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Menelaus’s sword

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Menelaus’s sword
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Claims

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·Direct

Menelaus’s sword shatters into three or four pieces in his hand when he strikes Alexandrus’s helmet.

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“drew his sword, and drove at the projecting part of his helmet, but the sword fell shivered in three or four pieces from his hand”
·Direct

Menelaus draws his sword and springs on Pisander.

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“the son of Atreus drew his sword and sprang upon him”

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·Direct
“the son of Atreus drew his sword”

Passage preview

Book 3 · Passage 31

He poised his spear as he spoke, and hurled it at the shield of Alexandrus. Through shield and cuirass it went, and tore the shirt by his flank, but Alexandrus swerved aside, and thus saved his life. Then the son of Atreus drew his sword, and drove at the projecting part of his helmet, but the sword fell shivered in three or four pieces from his hand, and he cried, looking towards Heaven, ‘Father Jove, of all gods thou art the most despiteful; I made sure of my revenge, but the sword has broken in my hand, my spear has been hurled in vain, and I have not killed him.’