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Rhapsody 21

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Thus he spake, threatening: but noble Achilles raised the Pelian ash; but the hero Asteropaeus [took aim] with both spears at the same time,[676] for he was ambidexter.[677] With the one spear he struck the shield, nor did it pierce the shield completely through; for the gold restrained it, the gift of a god; and the other slightly wounded him upon the elbow of the right arm; and the black blood gushed out: but the [spear passing] over him, was fixed in the earth, longing to satiate itself with his body. But second Achilles hurled his straight-flying ashen spear at Asteropaeus, anxiously desiring to slay him. From him indeed he erred, and struck the lofty bank, and drove the ashen spear up to the middle in the bank. Then the son of Peleus, drawing his sharp sword from his thigh, eagerly leaped upon him; but he was not able to pluck out, with his strong hand, the ashen spear of Achilles, from the bank. Thrice, indeed, he shook it, desiring to pluck it out, and thrice he failed in strength. And the fourth time he had determined in his mind, bending, to snap the ashen spear of Aeacides; but Achilles first, close at hand, took away his life with the sword; for he smote him upon the belly at the navel, and all his bowels were poured out upon the ground, and darkness veiled him, dying, as to his eyes. Then Achilles, leaping upon his breast, despoiled him of his arms, and boasting, spoke:

[Footnote 676: [Greek: Amarte] is here an adverb.]

[Footnote 677: Symmachus, Epist. ix. 105: "Pari nitore atque gravitate senatorias actiones et Romanae rei monumenta limasti, ut plane Homerica appellatione [Greek: peridexion], id est, aequimanum, te esse pronunciem."]

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