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Literal Translation. 103
them. By him, moreover, fell Antiphus, a wonderful captain
of the Greeks was he. Then came Achilles from the side of
the Greeks and cut up the Trojans, so that many hundreds
of them fell by him. Then he killed two champions and two
chief- warriors of the Trojans, namely Lycaon and Euphronius.
There was no pause to the fighting every single day to the
end of thirty days. There were layers, then, and great heaps
of human bodies between the city and the camp at that season.
1115. Now when Priam saw that countless hosts of his
people had fallen through the greater force that had come
out of Greece and out of Mysia, he sent to seek a truce of
six months. Agamemnon granted that, by advice of the wor-
thies of the Greeks.
1119. The time of the battle came. A cruel conflict is
fought on this side and that. Many most mighty captains fell
in each of the two hosts. Multitudes were wounded. Abun-
dant was the paean round a hero's head there. There, then,
they ceased not fighting for the space of twelve days.
1123. Thereafter Agamemnon sent to seek a truce of
thirty days. Priam granted that, by the advice of the Trojans
and by the advice of Hector son of Priam.
1126. Now when the time of battle arrived, it came to
pass that Andromache, Hector's wife, saw a grim, execrable
vision concerning her husband. This was the vision. A great
image had Hector in the archway that he held of the city,
his own image there in sooth, and the image of his horse be-
neath him. Now Andromache saw its head fall from that
image. Andromache after rising out of her éleep, kept silence
as to that thing 1
; (but) she declares the vision to Hector, and
began dissuading him from entering the battle on that day.
When Hector heard that, he said that it was not good advice,
and he began upbraiding his wife keenly and said: „I will in
nowise give up my valour or my prowess for a woman's counsel."
1137. Now when Hector took his fighting-dress of battle
1
Lit. put that into silence.