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Therewith he caught up a sword in his strong hand, that lay where Agelaus had let it fall to the ground when he was slain, and drave it clean through his neck, and as he yet spake his head fell even to the dust. But the son of Terpes, the minstrel, still sought how he might shun black fate, Phemius, who sang among the wooers of necessity.
Therefore you shall die." With these words he picked up the sword that Agelaus had dropped when he was being killed, and which was lying upon the ground. Then he struck Leiodes on the back of his neck, so that his head fell rolling in the dust while he was yet speaking. The minstrel Phemius son of Terpes he who had been forced by the suitors to sing to them now tried to save his life.
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