He said; fear whiten’d every Trojan cheek,
And every Trojan eye with earnest look
Inquired a refuge from impending fate.
Say now, ye Muses, blest inhabitants
Of the Olympian realms! what Grecian first615
Fill’d his victorious hand with armor stript
From slaughter’d Trojans, after Ocean’s God
Had, interposing, changed the battle’s course?
First, Telamonian Ajax Hyrtius slew,
Undaunted leader of the Mysian band.620
Phalces and Mermerus their arms resign’d
To young Antilochus; Hyppotion fell
And Morys by Meriones; the shafts
Right-aim’d of Teucer to the shades dismiss’d
Prothöus and Periphetes, and the prince625
Of Sparta, Menelaus, in his flank
Pierced Hyperenor; on his entrails prey’d
The hungry steel, and, through the gaping wound
Expell’d, his spirit flew; night veil’d his eyes.
But Ajax Oïliades the swift630
Slew most; him none could equal in pursuit
Of tremblers scatter’d by the frown of Jove.
BOOK XV.
ARGUMENT OF THE FIFTEENTH BOOK.
Jove, awaking and seeing the Trojans routed, threatens Juno. He sends Iris to admonish Neptune to relinquish the battle, and Apollo to restore health to Hector. Apollo armed with the Ægis, puts to flight the Grecians; they are pursued home to their fleet, and Telamonian Ajax slays twelve Trojans bringing fire to burn it.