Hector let the other Danaans alone and killed no man, but drove straight at Patroclus.

Patroclus then sprang from his chariot to the ground, with a spear in his left hand, and in his right a jagged stone as large as his hand could hold.

He stood still and threw it, nor did it go far without hitting some one; the cast was not in vain, for the stone struck Cebriones, Hector's charioteer, a bastard son of Priam, as he held the reins in his hands.

The stone hit him on the forehead and drove his brows into his head for the bone was smashed, and his eyes fell to the ground at his feet.

He dropped dead from his chariot as though he were diving, and there was no more life left in him.