Unguarded, struck and stretch’d him at his feet. 375
  Phylides,[9] meeting with preventive spear
  The furious onset of Amphiclus, gash’d
  His leg below the knee, where brawny most
  The muscles swell in man; disparted wide
  The tendons shrank, and darkness veil’d his eyes. 380
  The two Nestoridae slew each a Chief. 
  Of these, Antilochus Atymnius pierced
  Right through his flank, and at his feet he fell. 
  With fierce resentment fired Maris beheld
  His brother’s fall, and guarding, spear in hand, 385
  The slain, impetuous on the conqueror flew;
  But godlike Thrasymedes[10] wounded first
  Maris, ere he Antilochus; he pierced
  His upper arm, and with the lance’s point
  Rent off and stript the muscles to the bone. 390
  Sounding he fell, and darkness veil’d his eyes. 
  They thus, two brothers by two brothers slain,
  Went down to Erebus, associates both
  Of brave Sarpedon, and spear-practised sons
  Of Amisodarus; of him who fed 395
  Chimaera,[11] monster, by whom many died. 
  Ajax the swift on Cleobulus sprang,
  Whom while he toil’d entangled in the crowd,
  He seized alive, but smote him where he stood
  With his huge-hafted sword full on the neck; 400
  The blood warm’d all his blade, and ruthless fate
  Benighted dark the dying warrior’s eyes. 
  Peneleus into close contention rush’d
  And Lycon.  Each had hurl’d his glittering spear,
  But each in vain, and now with swords they met. 405
  He smote Peneleus on the crested casque,
  But snapp’d his falchion; him Peneleus smote
  Beneath his ear; the whole blade entering sank
  Into his neck, and Lycon with his head
  Depending by the skin alone, expired. 410
  Meriones o’ertaking Acamas
  Ere yet he could ascend his chariot, thrust
  A lance into his shoulder; down he fell
  In dreary death’s eternal darkness whelm’d. 
  Idomeneus his ruthless spear enforced 415
  Into the mouth of Erymas.  The point
  Stay’d not, but gliding close beneath the brain,
  Transpierced his spine,[12] and started forth beyond. 
  It wrench’d his teeth, and fill’d his eyes with blood;
  Blood also blowing through his open mouth 420
  And nostrils, to the realms of death he pass’d. 
  Thus slew these Grecian leaders, each, a foe. 
    Sudden as hungry wolves the kids purloin
  Or lambs, which haply some unheeding swain
  Hath left to roam at large the mountains wild; 425
  They, seeing, snatch them from beside the dams,
  And rend incontinent the feeble prey,
  So swift the Danai the host assail’d
  Of Ilium; they, into tumultuous flight
  Together driven, all hope, all courage