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Neptune's sceptre

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Neptune's sceptre
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The sceptre with which Neptune strikes and emboldens the two Ajaxes.

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Neptune’s sceptre is used to give both Ajaxes daring, light legs, and active hands and feet.

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“struck both of them with his sceptre and filled their hearts with daring. He made their legs light and active, as also their hands and their feet.”

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“the earth-encircling lord of the earthquake struck both of them with his sceptre”

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Book 13 · Passage 7

As he spoke the earth-encircling lord of the earthquake struck both of them with his sceptre and filled their hearts with daring. He made their legs light and active, as also their hands and their feet. Then, as the soaring falcon poises on the wing high above some sheer rock, and presently swoops down to chase some bird over the plain, even so did Neptune lord of the earthquake wing his flight into the air and leave them. Of the two, swift Ajax son of Oileus was the first to know who it was that had been speaking with them, and said to Ajax son of Telamon, ‘Ajax, this is one of the gods that dwell on Olympus, who in the likeness of the prophet is bidding us fight hard by our ships. It was not Calchas the seer and diviner of omens; I knew him at once by his feet and knees as he turned away, for the gods are soon recognised. Moreover I feel the lust of battle burn more fiercely within me, while my hands and my feet under me are more eager for the fray.’