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Xanthus (Turkey) (search for this): card 164
risoner cravest thou? DOLON. I said before, of gold we have our fill. HECTOR. For spoils and armour . . . thou shalt choose at will. DOLON. Nail them for trophies on some temple wall. HECTOR. What seeks the man? What prize more rich than all? DOLON. Achilles' horses P. 12, 1. 182, Achilles' horses.]-They are as glorious in the Iliad as they are here. Cf. especially the passages where they bear Automedon out of the battle (end of XVI.), and where Xanthos is given a human voice to warn his master of the coming of death (end of XIX.). The heroic age of Greece delighted in horses. Cf. those of Aeneas, Diomedes, Eumêlus, and Rhesus himself.! Murmurs of surprise. Yes, I need a great Prize. I am dicing for my life with Fate. HECTOR. 'Fore God, I am thy rival, if thy love Lies there. Undying was the breed thereof, And these shall never die, who bear to war Great Peleus' son, swift gleaming like a st
Greece (Greece) (search for this): card 164
s and armour . . . thou shalt choose at will. DOLON. Nail them for trophies on some temple wall. HECTOR. What seeks the man? What prize more rich than all? DOLON. Achilles' horses P. 12, 1. 182, Achilles' horses.]-They are as glorious in the Iliad as they are here. Cf. especially the passages where they bear Automedon out of the battle (end of XVI.), and where Xanthos is given a human voice to warn his master of the coming of death (end of XIX.). The heroic age of Greece delighted in horses. Cf. those of Aeneas, Diomedes, Eumêlus, and Rhesus himself.! Murmurs of surprise. Yes, I need a great Prize. I am dicing for my life with Fate. HECTOR. 'Fore God, I am thy rival, if thy love Lies there. Undying was the breed thereof, And these shall never die, who bear to war Great Peleus' son, swift gleaming like a star. Poseidon, rider of the wild sea-drift, Tamed them, men say, and gave them for his gift
Troy (Turkey) (search for this): card 164
r Automedon out of the battle (end of XVI.), and where Xanthos is given a human voice to warn his master of the coming of death (end of XIX.). The heroic age of Greece delighted in horses. Cf. those of Aeneas, Diomedes, Eumêlus, and Rhesus himself.! Murmurs of surprise. Yes, I need a great Prize. I am dicing for my life with Fate. HECTOR. 'Fore God, I am thy rival, if thy love Lies there. Undying was the breed thereof, And these shall never die, who bear to war Great Peleus' son, swift gleaming like a star. Poseidon, rider of the wild sea-drift, Tamed them, men say, and gave them for his gift To Peleus.-None the less, since I have stirred Hopes, I will baulk them not. I pledge my word, Achilles' steeds, a rare prize, shall be thine. DOLON. I thank thee.-'Tis indeed a prize more fine Than all in Troy.-Grudge me not that; there be Guerdons abundant for a Prince like thee. Exit HECTOR.
Aegina (Greece) (search for this): card 164
ax" is mentioned here and at 11. 463, 497, 601, as apparently next in importance to the two Atreidae or to Achilles. That is natural, but it is a shock to have him here described as son of Ileus. In the Iliad we should have had "Ajax son of Telamon." The son of Ileus is "Ajax the less," a hero of the second rank. Scholars have conjectured on other grounds that in some older form of the Iliad-saga Ajax son of Ileus was of much greater importance. The father "Telamon " and the connection with Aegina are neither of them original in the myth.? DOLON. A princely hand is skilless at the plough. HECTOR. 'Tis ransom, then? . . . What prisoner cravest thou? DOLON. I said before, of gold we have our fill. HECTOR. For spoils and armour . . . thou shalt choose at will. DOLON. Nail them for trophies on some temple wall. HECTOR. What seeks the man? What prize more rich than all? DOLON. Achilles' horses P. 12, 1. 182, Achilles' horses.]
Troy (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): card 164
HECTOR. So be it: an honest rule. Do thou lay down What guerdon likes thee best-short of my crown. DOLON. I care not for thy crowned and care-fraught life. HECTOR. Wouldst have a daughter of the King to wife? DOLON. I seek no mate that might look down on me. HECTOR. Good gold is ready, if that tempteth thee. DOLON. We live at ease and have no care for gold. HECTOR. Well, Troy hath other treasures manifold. DOLON. Pay me not now, but when the Greeks are ta'en. HECTOR. The Greeks! . . . Choose any save the Atridae twain. DOLON. Kill both, an it please thee. I make prayer for none. HECTOR. Thou wilt not ask for Ajax, Ileus' son P. 12, 1. 175, Ajax, Ileus' son.]-" Ajax" is mentioned here and at 11. 463, 497, 601, as apparently next in importance to the two Atreidae or to Achilles. That is natural, but it is a shock to have him here described as son of Ileus. In the Iliad we should ha