Achilles killed them as they were with their sheep and cattle.

My mother--her who had been queen of all the land under Mt.

Placus--he brought hither with the spoil, and freed her for a great sum, but the archer-queen Diana took her in the house of your father.

Nay--Hector--you who to me are father, mother, brother, and dear husband--have mercy upon me; stay here upon this wall; make not your child fatherless, and your wife a widow; as for the host, place them near the fig-tree, where the city can be best scaled, and the wall is weakest.

Thrice have the bravest of them come thither and assailed it, under the two Ajaxes, Idomeneus, the sons of Atreus, and the brave son of Tydeus, either of their own bidding, or because some soothsayer had told them." And Hector answered, "Wife, I too have thought upon all this, but with what face should I look upon the Trojans, men or women, if I shirked battle like a coward?
I cannot do so: I know nothing save to fight bravely in the forefront of the Trojan host and win renown alike for my father and myself.