trailed along the ground, and his inverted spear is drawing

lines in the dust. Meanwhile to the temple of Pallas,[101]

not their friend, were moving the Trojan dames with locks 20

dishevelled, carrying the sacred robe, in suppliant guise

of mourning, their breasts bruised with their hands—the

goddess was keeping her eyes riveted on the ground,

with her face turned away. Thrice had Achilles dragged

Hector round the walls of Ilion, and was now selling for 25

gold his body, thus robbed of breath. Then, indeed,

heavy was the groan that he gave from the bottom of