they are the first to recognize the imposture of shield and

weapon, and to mark the different sound of our speech.

All is over—we are overwhelmed by numbers: first of 5

all, Coroebus is stretched low; his slayer Peneleos, his

place of death the altar of the Goddess of Arms; slain,

too, is Rhipeus, the justest and most righteous man in

Troy—but heaven’s will is not ours—down go Hypanis

and Dymas both, shot by their friends; nor could all 10

your acts of piety, good Panthus, shield you in your fall;

no, nor the fillet of Apollo on your brow. Ye ashes of