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While these things were doing, Achilles ceased not to pursue and slay / the men of Troy, and Priam stood on a tower of the wall and saw the / people. Sore troubled was he, and he hastened down to the gates and / said to the keepers, "Keep the gates open, that the people may enter / in, for they fly before Achilles. " So the keepers held the gates / open, and the people hastened in, wearied with toil and thirst, and / covered with dust, and Achilles followed close upon them. And that / hour would the Greeks have taken the city of Troy, but that Apollo / saved it. For he put courage into the heart of Agenor, standing also / by him, that he should not be slain. And Agenor thought within / himself: --
/ A-ge'-nor.