escaped gloomy fate, but Vulcan
snatched him away, and saved him, having enveloped him in darkness, that
the old man might not be altogether sad. But the son of magnanimous
Tydeus having taken the horses, gave them to his companions to lead to
the hollow ships. When the magnanimous Trojans beheld the sons of Dares,
the one[196] flying, the other slain at the chariot, the hearts of all
were discomfited. But azure-eyed Minerva, seizing him by the hand, thus
addressed impetuous Mars: "Mars, Mars, man-slayer, gore-stained, stormer
of walls, should we not suffer the Trojans and the Greeks to fight, to
which side soever father Jove may give glory; but let us retire, and
avoid the wrath of Jove?"

Thus having said, she led impetuous Mars from the battle, and afterwards
seated him on grassy[197] Scamander. Then the Greeks turned the Trojans
to flight, and each of the leaders slew his man. First Agamemnon, king
of men, hurled from his chariot huge Hodius, chief of the Halizonians.
For in the back of him first turned [in flight], between his shoulders
he fixed the spear, and drove it through his breast; and falling, he
made a crash, and his arms resounded upon him.

But next Idomeneus killed Phaestus, the son of Maeonian Borus, who had
come from fertile Tarne. Him, just as he was mounting his chariot,[198]
spear-famed Idomeneus, with his long lance, wounded in the right
shoulder: he fell from his chariot, and hateful darkness seized him.
Then the attendants of Idomeneus despoiled him of his arms.

[Footnote 196: observe the construction by apposition, soph. ant.
21: [Greek: to kasigneto, ton men protisas, ton d' atimasas
echei].--561: to paide phemi tode ten men artios anoun pephathai,
ten d' aph' ou ta prot' ephy.]

[Footnote 197: see buttm. lexil. p. 324, sqq.]

[Footnote 198: i shall generally adopt this translation of
[Greek: ippoi], with anthon.]

Menelaus, the son of Atreus, slew with his sharp[199] spear Scamandrius,
son of Strophius, clever in the chase, an excellent huntsman; for Diana
herself taught him to shoot all kinds of beasts, which the wood in the
mountains nurtures. But then at least arrow-rejoicing Diana availed him
not, nor his skill in distant shooting, in which he had been formerly
instructed. But spear-renowned Menelaus, son of Atreus, wounded him,
flying before him, with a spear in the back, between the shoulders, and
drove [the spear] through his breast. Prone he fell, and his a