between the beaked ships Poured after them with tumult infinite The Greeks. As when from some high mountaintop The God of Lightnings, Jupiter, sweeps off The overshadowing cloud, at once appear The watch-lowers and the headland heights and lawns All in full light, and all the unmeasured depth Of ether opens, so the Greeks, when thus Their fleet was rescued from the hostile flame, Breathed for a space; and yet they might not cease From battle, for not everywhere alike Were chased the Trojans from the dark-hulled ships Before the Greeks, but struggled still to keep The mastery, and yielded but to force.
Then in that scattered conflict of the chiefs Each Argive slew a warrior. With his spear The brave son of Menoetius made a thrust At Areilochus, and pierced his thigh, Just as he turned away, and through the part Forced the keen weapon, splintering as it went The bone, and brought the Trojan to the ground; And warlike Menelaus pierced the breast Of Thoas where the buckler left it bare, And took his life. The son of Phyleus saw Amphiclus rushing on, and with his spear Met him and pierced his leg below the knee, Where brawniest is the limb. The blade cut through The sinews, and his eyes were closed in night. There fought the sons of Nestor. One of these, Antilochus, transfixed with his good spear Atymnius through the flank, and brought him down At his own feet. With sorrow Maris saw His brother fall, and toward Antilochus Flew to defend the corpse; but ere he strook, The godlike Thrasymedes, with a blow That missed not, smote his shoulder, tearing off With the spear’s blade upon the upper arm The muscles from the bone. With ringing arms He fell, and darkness gathered o’er his eyes. Thus were two brothers by two brothers slain, And sent to Erebus; two valiant friends Were they of King Sarpedon, and the sons Of Amisodarus, who reared and fed Chimera, the destroyer of mankind.
Oilean Ajax, springing forward, seized On Cleobulus, for the struggling crowd Hindered his flight. He took the Trojan’s life, Smiting the neck with his huge-handled sword; The blade grew warm with blood, and