id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt homer-iliad_17 homer-iliad_17 .txt text/plain 7315 211 73 When he had thus spoken they charged full weight upon the Danaans with their spears held out before them, and the hopes of each ran high that he should force Ajax son of Telamon to yield up the body— fools that they were, for he was about to take the lives of many. Brave Menelaus son of Atreus now came to know that Patroclus had fallen, and made his way through the front ranks clad in full armour to bestride him. cache/homer-iliad_17.txt txt/homer-iliad_17.txt