The Story of the Iliad by Alfred John Church

Fierce was the fight about the body of Patroclus, and many heroes / fell, both on this side and on that, and first of them all Euphorbus, / who first had wounded him. For as he came near to strip the dead man / of his arms, Menelaus slew him with his spear. He slew him, but took / not his arms, for Hector came through the battle; nor did Menelaus / dare to abide his coming, but went back into the ranks of his own / people. Then did Hector strip off the arms of Patroclus, the arms / which the great Achilles had given him to wear. Then he laid hold of / the body, and would have dragged it into the host of the Trojans, but / Ajax Telamon came forth, and put his broad shield before it, as a / lion stands before its cubs when the hunters meet it in the woods, / drawing down over its eyes its shaggy brows. Then Hector gave place, / but Glaucus saw him, and said: --

"Now is this a shame to thee, that thou darest not to stand against / Ajax. How wilt thou and thy countrymen save the city of Troy? For / surely no more will thy allies fight for it. Small profit have they / of thee. Did not Sarpedon fall, and didst thou not leave him to be a / prey to the dogs? And now, if thou hadst stood firm and carried off / Patroclus, we might have made exchange, and gained from the Greeks / Sarpedon and his arms. But it may not be, for thou fearest Ajax, and / fleest before him."