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The Trojans flee inside, but Hector remains outside the Scaean Gate. Apollo abandons him, and Athena takes the form of his brother Deiphobus to persuade him to stand.
Hector and Achilles run three times around the walls. Zeus weighs their fates, and Hector’s sinks. Achilles strikes him in the throat. Hector begs that his body be returned; Achilles refuses. Andromache hears the wailing from the wall.
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So they throughout the city, huddled in rout like fawns, were cooling their sweat and drinking and quenching their thirst, as they rested on the fair battlements; while the Achaeans drew near the wall leaning their shields against their shoulders. — Homer, Iliad XXII.1ff., trans. A. T. Murray (Loeb; Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA 4.0).
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