Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Iliad of Homer, Vol. 3: Translated From the Greek
Menelaus, upon the death of Patroclus, de fends his body from the enemy: Euphorbus, who attempts it, is (lain. Redo: advancing, Menelaus retires; but [000 returns with Ajax, and drives him off. This Glaucus objeas to Heftor as a ?ight, who thereupon puts on the armour he had won from Pa troclus, and renews the battle. The Greeks give way, till Ajax rallies them jeneas fufiains the Trojans. Eneas and Hatter attempt the chariot of Achilles, which is home 08' by Automedon. The horfes of Athilies deplore the death of Patroclus: Jupiter covers his body with a thick darknefs: The noble prayer of Ajax on that occafion. Menelaus fends Antilochus to Achilles with the news of Pa troclus's death: Then returns to the fight, where, though attacked with the utmofi fury, he and Me riones, a?ified by the Ajaxes, heat off the body to the him.
The time is the evening of the eight and twentieth day. The fcene lies in the fields before Troy.
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