. The literature of all nations and all ages; history, character, and incident. veilShe started forth, and as she went let fallA tender tear; not unaccompaniedShe went, but by two maidens of her trainAttended, ^thra, Pittheus daughter soft-eyed Clymene. Their hast)^ stepsConveyd them quickly to the Scaean Priam, Panthoiis, Clytius, Lampus sat,Thymoetes, Hicetaon, branch of Mars,Antenor and Ucalegon the wise,All elders of the people; warriors erst,But idle now through age, yet of a voiceStill indefatigable as the flys [the cicada],Which perched among the boughs sends forth a
. The literature of all nations and all ages; history, character, and incident. veilShe started forth, and as she went let fallA tender tear; not unaccompaniedShe went, but by two maidens of her trainAttended, ^thra, Pittheus daughter soft-eyed Clymene. Their hast)^ stepsConveyd them quickly to the Scaean Priam, Panthoiis, Clytius, Lampus sat,Thymoetes, Hicetaon, branch of Mars,Antenor and Ucalegon the wise,All elders of the people; warriors erst,But idle now through age, yet of a voiceStill indefatigable as the flys [the cicada],Which perched among the boughs sends forth at noonThrough all the grove his slender ditty sat those Trojan leaders on the tower, II l62 OP ALL NATIONS. Who, soon as Helen on the steps they saw,In accents quick, but whispered, thus remarkd:Trojans and Grecians wage, with fair excuse,lyong war for so much beauty. Oh, how likeIn feature to the Goddesses above!Pernicious loveliness ! Ah, hence away,Resistless as thou art and all divine,Nor leave a curse to us, nor to our sons. Hector and Homer, while giving vSiiperiority to the Achaians, does justice tothe Trojans. The lo5^al, valiant Hector and his loving wife Andro-mache, with infant child, are shown in one of the finest passages of theIliad. The battle in the plain was going against the Trojans, andHector at last returned to Troy to request the women to go in solemnprocession to the temples to ask aid of the gods. Then he sought aninterview with Andromache, but found her not. He was told that shehad gone to the walls to see the fight. The following passage,describing their meeting, was translated by Charles Kingsley. So spoke the stewardess: but Hector rushed I^rom the house, the same way back, down stately streets, Through the broad city, to the Scaian gates, Whereby he must go forth toward the plain. There running toward him came Andromache, His ample-dowered wife, Eetions child,— Eetion the great-hearted, he who dwelt GREEK LITERAT
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