s, and Polites
Echius, in the van, and noble Agenor slew Klonius. Paris also wounded
Deiochous in the extremity of the shoulder from behind, whilst he was
flying amongst the foremost combatants; and drove the brass quite
through.

[Footnote 493: "Nube candentes humeros amictus, Augur
Apollo."--Hor. Od. 2, 31.]

[Footnote 494: Cf. ii. 448. Literally, "shaggy, rugged, with
fringes around."]

[Footnote 495: Cf. Buttm. Lexil. p. 89, whose translation of
[Greek: nyktos amolgo] I have followed.]

Whilst they were spoiling these of their armour, the Greeks in the
meantime falling into the dug trench and stakes, fled here and there;
and from necessity entered within the rampart. But Hector, shouting
aloud, exhorted the Trojans to rush upon the ships, and to let go the
bloody spoils: "And whatever person I[496] shall perceive apart from the
ships anywhere, there will I cause his death; nor indeed shall his male
and female relatives make him when dead partaker of a funeral pile, but
dogs shall tear him before our city."

[Footnote 496: Observe this sudden and animated change of person,
which has been noticed by Longinus, xxvii. and Dionys. Halic. de
Hom. Poes. Sec. 8. This irregularity is very common in the Greek
Testament. Cf. Luke v. 14; Acts i. 4; xvii. 3; xxiii. 22; xxv. 8;
with the notes of Kuinoel and Pricaeus.]

So saying, with the lash upon the shoulder he drove on his horses
against the ranks, cheering on the Trojans; but they all shouting along
with him, directed their car-drawing steeds with a mighty clamour. But
Phoebus Apollo in front of them, easily overthrowing the banks of the
deep ditch with his feet, cast [them] into the middle; and bridged a
causeway long and wide, as far as the cast of a spear reaches, when a
man, making trial of his strength, hurls it. In that way they poured
onward by troops, and Apollo [went] before them, holding the
highly-prized aegis. But he overthrew the wall of the Greeks very easily,
as when any boy does the sand from the shore; who, when amusing himself
in childishness he has made playthings, again destroys them with his
feet and hands. Thus, O archer Phoebus, didst thou destroy the great
labour and toil of the Greeks, and didst excite flight amongst
themselves. In this manner indeed, remaining, they were penned up at the
ships; animating each other, and raising up their hands to all the gods,
they each loudly offered vows. But the guardian of