e does so."

But him crest-tossing Hector addressed in turn: "Ajax, since some god
has given thee size, and might, and prudence, and thou art the most
excellent of the Greeks at the spear, let us now cease from battle and
contest for this day; hereafter will we fight again, till the Deity
shall separate us, and give the victory to either. Now night is
approaching, and it is good to obey night, that thou mayest gladden all
the Greeks at the ships, and chiefly those friends and companions which
are thine; but I will gladden the Trojans and the train-bearing Trojan
matrons, through the great city of king Priam, the dames who, praying
for me, are entering the deities' temple.[260] But come, let us both
mutually give very glorious gifts, that some one of the Greeks and
Trojans may say thus: 'They certainly fought in a soul-gnawing strife,
but then again being reconciled, they parted in friendship.'"

[Footnote 260: [Greek: Agon] is defined by Apollonius, p. 26,
[Greek: o topos eis on synagontai]. Hesychius, p. 79, makes it
equivalent to [Greek: athroisma], and also calls it the place
where combatants fight. Porphyry, Quaest. Hom. p. cvii. ed.
Barnes, [Greek: ton naon etoi topon onia, e yeion athroisma
periechonta]. So, also, the Scholiast.]

Thus then having spoken, he gave him a silver-studded sword, presenting
it with the sheath and the well-wrought belt. But Ajax gave [to him] a
belt, splendid with purple. Then they twain being separated, the one
went to the people of the Greeks, and the other to the crowd of the
Trojans: and they rejoiced when they saw him coming alive and safe,
having escaped the strength and the invincible hands of Ajax; and led
him to the city, not having had any hopes that he was safe. But the
well-greaved Greeks, on the other hand, led away Ajax, rejoicing in
victory, to divine Agamemnon. When now they were in the tents of the son
of Atreus, then Agamemnon, king of men, sacrificed for them an ox, a
male, five years old, to the most powerful son of Saturn. This they
flayed, and dressed it; made divisions of the whole of it, and skilfully
divided these into smaller portions, and fixed them on spits, and
roasted them very cleverly, and drew off all. But when they had ceased
from labour, and had prepared the banquet, they feasted, nor did their
soul in anywise lack a due proportion of the feast. The valiant son of
Atreus, far-ruling Agamemnon, honoured Ajax with an entire chine.[261]