text:  Ajax singly resisting the onset of the Trojan multitude; slowly retreating covered by his broad shield; midway between the two armies when all around him fled; striving with desperate resolution for the body of Patroclus and covering the retreat of his followers who dragged along the lifeless hero when Hector clad in the shining panoply he had wrested from the Myrmidonian chief was thundering in close pursuit