ds, seeking honour for the sons of Atreus, Agamemnon
and Menelaus: but there the end of death overshadowed them.

[Footnote 216: Such seems to be the force of the plural [Greek:
bias].]

[Footnote 217: "Ascending, while the north wind sleeps."--Milton,
P. L. ii. 489.]

[Footnote 218: I. e. be ashamed to fly or give way. Compare
Plato, Sympos. p. 317, F. G. ed. Laem., where he dwells upon the
advantages of friends fighting together, as rendering men ashamed
of any cowardly action.]

[Footnote 219: This construction with the genitive is very common
in Latin. Virg. Georg. ii. 468: "dives opum." AEn. i. 18; Hor. Ep.
ii. 2, 31; Od. iv. 8, 5; Silius, i. 393.]

They two,[220] just as two lions have been reared under their dam, amid
the thickets of a deep wood, on a mountain's heights; they in process of
time seizing oxen and fat sheep, lay waste the stalls of men, till at
length they are themselves killed by the hands of men with the sharp
brass; such these two, subdued by the hands of AEneas, fell like lofty
firs. Then Menelaus, brave in the din of war, pitied them fallen, and
went through the van, equipped in shining brass, brandishing his spear;
for Mars kindled his strength, with the design that he should be subdued
by the hands of AEneas.

But him Antilochus, son of magnanimous Nestor, beheld, and proceeded
through the van, for he feared much for the shepherd of the people, lest
he should suffer anything, and greatly disappoint them of [the fruits
of] their labour. And now they were stretching forth their hands and
sharp spears against each other, eager to fight; but Antilochus stood
very near the shepherd[221] of the people. But AEneas, though a brisk
warrior, remained not, when he beheld the two heroes standing near each
other. When, therefore, they had drawn the dead bodies[222] to the
people of the Greeks, they gave the miserable pair into the hands of
their companions; and they themselves, returning back, fought in the
van.

[Footnote 220: The order is, [Greek: toge, oio leonte dyo].
Anthon refers to Kuehner 1. 443, 4, p. 97, Jelf's Translation.]

[Footnote 221: See note on ver. 50.]

[Footnote 222: Of the sons of Diocles.]

Then they slew Pylaemenes, equal to Mars, general of the magnanimous
shielded Paphlagonians. Him indeed the son of Atreus, spear-renowned
Menelaus, wounded with a spear as he stood, having smote him on the
collar-bone. But Antilochus on hi