who knew not that he would not be persuaded. For
he was by no means a tender-minded nor gentle man, but very ferocious.
He (Tros) indeed clasped his knees with his hands, desiring to
supplicate him, but he (Achilles) wounded him in the liver with his
sword; and his liver fell out, and the black blood from it filled his
bosom, and darkness veiled his eyes, wanting life. But standing near
Mulius, he smote him with his javelin on the ear, and immediately the
brazen blade went through the other ear. Then, with his large-hilted
sword, he smote Echeclus, son of Antenor, in the centre of the head, and
the whole sword became tepid with blood; but purple Death and violent
Fate seized his eyes. Then Deucalion, where the tendons of the elbow
unite, there he pierced him through his hand with his brazen spear; but
he, weighed down as to his hand, awaited him, perceiving death before
him. But he (Achilles) smiting his neck with his sword, knocked the head
off afar with its helmet, and the marrow sprang forth from the spine;
and Deucalion lay extended on the ground. Then he hastened to go towards
Rigmus, the renowned son of Pireus, who had come from fertile Thrace;
whom he smote in the middle with his javelin, and the brass was fixed in
his stomach; and he fell from his chariot: and Achilles wounded in the
back, with his sharp javelin, Areithoues, the attendant, while turning
back the steeds, and threw him from the chariot: and the horses were
thrown into confusion. And as the blazing fire burns through the deep
dells of a dry mountain, and the dense forest is consumed, and the wind
agitating, turns round the flame on all sides; thus he raged in every
direction with his spear, like unto a deity, following those that were
to be slain; and the black earth flowed with blood. As when any one
yokes broad fore-headed bulls to trample out white barley on the
well-levelled floor, and it easily becomes small beneath the feet of the
bellowing oxen; so the solid-hoofed horses, driven by magnanimous
Achilles, trod down together both corses and shields. And the whole
axletree beneath was polluted with gore, and the rings which were round
the chariot seat, which the drops from the horses' hoofs spattered, as
well as from the felloes. But the son of Peleus was eager to bear away
glory, and was polluted with gore as to his invincible hands.

BOOK THE TWENTY-FIRST.

ARGUMENT.

Having