THE BREACH1 OF THE TRUCE2, AND THE FIRST BATTLE.
The gods deliberate in council concerning the Trojan war: they agree upon the continuation of it, and Jupiter sends down Minerva to break the truce. She persuades Pandarus to aim an arrow at Menelaus, who is wounded, but cured by Machaon. In the meantime some of the Trojan troops attack the Greeks. Agamemnon is distinguished3 in all the parts of a good general; he reviews the troops, and exhorts4 the leaders, some by praises and others by reproof6. Nestor is particularly celebrated7 for his military discipline. The battle joins, and great numbers are slain8 on both sides.
The same day continues through this as through the last book (as it does also through the two following, and almost to the end of the seventh book). The scene is wholly in the field before Troy.
And now Olympus' shining gates unfold;
The gods, with Jove, assume their thrones of gold:
Immortal9 Hebe, fresh with bloom divine,
The golden goblet10 crowns with purple wine:
While the full bowls flow round, the powers employ
Their careful eyes on long-contended Troy.
When Jove, disposed to tempt11 Saturnia's spleen,
Thus waked the fury of his partial queen,
"Two powers divine the son of Atreus aid,
Imperial Juno, and the martial12 maid;125
But high in heaven they sit, and gaze from far,
The tame spectators of his deeds of war.
Not thus fair Venus helps her favour'd knight13,
The queen of pleasures shares the toils14 of fight,
Each danger wards16, and constant in her care,
Saves in the moment of the last despair.
Her act has rescued Paris' forfeit17 life,
Though great Atrides gain'd the glorious strife18.
Then say, ye powers! what signal issue waits
To crown this deed, and finish all the fates!
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Shall Heaven by peace the bleeding kingdoms spare,
Or rouse the furies, and awake the war?
Yet, would the gods for human good provide,
Atrides soon might gain his beauteous bride,
Still Priam's walls in peaceful honours grow,
And through his gates the crowding nations flow."
Thus while he spoke19, the queen of heaven, enraged20,
And queen of war, in close consult engaged:
Apart they sit, their deep designs employ,
And meditate21 the future woes22 of Troy.
Though secret anger swell23'd Minerva's breast,
The prudent24 goddess yet her wrath25 suppress'd;
But Juno, impotent of passion, broke
Her sullen26 silence, and with fury spoke:
"Shall then, O tyrant27 of the ethereal reign28!
My schemes, my labours, and my hopes be vain?
Have I, for this, shook Ilion with alarms,
Assembled nations, set two worlds in arms?
To spread the war, I flew from shore to shore;
The immortal coursers scarce the labour bore.
At length ripe vengeance29 o'er their heads impends30,
But Jove himself the faithless race defends.
Loth as thou art to punish lawless lust31,
Not all the gods are partial and unjust."
The sire whose thunder shakes the cloudy skies,
Sighs from his inmost soul, and thus replies:
"Oh lasting32 rancour! oh insatiate hate
To Phrygia's monarch33, and the Phrygian state!
What high offence has fired the wife of Jove?
Can wretched mortals harm the powers above,
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That Troy, and Troy's whole race thou wouldst confound,
And yon fair structures level with the ground!
Haste, leave the skies, fulfil thy stern desire,
Burst all her gates, and wrap her walls in fire!
Let Priam bleed! if yet you thirst for more,
Bleed all his sons, and Ilion float with gore34:
To boundless35 vengeance the wide realm be given,
Till vast destruction glut36 the queen of heaven!
So let it be, and Jove his peace enjoy,126
When heaven no longer hears the name of Troy.
But should this arm prepare to wreak37 our hate
On thy loved realms, whose guilt38 demands their fate;
Presume not thou the lifted bolt to stay,
Remember Troy, and give the vengeance way.
For know, of all the numerous towns that rise
Beneath the rolling sun and starry39 skies,
Which gods have raised, or earth-born men enjoy,
None stands so dear to Jove as sacred Troy.
No mortals merit more distinguish'd grace
Than godlike Priam, or than Priam's race.
Still to our name their hecatombs expire,
And altars blaze with unextinguish'd fire."
At this the goddess rolled her radiant eyes,
Then on the Thunderer fix'd them, and replies:
"Three towns are Juno's on the Grecian plains,
More dear than all the extended earth contains,
Mycenae, Argos, and the Spartan40 wall;127
These thou mayst raze41, nor I forbid their fall:
'Tis not in me the vengeance to remove;
The crime's sufficient that they share my love.
Of power superior why should I complain?
Resent I may, but must resent in vain.
Yet some distinction Juno might require,
Sprung with thyself from one celestial43 sire,
A goddess born, to share the realms above,
And styled the consort44 of the thundering Jove;
Nor thou a wife and sister's right deny;128
Let both consent, and both by terms comply;
So shall the gods our joint45 decrees obey,
And heaven shall act as we direct the way.
See ready Pallas waits thy high commands
To raise in arms the Greek and Phrygian bands;
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Their sudden friendship by her arts may cease,
And the proud Trojans first infringe47 the peace."
The sire of men and monarch of the sky
The advice approved, and bade Minerva fly,
Dissolve the league, and all her arts employ
To make the breach the faithless act of Troy.
Fired with the charge, she headlong urged her flight,
And shot like lightning from Olympus' height.
As the red comet, from Saturnius sent
To fright the nations with a dire46 portent48,
(A fatal sign to armies on the plain,
Or trembling sailors on the wintry main,)
With sweeping49 glories glides50 along in air,
And shakes the sparkles from its blazing hair:129
Between both armies thus, in open sight
Shot the bright goddess in a trail of light,
With eyes erect51 the gazing hosts admire
The power descending52, and the heavens on fire!
"The gods (they cried), the gods this signal sent,
And fate now labours with some vast event:
Jove seals the league, or bloodier53 scenes prepares;
Jove, the great arbiter54 of peace and wars."
They said, while Pallas through the Trojan throng55,
(In shape a mortal,) pass'd disguised along.
Like bold Laodocus, her course she bent56,
Who from Antenor traced his high descent.
Amidst the ranks Lycaon's son she found,
The warlike Pandarus, for strength renown'd;
Whose squadrons, led from black ?sepus' flood,130
With flaming shields in martial circle stood.
To him the goddess: "Phrygian! canst thou hear
A well-timed counsel with a willing ear?
What praise were thine, couldst thou direct thy dart57,
Amidst his triumph, to the Spartan's heart?
What gifts from Troy, from Paris wouldst thou gain,
Thy country's foe58, the Grecian glory slain?
Then seize the occasion, dare the mighty59 deed,
Aim at his breast, and may that aim succeed!
But first, to speed the shaft60, address thy vow61
To Lycian Phoebus with the silver bow,
And swear the firstlings of thy flock to pay,
On Zelia's altars, to the god of day."131
He heard, and madly at the motion pleased,
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His polish'd bow with hasty rashness seized.
'Twas form'd of horn, and smooth'd with artful toil15:
A mountain goat resign'd the shining spoil.
Who pierced long since beneath his arrows bled;
The stately quarry62 on the cliffs lay dead,
And sixteen palms his brow's large honours spread:
The workmen join'd, and shaped the bended horns,
And beaten gold each taper63 point adorns64.
This, by the Greeks unseen, the warrior65 bends,
Screen'd by the shields of his surrounding friends:
There meditates66 the mark; and couching low,
Fits the sharp arrow to the well-strung bow.
One from a hundred feather'd deaths he chose,
Fated to wound, and cause of future woes;
Then offers vows67 with hecatombs to crown
Apollo's altars in his native town.
Now with full force the yielding horn he bends,
Drawn68 to an arch, and joins the doubling ends;
Close to his breast he strains the nerve below,
Till the barb69'd points approach the circling bow;
The impatient weapon whizzes on the wing;
Sounds the tough horn, and twangs the quivering string.
But thee, Atrides! in that dangerous hour
The gods forget not, nor thy guardian70 power,
Pallas assists, and (weakened in its force)
Diverts the weapon from its destined71 course:
So from her babe, when slumber72 seals his eye,
The watchful73 mother wafts74 the envenom'd fly.
Just where his belt with golden buckles75 join'd,
Where linen76 folds the double corslet lined,
She turn'd the shaft, which, hissing77 from above,
Pass'd the broad belt, and through the corslet drove;
The folds it pierced, the plaited linen tore,
And razed78 the skin, and drew the purple gore.
As when some stately trappings are decreed
To grace a monarch on his bounding steed,
A nymph in Caria or Maeonia bred,
Stains the pure ivory with a lively red;
With equal lustre79 various colours vie,
The shining whiteness, and the Tyrian dye:
So great Atrides! show'd thy sacred blood,
As down thy snowy thigh80 distill'd the streaming flood.
With horror seized, the king of men descried81
The shaft infix'd, and saw the gushing82 tide:
Nor less the Spartan fear'd, before he found
The shining barb appear above the wound,
Then, with a sigh, that heaved his manly83 breast,
The royal brother thus his grief express'd,
And grasp'd his hand; while all the Greeks around
With answering sighs return'd the plaintive84 sound.
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"Oh, dear as life! did I for this agree
The solemn truce, a fatal truce to thee!
Wert thou exposed to all the hostile train,
To fight for Greece, and conquer, to be slain!
The race of Trojans in thy ruin join,
And faith is scorn'd by all the perjured85 line.
Not thus our vows, confirm'd with wine and gore,
Those hands we plighted86, and those oaths we swore,
Shall all be vain: when Heaven's revenge is slow,
Jove but prepares to strike the fiercer blow.
The day shall come, that great avenging87 day,
When Troy's proud glories in the dust shall lay,
When Priam's powers and Priam's self shall fall,
And one prodigious88 ruin swallow all.
I see the god, already, from the pole
Bare his red arm, and bid the thunder roll;
I see the Eternal all his fury shed,
And shake his aegis89 o'er their guilty head.
Such mighty woes on perjured princes wait;
But thou, alas90! deserv'st a happier fate.
Still must I mourn the period of thy days,
And only mourn, without my share of praise?
Deprived of thee, the heartless Greeks no more
Shall dream of conquests on the hostile shore;
Troy seized of Helen, and our glory lost,
Thy bones shall moulder91 on a foreign coast;
While some proud Trojan thus insulting cries,
(And spurns92 the dust where Menelaus lies,)
'Such are the trophies93 Greece from Ilion brings,
And such the conquest of her king of kings!
Lo his proud vessels94 scatter'd o'er the main,
And unrevenged, his mighty brother slain.'
Oh! ere that dire disgrace shall blast my fame,
O'erwhelm me, earth! and hide a monarch's shame."
He said: a leader's and a brother's fears
Possess his soul, which thus the Spartan cheers:
"Let not thy words the warmth of Greece abate95;
The feeble dart is guiltless of my fate:
Stiff with the rich embroider'd work around,
My varied96 belt repell'd the flying wound."
To whom the king: "My brother and my friend,
Thus, always thus, may Heaven thy life defend!
Now seek some skilful97 hand, whose powerful art
May stanch98 the effusion, and extract the dart.
Herald99, be swift, and bid Machaon bring
His speedy succour to the Spartan king;
Pierced with a winged shaft (the deed of Troy),
The Grecian's sorrow, and the Dardan's joy."
With hasty zeal100 the swift Talthybius flies;
Through the thick files he darts101 his searching eyes,
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And finds Machaon, where sublime102 he stands132
In arms incircled with his native bands.
Then thus: "Machaon, to the king repair,
His wounded brother claims thy timely care;
Pierced by some Lycian or Dardanian bow,
A grief to us, a triumph to the foe."
The heavy tidings grieved the godlike man
Swift to his succour through the ranks he ran.
The dauntless king yet standing103 firm he found,
And all the chiefs in deep concern around.
Where to the steely point the reed was join'd,
The shaft he drew, but left the head behind.
Straight the broad belt with gay embroidery104 graced,
He loosed; the corslet from his breast unbraced;
Then suck'd the blood, and sovereign balm infused,133
Which Chiron gave, and ?sculapius used.
While round the prince the Greeks employ their care,
The Trojans rush tumultuous to the war;
Once more they glitter in refulgent106 arms,
Once more the fields are fill'd with dire alarms.
Nor had you seen the king of men appear
Confused, unactive, or surprised with fear;
But fond of glory, with severe delight,
His beating bosom107 claim'd the rising fight.
No longer with his warlike steeds he stay'd,
Or press'd the car with polish'd brass108 inlaid
But left Eurymedon the reins109 to guide;
The fiery111 coursers snorted at his side.
On foot through all the martial ranks he moves
And these encourages, and those reproves.
"Brave men!" he cries, (to such who boldly dare
Urge their swift steeds to face the coming war),
"Your ancient valour on the foes112 approve;
Jove is with Greece, and let us trust in Jove.
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'Tis not for us, but guilty Troy, to dread113,
Whose crimes sit heavy on her perjured head;
Her sons and matrons Greece shall lead in chains,
And her dead warriors114 strew115 the mournful plains."
Thus with new ardour he the brave inspires;
Or thus the fearful with reproaches fires:
"Shame to your country, scandal of your kind;
Born to the fate ye well deserve to find!
Why stand ye gazing round the dreadful plain,
Prepared for flight, but doom116'd to fly in vain?
Confused and panting thus, the hunted deer
Falls as he flies, a victim to his fear.
Still must ye wait the foes, and still retire,
Till yon tall vessels blaze with Trojan fire?
Or trust ye, Jove a valiant117 foe shall chase,
To save a trembling, heartless, dastard118 race?"
This said, he stalk'd with ample strides along,
To Crete's brave monarch and his martial throng;
High at their head he saw the chief appear,
And bold Meriones excite the rear.
At this the king his generous joy express'd,
And clasp'd the warrior to his armed breast.
"Divine Idomeneus! what thanks we owe
To worth like thine! what praise shall we bestow119?
To thee the foremost honours are decreed,
First in the fight and every graceful120 deed.
For this, in banquets, when the generous bowls
Restore our blood, and raise the warriors' souls,
Though all the rest with stated rules we bound,
Unmix'd, unmeasured, are thy goblets121 crown'd.
Be still thyself, in arms a mighty name;
Maintain thy honours, and enlarge thy fame."
To whom the Cretan thus his speech address'd:
"Secure of me, O king! exhort5 the rest.
Fix'd to thy side, in every toil I share,
Thy firm associate in the day of war.
But let the signal be this moment given;
To mix in fight is all I ask of Heaven.
The field shall prove how perjuries122 succeed,
And chains or death avenge123 the impious deed."
Charm'd with this heat, the king his course pursues,
And next the troops of either Ajax views:
In one firm orb42 the bands were ranged around,
A cloud of heroes blacken'd all the ground.
Thus from the lofty promontory's brow
A swain surveys the gathering124 storm below;
Slow from the main the heavy vapours rise,
Spread in dim streams, and sail along the skies,
Till black as night the swelling125 tempest shows,
The cloud condensing as the west-wind blows:
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He dreads126 the impending127 storm, and drives his flock
To the close covert128 of an arching rock.
Such, and so thick, the embattled squadrons stood,
With spears erect, a moving iron wood:
A shady light was shot from glimmering129 shields,
And their brown arms obscured the dusky fields.
"O heroes! worthy130 such a dauntless train,
Whose godlike virtue131 we but urge in vain,
(Exclaim'd the king), who raise your eager bands
With great examples, more than loud commands.
Ah! would the gods but breathe in all the rest
Such souls as burn in your exalted132 breast,
Soon should our arms with just success be crown'd,
And Troy's proud walls lie smoking on the ground."
Then to the next the general bends his course;
(His heart exults133, and glories in his force);
There reverend Nestor ranks his Pylian bands,
And with inspiring eloquence135 commands;
With strictest order sets his train in arms,
The chiefs advises, and the soldiers warms.
Alastor, Chromius, Haemon, round him wait,
Bias136 the good, and Pelagon the great.
The horse and chariots to the front assign'd,
The foot (the strength of war) he ranged behind;
The middle space suspected troops supply,
Inclosed by both, nor left the power to fly;
He gives command to "curb137 the fiery steed,
Nor cause confusion, nor the ranks exceed:
Before the rest let none too rashly ride;
No strength nor skill, but just in time, be tried:
The charge once made, no warrior turn the rein110,
But fight, or fall; a firm embodied138 train.
He whom the fortune of the field shall cast
From forth139 his chariot, mount the next in haste;
Nor seek unpractised to direct the car,
Content with javelins140 to provoke the war.
Our great forefathers142 held this prudent course,
Thus ruled their ardour, thus preserved their force;
By laws like these immortal conquests made,
And earth's proud tyrants143 low in ashes laid."
So spoke the master of the martial art,
And touch'd with transport great Atrides' heart.
"Oh! hadst thou strength to match thy brave desires,
And nerves to second what thy soul inspires!
But wasting years, that wither144 human race,
Exhaust thy spirits, and thy arms unbrace.
What once thou wert, oh ever mightst thou be!
And age the lot of any chief but thee."
Thus to the experienced prince Atrides cried;
He shook his hoary145 locks, and thus replied:
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"Well might I wish, could mortal wish renew134
That strength which once in boiling youth I knew;
Such as I was, when Ereuthalion, slain
Beneath this arm, fell prostrate146 on the plain.
But heaven its gifts not all at once bestows147,
These years with wisdom crowns, with action those:
The field of combat fits the young and bold,
The solemn council best becomes the old:
To you the glorious conflict I resign,
Let sage148 advice, the palm of age, be mine."
He said. With joy the monarch march'd before,
And found Menestheus on the dusty shore,
With whom the firm Athenian phalanx stands;
And next Ulysses, with his subject bands.
Remote their forces lay, nor knew so far
The peace infringed149, nor heard the sounds of war;
The tumult105 late begun, they stood intent
To watch the motion, dubious150 of the event.
The king, who saw their squadrons yet unmoved,
With hasty ardour thus the chiefs reproved:
"Can Peleus' son forget a warrior's part.
And fears Ulysses, skill'd in every art?
Why stand you distant, and the rest expect
To mix in combat which yourselves neglect?
From you 'twas hoped among the first to dare
The shock of armies, and commence the war;
For this your names are call'd before the rest,
To share the pleasures of the genial151 feast:
And can you, chiefs! without a blush survey
Whole troops before you labouring in the fray152?
Say, is it thus those honours you requite153?
The first in banquets, but the last in fight."
Ulysses heard: the hero's warmth o'erspread
His cheek with blushes: and severe, he said:
"Take back the unjust reproach! Behold154 we stand
Sheathed155 in bright arms, and but expect command.
If glorious deeds afford thy soul delight,
Behold me plunging156 in the thickest fight.
Then give thy warrior-chief a warrior's due,
Who dares to act whate'er thou dar'st to view."
Struck with his generous wrath, the king replies:
"O great in action, and in council wise!
With ours, thy care and ardour are the same,
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Nor need I to commend, nor aught to blame.
Sage as thou art, and learn'd in human kind,
Forgive the transport of a martial mind.
Haste to the fight, secure of just amends157;
The gods that make, shall keep the worthy, friends."
He said, and pass'd where great Tydides lay,
His steeds and chariots wedged in firm array;
(The warlike Sthenelus attends his side;)135
To whom with stern reproach the monarch cried:
"O son of Tydeus! (he, whose strength could tame
The bounding steed, in arms a mighty name)
Canst thou, remote, the mingling158 hosts descry159,
With hands unactive, and a careless eye?
Not thus thy sire the fierce encounter fear'd;
Still first in front the matchless prince appear'd:
What glorious toils, what wonders they recite,
Who view'd him labouring through the ranks of fight?
I saw him once, when gathering martial powers,
A peaceful guest, he sought Mycenae's towers;
Armies he ask'd, and armies had been given,
Not we denied, but Jove forbade from heaven;
While dreadful comets glaring from afar,
Forewarn'd the horrors of the Theban war.136
Next, sent by Greece from where Asopus flows,
A fearless envoy160, he approach'd the foes;
Thebes' hostile walls unguarded and alone,
Dauntless he enters, and demands the throne.
The tyrant feasting with his chiefs he found,
And dared to combat all those chiefs around:
Dared, and subdued161 before their haughty162 lord;
For Pallas strung his arm and edged his sword.
Stung with the shame, within the winding163 way,
To bar his passage fifty warriors lay;
Two heroes led the secret squadron on,
Mason the fierce, and hardy164 Lycophon;
Those fifty slaughter165'd in the gloomy vale.
He spared but one to bear the dreadful tale,
Such Tydeus was, and such his martial fire;
Gods! how the son degenerates166 from the sire!"
No words the godlike Diomed return'd,
But heard respectful, and in secret burn'd:
Not so fierce Capaneus' undaunted son;
Stern as his sire, the boaster thus begun:
"What needs, O monarch! this invidious praise,
Ourselves to lessen167, while our sire you raise?
Dare to be just, Atrides! and confess
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Our value equal, though our fury less.
With fewer troops we storm'd the Theban wall,
And happier saw the sevenfold city fall,137
In impious acts the guilty father died;
The sons subdued, for Heaven was on their side.
Far more than heirs of all our parents' fame,
Our glories darken their diminish'd name."
To him Tydides thus: "My friend, forbear;
Suppress thy passion, and the king revere134:
His high concern may well excuse this rage,
Whose cause we follow, and whose war we wage:
His the first praise, were Ilion's towers o'erthrown,
And, if we fail, the chief disgrace his own.
Let him the Greeks to hardy toils excite,
'Tis ours to labour in the glorious fight."
He spoke, and ardent168, on the trembling ground
Sprung from his car: his ringing arms resound169.
Dire was the clang, and dreadful from afar,
Of arm'd Tydides rushing to the war.
As when the winds, ascending170 by degrees,138
First move the whitening surface of the seas,
The billows float in order to the shore,
The wave behind rolls on the wave before;
Till, with the growing storm, the deeps arise,
Foam171 o'er the rocks, and thunder to the skies.
So to the fight the thick battalions172 throng,
Shields urged on shields, and men drove men along
Sedate173 and silent move the numerous bands;
No sound, no whisper, but the chief's commands,
Those only heard; with awe174 the rest obey,
As if some god had snatch'd their voice away.
Not so the Trojans; from their host ascends175
A general shout that all the region rends176.
As when the fleecy flocks unnumber'd stand
In wealthy folds, and wait the milker's hand,
The hollow vales incessant177 bleating178 fills,
The lambs reply from all the neighbouring hills:
Such clamours rose from various nations round,
Mix'd was the murmur179, and confused the sound.
Each host now joins, and each a god inspires,
These Mars incites180, and those Minerva fires,
Pale flight around, and dreadful terror reign;
And discord181 raging bathes the purple plain;
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Discord! dire sister of the slaughtering182 power,
Small at her birth, but rising every hour,
While scarce the skies her horrid183 head can bound,
She stalks on earth, and shakes the world around;139
The nations bleed, where'er her steps she turns,
The groan184 still deepens, and the combat burns.
Now shield with shield, with helmet helmet closed,
To armour185 armour, lance to lance opposed,
Host against host with shadowy squadrons drew,
The sounding darts in iron tempests flew,
Victors and vanquish'd join'd promiscuous186 cries,
And shrilling187 shouts and dying groans188 arise;
With streaming blood the slippery fields are dyed,
And slaughter'd heroes swell the dreadful tide.
As torrents189 roll, increased by numerous rills,
With rage impetuous, down their echoing hills
Rush to the vales, and pour'd along the plain.
Roar through a thousand channels to the main:
The distant shepherd trembling hears the sound;
So mix both hosts, and so their cries rebound190.
The bold Antilochus the slaughter led,
The first who struck a valiant Trojan dead:
At great Echepolus the lance arrives,
Razed his high crest191, and through his helmet drives;
Warm'd in the brain the brazen192 weapon lies,
And shades eternal settle o'er his eyes.
So sinks a tower, that long assaults had stood
Of force and fire, its walls besmear'd with blood.
Him, the bold leader of the Abantian throng,140
Seized to despoil193, and dragg'd the corpse194 along:
But while he strove to tug195 the inserted dart,
Agenor's javelin141 reach'd the hero's heart.
His flank, unguarded by his ample shield,
Admits the lance: he falls, and spurns the field;
The nerves, unbraced, support his limbs no more;
The soul comes floating in a tide of gore.
Trojans and Greeks now gather round the slain;
The war renews, the warriors bleed again:
As o'er their prey196 rapacious197 wolves engage,
Man dies on man, and all is blood and rage.
In blooming youth fair Simoisius fell,
Sent by great Ajax to the shades of hell;
Fair Simoisius, whom his mother bore
Amid the flocks on silver Simois' shore:
The nymph descending from the hills of Ide,
To seek her parents on his flowery side,
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Brought forth the babe, their common care and joy,
And thence from Simois named the lovely boy.
Short was his date! by dreadful Ajax slain,
He falls, and renders all their cares in vain!
So falls a poplar, that in watery198 ground
Raised high the head, with stately branches crown'd,
(Fell'd by some artist with his shining steel,
To shape the circle of the bending wheel,)
Cut down it lies, tall, smooth, and largely spread,
With all its beauteous honours on its head
There, left a subject to the wind and rain,
And scorch'd by suns, it withers199 on the plain
Thus pierced by Ajax, Simoisius lies
Stretch'd on the shore, and thus neglected dies.
At Ajax, Antiphus his javelin threw;
The pointed200 lance with erring201 fury flew,
And Leucus, loved by wise Ulysses, slew202.
He drops the corpse of Simoisius slain,
And sinks a breathless carcase on the plain.
This saw Ulysses, and with grief enraged,
Strode where the foremost of the foes engaged;
Arm'd with his spear, he meditates the wound,
In act to throw; but cautious look'd around,
Struck at his sight the Trojans backward drew,
And trembling heard the javelin as it flew.
A chief stood nigh, who from Abydos came,
Old Priam's son, Democoon was his name.
The weapon entered close above his ear,
Cold through his temples glides the whizzing spear;141
With piercing shrieks203 the youth resigns his breath,
His eye-balls darken with the shades of death;
Ponderous204 he falls; his clanging arms resound,
And his broad buckler rings against the ground.
Seized with affright the boldest foes appear;
E'en godlike Hector seems himself to fear;
Slow he gave way, the rest tumultuous fled;
The Greeks with shouts press on, and spoil the dead:
But Phoebus now from Ilion's towering height
Shines forth reveal'd, and animates205 the fight.
"Trojans, be bold, and force with force oppose;
Your foaming206 steeds urge headlong on the foes!
Nor are their bodies rocks, nor ribb'd with steel;
Your weapons enter, and your strokes they feel.
Have ye forgot what seem'd your dread before?
The great, the fierce Achilles fights no more."
Apollo thus from Ilion's lofty towers,
Array'd in terrors, roused the Trojan powers:
While war's fierce goddess fires the Grecian foe,
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And shouts and thunders in the fields below.
Then great Diores fell, by doom divine,
In vain his valour and illustrious line.
A broken rock the force of Pyrus threw,
(Who from cold ?nus led the Thracian crew,)142
Full on his ankle dropp'd the ponderous stone,
Burst the strong nerves, and crash'd the solid bone.
Supine he tumbles on the crimson207 sands,
Before his helpless friends, and native bands,
And spreads for aid his unavailing hands.
The foe rush'd furious as he pants for breath,
And through his navel drove the pointed death:
His gushing entrails smoked upon the ground,
And the warm life came issuing from the wound.
His lance bold Thoas at the conqueror208 sent,
Deep in his breast above the pap it went,
Amid the lungs was fix'd the winged wood,
And quivering in his heaving bosom stood:
Till from the dying chief, approaching near,
The ?tolian warrior tugg'd his weighty spear:
Then sudden waved his flaming falchion round,
And gash'd his belly209 with a ghastly wound;
The corpse now breathless on the bloody210 plain,
To spoil his arms the victor strove in vain;
The Thracian bands against the victor press'd,
A grove211 of lances glitter'd at his breast.
Stern Thoas, glaring with revengeful eyes,
In sullen fury slowly quits the prize.
Thus fell two heroes; one the pride of Thrace,
And one the leader of the Epeian race;
Death's sable212 shade at once o'ercast their eyes,
In dust the vanquish'd and the victor lies.
With copious213 slaughter all the fields are red,
And heap'd with growing mountains of the dead.
Had some brave chief this martial scene beheld214,
By Pallas guarded through the dreadful field;
Might darts be bid to turn their points away,
And swords around him innocently play;
The war's whole art with wonder had he seen,
And counted heroes where he counted men.
So fought each host, with thirst of glory fired,
And crowds on crowds triumphantly215 expired.
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spoke
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woes
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prudent
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monarch
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boundless
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wreak
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guilt
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starry
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celestial
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joint
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dire
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infringe
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sweeping
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glides
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bloodier
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arbiter
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throng
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foe
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quarry
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warrior
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degenerates
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