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Zeus sends Strife to start the fighting at dawn. Agamemnon kills several Trojan commanders and pushes the enemy back to the gates before a spear wound forces him to withdraw.
Hector counterattacks. Diomedes is hit in the foot, Odysseus is surrounded and rescued by Aias, and the healer Machaon is wounded. Achilles, watching from the ships, sends Patroclus to Nestor’s tent. Nestor suggests that Patroclus either persuade Achilles to return or borrow his armour and fight in his place.
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Now Dawn rose from her couch from beside lordly Tithonus, to bring light to immortals and to mortal men; and Zeus sent forth Strife unto the swift ships of the Achaeans, dread Strife, bearing in her hands a portent of war. — Homer, Iliad XI.1ff., trans. A. T. Murray (Loeb; Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA 4.0).
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