As long as Hector yet lived, and Achilles yet cherished his wrath, and the city of king Priam was unsacked, even so long the great wall of the Achaeans likewise abode unbroken. Howbeit against the will of the immortal gods was it builded wherefore for no long time did it abide unbroken. So then amid the huts the valiant son of Menoetius was tending the wounded Eurypylus, but the others, Argives and Trojans, fought on in throngs, nor were the ditch of the Danaans and their wide wall above long to protect them, the wall that they had builded as a defence for their ships and had drawn a trench about it-yet they gave not glorious hecatombs to the gods-that it might hold within its bounds their swift ships and abundant spoil, and keep all safe. Ransom of Hector THE ILIAD BOOK 12, TRANSLATED BY A. Battlefield: Deaths of Sarpedon & Patroclus
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