756The Trojans turn and scatter in trembling fear: and if at once the thought had come to the victor to break the bars with his hand and let his comrades in at the gates, that would have been the last day for the war and for the nation; 760but rage and a mad desire for slaughter drove him, burning, against his opponents. 762First he catches Phaleris, and Gyges, hamstringing him; 763then he seizes their spears and hurls them into the backs of the fleeing men; Juno supplies strength and courage; 765he adds Halys as their companion, and Phegeus, pierced through his shield, then, unaware on the walls and stirring up the fight, Alcander and Halius, Noemon and Prytanis.
768Lynceus, as he comes against him and calls on his comrades, he forestalls from the rampart on the right, lunging with his flashing sword; 770his head, cut off by a single blow at close quarters, lay far away with its helmet. 771Next Amycus, destroyer of wild beasts, than whom no other was more skilled at anointing darts and arming steel with poison, and Clytius, son of Aeolus, and Cretheus, friend of the Muses, Cretheus, companion of the Muses, whose heart always delighted in songs and the lyre and in stretching rhythms on the strings.