and roused terror in the Danaans. Ares, god of the spear, urged them on, and Loxias Apollo, lord of the Lycians. And they came to the shore of the sea, and fought beside the ships with their fine sterns, and the dark earth ran red with the blood of men slain by the hand of Hector, heroes through the onslaught of godlike with great hopes, and arrogant shouts, the Trojan horsemen the dark-eyed ships the god-built city would have and feasts, in But before that could be they were doomed after all to redden with blood the whirling Scamander,