Then Achilles dismissed the old king, having first pledged himself to a truce of twelve days for the funeral solemnities. As the litter approached the city and was descried from the walls, the people poured forth to gaze once more on the face of their hero. Foremost of all, the mother and the wife of Hector came, and at the sight of the lifeless body renewed their lamentations. The people wept with them, and to the going down of the sun there was no pause or abatement of their grief. The next day, preparations were made for the funeral solemnities. For nine days the people brought wood and built the pile; and on the tenth they placed the body on the summit and applied the torch, while all Troy, thronging forth, encompassed the pyre. When it had completely burned, they quenched the cinders with wine, and, collecting the bones, placed them in a golden urn, which they buried in the earth. Over the spot they reared a pile of stones. Such honors Ilium to her hero paid, And peaceful slept the mighty Hector's shade.[310] FOOTNOTES: [280] From Tennyson's Dream of Fair Women. [281] From Tennyson's [OE]none. [282] Euripides, Iphigenia at Aulis, Iphigenia among the Tauri. [283] From Tennyson's Dream of Fair Women. [284] Gladstone's Translations from the Iliad. [285] Iliad, 2 (Pope's translation). [286] Iliad, 3 (Pope's translation). [287] Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus. [288] Iliad, 3 (Pope's translation). [289] Iliad, 6, 390 _et seq._ (Lang, Leaf, and Myers' translation). [290] Iliad, 6, 470-490 (Pope's translation). [291] Iliad, 6 (Pope's translation). [292] Iliad, 9. [293] Iliad, 11. [294] Iliad, 13. [295] Iliad, 14, 400-440. [296] Iliad, 14, 150-350. [297] Iliad, 15. [298] Iliad, 11. [299] Iliad, 16. [300] Iliad, 17. [301] Cowper's translation. The lines are often quoted. [302] Iliad, 18. [303] Iliad, 19. [304] Iliad, 20. [305] Iliad, 21. [306] Iliad, 22, 350. [307] Iliad, 23. [308] Iliad, 24, 15. [309] Iliad, 24, 330-804. [310] Iliad, 24, 804 (Pope's translation). [Illustration: AMAZON] CHAPTER XXIII THE FALL OF TROY [Illustration: FIG. 162. ACHILLES AND PENTHESILEA]