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THE ILIAD
603—618
Of all the Grecians, what immortal name,
And whose blessed trophies, will ye raise to fame?
Thou first, great Ajax, on the ensanguined plain
Laid Hyrtius, leader of the Mysian train.
Phalces and Mermer Nestor's son o'erthrew;
Bold Merion Morys and Hippotion slew;
Strong Periphætes and Prothoön, bled
By Teucer's arrows, mingled with the dead.
Pierced in the flank by Menelaüs' steel,
His people's pastor, Hyperenor fell;
Eternal darkness wrapped the warrior round,
And the fierce soul came rushing through the wound.
But stretched in heaps before Oïleus' son
Fall mighty numbers, mighty numbers run;
Ajax the less, of all the Grecian race
Skilled in pursuit, and swiftest in the chase.
