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Rh CHAPTER XXII. THE BATTLE AT THE RIVER.

did Achilles go again into the battle, eager above all things to meet with Hector and to slay him. But Apollo stood by Æneas, and spake to him, "Æneas, where are now thy boastings that thou wouldst meet Achilles face to face?" Then Æneas answered: "Nay, I have stood up against him in the day when he took the town of Lyrnessus. But I fled before him, and only my nimble feet saved me from falling by his spear. Surely a god is ever with him, making his spear to fly aright." Him Apollo answered again: "Thou, too, art the son of a goddess, and thy mother is greater than his, for she is but a daughter of the Sea. Drive straight at him with thy spear, and let not his threats dismay thee." Then Æneas stood out from the press to meet Achilles, and Achilles said: "Fightest thou