Of shining brass clashed round him. Then the Greeks Rushed toward him, yelling fiercely, for they hoped To drag him thence; and many a lance they cast; But none by javelin or by thrust could wound The shepherd of the people, for there came Around him all the bravest of his host⁠— Polydamas, Aeneas, and the great Agenor, and Sarpedon, he who led The Lycian bands, and Glaucus the renowned; These flung themselves into the strife, while none Of all the rest refrained, but firmly held Their broad round shields before him. Then his friends Lifted him in their arms, and bore him off, Out of the conflict, to his fiery steeds That waited for him in the battle’s rear, With charioteer and sumptuous car; and these Bore him to Ilium, sorely suffering.