e] whom she has borne, having laid thee upon a bier,
but dogs and fowl shall entirely tear thee in pieces."

But him crest-tossing Hector, dying, addressed:

"Surely well knowing thee, I foresaw this, nor was I destined to
persuade thee; for truly within thee there is an iron soul. Reflect now,
lest to thee I be some cause of the wrath of the gods, on that day when
Paris and Phoebus Apollo[710] shall kill thee, though being brave, at the
Scaean gates."

As he spoke thus, the end of death overshadowed him; and his soul flying
from his limbs, descended to Hades, bewailing its destiny, relinquishing
vigour and youth. But him, although dead, noble Achilles addressed:

"Die: but I will then receive my fate whensoever Jove may please to
accomplish it,[711] and the other immortal gods."

He spoke, and plucked the spear from the corpse; and then laid it aside,
but he spoiled the bloody armour from his shoulders. But the other sons
of the Greeks ran round, who also admired the stature and wondrous form,
of Hector;[712] nor did any stand by without inflicting a wound. And
thus would some one say, looking to his neighbour: "Oh, strange! surely
Hector is now much more gentle to be touched, than when he burned the
ships with glowing fire."

[Footnote 709: _I.e._ to give thy weight in gold. Theognis, 77:
[Greek: Pistos aner chrysou te kai argyrou anterysasthai Axios].]

[Footnote 710: Grote, vol. i. p. 406, observes: "After routing
the Trojans, and chasing them into the town, Achilles was slain
near the Skaean gate by an arrow from the quiver of Paris,
directed under the unerring auspices of Apollo," referring to
Soph. Phil. 334; Virg. AEn. vi. 56.]

[Footnote 711: "I have conversed with some men who rejoiced in
the death or calamity of others, and accounted it as a judgment
upon them for being on the other side, and against them in the
contention: but within the revolution of a few months, the same
man met with a more uneasy and unhandsome death; which when I
saw, I wept, and was afraid; for I knew that it must be so with
all men; for we also die, and end our quarrels and contentions by
passing to a final sentence."--Taylor, Holy Dying, i. p. 305, ed.
Bohn.]

[Footnote 712: Herodot. ix. 25: [Greek: O de nekros een thees axios
megatheos eineka ka kalleos].]

Thus would some one say, and, standing by, would wound him. But
swift-footed Achilles, after he had despoiled hi