QUOTATIONS FROM THE ILIAD BOOK 16 Hot tears were running down his face like water from

m a spring in dark streaks down a precipice (Patroclus crying). (Patroclus) Only the grey seacould have produced a monster so hard-hearted. Is it possible that you are deterred by some prophecy? (Achilles) The whole town of Troy seems to have taken heart and turned out against us. And no wonder when they do not see the visor of my helmet flashing in the foreground (Achilles to Patroclus) You must not fight without me against these warlike Trojans you would only make me cheaperHow happy I would be if we two survived the massacre to pull down Troys holy towers single-handed! They (the Myrmidons) fell in like flesh-eating wolves in all their natural savagery, wolves that have killed a stag and tear him apart till their jaws are red with blood, then go off in a pack to lap the dark water from a deep spring with their slender tongues, belching gore, still fierce though their bellies are full. Their shields were as closely packed as the blocks of stone in the walls of a high house. Picture a horde of wasps pouring out from the side of a road. They are used to being teased by boysno sooner does a traveller come by..then they are up in arms and all fly out to fight for their little ones. Thrasymedes made a swift lunge at him and caught him on the shoulderthe point of his spear, striking the base of the arm, severed the ligaments and wrenched the bone right outdarkness came down on Mariss eyes Peneleos hit Lycon on the neck behind the ear and his sword blade went right through. Nothing held but a piece of skin, and from that the head was hanging down as Lycon sank to the ground. Idomeneus struck Erymas on the mouththe metal point of the spear passed right through the lower part of

his skull, under the brain, and smashed the white bones. His teeth were shattered; both his eyes were filled with blood; and he spurted blood through his nostrils and his gaping mouth. Then the black cloud of death descended upon him. (The Greeks harried the Trojans) like predatory wolves harrying lambs Next he (Patroclus) attacked Thetor, son of Enops who was sitting hunched up in his polished chariot. This man had lost his head completely and the reins had slipped from his hands. Patroclusstruck him on the right side of the jaw, driving his spear between the teeth. Then, using the spear as a lever he hoisted him over the chariot rail as a fisherman sitting on a jutting rock pulls a monster fish out of the sea with his line and burnished hooknext as Erylaus rushed at him, he hit him with a rock full on the head. Inside the helmet, the mans skull was split in two The two men (Sarpedon and Patroclus) were like a couple of vultures with their crooked claws and curved beaks fighting on a rocky height, screaming as they fight (Hera to Zeus) You amaze me! Are you proposing to reprieve a mortal whose doom has long been settled from the pains of death? Do as you please, but do not expect the rest of us immortals to applaud (The spear) struck (Sarpedon) where the diaphragm comes up against the busy heart; and like an oak or a poplar or a towering pine felled in the hills by men with axes to make timber for a ship, Sarpedon came to earth he breathed defiance, like a proud, tawny bull who is brought down by a lion (Aeneas to Meriones) You may be a fine dancer, but my spear would have stopped you for good and all if only I had hit you. (Patroclus to Meriones) Battles are won by deeds, the council chamber is the place for words. They swarmed around the corpse (of Sarpedon) like flies in a cattle-yard buzz around the brimming pails on a day in spring.

 In a moment the god can make a brave man run away and lose a battle; the next day he will spur him on to fight. And now he made Patroclus overbold. The sharp stone caught Cebriones, Hectors driver, on the forehead, with the reins in his hands. It shattered both his eyebrows, crushing in the bone; and his eyes fell out and rolled in the dust at his feet. He dropped from the chariot like a diver and yielded up his life. ha! Quite an acrobat I see judging by that graceful dive!I didnt know that the Trojans had such divers (Hector and Patroclus) Like a couple of lions on the mountainsdisputing the dead body of a stag (Patroclus to Hector) No, it was hateful destiny and Letos son that killed me.but listenyou too have not got long to live