ves shouted
aloud, and dragged the bodies away: then they rushed farther forward;
and Apollo was enraged, looking down from Pergamus; and, shouting out,
exhorted the Trojans:

[Footnote 191: Priam had a stud at Abydos, on the Asiatic coast
of the Hellespont.--Scholiast.]

"Arouse ye, ye horse-breaking Trojans, nor yield the battle to the
Greeks; since their flesh is not of stone, nor of iron, that when they
are struck, it should withstand the flesh-rending brass; neither does
Achilles, the son of fair-haired Thetis, fight, but at the ships he
nourishes his vexatious spleen."

Thus spoke the dreadful god from the city. But most glorious Tritonian
Pallas, the daughter of Jove, going through the host, roused the Greeks
wherever she saw them relaxing.

Then fate ensnared Diores, son of Amarynceus; for he was struck with a
jagged hand-stone, at the ankle, on the right leg; but Pirus, son of
Imbrasus, who came from AEnos, the leader of the Thracian warriors,
struck him. The reckless stone entirely crushed both tendons and bones;
supine in the dust he fell, stretching forth both hands to his dear
companions, and breathing forth his soul. But Pirus, he who struck him,
ran up, and pierced him in the navel with his spear; and thereupon all
his entrails poured forth upon the ground, and darkness veiled his eyes.

But him[192] AEtolian Thoas struck, rushing on with his spear, in the
breast over the pap, and the brass was fastened in his lungs: Thoas came
near to him, and drew the mighty spear out of his breast; then he
unsheathed his sharp sword, and with it smote him in the midst of the
belly, and took away his life. But he did not spoil him of his armour,
for his companions stood round him, the hair-tufted Thracians, holding
long spears in their hands, who drove him from them, though being
mighty, and valiant, and glorious; but he, retreating, was repulsed with
force. Thus these two were stretched in the dust near to each other;
Pirus, indeed, the leader of the Thracians, and Diores, the leader of
the brazen-mailed Epeans; and many others also were slain around.

Then no longer could any man, having come into the field, find fault
with the action, who, even as yet neither wounded from distant
blows,[193] nor pierced close at hand with the sharp brass, might be
busied in the midst, and whom spear-brandishing Minerva might lead,
taking him by the hand, and might avert from him the violence of the
darts; for many of the