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ut if I too have any friend among the gods I will surely make an<br />

end of you when I come across you at some other time. Now, however,<br />

I will pursue and overtake other Trojans."<br />

On this he struck Dryops with his spear, about the middle of his neck,<br />

and he fell headlong at his feet. <strong>The</strong>re he let him lie and stayed<br />

Demouchus son of Philetor, a man both brave and of great stature,<br />

<strong>by</strong> hitting him on the knee with a spear; then he smote him with his<br />

sword and killed him. After this he sprang on Laogonus and Dardanus,<br />

sons of Bias, and threw them from their chariot, the one with a blow<br />

from a thrown spear, while the other he cut down in hand-­‐to-­‐hand fight.<br />

<strong>The</strong>re was also Tros the son of Alastor-­‐ he came up to Achilles and<br />

clasped his knees in the hope that he would spare him and not kill<br />

him but let him go, because they were both of the same age. Fool,<br />

he might have known that he should not prevail with him, <strong>for</strong> the man<br />

was in no mood <strong>for</strong> pity or <strong>for</strong>bearance but was in grim earnest. <strong>The</strong>re<strong>for</strong>e<br />

when Tros laid hold of his knees and sought a hearing <strong>for</strong> his prayers,<br />

Achilles drove his sword into his liver, and the liver came rolling<br />

out, while his bosom was all covered with the black blood that welled<br />

from the wound. Thus did death close his eyes as he lay lifeless.<br />

Achilles then went up to Mulius and struck him on the ear with a spear,<br />

and the bronze spear-­‐head came right out at the other ear. He also<br />

struck Echeclus son of Agenor on the head with his sword, which became<br />

warm with the blood, while death and stern fate closed the eyes of<br />

Echeclus. Next in order the bronze point of his spear wounded Deucalion<br />

in the <strong>for</strong>e-­‐arm where the sinews of the elbow are united, whereon<br />

he waited Achilles' onset with his arm hanging down and death staring

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