se.

[Footnote 250: Cf. Ennius apud Macrob. iv. 3:

"Et tunc sicut equus, qui de praesepibus actus,
Vincla sueis magneis animeis abrumpit, et inde
Fert sese campi per caerula, laetaque prata,
Celso pectore, saepe jubam quassat simul altam;
Spiritus ex anima calida spumas agit albas."]

[Footnote 251: Observe the anacoluthon.]

[Footnote 252: An instance of hendiadys.]

Him godlike Alexander first addressed: "Honoured brother, assuredly now
I am altogether detaining thee, although hastening, nor have I come in
due time as thou didst order."

Him then crest-tossing Hector answering addressed: "Strange man! not any
man indeed, who is just, could dispraise thy deeds of war, for thou art
brave. But willingly art thou remiss, and dost not wish [to fight]; and
my heart is saddened in my breast, when I hear dishonourable things of
thee from the Trojans, who have much toil on thy account. But let us
away, these things we shall arrange hereafter, if ever Jove shall grant
us to place a free goblet in our halls to the heavenly everlasting gods,
when we shall have repulsed the well-greaved Greeks from Troy."

BOOK THE SEVENTH.

ARGUMENT.

Hector challenges the bravest of the Greeks to single combat, and nine
of the chiefs having cast lots, Ajax is appointed to meet him. Having
protracted the contest till night, the combatants exchange gifts, and
separate. A truce is then made for the purpose of burying the dead, and
the Greeks fortify their camp.

Thus having said, illustrious Hector rushed forth from the gates, and
with him went his brother Alexander, for both were eager in soul to wage
war and to fight. As when the deity hath given a prosperous wind to
expecting mariners, after they have become weary, agitating the deep
with well-polished oars, and their limbs are relaxed with toil; thus
then did those two appear to the expecting Trojans. Then they slew, the
one,[253] indeed, Menesthius, son of king Areithoues, who dwelt in Arne,
whom the club-bearer Areithoues and large-eyed Philomedusa brought forth;
but Hector smote Eioneus with his sharp spear upon the neck, under his
well-wrought brazen helmet,[254] and relaxed his limbs. And Glaucus, son
of Hippolochus, leader of the Lycian heroes, in fierce engagement smote
Iphinous, son of Dexias, upon the shoulder with his spear, as he vaulted
on his swift mares.

[Footnote 253: