FROM SAMUEL BUTLER’S TRANSLATION OF THE ILIAD

(COPIED FROM WEBSITE - http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~joelja/iliad.html)
 
 

SCAEAN GATE

They flew on by the tomb of old Ilus, son of

Dardanus, in the middle of the plain, and past the place of the wild

fig-tree making always for the city- the son of Atreus still shouting,

and with hands all bedrabbled in gore; but when they had reached the

Scaean gates and the oak tree, there they halted and waited for the

others to come up.

BOOK 11