With Priam’s sons. Him Hector thus rebuked:⁠—

“Why, Melanippus, are we loitering thus? Grievest thou not to see thy kinsman slain? And see’st thou not how eagerly the Greeks Are spoiling Dolops of his arms? Come on With me. No time is this for distant fight, But either we must rout the Greeks, or they Will level to the ground the lofty towers Of Ilium, and will slay its citizens.”

He spake, and led the way; his godlike friend Followed him, while the son of Telamon, Ajax, exhorted thus the sons of Greece:⁠—

“Be men, my friends, and let a noble dread Of shame possess your hearts, and jealously Look to each other’s honor in the heat Of battle; for to men who flee there comes No glory, and that way no safety lies.”