on Soph. oed. R. 176; oed. Col. 127.]

[Footnote 520: _I.e._ "atra mors," Tibull. i. 3, 5. Cf. vs. 370:
[Greek: thanatou melan nephos].]

Then Peneleus and Lycon engaged in close combat, for they had missed
each other with their spears, and both had hurled in vain;[521]
therefore they ran on again with their swords; then Lycon on his part
struck the cone of the horse-hair-crested helmet, and the sword was
broken at the hilt.

[Footnote 521: On [Greek: meleos] see Kennedy. Suidas: [Greek: O
men Poietes] (_i.e._ Homer) [Greek: epi tou mataiou endechetai to
Meleos oi de tragikoi, epi tou oiktrou.] So Hesych. [Greek:
meleos' mataios].]

But Peneleus smote him in the neck below the ear, and the whole sword
entered, and the skin alone retained it: the head hung down, and his
limbs were relaxed.

Meriones also, overtaking him with rapid feet, wounded Acamas in the
right shoulder, as he was about to ascend his chariot; and he fell from
his chariot, and darkness was poured over his eyes.

But Idomeneus struck Erymas in the mouth with the pitiless brass; and
the brazen weapon passed right through from the opposite side down under
the brain, and then cleft the white bones. And his teeth were dashed
out, and both eyes were filled with gore, which, gaping, he forced[522]
out from his mouth and from his nostrils; and the black cloud of death
enveloped him. Thus these leaders of the Greeks slew each a man. And as
destructive wolves impetuously rush on lambs or kids, snatching them
from the flocks, which are dispersed upon the mountains by the
negligence of the shepherd; but they, perceiving them, immediately tear
in pieces them, having an unwarlike heart: so did the Greeks rush upon
the Trojans, but they were mindful of dire-sounding flight, and forgot
resolute valour. But mighty Ajax ever longed to aim his javelin at
brazen-armed Hector; but he, from his skill in war, covering himself as
to his broad shoulders with a bull's-hide shield, watched the hissing of
the arrows and the whizzing of the javelins. Already indeed he knew the
victory of battle was inclining to the other side; yet even thus he
remained, and saved his beloved companions.

[Footnote 522: Made to rush with a bubbling noise, the verb here
"expressing the _violent streaming_ of a liquid." See Buttm.
Lexil. p. 484; and compare my note on AEsch. Ag. p. 137, n. 2, ed.
Bohn.]

And as when from Olympus comes a cloud into heaven,[523