Hectore sepulto cum Achilles circa moenia Troianorum vagaretur ac diceret se solum Troiam expugnasse, Apollo iratus Alexandrum Parin se simulans talum, quem mortalem habuisse dicitur, sagitta percussit et occidit.
Achille occiso ac sepulturae tradito Aiax Telamonius, quod frater patruelis eius fuit, postulavit a Danais, ut arma sibi Achillis darent; quae ei ira Minervae abiurgata sunt ab Agamemnone et Menelao et Ulixi data.
Aiax furia accepta per insaniam pecora sua et se ipsum vulneratum occidit eo gladio, quem ab Hectore muneri accepit, dum cum eo in acie contendit.
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After the burial of Hector, Achilles stalked around the walls of Troy boasting that he would storm them on his own. The angry Apollo took on the appearance of Alexander Paris and shot him with an arrow in the heel (which was said to be his only mortal part), killing him.
After the death and burial of Achilles, Telamonian Ajax, who was his cousin, petitioned the Greeks to award the arms of Achilles to him. Denied to him by the anger of Athene, the arms were given to Odysseus by Agamemnon and Menelaos.
Ajax, crazed with vengeance, slaughtered his domestic animals and then himself with the same sword that Hector had presented to him when they fought their duel. |
