Great Hector, whose helmet sparkled,
then answered: “Yes, I am troubled about this, woman,
but I feel a terrible shame before the Trojans and the Trojan

women with their trailing robes, if like a coward I skulk

I have learned always to be valiant and to fight with the foremost
fighters of the Trojans, winning fine fame for my father

and for myself. For I know this well in my heart and in my soul:
The day will come when sacred llion will be destroyed

and Priam and the people of Priam with his good spear of ash.

apart from the war. Nor
does my spirit permit it,

because

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