. Achilles & Hector : Iliad stories retold for boys and girls . memnon sprang to his ! thou meet Hector? he cried. 62 Achilles and Hector Indeed thou shalt not; he hath twicethy strength. Strip off his armor,squires. We will have no such unfaircontest. Let some one who is a matchfor Hector go. Ye gods! said aged Nestor, if only Iwere 3^oung again, Hector should not waitso long to find a foe. Think of it! Hereare the best and bravest of our land, andMenelaus the only one who doth not sitcowering before Hectors spear ! At these words nine chiefs arose—Aga-memnon, Ajax, Diomedes, Idomene
. Achilles & Hector : Iliad stories retold for boys and girls . memnon sprang to his ! thou meet Hector? he cried. 62 Achilles and Hector Indeed thou shalt not; he hath twicethy strength. Strip off his armor,squires. We will have no such unfaircontest. Let some one who is a matchfor Hector go. Ye gods! said aged Nestor, if only Iwere 3^oung again, Hector should not waitso long to find a foe. Think of it! Hereare the best and bravest of our land, andMenelaus the only one who doth not sitcowering before Hectors spear ! At these words nine chiefs arose—Aga-memnon, Ajax, Diomedes, Idomeneus,Odysseus, and four others. Agamemnonheld his helmet while each chief droppedin a pebble which he had secretlymarked. The helmet spun round inAgamemnons hands, and a pebble flewout. One of the heralds took it andshowed it to each chief in turn. Allshook their heads until it came to stretched out his hand, took the peb-ble, looked at it, and threw it on theground. Friends, it is mine, he said, and Iam glad. The soldiers, too, were glad, and lifting. //* came to Ajax. He stretched out his hand and took the pebble 64 Achilles and Hector their hands to heaven they prayed thathe might win. Ajax was a brave figure as he strodeforward, grimly smiling, and shaking hisponderous spear. Hector, his deep voice cried, thinknot Achilles is the only Greek worth}^ andunafraid to meet thee. Let the fightbegin. Let the fight be fair, answered Hec-tor, and launched his spear. It struckthrough the brass on the shield of Ajax,and through the six folds of oxhideunderneath. In the seventh fold itstopped. Then the spear of Ajax hurtledthrough the air and pierced both shieldand corselet, so that if Hector had notswerved it would have wounded him. They took their spears again, poisedthem and hurled. This time Hectorsfailed to pierce the others shield ; butAjax, springing forward, sent his evento Hectors shoulder, and drew blood. Ahuge, ragged piece of rock lay on theground near by. Hector li
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