“Here I am badly caught. If I take cover, slipping inside the gate and wall, the first 120 to accuse me for it will be Poulýdamas, he who told me I should lead the Trojans back to the city on that cursed night Akhilleus joined the battle. No, I would not, would not, wiser though it would have been. Now troops have perished for my foolish pride, I am ashamed to face townsmen and women. Someone inferior to me may say: ‘He kept his pride and lost his men, this Hektor!’ So it will go. Better, when that time comes, 130 that I appear as he who killed Akhilleus man to man, or else that I went down
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Hektor decidss to die :(
