The Achaean wall and trench
object · 1 work · 3 mentions · 8 anchored passages
the trench · the wall · Achaean wall · deep trench · high wall · the set stakes
spoken of as
1 expressionin the texts
Iliad
The fortified wall and trench the Achaeans build around their ships to protect against the Trojans.
See you not how the Achaeans have built a wall about their ships and driven a trench all round it, without offering hecatombs to the gods?
they gave it strong gates that there might be a way through them for their chariots, and close outside it they dug a trench deep and wide, and they planted it within with stakes.
near this let us set about building a high wall, to shelter ourselves and our ships, and let it have well-made gates that there may be a way through them for our chariots.