conceal nothing, but divide all things
into two portions, whatever treasure this delightful city contains
within it. Yet why does my soul discuss such things? [I dread] lest I,
going, should reach him, but he pity me not, nor at all respect me, but
slay me, being thus naked, as a woman, after I have put off my armour.
Nor, indeed, is it now allowed to converse with him from an oak, or from
a rock, as a virgin and a youth; a virgin and youth converse with one
another. But it is better to engage him in strife; that as soon as
possible we may know to which, indeed, the Olympian [Jove] will give
glory."

[Footnote 700: Hesych. [Greek: cheia' e katadysis ton opheon kai
drakonion].]

[Footnote 701: Milton, P.L. vi. III:--

"Abdiel that sight endured not, where he stood
Among the mightiest, bent on highest deeds,
And thus his own undaunted heart explores."]

[Footnote 702: Cf. Aristot. Eth. iii. 8, and Casaub. on Pers.
Sat. i. 4. "Ne mihi Polydamas, et Troiades Labeonem
Praetulerint."]

[Footnote 703: [Greek: Anten].]

[Footnote 704: This is perhaps the easiest way of expressing
[Greek: gerousion orkon]. It means an oath to be solemnly kept,
an oath to which the elders might with propriety pledge
themselves.]

Thus he pondered, remaining; but near him came Achilles, like unto the
helmet-shaking warrior, Mars, brandishing upon his right shoulder the
dreadful Pelian ash; but the brass shone around, like unto the splendour
either of a blazing fire, or of the rising sun. Then, as tremor seized
Hector, he perceived him, nor could he remain there any longer, but he
left the gates behind him, and fled affrighted; but the son of Peleus
rushed on, trusting to his swift feet. As a falcon in the mountains, the
swiftest of birds, easily dashes after a timid pigeon; she, indeed,
flies away obliquely; but he, close at hand, shrilly screaming,
frequently assails, and his spirit orders him to seize her: thus, eager,
he flew right on; but Hector fled in terror under the wall of the
Trojans, and moved his fleet limbs. Then they rushed by the
prospect-ground and the wind-waving fig-tree, always under the wall
along the public way, and reached the two fair-flowing springs, where
the two springs of the eddying Scamander rise. The one, indeed, flows
with tepid water, and a steam arises from it around, as of burning fire;
whilst the other flows forth in the summer time, like