Was struck fell lifeless. Teucer all the while, As hides a child behind his mother’s robe, Sheltered himself by Ajax, whose great shield Concealed the chief from sight. What Trojan first Did faithful Teucer slay? Orsilochus, Daetor, and Ophelestes, Ormenus, Chromius, and Lycophontes nobly born, And Hamopaon, Polyremon’s son, And Melanippus—one by one the shafts Of Teucer stretched them on their mother earth. Then Agamemnon, king of men, rejoiced As he beheld him, with his sturdy bow, Breaking the serried phalanxes of Troy; And came, and, standing near, bespake him thus:—
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