<P> The battle rages inside the camp . Hector goes down, hit by a stone thrown by Ajax, but Apollo arrives from Olympus and infuses strength into "the shepherd of the people", who orders a chariot attack, with Apollo clearing the way . Many combats, deaths, boasts, threats, epithets, figures of speech, stories, lines of poetry and books of the Iliad later, Hector lays hold of Protesilaus' ship and calls for fire . The Trojans cannot bring it to him, as Ajax kills everyone who tries . Eventually, Hector breaks Ajax' spear with his sword, forcing him to give ground, and he sets the ship on fire . </P> <P> These events are all according to the will of the gods, who have decreed the fall of Troy, and therefore intend to tempt Achilles back into the war . Patroclus, Achilles' closest companion, disguised in the armor of Achilles, enters the combat leading the Myrmidons and the rest of the Achaeans to force a Trojan withdrawal . After Patroclus has routed the Trojan army, Hector, with the aid of Apollo and Euphorbus, kills Patroclus, vaunting over him: </P> <P> "Wretch! Achilleus, great as he was, could do nothing to help you ." </P> <P> The dying Patroclus foretells Hector's death: </P>

Who is known by the epithet wall of army