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helmet pierced by Laertes’s spear

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helmet pierced by Laertes’s spear
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Eupeithes’s helmet fails to stop Laertes’s spear, which passes through it before he falls heavily.

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“He hit Eupeithes’ helmet, and the spear went right through it, for the helmet stayed it not, and his armour rang rattling round him as he fell heavily”

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“He hit Eupeithes’ helmet, and the spear went right through it”

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Book 24 · Passage 43

As she spoke she infused fresh vigour into him, and when he had prayed to her he poised his spear and hurled it. He hit Eupeithes’ helmet, and the spear went right through it, for the helmet stayed it not, and his armour rang rattling round him as he fell heavily to the ground. Meantime Ulysses and his son fell upon the front line of the foe and smote them with their swords and spears; indeed, they would have killed every one of them, and prevented them from ever getting home again, only Minerva raised her voice aloud, and made every one pause. ‘Men of Ithaca,’ she cried, ‘cease this dreadful war, and settle the matter at once without further bloodshed.’