"
When Telegonus heard these words, and knew that he had slain his father,
the famed Odysseus, whom he had sought the whole world through, he would
have cast himself into the river, there to drown, but those with him
held him by strength, and the stream took the curved ship and floated
it away. And thus for the first and last time did the Gods give it
to Telegonus to look upon the face and hear the voice of his father,
Odysseus.
But when the Achaeans knew that it was the lost Odysseus who had led the
host of Pharaoh against the armies of the Nine Nations, they wondered
no more at the skill of the ambush and the greatness of the victory of
Pharaoh.
Now the chariots of Meriamun were pursuing, and they splashed through
the blood of men in the pass, and rolled over the bodies of men in the
plain beyond the pass. They came to the camps and found them peopled
with dead, and lit with the lamps of the blazing ships of the Aquaiusha.
Then Meriamun cried aloud:
"Surely Pharaoh grew wise before he died, for there is but one man on
the earth who with so small a force could have won so great a fray. He
hath saved the crown of Khem, and by Osiris he shall wear it."
Now the chariots of Meriamun had passed the camp of the barbarians, and
were come to the inner camp of the Achaeans, and the soldiers shouted as
she came driving furiously.
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