![]() Achilles replies to Xanthus (called Scamander by mortals) that he will obey, but not now: first, he will kill Trojans until they are driven back into the city and Hector has fallen. The dead bodies are so numerous that the river cannot run a clean course into the sea. Xanthus protests, telling Achilles to stop glutting his waters with corpses. Achilles goes on slaughtering more Paeonians, who are struck down as they flee from him in terror. ![]() He helps Asteropaeus, a Paeonian ally of the Trojans, to wound Achilles, but Achilles still kills the man. Xanthus, the river god, is angered by Achilles' pitiless slaughter of the Trojan men. He gloats over the body, promising that all Trojans will die horribly in payment for Patroclus' death. Lycaon resists no more, and Achilles kills him. Patroclus, a better man than Lycaon, died, and Achilles himself will die, so Lycaon must accept his fate. He begs for his life, but Achilles tells him that only while Patroclus was alive did he have the desire to spare Trojan life. Now, he is at Achilles' mercy once again. ![]() At great price, Lycaon was bought back and returned to his family. On a previous encounter, Achilles captured Lycaon and sold him into slavery. ![]() Achilles follows the Trojans into the river, hacking them to pieces with his sword. Hera sends a mist to confuse and slow the retreat of the men going back towards the city. ![]() Achilles single-handedly splits the Trojan forces, driving one half towards the city and one half into the river. ![]()
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