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The battle continues, but Hector is needed in Troy. He tells Hecuba to lead the women in a sacrifice to Athena, finds Paris in the palace with Helen, and shames him into returning to the war.
At the gate Hector meets Andromache and the nurse carrying Astyanax. She begs him not to go back, saying that he is all she has left. He answers that he cannot hide and that Troy will one day fall. He lifts his son, prays that the boy may be better than his father, and returns to the field.
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So was the dread strife of the Trojans and Achaeans left to itself, and oft to this side and to that surged the battle over the plain, as they aimed one at the other their bronze-tipped spears between the Simoïs and the streams of Xanthus. — Homer, Iliad VI.1ff., trans. A. T. Murray (Loeb; Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA 4.0).
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