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Homer’s Iliad
Crete, and my ships have now brought me hither, to be the bane of
yourself, your father, and the Trojans.”
Thus did he speak, and Deiphobus was in two minds, whether to
go back and fetch some other Trojan to help him, or to take up the
challenge single-handed. In the end, he deemed it best to go and
fetch Aeneas, whom he found standing in the rear, for he had long
been aggrieved with Priam because in spite his brave deeds he did
not give him his due share of honour. Deiphobus went up to him
and said, “Aeneas, prince among the Trojans, if you know any ties
of kinship, help me now to defend the body of your sister’s
husband; come with me to the rescue of Alcathous, who being
husband to your sister brought you up when you were a child in
his house, and now Idomeneus has slain him.”
With these words he moved the heart of Aeneas, and he went in
pursuit of Idomeneus, big with great deeds of valour; but
Idomeneus was not to be thus daunted as though he were a mere
child; he held his ground as a wild boar at bay upon the
mountains, who abides the coming of a great crowd of men in
some lonely place- the bristles stand upright on his back, his eyes
flash fire, and he whets his tusks in his eagerness to defend himself
against hounds and men- even so did famed Idomeneus hold his
ground and budge not at the coming of Aeneas. He cried aloud to
his comrades looking towards Ascalaphus, Aphareus, Deipyrus,
Meriones, and Antilochus, all of them brave soldiers- “Hither my
friends,” he cried, “and leave me not single-handed- I go in great
fear by fleet Aeneas, who is coming against me, and is a
redoubtable dispenser of death battle. Moreover he is in the flower
of youth when a man’s strength is greatest; if I was of the same age
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