Then neither dared Idomeneus remain, Nor Agamemnon, on the ground, nor stayed The chieftains Ajax, ministers of Mars. Gerenian Nestor, guardian of the Greeks, Alone was left behind, and he remained Unwillingly. A steed of those that drew His car was sorely wounded by a shaft Which Alexander, fair-haired Helen’s spouse, Sent from his bow. It pierced the forehead where The mane begins, and where a wound is death. The arrow pierced him to the brain; he reared And whirled in torture with the wound, and scared His fellow-coursers. While the aged man Hastened to sever with his sword the thongs That bound him to the car, the rapid steeds Of Hector bore their valiant master on With the pursuing crowd. The aged chief Had perished then, if gallant Diomed Had not perceived his plight. He lifted up His voice, and, shouting to Ulysses, said:⁠—