n, whom Patroclus was about to slay in fertile-soiled Troy, far away
from his native land.

[Footnote 531: There is a similar prodigy in Hesiod, Scut. Here.
384: [Greek: Kadd' ar' ap' ouranothen psiadas balen aimatoessas,
Sema titheis polemoio eo megatharsei paidi]. Tzetzes there refers
to the present passage, regarding it as ominous of the death of
Sarpedon. Cf. Lomeier, De Lustrationibus, xii. p. 143.]

But when, advancing, they were now near each other, then indeed
Patroclus [struck] illustrious Thrasymelus, who was the brave companion
of king Sarpedon, him he struck upon the lower part of the belly, and
relaxed his limbs. Then Sarpedon, attacking second, missed him with his
splendid javelin; but he wounded his horse Pedasus, with his spear, in
the right shoulder; but he groaned, breathing out his life, and fell in
the dust, moaning, and his spirit fled from him. But the two [other
steeds] leaped asunder, and the yoke crashed, and the reins were
entangled about them, when the side horse lay in the dust. But
spear-renowned Automedon found an end of this. Drawing his long sword
from his robust thigh, rising, he cut away the farther horse, nor did he
act slothfully. And the two [remaining horses] were set aright, and were
directed by the reins; and they [the men] again engage in life-devouring
combat.

Then again Sarpedon missed [him] with his shining spear, and the point
of the weapon passed over the left shoulder of Patroclus, nor did it
wound him. But Patroclus rushed on with his javelin, and the weapon did
not escape in vain from his hand, for he struck him where the midriff
encloses the compact[532] heart. And he fell, as when falls some oak, or
poplar, or lofty pine, which the workmen fell in the mountains with
newly-sharpened axes, to be a naval timber: so he lay stretched out
before his horses and chariot, gnashing with his teeth, grasping the
bloody dust. As a lion slays a bull, coming among a herd, tawny,
noble-spirited, among the stamping[533] oxen, and he perishes,
bellowing, beneath the jaws of the lion; so the leader of the shielded
Lycians was indignant,[534] being slain by Patroclus, and addressed his
dear companion by name:

[Footnote 532: "By comparing the different uses of [Greek:
adinos] together, one thing is clear, that all the meanings which
can occur in them, proceed from one, which is that in the epithet
of the heart, _dense_ or _compact_, which physical idea the w