The Iliad (Penguin Classics) by Homer

Author:Homer
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 1991-06-30T16:00:00+00:00

But Teucer and Ajax, aiming at him together,

shot!—Teucer’s arrow hitting the gleaming belt

that cinched his body-shield around his chest—

but Zeus brushed from his son the deadly spirits:

not by the ships’ high stems would his Sarpedon die.

Ajax lunged at the man, he struck his shield but the point

would not pierce through, so he beat him back in rage

and he edged away from the breastwork just a yard.

Not that Sarpedon yielded all the way, never,

his heart still raced with hopes of winning glory,

whirling, shouting back to his splendid Lycians,

“Lycians—why do you slack your fighting-fury now?

It’s hard for me, strong as I am, single-handed

to breach the wall and cut a path to the ships—

come, shoulder-to-shoulder!

The more we’ve got, the better the work will go!”

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