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11 - How the sons of Try for the last time fought from her walls and her towers - The Fall of Troy · The Fall of Troy

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Speaker 1: Troy's daughters mourn'd within her walls. Might none go forth
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Speaker 1: to Paris tomb. For far away from high Builtroy it lay.
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Speaker 1: But the young men without the city toiled unceasingly in fight,
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Speaker 1: wherein from Slaughter rest was none, Though dead was Paris.
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Speaker 1: For the Achaeans pressed hard on the Trojans, even unto Troy.
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Speaker 1: Yet these charged forth they could not choose, But so
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Speaker 1: for strife and deadly eno in them it stalk'd like
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Speaker 1: the feller Eneus to behold, breathing destruction from their lips.
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Speaker 1: Like flame. Beside them raised the ruthless hearted fates fiercely. Here, panic,
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Speaker 1: fear and aris there stirred up the host hard after
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Speaker 1: follow'd tread with Slaughter's gore besprint that in one host
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Speaker 1: men might see and be strong. In the other fear
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Speaker 1: and all around were javelins, spears, and tarts, murder athirst
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Speaker 1: From this side, fat side showered aye as they hurled together,
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Speaker 1: armor clashed, as foe with foe grappled in murderous fight.
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Speaker 1: There the Aptolemus slew lay Amadas, whom Lachi had nurtured
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Speaker 1: by fairs, and those stream the stream revealed to men
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Speaker 1: by Letho pried of thunderou Zeus, when like a stormy
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Speaker 1: plain was by her hand up torn mid agonies of
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Speaker 1: tradelth rose, wherein she brought to light mid bitter pangs
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Speaker 1: those babes of Perth divine tyrus upon him lead he dead.
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Speaker 1: The spear crashed through his jaw and clear through mouth
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Speaker 1: and tongue, passed on the lance's irresistible points. Shrieking, he
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Speaker 1: was pelled, flooded with gore. His mouth was as he cried.
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Speaker 1: The cruel shafts sped on by that strong hand dashed
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Speaker 1: him to the earth in throes of death. Even on
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Speaker 1: next he smote above the flank and onward drave the
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Speaker 1: spear into his liver. Swiftly, anguish death came upon him
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Speaker 1: the pithyon. Next he slew. He quelled Hypotamion Capassus, bold son,
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Speaker 1: whom Okayanne the nymph had borne beside Sangarius river flow
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Speaker 1: now welcomed she her son's returning face. But ruthless fate,
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Speaker 1: with anguish, filed her of her child. Relieved Peramanania slew
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Speaker 1: and Hadramacus of Gnassus, this of hallowed likeness that on
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Speaker 1: one spot both from their swift chariots fell This cast
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Speaker 1: for death, his throat by the long spear, transfixed another
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Speaker 1: by a massy stone sped from a strong hand on
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Speaker 1: the temple, Struck breathed out his life, and black dooms
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Speaker 1: shrouded him. The startled steeds, bereft of chariotears fleeing mid all,
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Speaker 1: those corpses were confused and princely, Andea's henchmen seized on
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Speaker 1: them with hearts exulting in the goodly spoil. There Philock Titus,
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Speaker 1: with his deadly shaft, smote piarasses in act to flee
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Speaker 1: the war. The tendons trained behind the knee. It snapped
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Speaker 1: and pausied all his speed. It Danian marked and leapt
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Speaker 1: on that maimed man, with sweep of sword, shearing his
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Speaker 1: neck through on the breast of earth. The headless body fell,
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Speaker 1: The head far flung, when rolling with whips, parted as
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Speaker 1: to shriek, hen swiftly fleeted, hence the homeless soul. Paladames
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Speaker 1: struck down Eurymachus, and Cleon, with his spear from Semae,
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Speaker 1: came with Nearius following. These cunning were both in craft
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Speaker 1: of fisherfolk to cast the hook baited with guile to
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Speaker 1: drop into the sea the neck from the boat's prow
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Speaker 1: with death, his hands swiftly and straight to plunge the
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Speaker 1: three forked spear, but not from paying their seacraft. Save
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Speaker 1: them now, Churipulus battle staunch laid Hellus low, whom Creato
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Speaker 1: baar beside the gaze of mare Creato, the fair cheek
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Speaker 1: faced town in the dust. Outstretched, he lay, shorn by
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Speaker 1: the cruel sword. From his strong shoulder fell the arm
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Speaker 1: that held his long spear. Still, its muscles twitched, as
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Speaker 1: though fain to uplift the lands for fight in vain,
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Speaker 1: for the man's will no longer stirred therein, but aimlessly
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Speaker 1: it quivered, even as leaps the severed tail of a
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Speaker 1: snake malignant hide, which cannot chase the man who dealt
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Speaker 1: the wound. So the right hand of that strong hearted
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Speaker 1: man with impotent grip still clutch the spear for fight.
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Speaker 1: Ainos and Polydorus Odysseus slew Setaeigan's both this perished by
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Speaker 1: his spear, that by his sword death, yelling standalous smokee
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Speaker 1: god like Albus with a javelin cast on through his
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Speaker 1: throat and shuddering nape it rushed, stopped, were his heart beats,
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Speaker 1: all his limbs collapsed tidy as slolatok Us, Melayus fell
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Speaker 1: by Agamemnon's hand. Tavius smote Alcimus and try Us hepassus
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Speaker 1: how warring houn So'hagenus slew far from Pennaeus River, crush'd
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Speaker 1: by feet Love's nursing debt to parents. Ne'er he paid
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Speaker 1: Lamys and stoward Lyncus Thoasmote, and Meronius slew Hikhan Menilaeus
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Speaker 1: laid Loachelicus upon his home, looked down Kricheus Ridge, and
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Speaker 1: that great rock of the wise fire God marvelous in
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Speaker 1: men's eyes, for thereon night long day long unto him,
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Speaker 1: fire blazes tireless and unquenchable, laden with fruit. Around its
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Speaker 1: palm trees grow, while mid the stones fire plays about
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Speaker 1: their roots. God's work? Is this a wonder to all time?
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Speaker 1: By Terser Prince the hippomateon suddenly slain Menoitas, as the
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Speaker 1: archerdch on him, rushed he to smite him. But all
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Speaker 1: ready hand and I and bow craft keen were aiming
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Speaker 1: straight on the arching horn. The shaft swiftly released. They'd
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Speaker 1: leapt on the hapless man, whilst sang the string stricken
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Speaker 1: full front. He heaved one choking casp because the fates
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Speaker 1: on the arrow riding threw right to his heart the
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Speaker 1: throne of thought and strength for men. Whence the short
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Speaker 1: path is unto death. Far from his brawny hand, Yonihalice
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Speaker 1: hurled him massy stone and shook the ranks of Troy,
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Speaker 1: as when in anger against long screaming cranes, a watter
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Speaker 1: in the fields leaped from the ground, with swift hand
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Speaker 1: whirling round his head, the sling and speeds the stone
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Speaker 1: against them, scattering before its hum. Their ranks far down
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Speaker 1: the wind out spread, and they in huddled panic, dart
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Speaker 1: with wild cries this way and that, who theretofore swept
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Speaker 1: on in ordered lines. So shrank the foe to left
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Speaker 1: and right from that treadbolt of doomb hurled by Ryalis,
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Speaker 1: not in vain, It flew, fate winged, It shattered Me'llah's
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Speaker 1: helm and head down to the eyes so met him
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Speaker 1: ghastly death. Still man slew man, and earth groaned all around,
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Speaker 1: as when a mighty wind scourges the land, and this
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Speaker 1: way and that under its shrieking pass through the wide woodland,
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Speaker 1: pow the roots and fall great trees, while all the
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Speaker 1: earth is thundering round. So fell they in the dust,
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Speaker 1: so clang their arms, so crash the earth around. Still
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Speaker 1: hot were they for fell? Fight still tell pain unto
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Speaker 1: their foes, ye unto a NEAs Apollo came, and to Eurymachus,
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Speaker 1: pray Vantina's sun. For these against the mighty Achaeans fought
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Speaker 1: shoulder to shoulder. It's too strong, oxen patched in age,
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Speaker 1: joked to a wane, nor ever ceased from battling. Suddenly
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Speaker 1: spake the God to these in Holymestor's sheep, the seer
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Speaker 1: his mother by Santa's bear, to the fad daughter's priest, Eurymachus, Honeyus,
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Speaker 1: seed of Gods, t a shame if you should fleet
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Speaker 1: for the hardives. Nay Ma ry self should joy to
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Speaker 1: counter you, and ye butter face him in the fray.
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Speaker 1: For fate hath spawn long destiny threads for thee and
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Speaker 1: thee he spake and vanished, mingling with the winds. But
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Speaker 1: their hearts felt the God's power suddenly flooded with poundless courage,
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Speaker 1: where their frames maddened. Their spirits on the foe. They
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Speaker 1: leapt like furious bust that in the storm of raids,
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Speaker 1: soupon bees beholding them draw nigh in latter summer to
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Speaker 1: the mellowing greeps, or from their eyes forth streaming tiller words.
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Speaker 1: So fiercely let these sons of Troy to meet war
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Speaker 1: heartened dreeks. The Black Fate's joyed to see their conflict.
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Speaker 1: Arius laughed, eno yelled horrible wow. Their glancing armor clanged.
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Speaker 1: They stabbed, They hewed down hosts of folds untold with
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Speaker 1: irresistible hands. The reeling ranks fell as the somoth falls
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Speaker 1: in the harvest heat. When the swift handed reapers ranged
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Speaker 1: down the field's long furrows ply, the sickle fast so
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Speaker 1: fell before their hands. Ranks numberless, but Corpse's earth was
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Speaker 1: heaped with torrent blood was streaming strife. Incarnad of the
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Speaker 1: Slain cloated. They paused not from the awful toil, but
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Speaker 1: I pressed on, like lions chasing sheep, then turned the
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Speaker 1: creeks to craven flight. All feet unmained as yet fled
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Speaker 1: from the murderous war. I followed on Antises warrior, sudden,
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Speaker 1: smiting foes packs with his avenging spear, on pressed your amacus,
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Speaker 1: while clothed the heart of healer Apollo, watching from on high,
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Speaker 1: as when a man scries a herd of swine, drawn
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Speaker 1: nigh his whitening corn, before the sheaves fall neath the
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Speaker 1: reaper's hands, and hearkeneth on against them his strong dogs.
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Speaker 1: As down they rush, the spoilers see and quake. No
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Speaker 1: more they think of feasting, but they turn in panic flight,
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Speaker 1: huddling fast, followed at their heels, the hounds biting remorselessly,
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Speaker 1: while long and loud squealing, they flee and choice the
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Speaker 1: harvest lord, so rejoiced Phoebus, seeing from the war fleeing
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Speaker 1: the mighty arg I host. No more they cared for
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Speaker 1: the deeds of men, but cry to the gods for
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Speaker 1: swift feet, in whose feet alone was hoped to escape
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Speaker 1: Eurymachus and Aeneas spears which lightened ever along their rear.
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Speaker 1: But one Greek, overtrusting his strength or by fate's malice
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Speaker 1: to destruction, drawn curb did, mid flight from wars turmoil
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Speaker 1: his steed, and strove to wheel him round into the
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Speaker 1: fight to face the foe. But fierce a jenar thrust
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Speaker 1: ere he was ware his true edged part his hand
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Speaker 1: shore through the shoulder. Hey, the very bone of that
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Speaker 1: gast arm was cloven by the steel. The tendant parted
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Speaker 1: the vain spirited blood down by his horse's neck. He
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Speaker 1: slid and straight fell mith a dead, but still the
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Speaker 1: strong arm hung with rigid fingers locked about the reins
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Speaker 1: like a live man's weird marvel. Was that sight, the
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Speaker 1: bloody hand, the town hanging from the rein scared the
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Speaker 1: foes yet more by Airy's will, thou hast said it
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Speaker 1: craveth still for horsemanship. So pare the steed that sign
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Speaker 1: of his slain lord. Aeneas hurled his spear. It found
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Speaker 1: the waist of Anthala's son. It pierced the navel through,
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Speaker 1: dragging the innerge with it stretched into the dust. Clutching
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Speaker 1: with agonite handed steel and powels, horribly shrieked, He tore
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Speaker 1: with his teeth the earthing, till life and pain forsook
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Speaker 1: the man, scared with the argives like a startled team
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Speaker 1: of hocks, beneath the YopE and straining hard. What time
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Speaker 1: the sharp fanged cad fly stings their flanks, athirst for blood,
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Speaker 1: and they, in frenzy of pain, start from the furrow
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Speaker 1: and sore, disquieted behind is for hard work and for
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Speaker 1: their sake. Lest haply the recoiling plowshare light on their
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Speaker 1: legs in news and hamstring his team. So were the
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Speaker 1: Dannians scared, so feared for their achilles son and shouted thunder,
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Speaker 1: voiced cravens. Why flee like starling's nothing worth? Scared by
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Speaker 1: a hawk that soupeth down on them? Come pay the
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Speaker 1: men better. It is far to die and war than
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Speaker 1: choose on manly flight. Then to his cry, they heartened
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Speaker 1: and straightway were of good heart, mighty of mood. He
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Speaker 1: leaped upon the Trojans, Swinging in his hand. The lightning
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Speaker 1: spear swept after him. His host of murmured arms with
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Speaker 1: hearts swelled with the strength resistance of a tempest. So
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Speaker 1: the Greeks won a breathing space with fury like his sires,
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Speaker 1: one another slew he of the foe. Recoiling back, they
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Speaker 1: fell as waves on, rolled by boreous foaming from the
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Speaker 1: deep to the strand all caught by another blast that
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Speaker 1: whirlwent like leaps in a short lull of the north
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Speaker 1: wind forth smites them full face and hurls them back
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Speaker 1: from the shore, so them that erewhile on the Tannian's
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Speaker 1: pressed tad like achilles Son, now backward, hurled a short space,
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Speaker 1: only brave when near spirit let him not flee, but
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Speaker 1: made him by the fight fearlessly, and Ino level held
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Speaker 1: the battle scales, yet not against the NEAs achilles Son
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Speaker 1: upraised his father's spear, but elsewhither turned his fury in
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Speaker 1: reverence for Afridi, he that his splendor held, turned from
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Speaker 1: that man her mighty sun, Son's rage and giant strength
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Speaker 1: on other hosts of foes. There he slew many a Trojan,
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Speaker 1: while the ranks of Greeks were ravaged, Bionea's hand over
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Speaker 1: the battle slain. The vultures joyed, hungry to rend the
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Speaker 1: hearts and flesh of men. But all the nymphs were
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Speaker 1: welling daughters born of Zanthus and fair flowing samoas soul
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Speaker 1: toil they in the fight. The wind's breath rolled huge
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Speaker 1: dust clouds up. The illimitable air was one thick haze,
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Speaker 1: as with a sudden mist, earth disappeared, faces were blotted out,
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Speaker 1: Yet still they fought on each man whomso he met
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Speaker 1: ruthlessly slew him, though his very friend, it might be
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Speaker 1: in that turmoil, none could tell who met him friend
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Speaker 1: off o Pine Wilderman mssed the host, and now had
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Speaker 1: all been blent, confusedly, had perished miserably, all falling by
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Speaker 1: their fellow's murderous swords, had not Cronian from Olympus helped
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Speaker 1: their sore strait. He swept as high the dust of conflict.
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Speaker 1: He calmed those deadly winds. Yet still the host fought on,
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Speaker 1: but lighter far their battle. Tapail was who now discerned
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Speaker 1: whom in the fray to smite and whom to spare.
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Speaker 1: The Danians now forced back the Trojan host. The Trojans,
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Speaker 1: now the Tannian ranks, as swayed the dread fight to
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Speaker 1: and fro from either side, darts leapt and fell like
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Speaker 1: snowflakes far away. Shepherds from either trembling, watched the strife,
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Speaker 1: and to the heaven Empires lifted hands of supplication, praying
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Speaker 1: that all their foes might perish, and that from woeful
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Speaker 1: war Troy might win breathing space and see at last
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Speaker 1: the day of freedom. The gods hearkened not far other issues.
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Speaker 1: Fate devised nor wrecked of Zeus the Almighty Y, nor
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Speaker 1: of none beside of the immortals. Her unpitying soul cares
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Speaker 1: not what doom she spinneth with her thread inevitable be
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Speaker 1: it for men who born our cities. All things wax
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Speaker 1: and wigan through her. So by her has the battle
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Speaker 1: tatheil swelled to extrosen Chariot lords and Greeks that closed
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Speaker 1: and grapple of fight, they dealt each other death ruthlessly.
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Speaker 1: No man quelled, but stout of heart fought on for
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Speaker 1: courage fast men into war. But now when many had
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Speaker 1: perished in the dust, then did the argive might Prepael
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Speaker 1: at last by stern decree of Pallace. For she came
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Speaker 1: into the heart of battle hat to help the Greeks
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Speaker 1: to lay waste Priam's glorious town. Then Aphrodite, who lamented
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Speaker 1: sore for Paris slain, snatched suddenly away, renowned and ne
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Speaker 1: Us from the deadly strife, and poured thick mist about
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Speaker 1: him faith, forbade that hero any longer to contend with
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Speaker 1: Argive fold without the high built wall. Yeay and his
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Speaker 1: mother sorely feared the wrath of Pallace. Passing wise, whose
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Speaker 1: heart was keen to help the Danians, now yea feared
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Speaker 1: lest she might slay him even beyond his doom. Who
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Speaker 1: spared not Harry's self a mightier far than he no
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Speaker 1: more the trojans thou abode the edge of fight, But
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Speaker 1: all disheartened backward drew, For like fierce ravening beasts, the
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Speaker 1: argive men leapt on them, mad with murderous rage of war,
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Speaker 1: chounk with their slain the river channels were heaped. Was
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Speaker 1: the field in red dost Thousands fell horses and men,
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Speaker 1: and chariots overturned were strewn there. Blood was streaming all
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Speaker 1: around like rain. For deadly doom raised through the fray.
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Speaker 1: Men stabb'd with swords, and men impelled on spears lay
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Speaker 1: confusedly like scattered beams. When on the strand of low
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Speaker 1: thundering sea, men from great girders of a tall ship's
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Speaker 1: hull strike out with bolts and clamps, and scatter wide
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Speaker 1: long planks and timbers, till the whole broad beaches paved
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Speaker 1: with beams or plast with dartling surge. So lay and
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Speaker 1: dust and blood. Those slaughtered men capture in pain of
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Speaker 1: fight forgotten. Now a remnant from the piteous strife escaped
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Speaker 1: entered the stronghold, scarce, eluding doom children and wise from
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Speaker 1: their limbs. Blood resprent received, their arms be dabbed with
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Speaker 1: foul gore, and paths for all were heated. Leeches ran
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Speaker 1: through all the town in hot haste, to the homes
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Speaker 1: of wounded men, to minister to their hurts. Here wives
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Speaker 1: and daughters moaned round. Men come back from war, there,
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Speaker 1: cried on many who came not here. Here, men stung
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Speaker 1: to the souls by bitter pangs, groaned upon beds of pain.
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Speaker 1: There toil spent men turned them to supper. Weny the
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Speaker 1: swift steeds and neighed all mangers heaped by tent and
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Speaker 1: ships far off. The Greeks did, even as they have Troy.
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Speaker 1: When all the streams of ocean dawn drove up with
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Speaker 1: her splendor, flashing steeds, and Earth's tribes waked. Then the
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Speaker 1: strong ugised battle. Eager sons marched against Priam's city, lofty towered,
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Speaker 1: save some that amid the tents by wounded men carried
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Speaker 1: lest haply raiders on the ships might fall to help
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Speaker 1: the Trojans. While these fought the foe from towers, while
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Speaker 1: rose the flame of war before the Skai and gait
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Speaker 1: fort Capiacea's sun and god like thy ordinees high above
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Speaker 1: the if itbus. Battle's staunch and strong Polias with many
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Speaker 1: comrades stealthily held them back with harrows and huge stones
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Speaker 1: clanged evermore. The smitten helms and shielded fence strong men
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Speaker 1: from bitter doom and unrelenting fate. Before the gah Day
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Speaker 1: and Achilles Son set and array the fight around him,
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Speaker 1: toiled his host of battle, cunning merman Hans Helenus and
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Speaker 1: a genore gallant sold down, helding tarts against them, held
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Speaker 1: a wall aye cheering on their men, no spurring. These
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Speaker 1: needed to fight hard for the country's walls. Odysseus and
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Speaker 1: you riplus made a salt unresting on the gates that
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Speaker 1: faced the plane and looked to the swift ships from
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Speaker 1: wall and tower with huge stones braveniaths me defense in battle,
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Speaker 1: stressed by Samoa's terser toiled each endured hardness at his
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Speaker 1: several posts, then round wore wise Odysseus men renound by
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Speaker 1: that great captain's battle, cunning ruled locked shills together, raised
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Speaker 1: them off their heads, ranged side by side, that many
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Speaker 1: were made of one thou hast said it was a
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Speaker 1: great hall's solid roof which no tempestuous wind, plast misty
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Speaker 1: wet can pierce, nor rain from heaven in torrents poured
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Speaker 1: so fenced about with shills firms stood the ranks of
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Speaker 1: hard eyves, one in heart for fight, and one in
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Speaker 1: that array close welded from above. The Trojans held great
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Speaker 1: stone as from a rock, rolled these to earth, full,
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Speaker 1: many a spear and dart, and calling javelin. In the
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Speaker 1: pierced shields stood some men Earth stood. Many glanced away
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Speaker 1: with bent points, falling, paffled from the shields, battered on
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Speaker 1: all sides, But that clangaris Din none feared, None flinched
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Speaker 1: as pattering drops of rain. They heard it upon the
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Speaker 1: rampart's foot. They marched. None hung back shoulder till shoulder on.
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Speaker 1: They came, like a long lurid cloud that o'er the
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Speaker 1: sky Cronian trails in wild midwinter tide. On that battalion
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Speaker 1: moved with thunderous tread of tramping feet a little above.
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Speaker 1: The earth rose up the dust. The breeze slutted it aside,
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Speaker 1: drifting away behind them heng there went a sound confused
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Speaker 1: of voices with them like the hum of bees that
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Speaker 1: murmur round the hives, and multitudinous panting, and the gasping
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Speaker 1: of men, hard breathing, seemingly glad. The sons of Atreus,
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Speaker 1: glorying in them, saw off that wall, unwavering of doomed,
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Speaker 1: denouncing war, in one tense mass against the city gate.
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Speaker 1: They hurled themselves with tribills, strove to break the long
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Speaker 1: walls from their hinges, to upheath the gates, and pashed
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Speaker 1: to earth. The pulse of hope beat strong in those
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Speaker 1: proud hearts, but nought have held Targus north Evers, when
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Speaker 1: Aneas might swung in his hands a stone like a thunderbolt,
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Speaker 1: hurled it with uttermost strength, and tashed to death all
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Speaker 1: whom caught it beneath the shields, as when a mountain's
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Speaker 1: precipice edge breaks off and falls on pasturing goats, and
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Speaker 1: all that graze thereby tremble saw where those Taddians dazed
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Speaker 1: with tread stone after stone he hurled on the reeling banks,
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Speaker 1: as when amid the hills Olympian Zeus, with thunderbolts and
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Speaker 1: blazing lightning, runs from their foundations, crags that rim up
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Speaker 1: heak this way, and that he sends them hurtling down.
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Speaker 1: Then flocks tremble, scattering in wild flight, So quell the Achaeans.
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Speaker 1: When Aneus dashed to sudden fragments, all that battle wall
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Speaker 1: molded of adamand shields, because a god gave more than
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Speaker 1: human strength. No man of them could lift his eyes
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Speaker 1: unto him in that fight, because the arms that lapped
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Speaker 1: his sinewy limbs flashed like heaven board lightnings at his side,
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Speaker 1: stood all his form divine in darkness, cloak, eerries, the
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Speaker 1: terrible and wing the flight of what pared down to
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Speaker 1: the Archive's tomb or tread. He fought as when Olympian
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Speaker 1: Zeus himself from heaven in wraths, smote down the insolent
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Speaker 1: pans of giants grim and shook the boundless earth and
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Speaker 1: sea and ocean and heavens, when reeled the knees of
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Speaker 1: Atlas neath the rush of Zeus so crumbled down neath
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Speaker 1: the nias bolts, the Archives squadrons all along the wall,
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Speaker 1: wroth with foemen, rushed teeth his hands whatso he lighted
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Speaker 1: on in onset haste hurled He for many a battle,
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Speaker 1: slaying bolt lay on the walls of those staunch darting
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Speaker 1: men with such a near stormed and giant might, with
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Speaker 1: such drave packed the thronging foes all round. The Trojans
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Speaker 1: plagued the men sore travail in pain, had folk round
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Speaker 1: the city. Then he fell argives and trojans rang the battle.
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Speaker 1: Cries Aeneus cheer'd the war fane Trojans on to fight
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Speaker 1: for home, for wives and their own souls with good
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Speaker 1: heart war staunch achilly Son shouted, whence naughty argeys from
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Speaker 1: the walls, till troyd be taken and sink down in flames.
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Speaker 1: And round these twain and awful, measureless roar rang pay
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Speaker 1: long as they fought. No breathing space came from the
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Speaker 1: war to them whose spirits burned these to smite Ilium,
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Speaker 1: those to guard her safe. But from an eas valiant
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Speaker 1: soul'd a far fort aass speeding amidst the men of
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Speaker 1: Troy winged death. For now his arrows straight through air,
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Speaker 1: flew now his deadly dart and smote them down one
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Speaker 1: after one. Yet others cowered away before his peerless powers
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Speaker 1: and abold the fight no more, but fenceless left the wall.
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Speaker 1: Then one of all the Locrians, the mightiest, fierce soul'd alcimedon,
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Speaker 1: trusting in his prince and his own might and valor
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Speaker 1: of his youth all battle. Eager on a ladder, set
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Speaker 1: swift feet to pay for friends, a death strewn path
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Speaker 1: into the town. Above his head, he razed the screaming
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Speaker 1: shield up that tread path he went, hardening his heart
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Speaker 1: from trembling in his hand. Now shook the threatening spear.
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Speaker 1: Now upward, climbed past high in air, he trod the
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Speaker 1: perilous way. Now on the Trojans had disaster come, But
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Speaker 1: even as above the parrot had his head rose, and
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Speaker 1: for the first time and the last, from her high
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Speaker 1: rampart he looked down on Troy and he ass who
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Speaker 1: had marked albeit from afar that pulled the salt rushed
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Speaker 1: on him, dashed on his head. So you just stone
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Speaker 1: that that hero's mighty strength shattered the ladder down from
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Speaker 1: on high he rushed, as arrow from the string death
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Speaker 1: follow him. As whirling round he fell with air, was
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Speaker 1: blent his lost life ere he crashed through the stony ground.
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Speaker 1: Strong spear, broad shield in big fall, flew from his
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Speaker 1: hands and from his head the helm, his corselet came
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Speaker 1: alone with him to earth. The Locrian men groaned, seeing
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Speaker 1: their champion quelled by evil doom, for all his hair
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Speaker 1: and all the stones around were blood bespattered, all his
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Speaker 1: bones were crushed, and his once active limbs besprent with gore.
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Speaker 1: Then god like the oas war triumphs sun marked where
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Speaker 1: he has stormed along the wall in lion like strength,
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Speaker 1: and straightway shot a shaft aimed at that glorious hero,
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Speaker 1: neither missed the man, yet not through his unyielding tards
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Speaker 1: to that fair fleshed one being turned aside by Cytherea
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Speaker 1: and the shield, but grazed the butler lightly, Yet not
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Speaker 1: all in vain fell earthward, But between the targ and
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Speaker 1: helm smote meat on from the tower he fell as
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Speaker 1: falls a wild goat from a crag, the hunter's shaft
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Speaker 1: deep in his heart, so nerveless flung, he fell and
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Speaker 1: fled away from him the precious life thought for his
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Speaker 1: friend a stone, and he has hurled and philopt tight
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Speaker 1: his stalwart comrades slew torturemus for he shattered his head
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Speaker 1: and cursed helmet and skull bones, and his noble heart
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Speaker 1: was still loud, shouted princely Paway's son An, Yes, thou,
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Speaker 1: forsooth dost deem thyself a mighty champion fighting from a tower.
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Speaker 1: What's craving women wore with poles? If now thou be
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Speaker 1: a man, come forth without the wall in battle harness,
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Speaker 1: and so learned to know in spearcraft and in poe craft.
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Speaker 1: Poeas sun so cried he But Antis's valiant seed, how
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Speaker 1: faint so had not answered, for the stress and desperate
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Speaker 1: conflict round that Woldenburg, ceaselessly raging. Pause from fight was none, yea,
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Speaker 1: for a long time, no respite had there been for
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Speaker 1: the war weary from that endless toil. End of Chapter eleven,