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Iliad
Book 18, Line 148 by Samuel Butler (English)
Thus, then, did her feet bear the goddess to Olympus , and meanwhile the Achaeans were fleeing with loud cries before murderous Hektor till they reached the ships and the Hellespont , and they could not draw the body of Ares' squire [ therapôn ] Patroklos out of reach of the weapons that were showered upon him, for Hektor son of Priam with his host and horsemen had again caught up to him like the flame of a fiery furnace; thrice did brave Hektor seize him by the feet, striving with might and main to draw him away and calling loudly on the Trojans, and thrice did the two Ajaxes, clothed in valor as with a garment, beat him from off the body; but all undaunted he would now charge into the thick of the fight, and now again he would stand still and cry aloud, but he would give no ground. As upland shepherds that cannot chase some famished lion from a carcass, even so could not the two Ajaxes scare Hektor son of Priam from the body of Patroklos.
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