While Hektor lived and while Akhilleus raged, and while Lord Priam’s town lived on, unsacked, so long the Akhaians’ rampart stood. But after the flower of Troy went down, with many Argives fallen or bereft, when Priam’s Troy was plundered in the tenth year, and the Argives shipped again for their dear homeland
Exactly 49% into the book now is the first time the author tells ho wthe story ended. That the war lasted for ten years, now we're in its ninth year, Hektor died, Troy fell and tbe Achaians fled back to their homes. Afterwards the gods ruined the wall of Troy.
