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<strong>The</strong> reeking javelin, cast it on the<br />

ground.<br />

<strong>The</strong> thronging Greeks behold with<br />

wondering eyes<br />

His manly beauty and superior size;<br />

While some, ignobler, the great<br />

dead deface<br />

With wounds ungenerous, or with<br />

taunts disgrace:<br />

"How changed that Hector, who<br />

like Jove <strong>of</strong> late<br />

Sent lightning on our fleets, and<br />

scatter'd fate!"<br />

High o'er the slain the great<br />

Achilles stands,<br />

Begirt with heroes and surrounding<br />

bands;<br />

And thus aloud, while all the host<br />

attends:<br />

"Princes and leaders! countrymen<br />

and friends!

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