
Contre les dons d’ennemis.[1]
CXIII.
Ajax & Hector s’entredonnent
Une espee & une ceinture:

Mais tels dons à tous deux mal sonnent ,
Comme on vid par leur adventure.
Ajax de sa vie jacture
Fit par l’espee, & puis
au col
D’Hector fut mise la ceincture
Qui luy fut en lieu de licol.[2]
commentaires.
Ajax, le plus fort des Grecs apres Achilles, com-
battant en duel avec Hector, le plus vaillant d’entre
tous les Troyens, apres avoir longuement essayé de se
surmonter l’un l’autre, & n’en pouvant venir à bout,
sortirent amis du combat: & pour remarque de ceste
amitié, Hector fait present de son espee à Ajax, &
Ajax baille en don à Hector son baudrier ou ceinctu-
re. Mais tels dons leur furent malencontreux. Car
Ajax se tua avec l’espee
qu’Hector luy avoit donnee:
& Hector, ayant esté versé par terre par Achilles
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sans qu’ils s’en donnast de garde, il fut attaché au
char d’Achilles, avec la mesme ceincture que luy a-
voit donné Ajax, & avec icelle trainé trois fois au
tour des murailles de Troye. Voy cy dessus les emble-
mes 38 & 57. Et Hector & Ajax s’entrefirent des
presents en toute franchise: mais
l’issue a tesmoigné
que les presents des ennemis sont bien souvent fune-
stes.
1. See Sophocles, Ajax 665, where Ajax so speaks of the ill-fated sword he had received from Hector.
2. See Homer Iliad 7.299, for the occasion in the Trojan War when Hector (the Trojan hero, son of Priam) and Ajax (Telamon’s descendant, one of the best fighters on the Greek side) met in single combat and afterwards, the honours being even, exchanged gifts. (Ajax was carrying the vast shield for which he was famed). Later, he committed suicide by falling on the sword he received from Hector (see [FALd038]n. and [FALe023] n.). Hector was later killed in single combat by Achilles (prince of Thessaly, the Greek champion), who desecrated the body by tying it behind his chariot (it is suggested here that he used the sword-belt Hector had received from Ajax) and dragging it about before the eyes of the Trojans. See [FALd057].
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