g around on
all sides, lest any one should touch his body[439] with a spear.
Meriones, however, shot a brazen-pointed arrow at him retreating, and
struck him upon the right hip, and the arrow penetrated to the other
side, through the bladder, below the bone. Sinking down, therefore, in
the same place, breathing out his life in the arms of his beloved
companions, like a worm, he lay stretched upon the ground, whilst his
black blood flowed, and moistened the earth. Around him the magnanimous
Paphlagonians were employed, and, lifting him upon a chariot, they bore
him to sacred Ilium, grieving; and with them went his father, shedding
tears: but no vengeance was taken for his dead son.

[Footnote 439: As the usual construction of [Greek: epanrein] is
with a genitive, Heyne would supply [Greek: me tis epaure autou
kata chroa].]

But Paris was greatly enraged in his soul on account of his being slain,
for he had been his guest among many Paphlagonians; wherefore, enraged
on his account, he sent forth a brazen arrow. Now there was one
Euchenor, son of the diviner Polyidus, wealthy and brave, inhabiting a
dwelling at Corinth, who, well knowing his fatal destiny, had arrived in
a ship. For often had Polyidus, good old man, told him, that he would
perish in his halls of a grievous disease, or be subdued by the Trojans
among the ships of the Greeks; wherefore he avoided at once the severe
mulct[440] of the Achaeans, and odious disease, that he might not suffer
sorrows in his mind. Him he (Paris) smote below the jaw and the ear; and
his spirit quickly departed from his members, and hateful darkness
seized him.

Thus indeed they fought like[441] unto a burning fire. But Hector, dear
to Jove, had not learned, nor knew at all, how at the left of the ships
his people were being slaughtered by the Greeks, for the victory was on
the point of being the Grecians'; so much did earth-shaking Neptune
encourage the Greeks, and moreover himself assisted with his strength;
but he (Hector) pressed on where first he had sprung within the gates
and wall, breaking the thick ranks of the shielded Greeks. There were
the ships of Ajax and Protesilaus, drawn up upon the shore of the hoary
sea; but above[442] them the wall was built very low; there themselves
and their horses were most impetuous in the combat. There[443] the
Boeotians and long-robed Iaonians, the Locrians, the Phthians, and the
illustrious Epeans, restrained him from the ships