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Diomed’s horses are driven over the Achaeans’ trench as he goes forth to fight.
“There was no man of all the many Danaans who could then boast that he had driven his horses over the trench and gone forth to fight sooner than the son of Tydeus”
Diomed completes a crossing over the Achaeans’ trench as he goes forth to fight.
“There was no man of all the many Danaans who could then boast that he had driven his horses over the trench and gone forth to fight sooner than the son of Tydeus”
Diomed crosses the Achaeans’ trench with the summoned chiefs before meeting beyond it.
“With this he passed the trench, and with him the other chiefs of the Achaeans who had been called to the council. Meriones and the brave son of Nestor went also, for the princes bade them. When they were beyond the trench that was dug round the wall they held their meeting on the open ground”
The Achaeans collectively flee through the Achaeans’ trench before halting at their ships.
“When they had fled through the set stakes and trench and many Achaeans had been laid low at the hands of the Trojans, they halted at their ships”
The other Achaeans follow Ulysses over the Achaeans’ trench.
“He laughed as he spoke and drove the horses over the ditch, while the other Achaeans followed him gladly.”
Agamemnon crosses the Achaeans’ trench with the summoned chiefs before meeting beyond it.
“With this he passed the trench, and with him the other chiefs of the Achaeans who had been called to the council. Meriones and the brave son of Nestor went also, for the princes bade them. When they were beyond the trench that was dug round the wall they held their meeting on the open ground”
Ajax son of Telamon crosses the Achaeans’ trench with the summoned chiefs before meeting beyond it.
“With this he passed the trench, and with him the other chiefs of the Achaeans who had been called to the council. Meriones and the brave son of Nestor went also, for the princes bade them. When they were beyond the trench that was dug round the wall they held their meeting on the open ground”
Ajax son of Oileus crosses the Achaeans’ trench with the summoned chiefs before meeting beyond it.
“With this he passed the trench, and with him the other chiefs of the Achaeans who had been called to the council. Meriones and the brave son of Nestor went also, for the princes bade them. When they were beyond the trench that was dug round the wall they held their meeting on the open ground”
Antilochus crosses the Achaeans’ trench with the summoned chiefs before meeting beyond it.
“With this he passed the trench, and with him the other chiefs of the Achaeans who had been called to the council. Meriones and the brave son of Nestor went also, for the princes bade them. When they were beyond the trench that was dug round the wall they held their meeting on the open ground”
Idomeneus crosses the Achaeans’ trench with the summoned chiefs before meeting beyond it.
“With this he passed the trench, and with him the other chiefs of the Achaeans who had been called to the council. Meriones and the brave son of Nestor went also, for the princes bade them. When they were beyond the trench that was dug round the wall they held their meeting on the open ground”
Meges crosses the Achaeans’ trench with the summoned chiefs before meeting beyond it.
“With this he passed the trench, and with him the other chiefs of the Achaeans who had been called to the council. Meriones and the brave son of Nestor went also, for the princes bade them. When they were beyond the trench that was dug round the wall they held their meeting on the open ground”
Menelaus crosses the Achaeans’ trench with the summoned chiefs before meeting beyond it.
“With this he passed the trench, and with him the other chiefs of the Achaeans who had been called to the council. Meriones and the brave son of Nestor went also, for the princes bade them. When they were beyond the trench that was dug round the wall they held their meeting on the open ground”
Meriones crosses the Achaeans’ trench with the summoned chiefs before meeting beyond it.
“With this he passed the trench, and with him the other chiefs of the Achaeans who had been called to the council. Meriones and the brave son of Nestor went also, for the princes bade them. When they were beyond the trench that was dug round the wall they held their meeting on the open ground”
Nestor crosses the Achaeans’ trench with the summoned chiefs before meeting beyond it.
“With this he passed the trench, and with him the other chiefs of the Achaeans who had been called to the council. Meriones and the brave son of Nestor went also, for the princes bade them. When they were beyond the trench that was dug round the wall they held their meeting on the open ground”
Ulysses crosses the Achaeans’ trench with the summoned chiefs before meeting beyond it.
“With this he passed the trench, and with him the other chiefs of the Achaeans who had been called to the council. Meriones and the brave son of Nestor went also, for the princes bade them. When they were beyond the trench that was dug round the wall they held their meeting on the open ground”
Ulysses crosses the Achaeans’ trench while driving Rhesus’s horses over it.
“He laughed as he spoke and drove the horses over the ditch, while the other Achaeans followed him gladly.”
Rhesus’s horses are driven over the Achaeans’ trench by Ulysses.
“He laughed as he spoke and drove the horses over the ditch”
Apollo led the Trojan crossing over the bridge made across the deep Achaean trench.
“Phoebus Apollo went before, and kicked down the banks of the deep trench into its middle so as to make a great broad bridge, as broad as the throw of a spear when a man is trying his strength. The Trojan battalions poured over the bridge, and Apollo with his redoubtable aegis led the way”
Apollo carried the redoubtable aegis while leading the crossing over the Achaean trench.
“Phoebus Apollo went before, and kicked down the banks of the deep trench into its middle so as to make a great broad bridge, as broad as the throw of a spear when a man is trying his strength. The Trojan battalions poured over the bridge, and Apollo with his redoubtable aegis led the way”
The Trojan battalions poured over the bridge made across the deep Achaean trench.
“Phoebus Apollo went before, and kicked down the banks of the deep trench into its middle so as to make a great broad bridge, as broad as the throw of a spear when a man is trying his strength. The Trojan battalions poured over the bridge”
The Trojan host is penned in by the deep trench.
“he left the Trojan host penned in by the deep trench against their will”
Achilles’s immortal horses spring over the trench at a bound.
“Patroclus, whose immortal steeds, given by the gods to Peleus, sprang over the trench at a bound as they sped onward”
Achilles stands beside the Achaeans’ trench.
“Achilles dear to Jove arose, and Minerva flung her tasselled aegis round his strong shoulders; she crowned his head with a halo of golden cloud from which she kindled a glow of gleaming fire. As the smoke that goes up into heaven from some city that is being beleaguered on an island far out at sea—all day long do men sally from the city and fight their hardest, and at the going down of the sun the line of beacon-fires blazes forth, flaring high for those that dwell near them to behold, if so be that they may come with their ships and succour them—even so did the light flare from the head of Achilles, as he stood by the trench”
Achilles continues standing there at the trench established immediately before.
“There did he stand and shout aloud”
Achilles repeatedly cries out while standing beside the Achaeans’ trench.
“Achilles raise his loud cry as he stood by the trench”
Minerva’s aegis is placed around Achilles’s shoulders while he stands beside the Achaeans’ trench.
“Achilles dear to Jove arose, and Minerva flung her tasselled aegis round his strong shoulders; she crowned his head with a halo of golden cloud from which she kindled a glow of gleaming fire. As the smoke that goes up into heaven from some city that is being beleaguered on an island far out at sea—all day long do men sally from the city and fight their hardest, and at the going down of the sun the line of beacon-fires blazes forth, flaring high for those that dwell near them to behold, if so be that they may come with their ships and succour them—even so did the light flare from the head of Achilles, as he stood by the trench”
Minerva stands by the Achaeans’ trench.
“Minerva raised her loud voice, now standing by the deep trench that ran outside the wall”
Idaeus reached the Achaeans’ trench with the convoy.
“The bringer of good luck then sprang on to the chariot, and seizing the whip and reins he breathed fresh spirit into the mules and horses. When they reached the trench and the wall that was before the ships”
Mercury reached the Achaean trench with the convoy.
“The bringer of good luck then sprang on to the chariot, and seizing the whip and reins he breathed fresh spirit into the mules and horses. When they reached the trench and the wall that was before the ships”
Priam reached the Achaeans’ trench with the convoy.
“The bringer of good luck then sprang on to the chariot, and seizing the whip and reins he breathed fresh spirit into the mules and horses. When they reached the trench and the wall that was before the ships”
Priam’s chariot reached the Achaean trench.
“The bringer of good luck then sprang on to the chariot, and seizing the whip and reins he breathed fresh spirit into the mules and horses. When they reached the trench and the wall that was before the ships”
Priam’s horses reached the Achaean trench.
“The bringer of good luck then sprang on to the chariot, and seizing the whip and reins he breathed fresh spirit into the mules and horses. When they reached the trench and the wall that was before the ships”
Priam’s mule-waggon reached the Achaeans’ trench.
“The bringer of good luck then sprang on to the chariot, and seizing the whip and reins he breathed fresh spirit into the mules and horses. When they reached the trench and the wall that was before the ships”
Priam’s mules reached the Achaean trench.
“The bringer of good luck then sprang on to the chariot, and seizing the whip and reins he breathed fresh spirit into the mules and horses. When they reached the trench and the wall that was before the ships”
Priam’s Thracian cup was carried with the ransom to the Achaeans’ trench.
“When they reached the trench and the wall that was before the ships, those who were on guard had just been getting their suppers, and the slayer of Argus threw them all into a deep sleep. Then he drew back the bolts to open the gates, and took Priam inside with the treasure he had upon his waggon”
Nestor proposes a deep trench around the wall to hold off Trojan horse and foot.
“Close outside we will dig a deep trench all round it to keep off both horse and foot, that the Trojan chieftains may not bear hard upon us”
Outside the high wall, the Achaeans dig a deep, wide trench and plant stakes within it.
“hard by this they built a high wall to shelter themselves and their ships; they gave it strong gates that there might be a way through them for their chariots, and close outside it they dug a trench deep and wide, and they planted it within with stakes”
Hector predicts that his horses will spring lightly over the Achaean trench.
“It shall not stay my fury; my horses will spring lightly over their trench”
The space inside the Achaean ditch, from ships to wall, is packed with horses and warriors penned in by Hector.
“whole space enclosed by the ditch, from the ships even to the wall, was filled with horses and warriors, who were pent up there by Hector”
Nestor directs every sentinel to camp by the trench outside the wall.
“let the sentinels every man of them camp by the trench that is without the wall”
The armoured sentinels take position between the Achaean trench and wall.
“they took their places midway between the trench and the wall”
Achilles describes the trench as deep, wide, encircling the wall, and planted with stakes.
“he has dug a trench deep and wide all round it, and he has planted it within with stakes”
The trench is the assembly point where armed chiefs arrive before the horses.
“by the trench, while he went into battle on foot clad in full armour, and a mighty uproar rose on high into the dawning. The chiefs were armed and at the trench before the horses got there”
The Achaean trench runs around the wall to safeguard the ships and captured spoils.
“had dug the trench all round it that it might safeguard both the ships and the rich spoils which they had taken”
The trench is too wide for horses to cross, with overhanging banks and closely planted sharp stakes.
“They could neither jump it nor cross it, for it had overhanging banks all round upon either side, above which there were the sharp stakes that the sons of the Achaeans had planted so close and strong as a defence against all who would assail it”
Agamemnon says the hard-built trench has failed as the supposedly impregnable bulwark of army and fleet.
“neither the wall nor the trench has served us—over which the Danaans toiled so hard, and which they deemed would be an impregnable bulwark both for us and our fleet”
Apollo kicks the banks of the deep Achaean trench into its middle to form a broad bridge as wide as a spear throw.
“kicked down the banks of the deep trench into its middle so as to make a great broad bridge, as broad as the throw of a spear”
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“close outside it they dug a trench deep and wide, and they planted it within with stakes”
“my horses will spring lightly over their trench”
“in readiness by the trench”
“their flight had taken them past the trench”
“the deep trench that ran outside the wall”
“the trench and the wall that was before the ships”