The Achaean wall and trench
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the trench · the wall · Achaean wall · deep trench · high wall · the set stakes
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1 expressionAchaean wall and trench1 mention
Iliad (Greek)
While they were spoiling these heroes of their armor, the Achaeans were fleeing pellmell to the trench and the set stakes, and were forced back within their wall.
in 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?
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.
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.