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THE ILIAD: BOOK 15. APOLLO DESTROYS THE WALL, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He said: and on his horses' shoulder-point
Last Line: Confounding, sentest panic through their souls.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Trojan War; Troy


HE said: and on his horses' shoulder-point
Let fall the lash, and loudly through the ranks
Called on the Trojans; they with answering shout
And noise unspeakable, urged on with him
Their harnessed steeds; Apollo, in the van,
Trod down with ease the embankment of the ditch,
And filled it in; and o'er it bridged a way
Level and wide, far as a javelin's flight
Hurled by an arm that proves its utmost strength.
O'er this the columns passed; Apollo bore
His aegis o'er them, and cast down the wall:
Easy, as when a child upon the beach,
In wanton play, with hands and feet o'erthrows
The mould of sand which late in play he raised;
So, Phoebus, thou, the Grecian toil and pains
Confounding, sentest panic through their souls.





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