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Zeus wakes, sees what Hera and Poseidon have done, and orders Poseidon back to the sea. He sends Apollo to heal Hector and lead the Trojan attack.
The Trojans cross the ditch and wall again. Hector reaches the ships and calls for fire. Aias stands at the stern of one ship, holding off the torch until he is forced back. The Achaean position becomes desperate, and the stage is set for Patroclus.
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But when the Trojans in their flight had passed over the palisade and the trench, and many had been vanquished beneath the hands of the Danaans, then beside their chariots they stayed, and were halted, pale with fear, terror-stricken; and Zeus awoke [5] on the peaks of Ida beside Hera of the golden throne. — Homer, Iliad XV.1ff., trans. A. T. Murray (Loeb; Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA 4.0).
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