Illiad Line analisis

Seeing him wounded there with the sharp bronze

Came rushing into him right across the lines

stabbing deep into the bowels, and the brazen point

went jutting straight out through Patroclus’ back.

Down he crashed-horror griped the Achaean armies.

As when some lion overpowers a tireless boar

up on a mountain summit, battling in all their fury

over a little spring of water, both beasts craving

to slake their thirst, but the lion beats him down

with sheer brute force as the boar fights for breath-

so now with a close thrust Hector son of Priam

tore the life from the fighting son of Menoetius,

from Patroclus who had killed so many men in war,

and gloried over him, wild winging words: “Patroclus-

surely you must have thought you’d storm my city down,

you’d wrest from the wives of Troy their day of freedom,

drag them off in ships to your on dear fatherland-

you fool! Rearing in their defense my war-team,

Hector’s horses were charging out to battle,

galloping, full stretch. And I with my spear,

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