The Story of the Iliad by Alfred John Church

When the next day dawned, King Agamemnon called the Greeks to battle. / And on the other side Hector set in order the men of Troy. As a / baleful star now shineth from the clouds, and now is hidden, so / Hector now shone among the foremost ranks, and now ordered the / rearward.

Then the men of Troy and the Greeks leapt upon each other. As / reapers reap in a rich man's field, making the barley and the wheat / fall in long swathes, so did the Trojans and the Greeks slay one / another. So long as the day was waxing, the battle was equal, and / the people fell alike on either side; but at noon, the Greeks brake / the Trojan line, and Agamemnon leapt first into the breach. As a / fire falleth on a wood, and sweepeth it away, so Agamemnon fell upon / the men of Troy, and swept them before him. Past the Tomb of Ilus, / and past the wild fig tree in the plain, they fled, and the King / followed hard upon them, shouting aloud. But when they came to the / Scean gate they turned and stood, and the battle was renewed.