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Hector issues a challenge, and after a lottery Aias is chosen. Athena and Apollo agree that the duel should end without a death. The two men fight with spears and stones until the heralds separate them.
Hector gives Aias a silver-hilted sword, and Aias gives Hector a purple belt. The armies collect their dead, and the Achaeans build the wall and ditch that will become the focus of the Trojan attack in later books.
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So saying, glorious Hector hastened forth from the gates, and with him went his brother Alexander; and in their hearts were both eager for war and battle. — Homer, Iliad VII.1ff., trans. A. T. Murray (Loeb; Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA 4.0).
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