id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt homer-iliad_07 homer-iliad_07 .txt text/plain 4449 148 76 Thereon they would have hacked at one another in close combat with their swords, had not heralds, messengers of gods and men, come forward, one from the Trojans and the other from the Achaeans— Talthybius and Idaeus both of them honourable men; these parted them with their staves, and the good herald Idaeus said, My sons, fight no longer, you are both of you valiant, and both are dear to Jove; we know this; but night is now falling, and the behests of night may not be well gainsaid. Holding this shield before him, Ajax son of Telamon came close up to Hector, and menaced him saying, Hector, you shall now learn, man to man, what kind of champions the Danaans have among them even besides lion- hearted Achilles cleaver of the ranks of men. cache/homer-iliad_07.txt txt/homer-iliad_07.txt