Apollodorus, Epitome, book E, chapter 4, section 5

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[5] But by day a fierce fight took place; Agamemnon and Diomedes, Ulysses, Eurypylus, and Machaon were wounded, the Greeks were put to flight¹ Hector made a breach in the wall and entered² and, Ajax having retreated, he set fire to the ships.³

1 These events are told in the eleventh book of the Iliad , (Hom. Il. 11).

2 Compare Hom. Il. 12.436ff.

3 Compare Hom. Il. 15.716ff.

Apollodorus. Apollodorus, The Library, with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. Includes Frazer's notes.

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