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The Achaeans are moving across the plain of Troy.
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“why are the Achaeans again scouring the plain and flocking towards the ships?”
Book 18
Chapter 18
48 passages69 observations · 10 observed placesSHA d3ec8c211051…
Passage 1
Lines 4–5
Source text
THUS then did they fight as it were a flaming fire. Meanwhile the fleet runner Antilochus, who had been sent as messenger, reached Achilles, and found him sitting by his tall ships and boding that which was indeed too surely true. ‘Alas,’ said he to himself in the heaviness of his heart, ‘why are the Achaeans again scouring the plain and flocking towards the ships? Heaven grant the gods be not now bringing that sorrow upon me of which my mother Thetis spoke, saying that while I was yet alive the bravest of the Myrmidons should fall before the Trojans, and see the light of the sun no longer. I fear the brave son of Menoetius has fallen through his own daring and yet I bade him return to the ships as soon as he had driven back those that were bringing fire against them, and not join battle with Hector.’
Location presence
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Location presence
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Achilles is found sitting beside his tall ships.
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“Meanwhile the fleet runner Antilochus, who had been sent as messenger, reached Achilles, and found him sitting by his tall ships”
·Direct
Antilochus reaches Achilles beside the tall ships.
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“Meanwhile the fleet runner Antilochus, who had been sent as messenger, reached Achilles, and found him sitting by his tall ships”
Claims for this passage
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Claims for this passage
Achilles sits by his tall ships, foreboding what is in fact true.
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“found him sitting by his tall ships and boding that which was indeed too surely true”
Antilochus serves as a fleet messenger and reaches Achilles at the ships.
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“fleet runner Antilochus, who had been sent as messenger, reached Achilles”
Achilles fears that Patroclus, identified through Thetis’s warning as the bravest Myrmidon, has fallen through his own daring.
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“the bravest of the Myrmidons should fall before the Trojans, and see the light of the sun no longer. I fear the brave son of Menoetius has fallen through his own daring”
Published summary
As the fighters clash like flaming fire, Antilochus reaches Achilles, who fears that Patroclus has fallen through his own daring despite being ordered to return after driving the fire from the ships.