Trojans

“Men call it Batieia, but the gods know that it is the tomb of lithe Myrine. Here the Trojans and their allies divided their forces”

“but let the rest swear to a solemn covenant of peace whereby you Trojans shall stay here in Troy”

“whereby we others shall dwell here in Troy”

“Has, then, your house fared so well at the hands of the Trojans? Let us not spare a single one of them—not even the child unborn and in its mother’s womb; let not a man of them be left alive, but let all in Ilius perish, unheeded and forgotten.”

“the Trojans would have been routed and driven back into Ilius, had not Priam’s son Helenus”

“the other to that of the Trojans, who rejoiced when they saw their hero come to them safe and unharmed from the strong hands of mighty Ajax. They led him, therefore, to the city as one that had been saved beyond their hopes”

“Idaeus went back to the strong city of Ilius. The Trojans and Dardanians were gathered in council waiting his return; when he came, he stood in their midst”

“the Trojans to wail aloud, so they heaped their dead sadly and silently upon the pyre, and having burned them went back to the city of Ilius”

“the Trojans and their allies in the city”

“The Trojans on the other hand likewise armed themselves throughout the city”

“till you have pent the Trojan host within the famed walls of Ilius—as many of them as may escape”

“all whose feet and knees could still carry them poured pell-mell into the town”

“THUS the Trojans in the city, scared like fawns, wiped the sweat from off them and drank to quench their thirst, leaning against the goodly battlements”

“noble Hector to whom the Trojans prayed throughout their city as though he were a god”

“throughout the city the people fell to weeping and wailing”

“all the people of the city joined in his lament”

“the strange doings of the Trojans and Achaeans. Till now they have been warring upon the plain, mad with lust of battle, but now they have left off fighting, and are leaning upon their shields, sitting still with their spears planted beside them.”

“THE fight between Trojans and Achaeans was now left to rage as it would, and the tide of war surged hither and thither over the plain as they aimed their bronze-shod spears at one another between the streams of Simois and Xanthus.”

“so sat the companies of Trojans and Achaeans upon the plain”

“Thus high in hope they sat through the livelong night by the highways of war, and many a watchfire did they kindle. As when the stars shine clear, and the moon is bright—there is not a breath of air, not a peak nor glade nor jutting headland but it stands out in the ineffable radiance that breaks from the serene of heaven; the stars can all of them be told and the heart of the shepherd is glad—even thus shone the watchfires of the Trojans before Ilius midway between the ships and the river Xanthus. A thousand camp-fires gleamed upon the plain”

“Can you not see that the Trojans are encamped on the brow of the plain hard by our ships, with but a little space between us and them?”

“The Trojans, on the other side upon the rising slope of the plain, were gathered round great Hector, noble Polydamas, Aeneas who was honoured by the Trojans like an immortal, and the three sons of Antenor, Polybus, Agenor, and young Acamas beauteous as a god.”

“Meanwhile the Trojans kept on flying over the middle of the plain”

“even so did Trojans many and brave gather round crafty Ulysses, but the hero stood at bay and kept them off with his spear. Ajax then came up with his shield before him like a wall, and stood hard by, whereon the Trojans fled in all directions. Menelaus took Ulysses by the hand, and led him out of the press while his squire brought up his chariot, but Ajax rushed furiously on the Trojans and killed Doryclus, a bastard son of Priam; then he wounded Pandocus, Lysandrus, Pyrasus, and Pylartes; as some swollen torrent comes rushing in full flood from the mountains on to the plain, big with the rain of heaven—many a dry oak and many a pine does it engulf, and much mud does it bring down and cast into the sea— even so did brave Ajax chase the foe furiously over the plain”

“whereas that of murderous Hector rings in my cars as he gives orders to the Trojans, who triumph over the Achaeans and fill the whole plain with their cry of battle”

“here on the plain whereon the Trojans and Achaeans fight with equal valour”

“while the Trojans over against them armed upon the rise of the plain”

“the Trojans held a council, angry and full of discord, on the acropolis by the gates of King Priam’s palace”

“the rest of the Trojans were fighting about the other gates”

“Still the Trojans and brave Hector would not yet have broken down the gates and the great bar”

“For all the gates had been closed, and the Trojans were hammering at them to try and break their way through them.”

“some of them at once climbing over the wall, while others passed through the gates”

“gave victory to Hector and to the Trojans, who, trusting to their own might and to the signs he had shown them, essayed to break through the great wall of the Achaeans. They tore down the breastworks from the walls, and overthrew the battlements; they upheaved the buttresses”

“even so did the battlements now serve as a bone of contention, and they beat one another’s round shields for their possession. Many a man’s body was wounded with the pitiless bronze, as he turned round and bared his back to the foe, and many were struck clean through their shields; the wall and battlements were everywhere deluged with the blood alike of Trojans and of Achaeans. But even so the Trojans could not rout the Achaeans, who still held on”

“in one body they rushed straight at the wall as he had bidden them, and scaled the battlements with sharp spears in their hands”

“the Trojans, who have got over the wall in force”

“the Trojans spring over the wall with a shout, and drive their chariots onwards”

“the Achaeans and Trojans were fighting about the wall, but were not yet within it and at the ships, remained sitting in the tent of good Eurypylus, entertaining him with his conversation and spreading herbs over his wound to ease his pain. When, however, he saw the Trojans swarming through the breach in the wall”

“Phoebus Apollo went before, and kicked down the banks of the deep trench into its middle so as to make a great broad bridge, as broad as the throw of a spear when a man is trying his strength. The Trojan battalions poured over the bridge”

“he left the Trojan host penned in by the deep trench against their will”

“the high earth-barrow of Hercules, built round solid masonry, and made by the Trojans and Pallas Minerva”

“The other half were hemmed in by the deep silver-eddying stream, and fell into it with a great uproar.”

“the Trojans cower under the banks of the mighty river”

“the living he saved alive, hiding them in his mighty eddies”

“Old King Priam stood on a high tower of the wall looking down on huge Achilles as the Trojans fled panic-stricken before him”

“THUS the Trojans in the city, scared like fawns, wiped the sweat from off them and drank to quench their thirst, leaning against the goodly battlements”

“they went back again into the city, and being well assembled they held high feast in the house of Priam their king”