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Homer’s Iliad
Thus did he vaunt, and the Argives were stung by his saying.
Noble Antilochus was more angry than any one, but grief did not
make him forget his friend and comrade. He ran up to him,
bestrode him, and covered him with his shield; then two of his
staunch comrades, Mecisteus son of Echius, and Alastor stooped
down, and bore him away groaning heavily to the ships. But
Idomeneus ceased not his fury. He kept on striving continually
either to enshroud some Trojan in the darkness of death, or himself
to fall while warding off the evil day from the Achaeans. Then fell
Alcathous son of noble Aesyetes: he was son-in-law to Anchises,
having married his eldest daughter Hippodameia who was the
darling of her father and mother, and excelled all her generation in
beauty, accomplishments, and understanding, wherefore the
bravest man in all Troy had taken her to wife- him did Neptune lay
low by the hand of Idomeneus, blinding his bright eyes and
binding his strong limbs in fetters so that he could neither go back
nor to one side, but stood stock still like pillar or lofty tree when
Idomeneus struck him with a spear in the middle of his chest. The
coat of mail that had hitherto protected his body was now broken,
and rang harshly as the spear tore through it. He fell heavily to the
ground, and the spear stuck in his heart, which still beat, and made
the butt-end of the spear quiver till dread Mars put an end to his
life. Idomeneus vaunted over him and cried with a loud voice
saying, “Deiphobus, since you are in a mood to vaunt, shall we cry
quits now that we have killed three men to your one? Nay, sir,
stand in fight with me yourself, that you may learn what manner of
Jove-begotten man am I that have come hither. Jove first begot
Minos chief ruler in Crete, and Minos in his turn begot a son, noble
Deucalion; Deucalion begot me to be a ruler over many men in
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