Burning; for bright-eyed Pallas made it burn. Thrice o'er the trench divine Achilles shouted; And thrice the Trojans and their great allies Rolled back; and twelve of all their noblest men Then perished, crushed by their own arms and chariots.

But from the throng the Greeks dragged forth Patroclus

Fondly, and bore him off upon his bier;

And his old comrades came about him, weeping.
Achilles joined them, pouring forth warm tears,
When he beheld his true companion stretched
Out on his funeral bed, torn with the spear;
For 'twas himself that sent him to the fight
With horse and chariot, nor received him more.

PRIAM, IN ANGUISH AT THE LOSS OF HECTOR, AND GETTING READY TO GO AND RANSOM THE BODY, VENTS HIS TEMPER ON HIS SUBJECTS AND CHILDREN.

Ερρετε, λωβητήρες, ελεγχεις ου νυ και υμιν
Οικοι ενεστι γοος, οτι μ' ηλθετε κηδήσοντες;
ILIAD, Lib. 24, v. 239.

"OFF, with a plague, you scandalous multitude,
Convicted knaves, have you not groans enough
At home, that thus you come oppressing me?
Or am I mocked, because Saturnian Jove
Has smitten me, and taken my best boy?
But ye shall feel, yourselves; for ye will be

Much easier for the Greeks to rage among
Now he is gone; but I, before I see

That time, and Troy laid waste and trampled on,
Shall have gone down into the darksome house."

So saying, with his stick he drove them off,
And they went out, the old man urged them so.
And he called out in anger to his sons,

To Helenus, and Paris, god-like Agathon,
And Pammon, and Antiphonus, and Polites
Loud in the tumult, and Deiphobus,
Hippothous, and the admirable Dius ;-

These nine he gave his orders to, in anger :

"Be quicker, do, and help me, evil children, Down-looking set! Would ye had all been killed, Instead of Hector, at the ships. Oh me!

Curs'd creature that I am!

I had brave sons,

Here in wide Troy, and now I cannot say

That one is left me,-Mestor, like a god,
And Troilus, my fine-hearted charioteer,
And Hector, who, for mortal, was a god,
For he seemed born, not of a mortal man,

But of a god; yet Mars has swept them all

And none but these convicted knaves are left me, Liars and dancers, excellent time-beaters,

Notorious pilferers of lambs and goats!

Why don't ye get the chariot ready, and set
The things upon it here, that we may go?"

He said; and the young men took his rebuke With awe, and brought the rolling chariot forth.

PRIAM AT THE FEET OF ACHILLES.

Ως άρα φωνήσας απέβη προς μακρον Ολυμπον
Ερμειας Πριαμος δ' εξίππων αλτο χαμάζε.

ILIAD, Lib. 24, v. 468.

So saying, Mercury vanished up to heaven.
And Priam then alighted from the chariot,
Leaving Idous with it, who remained

Holding the mules and horses; and the old man

Went straight in-doors, where the beloved of Jove, Achilles sat, and found him there within.