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The Iliad 20.470–484

The Iliad 20.470–484
and the dark blood welling forth therefrom filled his bosom; and darkness enfolded his eyes, as he swooned. Then with his spear Achilles drew nigh unto Mulius and smote him upon the ear, and clean through the other ear passed the spear-point of bronze. Then smote he Agenor's son Echeclus full upon the head with his hilted sword, and all the blade grew warm with his blood, and down over his eyes came dark death and mighty fate. Thereafter Deucalion, at the point where the sinews of the elbow join, even there pierced he him through the arm with spear-point of bronze; and he abode his oncoming with arm weighed down, beholding death before him; but Achilles, smiting him with the sword upon his neck, hurled afar his head and therewithal his helmet; and the marrow spurted forth from the spine, and the corpse lay stretched upon the ground. Then went he on after the peerless son of Peires,
ἐκ δέ οἱ ἧπαρ ὄλισθεν, ἀτὰρ μέλαν αἷμα κατʼ αὐτοῦ κόλπον ἐνέπλησεν· τὸν δὲ σκότος ὄσσε κάλυψε θυμοῦ δευόμενον· δὲ Μούλιον οὖτα παραστὰς δουρὶ κατʼ οὖς· εἶθαρ δὲ διʼ οὔατος ἦλθʼ ἑτέροιο αἰχμὴ χαλκείη· δʼ Ἀγήνορος υἱὸν Ἔχεκλον μέσσην κὰκ κεφαλὴν ξίφει ἤλασε κωπήεντι, πᾶν δʼ ὑπεθερμάνθη ξίφος αἵματι· τὸν δὲ κατʼ ὄσσε ἔλλαβε πορφύρεος θάνατος καὶ μοῖρα κραταιή. Δευκαλίωνα δʼ ἔπειθʼ, ἵνα τε ξυνέχουσι τένοντες ἀγκῶνος, τῇ τόν γε φίλης διὰ χειρὸς ἔπειρεν αἰχμῇ χαλκείῃ· δέ μιν μένε χεῖρα βαρυνθεὶς πρόσθʼ ὁρόων θάνατον· δὲ φασγάνῳ αὐχένα θείνας τῆλʼ αὐτῇ πήληκι κάρη βάλε· μυελὸς αὖτε σφονδυλίων ἔκπαλθʼ, δʼ ἐπὶ χθονὶ κεῖτο τανυσθείς. αὐτὰρ βῆ ῥʼ ἰέναι μετʼ ἀμύμονα Πείρεω υἱὸν
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