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The Iliad 16.855–858

The Iliad 16.855–858
Even as he thus spake the end of death enfolded him; and his soul fleeting from his limbs was gone to Hades, bewailing her fate, leaving manliness and youth. And to him even in his death spake glorious Hector: Patroclus, wherefore dost thou prophesy for me sheer destruction?Who knows but that Achilles, the son of fair-tressed Thetis, may first be smitten by my spear, and lose his life? So saying, he drew forth the spear of bronze from the wound, setting his foot upon the dead, and thrust him backward from the spear. And forthwith he was gone with his spear after Automedon, the god-like squire of the swift-footed son of Aeacus,
ὣς ἄρα μιν εἰπόντα τέλος θανάτοιο κάλυψε· ψυχὴ δʼ ἐκ ῥεθέων πταμένη Ἄϊδος δὲ βεβήκει ὃν πότμον γοόωσα λιποῦσʼ ἀνδροτῆτα καὶ ἥβην. τὸν καὶ τεθνηῶτα προσηύδα φαίδιμος Ἕκτωρ·
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