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fight might and main, while I put on the goodly armour of Achilles,<br />

which I took when I killed Patroclus."<br />

With this Hector left the fight, and ran full speed after his men<br />

who were taking the armour of Achilles to Troy, but had not yet got<br />

far. Standing <strong>for</strong> a while apart from the woeful fight, he changed<br />

his armour. His own he sent to the strong city of Ilius and to the<br />

Trojans, while he put on the immortal armour of the son of Peleus,<br />

which the gods had given to Peleus, who in his age gave it to his<br />

son; but the son did not grow old in his father's armour.<br />

When Jove, lord of the storm-­‐cloud, saw Hector standing aloof and<br />

arming himself in the armour of the son of Peleus, he wagged his head<br />

and muttered to himself saying, "A! poor wretch, you arm in the armour<br />

of a hero, be<strong>for</strong>e whom many another trembles, and you reck nothing<br />

of the doom that is already close upon you. You have killed his comrade<br />

so brave and strong, but it was not well that you should strip the<br />

armour from his head and shoulders. I do indeed endow you with great<br />

might now, but as against this you shall not return from battle to<br />

lay the armour of the son of Peleus be<strong>for</strong>e Andromache."<br />

<strong>The</strong> son of Saturn bowed his portentous brows, and Hector fitted the<br />

armour to his body, while terrible Mars entered into him, and filled<br />

his whole body with might and valour. With a shout he strode in among<br />

the allies, and his armour flashed about him so that he seemed to<br />

all of them like the great son of Peleus himself. He went about among<br />

them and cheered them on-­‐ Mesthles, Glaucus, Medon, <strong>The</strong>rsilochus,<br />

Asteropaeus, Deisenor and Hippothous, Phorcys, Chromius and Ennomus

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