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Often appears with: battle and tactics · spear and shield combat · single combat · river-god intervention · ransom offers for prisoners · plague, famine, and mass death · hostile family rivalry in war · execution in battle · divine rebuke · contracts, oaths, and obligation · conquest, plunder, and captives · chariot combat and casualties
Usually: narrative (2) · detachment (2) · indignation (2) · rivalry (1)
Agamemnon captures and kills Antimachus’s sons Pisander and Hippolochus as their horses panic, refusing ransom, then pursues retreating Trojans, slaughtering men and drivers until they cannot flee.
sweating, and at her utmost speed before the mighty monster—so, no man of the Trojans could help Isus and Antiphus, for they were themselves flying in panic before the Argives. Then King Agamemnon took the two sons of Antimachus, Pisander and brave Hippolochus. It was Antimachus who had been foremost in preventing Helen’s being restored to Menelaus, for he was largely bribed by Alexandrus; and now …
In single combat by Scamander, Achilles kills Asteropaeus, then slaughters fleeing Paeonians along the riverbank until the river-god Scamander rebukes him and asks to stop killing in the water.
of the river Axius—of Axius that is the fairest of all rivers that run. He begot the famed warrior Pelegon, whose son men call me. Let us now fight, Achilles.” Thus did he defy him, and Achilles raised his spear of Pelian ash. Asteropaeus failed with both his spears, for he could use both hands alike; with the one spear he struck Achilles’ shield, but did not pierce it, for the layer of gold, gift …