And Nestor, the Gerenian knight, replied:⁠— “Thus is the threat accomplished, nor can Jove The Thunderer reverse the event. The wall In which we trusted as impregnable, Our fleet’s defence and ours, is overthrown; But obstinately still the Greeks maintain The combat at the ships, nor couldst thou now Distinguish with thy sharpest sight where most The ranks are routed, so confusedly They fall, and the wild uproar reaches heaven. Meantime consult we what may yet be done, If counsel aught avail; yet can I not Advise to mingle in the strife again. It is not meet that wounded men should fight.”