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<strong>The</strong>n Ajax struck Caletor son of Clytius in the chest with a spear<br />

as he was bringing fire towards the ship. He fell heavily to the ground<br />

and the torch dropped from his hand. When Hector saw his cousin fallen<br />

in front of the ship he shouted to the Trojans and Lycians saying,<br />

"Trojans, Lycians, and Dardanians good in close fight, bate not a<br />

jot, but rescue the son of Clytius lest the Achaeans strip him of<br />

his armour now that he has fallen."<br />

He then aimed a spear at Ajax, and missed him, but he hit Lycophron<br />

a follower of Ajax, who came from Cythera, but was living with Ajax<br />

inasmuch as he had killed a man among the Cythereans. Hector's spear<br />

struck him on the head below the ear, and he fell headlong from the<br />

ship's prow on to the ground with no life left in him. Ajax shook<br />

with rage and said to his brother, "Teucer, my good fellow, our trusty<br />

comrade the son of Mastor has fallen, he came to live with us from<br />

Cythera and whom we honoured as much as our own parents. Hector has<br />

just killed him; fetch your deadly arrows at once and the bow which<br />

Phoebus Apollo gave you."<br />

Teucer heard him and hastened towards him with his bow and quiver<br />

in his hands. Forthwith he showered his arrows on the Trojans, and<br />

hit Cleitus the son of Pisenor, comrade of Polydamas the noble son<br />

of Panthous, with the reins in his hands as he was attending to his<br />

horses; he was in the middle of the very thickest part of the fight,<br />

doing good service to Hector and the Trojans, but evil had now come<br />

upon him, and not one of those who were fain to do so could avert<br />

it, <strong>for</strong> the arrow struck him on the back of the neck. He fell from<br />

his chariot and his horses shook the empty car as they swerved aside.

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