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The Iliad 8.315–329

The Iliad 8.315–329
and there his spirit and his strength were undone. Then was the soul of Hector clouded with dread sorrow for his charioteer. Yet left he him to lie there, though he sorrowed for his comrade, and bade Cebriones, his own brother, that was nigh at hand, take the reins of the horses; and he heard and failed not to hearken. And himself Hector leapt to the ground from his gleaming car crying a terrible cry, and seizing a stone in his hand made right at Teucer, and his heart bade him smite him. Now Teucer had drawn forth from the quiver a bitter arrow, and laid it upon the string, but even as he was drawing it back Hector of the flashing helm smote him beside the shoulder where the collar-bone parts the neck and the breast, where is the deadliest spot; even there as he aimed eagerly against him he smote him with the jagged stone, and he brake the bow-string; but his hand grew numb at the wrist, and he sank upon his knees and thus abode, and the bow fell from his hand.
ὠκύποδες· τοῦ δʼ αὖθι λύθη ψυχή τε μένος τε. Ἕκτορα δʼ αἰνὸν ἄχος πύκασε φρένας ἡνιόχοιο· τὸν μὲν ἔπειτʼ εἴασε καὶ ἀχνύμενός περ ἑταίρου, Κεβριόνην δʼ ἐκέλευσεν ἀδελφεὸν ἐγγὺς ἐόντα ἵππων ἡνίʼ ἑλεῖν· δʼ ἄρʼ οὐκ ἀπίθησεν ἀκούσας. αὐτὸς δʼ ἐκ δίφροιο χαμαὶ θόρε παμφανόωντος σμερδαλέα ἰάχων· δὲ χερμάδιον λάβε χειρί, βῆ δʼ ἰθὺς Τεύκρου, βαλέειν δέ θυμὸς ἀνώγει. ἤτοι μὲν φαρέτρης ἐξείλετο πικρὸν ὀϊστόν, θῆκε δʼ ἐπὶ νευρῇ· τὸν δʼ αὖ κορυθαίολος Ἕκτωρ αὐερύοντα παρʼ ὦμον, ὅθι κληῒς ἀποέργει αὐχένα τε στῆθός τε, μάλιστα δὲ καίριόν ἐστι, τῇ ῥʼ ἐπὶ οἷ μεμαῶτα βάλεν λίθῳ ὀκριόεντι, ῥῆξε δέ οἱ νευρήν· νάρκησε δὲ χεὶρ ἐπὶ καρπῷ, στῆ δὲ γνὺξ ἐριπών, τόξον δέ οἱ ἔκπεσε χειρός.
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