Interestingly, the Gutenberg version drops a lot of information--every time break, and an entire paragraph from chapter 5:
"Gromel! Volmana! Rinaldo!" exclaimed Publius, the high councillor, wringing his fat hands among the corpses. "Black treachery! Some one shall dance for this! Call the guard."
(occurs after the combat, with a dropcap)
The closest of the free modern online versions I found was this: https://bearlib.com/robert-e-howard/text/PhoenixSword.html which substitutes a "* * *" break where the original version used a dropcap to indicate a time break, but changes the capitalization of Thoth-Amon.
The manner in which you break down this combat does help to reflect the parallels between Howard's approach to writing the scene and the way Homer portrays combat in The Iliad. Wonderful catch that reinforces some of the reasons why it's so important for us to familiarize ourselves with the classics.
Interestingly, the Gutenberg version drops a lot of information--every time break, and an entire paragraph from chapter 5:
"Gromel! Volmana! Rinaldo!" exclaimed Publius, the high councillor, wringing his fat hands among the corpses. "Black treachery! Some one shall dance for this! Call the guard."
(occurs after the combat, with a dropcap)
The closest of the free modern online versions I found was this: https://bearlib.com/robert-e-howard/text/PhoenixSword.html which substitutes a "* * *" break where the original version used a dropcap to indicate a time break, but changes the capitalization of Thoth-Amon.
And of course you can get the original online in page 51 of the PDF of Weird Tales December 1932: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v20n06_1932-12_AT-sas/page/n49/mode/2up
The manner in which you break down this combat does help to reflect the parallels between Howard's approach to writing the scene and the way Homer portrays combat in The Iliad. Wonderful catch that reinforces some of the reasons why it's so important for us to familiarize ourselves with the classics.