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The armour is set before Thetis and borne from the house in one uninterrupted chain.
“when the famed lame god had made all the armour, he took it and set it before the mother of Achilles; whereon she darted like a falcon from the snowy summits of Olympus and bore away the gleaming armour from the house of Vulcan”
The newly made armour is carried by Thetis to the ships.
“Thetis reached the ships with the armour that the god had given her.”
Achilles’s Vulcan-made armour is with him as he flees across the plain.
“the armour rang loudly about his breast”
The armour made for Achilles gleamed on him as he sped across the plain of Troy.
“King Priam was first to note him as he scoured the plain, all radiant as the star which men call Orion’s Hound, and whose beams blaze forth in time of harvest more brilliantly than those of any other that shines by night; brightest of them all though he be, he yet bodes ill for mortals, for he brings fire and fever in his train—even so did Achilles’ armour gleam on his breast as he sped onwards”
Thetis promises Achilles goodly replacement armour from Vulcan at daybreak.
“will bring you goodly armour from King Vulcan”
Thetis plans to ask Vulcan to provide Achilles a splendid suit of armour.
“provide my son with a suit of splendid armour”
Thetis petitions Vulcan to provide Achilles with a helmet, shield, ankle-clasped greaves, and breastplate.
“provide my son, whose end is near at hand, with helmet and shield, with goodly greaves fitted with ancleclasps, and with a breastplate”
Vulcan promises armour whose appearance will amaze all who see it.
“armour that shall amaze the eyes of all who behold it”
The completed non-shield armour includes a breastplate brighter than fire, a richly worked helmet close-fitting to the brow with an overhanging golden plume, and greaves of beaten tin.
“he made a breastplate also that shone brighter than fire. He made a helmet, close fitting to the brow, and richly worked, with a golden plume overhanging it; and he made greaves also of beaten tin”
The completed armour gleams as Thetis carries it away from Vulcan’s house.
“bore away the gleaming armour from the house of Vulcan”
Thetis presents Vulcan’s armour as rich and goodly, saying no man has ever yet borne it on his shoulders.
“accept from Vulcan this rich and goodly armour, which no man has ever yet borne upon his shoulders”
The armour rings loudly when set down, inspires fear and awe, and delights Achilles as he handles the splendid divine-made gift.
“she set the armour before Achilles, and it rang out bravely as she did so. The Myrmidons were struck with awe, and none dared look full at it, for they were afraid; but Achilles was roused to still greater fury, and his eyes gleamed with a fierce light, for he was glad when he handled the splendid present which the god had made him”
Achilles dons the divine gift, the armour Vulcan made for him.
“did he don the gift of the god, the armour that Vulcan had made him”
Achilles arms in sequence with clasped greaves and breastplate, slings a silver-studded bronze sword, takes up the great moon-bright shield, and sets on the star-bright helmet with Vulcan’s thick golden plumes waving around its ridge.
“First he put on the goodly greaves fitted with ancle-clasps, and next he did on the breastplate about his chest. He slung the silver-studded sword of bronze about his shoulders, and then took up the shield so great and strong that shone afar with a splendour as of the moon. As the light seen by sailors from out at sea, when men have lit a fire in their homestead high up among the mountains, but the sailors are carried out to sea by wind and storm far from the haven where they would be—even so did the gleam of Achilles’ wondrous shield strike up into the heavens. He lifted the redoubtable helmet, and set it upon his head, from whence it shone like a star, and the golden plumes which Vulcan had set thick about the ridge of the helmet, waved all around it”
Achilles’s armour rings loudly about his breast as he flees the pursuing river.
“the armour rang loudly about his breast”
Scamander predicts that Achilles’s fine armour will lie deep in the waters covered with mud.
“his fine armour, which forsooth shall soon be lying low in the deep waters covered over with mud.”
Achilles’s newly wrought tin greave rings loudly; the spear recoils and does not pierce because the god’s gift stays it.
“the greave of newly wrought tin rang loudly, but the spear recoiled from the body of him whom it had struck, and did not pierce it, for the gods gift stayed it.”
Achilles’ armour gleams on his breast as radiantly as a brilliant, ominous harvest star.
“all radiant as the star which men call Orion’s Hound, and whose beams blaze forth in time of harvest more brilliantly than those of any other that shines by night; brightest of them all though he be, he yet bodes ill for mortals, for he brings fire and fever in his train—even so did Achilles’ armour gleam on his breast as he sped onwards”
Achilles’ equipment presents a wondrous shield and a gleaming four-layered helmet with a fiercely nodding crest of floating gold tresses.
“with his wondrous shield before his breast, and his gleaming helmet, made with four layers of metal, nodding fiercely forward. The thick tresses of gold with which Vulcan had crested the helmet floated round it”
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“provide my son, whose end is near at hand, with helmet and shield, with goodly greaves fitted with ancleclasps, and with a breastplate, for he lost his own when his true comrade fell at the hands of the Trojans”
“when the famed lame god had made all the armour, he took it and set it before the mother of Achilles; whereon she darted like a falcon from the snowy summits of Olympus and bore away the gleaming armour from the house of Vulcan”
“armour, which no man has ever yet borne upon his shoulders”
“all glorious in his armour”
“his fine armour, which forsooth shall soon be lying low in the deep waters covered over with mud”
“even so did Achilles’ armour gleam on his breast as he sped onwards”
“his gleaming helmet, made with four layers of metal”