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But when Achilles saw the ship of Protesilaus burning, he sent out Patroclus with the
Myrmidons, after arming him with his own arms and giving him the horses. Seeing him the
Trojans thought that he was Achilles and turned to flee. And having chased them within the
wall, he killed many, amongst them Sarpedon, son of Zeus, and was himself killed by
Hector, after being first wounded by
Euphorbus.1
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1 These events are narrated in the sixteenth book of the Iliad , (Hom. Il. 16).
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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