Interviews Between Glaucus and Diomed, and Hector and Andromache
Successes of the Greeks—Hector recalled to Troy by Helenus, to appoint a procession of the Trojan matrons to the temple of Minerva—Meeting of Glaucus and Diomed, who recognize each other as old friends—Their exchange of weapons—Meeting of Hector and Andromache, and return of Hector and Paris to the field.
Now from that stubborn conflict of the Greeks And Trojans had the gods withdrawn. The fight Of men encountering men with brazen spears Still raged from place to place upon the plain Between the Xanthus and the Simoïs.
And first of all did Ajax Telamon, The bulwark of the Achaians, break the ranks Of Troy and raise the hopes of those who fought Beside him; for he smote the bravest man Of all the Thracian warriors—Acamas, Son of Eussorus, strong and large of limb. His spear-head, through the plumèd helmet’s cone Entering the forehead of the Thracian, pierced The bone, and darkness gathered o’er his eyes. The valiant Diomed slew Axylus, The son of Teuthras. To the war he came From nobly-built Arisba; great his wealth, And greatly was he loved, for courteously He welcomed to his house beside the way All comers. None of these could interpose Between him and his death, for Diomed Slew him and his attendant charioteer, Calysius; both went down below the earth.
And then Euryalus struck Dresus down, And smote Opheltius, and went on to slay Aesepus and his brother Pedasus;— A river-nymph, Abarbareia, bore Both children to Bucolion the renowned. Bucolion was the eldest of the sons Of great Laomedon. His mother reared The boy in secret. While he fed his sheep, He with the river-nymph was joined in