He spake: the All-Father saw him shedding tears, And pitied him, and bade the shadows flee, And swept away the cloud. The sun looked forth, And all the battle lay in light. Then thus To warlike Menelaus Ajax said:⁠—

“O Menelaus, foster-child of Jove, Look round and see if yet Antilochus, The large-souled son of Nestor, is alive, And bid him bear the tidings in all haste To the great son of Peleus, that the one Of all his friends whom most he loved is slain.”