and all are welcoming their comrades, and uniting with
the conspiring bands.
“It was just the time when first slumber comes to heal
human suffering, stealing on men by heaven’s blessing 15
with balmiest influence. Lo! as I slept, before my eyes
Hector,[131] in deepest sorrow, seemed to be standing by me,
shedding rivers of tears—mangled from dragging at the
car, as I remember him of old, and black with gory dust,
and with his swollen feet bored by the thong. Ay me! 20
what a sight was there! what a change from that Hector