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192:, that was king in well-peopled Budeum of old, but when he had slain a goodly man of his kin, to Peleus he came as a suppliant, and to silver-footed Thetis; and they sent him to follow with Achilles, breaker of the ranks of men, to Ilios, famed for its horses, that he might fight with the Trojans. Him, as he was laying hold of the corpse, glorious Hector smote upon the head with a stone; and his head was wholly cloven asunder within the heavy helmet, and he fell headlong upon the corpse, and death, that slayeth the spirit, was shed about him. 395: 22: 342: 357: 188:
And first the Trojans drave back the bright-eyed Achaeans, for smitten was a man in no wise the worst among the Myrmidons, even the son of great-souled Agacles, goodly
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with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D., in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924.
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to Troy. During the siege, he was eventually slain by the hero
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in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920.
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