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The Achaeans retreat behind the wall and ditch. Hector ignores the problem of chariots and leads an infantry assault. The poet looks forward to the time after the war, when Apollo and Poseidon will wipe the wall away.
Sarpedon urges his cousin Glaucus forward, and the two lead the Lycian assault on the parapet. Aias and Teucer defend it. Hector lifts a great stone, breaks the bolt of the gate, and the Trojans pour through. The fighting moves to the ships.
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So then amid the huts the valiant son of Menoetius was tending the wounded Eurypylus, but the others, Argives and Trojans, fought on in throngs, nor were the ditch of the Danaans and their wide wall above long to protect them, [5] the wall that they had builded as a defence for their ships and had drawn a trench about it—yet they gave not glorious hecatombs to the gods—that it might hold within its bounds their… — Homer, Iliad XII.1ff., trans. A. T. Murray (Loeb; Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA 4.0).
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