stom, cf. ix. 146, xviii. 593.]

[Footnote 371: The name and fate of this hero unclassically
remind us of the "gone coon" of American celebrity, immortalized
in the "at homes" of the late Charles Matthews.]

[Footnote 372: "The Scholiasts and Eustathius explain this
epithet by the received opinion that trees in exposed situations
are usually the strongest and most vigorous from their frequent
agitation by the wind."--Kennedy.]

Thus he spoke; and the charioteer lashed on the fair-maned steeds
towards the hollow ships; and they, not unwilling, flew. They were
covered with foam as to their breasts, and were sprinkled beneath with
dust, as they bore the afflicted king apart from the battle. But Hector,
when he observed Agamemnon going apart, exhorted both the Trojans and
Lycians, shouting aloud:

"Ye Trojans, Lycians, and close-fighting Dardanians, be men, my friends,
and be mindful of impetuous might. The bravest hero has departed, and
Saturnian Jove has given great glory to me. But straightway urge your
solid-hoofed horses against the gallant Greeks, that ye may bear off
higher glory."

Thus saying, he aroused the courage and spirit of each. As when
perchance some huntsman should urge his white-toothed dogs against a
rustic wild boar or lion; so Hector, the son of Priam, equal to
man-slaughtering Mars, urged the magnanimous Trojans against the Greeks.
He himself, having mighty courage, advanced among the first, and rushed
into the battle, like unto a storm blowing from above, and which rushing
down, stirs up the purple deep.

Then whom first and whom last, did Hector, son of Priam, slay, when Jove
gave him glory? Assaeus indeed first, and Autonoues, and Opites, and
Dolops, son of Clytis, and Opheltius, and Agelaus, and AEsymnus, and
Orus, and Hipponoues, persevering in fight. These leaders of the Greeks
he then slew, and afterwards the common crowd; as when the west wind
drives to and fro the clouds of the impetuous[373] south, lashing them
with an impetuous blast, and many a swollen[374] billow is rolled along,
whilst the foam is scattered on high by the far-straying blast of the
wind; thus were many heads of the people subdued by Hector. Then indeed
would there have been ruin; and inevitable deeds had been done, and the
flying Greeks had fallen in flight into their ships, had not Ulysses
encouraged Diomede, the son of Tydeus:

"Son of Tydeus, through what cause are we forgetful of impetuous