men,
who, being angry with a soul-destroying strife, proceeding into the
middle of the way, chide each other with many things true and not true:
for rage also suggests those things?[658] With words, however, thou
shalt not turn me, courageous, from my valour, before thou lightest
against me with thy brass; but come, quickly let us make trial of each
other with brazen spears."

[Footnote 652: On Dardanus, the eponymus of Dardania, see Grote,
vol. i. p. 387, where the whole legend of Troy is admirably
discussed. Cf. Virg. AEn. i. 292; iii. 167, where the Roman poet
has made use of Homer in tracing the pedigree of AEneas to Jove.]

[Footnote 653: This hyperbole has been emulated by numberless
poets. Cf. Oppian, Cyn. i. 231; Apollon. Rh. i. 183; Quintus
Calab. viii. 156; Virg. AEn. vii. 808; Claudian in 3rd Cons. Hon.
i. 97.]

[Footnote 654: Cf. Pindar, Ol. i. 69, and Serv. on AEn. i. 32.]

[Footnote 655: Compare the Latin phrase, "plaustra convitiorum,"
and Duport, p. 116.]

[Footnote 656: [Greek: Strepte--ygra kai eylygistos].--Eustath.]

[Footnote 657: [Greek: Nomos, epinemesis eph' ekateoa].--Eustath.
See Kennedy.]

[Footnote 658: "_I.e._ prompts to utter all sorts of things, true
and false."--Oxf. Tr.]

He spoke, and hurled his brazen spear against the dreadful shield,
terrible [to be seen], and the huge buckler resounded with the stroke of
the javelin. But the son of Peleus, alarmed, held the shield from him
with his strong hand, for he supposed that the long spear of
great-hearted AEneas would easily penetrate; foolish! nor did he reflect
in his mind and soul, that the glorious gifts of the gods are not easy
to be subdued by mortal men, nor to yield. Nor then did the heavy spear
of warlike AEneas penetrate the shield; but the gold stopped it, the gift
of the god. It penetrated, however, through two folds, but there were
still three; since Vulcan had drawn five folds over it, two brazen, two
inside of tin, and one golden; in which the brazen spear was stopped.
But Achilles next sent forth his long-shadowed spear, and struck against
the shield of AEneas, equal on all sides, at the outside edge, where the
thinnest brass ran round it, and the ox-hide was thinnest upon it; but
the Pelian ash broke through, and the shield was crushed by it. But
AEneas crouched,[659] and being terrified, held the shield from him;
whilst the spear [passing] over his back, stuck in the