206 Remarks on the Site of Troy 
equal fortune until noon, (29) when the Tro- 
jans fly to Troy. Agamemnon being then 
wounded, Hector drives back the Grecians 
to the fleet, storms the ramparts, and a long 
fight ensues, which must have occupied some 
hours. Patroclus then, clad in the armour 
fo Achilles, advances at the head of the 
Myrmidons, repulses and pursues the Tro- 
jans to Troy, where he kills Cebriones, the 
charioteer of Hector. A long and furious 
battle then takes place over the body of 
Cebriones, during which the poet again des- 
cribes the hour of noon. 
“Whilst yet the sun ascending climb’d the 
heavens, 
‘«‘ Both showered their weapons, and the people 
fell, 
“But when he journeyed westward, by a 
change 
“Surpassing hope, the Grecians then pre- 
vailed. 
Iliad, XVI, 937. 
Patroclus isthen killed, and, after a desperate 
conflict to recover his body, the Greeks fly 
(29) While morning lasted, and the light of day 
Increased, so long the weapons on both sides 
Flew in thick vollies, and the people fell : 
But what time his repast the woodman spreads 
In some umbrageous vale; &c. : 
The Greeks forced every phalanx of the foe. 
Iliad XI. 104. 
