<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=396699" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Agamemnon In The Fight</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">[Iliad, B. XI. V. 148]</div><div style="margin:10px 0">These, then, he left, and away where ranks were now clashing the thickest,<br>Onward rushed, and with him rushed all of the bright-greaved Achaians.<br>Foot then footmen slew, that were flying from direful compulsion,<br>Horse at the horsemen (up from off under them mounted the dust-cloud,<br>Up off the plain, raised up cloud-thick by the thundering horse-hooves)<br>Hewed with the sword's sharp edge; and so meanwhile Lord Agamemnon<br>Followed, chasing and slaughtering aye, on-urgeing the Argives.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now, as when fire voracious catches the unclipped woodland,<br>This way bears it and that the great whirl of the wind, and the scrubwood<br>Stretches uptorn, flung forward alength by the fire's fury rageing,<br>So beneath Atreides Agamemnon heads of the scattered<br>Trojans fell; and in numbers amany the horses, neck-stiffened,<br>Rattled their vacant cars down the roadway gaps of the war-field,<br>Missing the blameless charioteers, but, for these, they were outstretched<br>Flat upon earth, far dearer to vultures than to their home-mates.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=George+Meredith">George Meredith</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=396699" data-title="Agamemnon In The Fight de George Meredith" data-description="[Iliad, B. XI. V. 148] These, then, he left, and away where ranks were now clashing the thickest, Onward rushed, and with him rushed all of the bright-greaved Achaians. Foot then footmen slew, that were flying from direful compulsion, Horse at th..."></div> </div> </div>

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