203 00:11:58.039 --> 00:12:01.480 him by showering down weapons from above. Achilles would gain 204 00:12:01.519 --> 00:12:04.799 on him and head him back towards the plane, keeping 205 00:12:04.840 --> 00:12:08.120 himself always on the city side. As a man in 206 00:12:08.159 --> 00:12:10.600 a dream who fails to lay hands upon another whom 207 00:12:10.600 --> 00:12:14.039 he is pursuing, the one cannot escape nor the other overtake. 208 00:12:14.919 --> 00:12:18.399 Even so, neither could Achilles come up with Hector, nor 209 00:12:18.480 --> 00:12:22.360 Hector break away from Achilles. Nevertheless, he might even yet 210 00:12:22.399 --> 00:12:25.840 have escaped death, had not the time come when Apollo, 211 00:12:26.000 --> 00:12:28.919 who thus far had sustained his strength and nerved his running, 212 00:12:29.320 --> 00:12:33.120 was now no longer to stay by him. Achilles made 213 00:12:33.200 --> 00:12:35.840 signs to the Achaean host, and shook his head to 214 00:12:35.840 --> 00:12:38.240 show that no man was to aim a dart at Hector, 215 00:12:38.559 --> 00:12:40.919 lest another might win the glory of having hit him, 216 00:12:41.120 --> 00:12:45.240 and he might himself come in second. Then, at last, 217 00:12:45.639 --> 00:12:47.960 as they were nearing the fountains for the fourth time, 218 00:12:48.440 --> 00:12:51.679 the Father of All balanced his golden scales and placed 219 00:12:51.679 --> 00:12:54.519 a doom in each of them, one for Achilles and 220 00:12:54.559 --> 00:12:58.200 the other for Hector. As he held the scales by 221 00:12:58.200 --> 00:13:01.120 the middle, the doom of Hector fell down deep into 222 00:13:01.200 --> 00:13:05.159 the house of Hades, and then Phoebus Apollo left him 223 00:13:05.480 --> 00:13:08.120 thereon Minerva went close up to the son of Pelias 224 00:13:08.200 --> 00:13:12.720 and said, Noble Achilles, favored of Heaven, we two shall 225 00:13:12.759 --> 00:13:14.759 surely take back to the ships a triumph for the 226 00:13:14.759 --> 00:13:18.440 Achaeans by slaying Hector for all his lust of battle. 227 00:13:19.039 --> 00:13:21.720 Do what Apollo may, as he lies groveling before his 228 00:13:21.799 --> 00:13:26.159 father egis bearing jove. Hector cannot escape us longer. Stay 229 00:13:26.200 --> 00:13:28.639 here and take breath, while I go up to him 230 00:13:28.759 --> 00:13:31.000 and persuade him to make a stand and fight you. 231 00:13:32.360 --> 00:13:37.360 Thus spoke Minerva. Achilles obeyed her gladly and stood still, 232 00:13:37.600 --> 00:13:41.200 leaning on his bronze, pointed ash and spear, while Minerva 233 00:13:41.279 --> 00:13:43.759 left him and went after Hector in the form and 234 00:13:43.840 --> 00:13:47.639 with the voice of Diphobus. She came close up to 235 00:13:47.720 --> 00:13:52.399 him and said, dear brother, I see you are hard 236 00:13:52.480 --> 00:13:55.480 pressed by Achilles, who is chasing you at full speed 237 00:13:55.559 --> 00:13:58.720 round the city of Priam. Let us await his onset 238 00:13:58.960 --> 00:14:04.039 and stand on our deffect. Hence, and Hector answered, Dave, Phoebus, 239 00:14:04.960 --> 00:14:07.720 you have always been dearest to me of all my brothers, 240 00:14:08.080 --> 00:14:12.240 children of Hecuba and Priam, but henceforth I shall rate 241 00:14:12.360 --> 00:14:16.039 you yet more highly, inasmuch as you have ventured outside 242 00:14:16.039 --> 00:14:19.279 the wall for my sake, when all the others remain inside. 243 00:14:20.759 --> 00:14:25.360 Then Minerva said, dear brother, My father and mother went 244 00:14:25.399 --> 00:14:28.039 down on their knees and implored me, as did all 245 00:14:28.080 --> 00:14:32.600 my comrades, to remain inside. So great a fear has 246 00:14:32.600 --> 00:14:35.679 fallen upon them all. But I was in an agony 247 00:14:35.679 --> 00:14:38.679 of grief when I beheld you. Now therefore, let us 248 00:14:38.679 --> 00:14:40.960 too make a stand and fight, and let there be 249 00:14:41.120 --> 00:14:43.919 no keeping our spears in reserve, that we may learn 250 00:14:43.960 --> 00:14:46.519 whether Achilles shall kill us and bear off our spoils 251 00:14:46.519 --> 00:14:49.080 to the ships, or whether he shall fall before you. 252 00:14:50.360 --> 00:14:53.879 Thus did Minerva inveigel him by her cunning, And when 253 00:14:53.879 --> 00:14:56.360 the two were now close to one another, great Hector 254 00:14:56.480 --> 00:14:59.480 was first to speak, I will no longer fly you, 255 00:14:59.679 --> 00:15:03.840 son of Pelias, said he as I have been doing hitherto. 256 00:15:04.159 --> 00:15:06.480 Three times have I fled round the mighty city of 257 00:15:06.519 --> 00:15:11.080 Priam without daring to withstand you. But now let me 258 00:15:11.159 --> 00:15:14.480 either slay or be slain, for I am in the 259 00:15:14.559 --> 00:15:18.480 mind to face you. Let us then give pledges to 260 00:15:18.519 --> 00:15:21.320 one another by our gods, who are the fittest witnesses 261 00:15:21.360 --> 00:15:25.679 and guardians of all covenants. Let it be agreed between 262 00:15:25.759 --> 00:15:29.399 us that if Jove vouchsafes me the longest stay, and 263 00:15:29.480 --> 00:15:32.320 I take your life, I am not to treat your 264 00:15:32.360 --> 00:15:36.639 dead body in any unseemly fashion. But when I have 265 00:15:36.679 --> 00:15:39.320 stripped you of your armor, I am to give up 266 00:15:39.320 --> 00:15:44.639 your body to the Achaeans. And do you likewise? Achilles 267 00:15:44.679 --> 00:15:47.919 glared at him and answered, fool, prate not to me 268 00:15:48.000 --> 00:15:51.679 about covenants. There can be no covenance between men and lions. 269 00:15:52.080 --> 00:15:54.799 Wolves and lambs can never be of one mind, but 270 00:15:54.919 --> 00:16:00.279 hate each other out and out and through. Therefore there 271 00:16:00.279 --> 00:16:03.840 can be no understanding between you and me, Nor may 272 00:16:03.879 --> 00:16:07.200 there be any covenance between us, till one or other 273 00:16:07.279 --> 00:16:11.000 shall fall, and glut grim Mars, with his life's blood, 274 00:16:11.720 --> 00:16:15.399 put forth all your strength you have need now to 275 00:16:15.559 --> 00:16:19.360 prove yourself indeed a bold soldier and man of war. 276 00:16:21.000 --> 00:16:25.360 You have no more chance, and Pallas Minerva will forthwith 277 00:16:25.519 --> 00:16:29.200 vanquish you. By my spear. You shall now pay me 278 00:16:29.279 --> 00:16:31.080 in full for the grief you have caused me, on 279 00:16:31.120 --> 00:16:33.720 account of my comrades, whom you have killed in battle. 280 00:16:36.679 --> 00:16:39.320 He poised his spear as he spoke, and hurled it. 281 00:16:40.279 --> 00:16:43.320 Hector saw it coming and avoided it. He watched it 282 00:16:43.600 --> 00:16:45.799 and crouched down so that it flew over his head 283 00:16:46.000 --> 00:16:49.480 and stuck in the ground beyond. Minerva then snatched it 284 00:16:49.559 --> 00:16:52.320 up and gave it back to Achilles without Hector's seeing her. 285 00:16:53.519 --> 00:16:56.399 Hector thereon said to the son of Pelias, you have 286 00:16:56.480 --> 00:17:00.840 missed your aim. Achilles, peer of the gods, and Jove 287 00:17:00.879 --> 00:17:03.320 has not yet revealed to you the hour of my doom, 288 00:17:03.639 --> 00:17:06.680 though you made sure that he had done so. You 289 00:17:06.759 --> 00:17:09.839 were a false tongued liar when you deemed that I 290 00:17:09.880 --> 00:17:13.880 should forget my valor and quail before you. You shall 291 00:17:13.880 --> 00:17:16.680 not drive spear into the back of a runaway drive 292 00:17:16.720 --> 00:17:20.480 it should heaven, so grant you power drive it into 293 00:17:20.480 --> 00:17:23.440 me as I make straight towards you. And now, for 294 00:17:23.519 --> 00:17:27.279 your own part, avoid my spear if you can, would 295 00:17:27.319 --> 00:17:29.640 that you might receive the whole of it into your body. 296 00:17:30.359 --> 00:17:33.000 If you were once dead, the Trojans would find the 297 00:17:33.000 --> 00:17:36.039 war an easier matter, for it is you who have 298 00:17:36.119 --> 00:17:39.480 harmed them most. He poised his spear as he spoke 299 00:17:39.519 --> 00:17:42.559 and hurled it. His aim was true, for he hit 300 00:17:42.599 --> 00:17:45.880 the middle of Achilles's shield, but the spear rebounded from 301 00:17:45.880 --> 00:17:50.640 it and did not pierce it. Hector was angry when 302 00:17:50.680 --> 00:17:52.759 he saw that the weapon had sped from his hand 303 00:17:52.799 --> 00:17:55.680 in vain, and stood there in dismay, for he had 304 00:17:55.720 --> 00:18:00.000 no second spear. With a loud cry, he called Diphobus 305 00:18:00.039 --> 00:18:02.799 and asked him for one, but there was no man. 306 00:18:04.000 --> 00:18:07.440 Then he saw the truth and said to himself, alas 307 00:18:07.880 --> 00:18:10.960 the gods have lured me on to my destruction. I 308 00:18:11.079 --> 00:18:14.400 deemed that the hero Dephobus was by my side, But 309 00:18:14.480 --> 00:18:17.480 he is within the wall, and Minerva has inveigled me. 310 00:18:18.440 --> 00:18:21.759 Death is now indeed exceedingly near at hand, and there 311 00:18:21.839 --> 00:18:24.839 is no way out of it, for so Jove and 312 00:18:24.880 --> 00:18:28.480 his son Apollo the far data have willed it. Though 313 00:18:28.519 --> 00:18:32.279 heretofore they have been ever ready to protect me. My 314 00:18:32.480 --> 00:18:35.400 doom has come upon me. Let me not then die 315 00:18:35.559 --> 00:18:39.119 ingloriously and without a struggle, But let me first do 316 00:18:39.240 --> 00:18:42.160 some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter, 317 00:18:44.079 --> 00:18:47.079 as he spoke, he drew the keen blade that hung 318 00:18:47.160 --> 00:18:50.839 so great and strong by his side, and, gathering himself together, 319 00:18:51.079 --> 00:18:54.160 be sprang on Achilles, like a soaring eagle which swoops 320 00:18:54.200 --> 00:18:57.000 down from the clouds onto some lamb or timid hair. 321 00:18:58.480 --> 00:19:04.160 Even so did Hector brandish his sword and spring upon Achilles. Achilles, 322 00:19:04.160 --> 00:19:07.559 mad with rage, darted towards him, with his wondrous shield 323 00:19:07.599 --> 00:19:11.519 before his breast, and his gleaming helmet, made with four 324 00:19:11.599 --> 00:19:16.240 layers of metal, nodding fiercely forward. The thick tresses of 325 00:19:16.319 --> 00:19:19.440 gold be which Vulcan had crested the helmet floated round it, 326 00:19:20.039 --> 00:19:22.680 And as the evening star that shines brighter than all 327 00:19:22.759 --> 00:19:25.960 others through the stillness of night, even such was the 328 00:19:26.000 --> 00:19:29.200 gleam of the spear which Achilles poised in his right hand. 329 00:19:29.839 --> 00:19:34.240 Fraught with the death of noble Hector, he eyed his 330 00:19:34.359 --> 00:19:37.079 fair flesh over and over to see where he could 331 00:19:37.119 --> 00:19:40.400 best wound it. But all was protected by the goodly 332 00:19:40.559 --> 00:19:43.640 armor of which Hector had spoiled Patroclus after he had 333 00:19:43.640 --> 00:19:46.519 slain him, save only the throat, where the collar bones 334 00:19:46.559 --> 00:19:50.119 divide the neck from the shoulders, and this is a 335 00:19:50.160 --> 00:19:54.240 most deadly place. Here, then, did Achilles strike him as 336 00:19:54.279 --> 00:19:56.799 he was coming on towards him, and the point of 337 00:19:56.839 --> 00:19:59.680 his spear went right through the fleshy part of the neck, 338 00:20:00.240 --> 00:20:02.519 but it did not sever his windpipe, so that he 339 00:20:02.559 --> 00:20:09.720 could still speak. Hector fell headlong, and Achilles vaunted over him, saying, Hector, 340 00:20:10.480 --> 00:20:12.839 you deemed that you should come off scatheless when you 341 00:20:12.880 --> 00:20:16.359 were spoiling Patroclus and wrecked, not of myself, who was 342 00:20:16.359 --> 00:20:21.240 not with him, fool that you were. For I his comrade, 343 00:20:21.400 --> 00:20:24.400 mightier far than he was still left behind him at 344 00:20:24.440 --> 00:20:28.720 the ships. And now I have laid you low. The 345 00:20:28.759 --> 00:20:32.880 Achaeans shall give him all due funeral rites, while dogs 346 00:20:32.920 --> 00:20:37.839 and vultures shall work their will upon yourself. Then Hector said, 347 00:20:38.079 --> 00:20:41.400 as the life ebbed out of him, I pray you, 348 00:20:41.480 --> 00:20:45.759 by your life and knees, and by your parents. Let 349 00:20:45.839 --> 00:20:48.480 not dogs devour me at the ships of the Achaeans. 350 00:20:49.200 --> 00:20:52.160 But accept the rich treasure of gold and bronze which 351 00:20:52.200 --> 00:20:55.240 my father and mother will offer you, And send my 352 00:20:55.359 --> 00:20:58.960 body home that the Trojans and their wives may give 353 00:20:59.039 --> 00:21:03.680 me my dues of when I am dead. Achilles glared 354 00:21:03.680 --> 00:21:07.440 at him and answered, dog talk not to me. Neither 355 00:21:07.480 --> 00:21:10.599 of knees nor parents would that I could be as 356 00:21:10.640 --> 00:21:13.319 sure of being able to cut your flesh into pieces 357 00:21:13.319 --> 00:21:16.200 and eat it raw. For the ill have done me 358 00:21:16.799 --> 00:21:19.599 as I am. That nothing shall save you from the dogs. 359 00:21:20.119 --> 00:21:23.680 It shall not be though they bring ten or twentyfold ransom, 360 00:21:23.880 --> 00:21:25.960 and weigh it out for me on the spot, with 361 00:21:26.079 --> 00:21:31.200 promise of yet more hereafter, though Priam's son of Dardiness 362 00:21:31.279 --> 00:21:34.359 should bid them offer me your weight in gold. Even 363 00:21:34.400 --> 00:21:37.079 so your mother shall never lay you out and make 364 00:21:37.160 --> 00:21:40.920 lament over the sun, she bore, but dogs and vultures 365 00:21:41.200 --> 00:21:46.000 shall eat you utterly up. Hector, with his dying breath, 366 00:21:46.000 --> 00:21:49.799 then said, I know you what you are, and was 367 00:21:49.839 --> 00:21:52.839 sure that I should not move you, for your heart 368 00:21:52.920 --> 00:21:55.759 is hard as iron. Look to it that I bring 369 00:21:55.880 --> 00:21:58.400 not Heaven's anger upon you on the day when Paris 370 00:21:58.400 --> 00:22:01.599 and Phoebus Apollo, valiant though you be, shall slay you 371 00:22:01.680 --> 00:22:06.359 at the scay and gates. When he had thus said, 372 00:22:06.400 --> 00:22:09.880 the shrouds of death enfolded him, whereon his soul went 373 00:22:09.920 --> 00:22:12.559 out of him and flew down to the house of Hades, 374 00:22:13.200 --> 00:22:16.319 lamenting its sad fate, that it should enjoy youth and 375 00:22:16.400 --> 00:22:21.039 strength no longer. But Achilles said, speaking to the dead body, 376 00:22:22.119 --> 00:22:26.200 die for my part. I will accept my fate whensoever 377 00:22:26.359 --> 00:22:29.119 Jove and the other gods see fit to send it. 378 00:22:30.839 --> 00:22:33.559 As he spoke, he drew his spear from the body 379 00:22:33.880 --> 00:22:36.799 and set it on one side. Then he stripped the 380 00:22:36.839 --> 00:22:40.359 blood stained armor from Hector's shoulders, while the other Achaeans 381 00:22:40.440 --> 00:22:43.039 came running up to view his wondrous strength and beauty, 382 00:22:44.000 --> 00:22:45.960 and no one came near him without giving him a 383 00:22:46.000 --> 00:22:49.880 fresh wound. Then would one turn to his neighbor and say, 384 00:22:51.000 --> 00:22:53.400 it is easier to handle Hector now than when he 385 00:22:53.480 --> 00:22:56.599 was flinging fire onto our ships, And as he spoke, 386 00:22:56.759 --> 00:23:00.799 he would thrust his spear into him. Anew Achilles had done, 387 00:23:00.839 --> 00:23:03.880 spoiling Hector of his armor. He stood among the archives 388 00:23:03.920 --> 00:23:08.119 and said, my friends, princes and counselors of the archives, 389 00:23:08.480 --> 00:23:11.359 now that Heaven has vouchsafed us to overcome this man 390 00:23:11.680 --> 00:23:14.240 who has done us more hurt than all the others together, 391 00:23:14.799 --> 00:23:17.519 consider whether we should not attack the city in force 392 00:23:18.119 --> 00:23:21.920 and discover in what mind the Trojans may be. We 393 00:23:21.960 --> 00:23:24.720 should thus learn whether they will desert their city now 394 00:23:24.759 --> 00:23:28.480 that Hector has fallen, or will still hold out even 395 00:23:28.519 --> 00:23:31.960 though he is no longer living. But why argue with 396 00:23:32.039 --> 00:23:35.400 myself in this way while Patroclus is still lying at 397 00:23:35.440 --> 00:23:39.880 the ships, unburied and unmourned, He whom I can never forget, 398 00:23:39.920 --> 00:23:42.160 so long as I am alive, and my strength fails. 399 00:23:42.200 --> 00:23:46.000 Not though men forget their dead when once they are 400 00:23:46.000 --> 00:23:49.200 within the House of Hades. Yet not even there will 401 00:23:49.200 --> 00:23:53.000