The death scenes are becoming more interesting as they get longer. Oswald describes the deaths of
Peisander and
Hippolochus during
Agamemnon's
aristeia; their horses run away from them, they stand in the chariot and offer a ransom, their father is a rich man. But Agamemnon says in case you hadn't noticed, kids, I'm having an
aristeia, and kills them. Well, no, he doesn't; he says "your father tried to get my brother killed by treachery", and then he slaughters them. Homer is quite graphic about the method of their deaths; Oswald is not. Oswald ends (p. 37)
But Agamemnon remembered
Their father was that sly old man
Who tried to murder Menelaus
Antimachus assured them
He had acted in good faith
But their ghosts said nothing
Simile, of rocks standing against a wild sea, is used of the Greeks fending off Hector at the ships in book 15; here it seems to be Peisander and Hippolochus, standing against Agamemnon, or standing stunned as he rushes towards them to overwhelm them, more like.
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