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Agamemnon’s mare
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Aethe was fleet and eager; Echepolus had given her to Agamemnon to avoid going to Ilius.
“his fleet horses, Agamemnon’s mare Aethe, and his own horse Podargus. The mare had been given to Agamemnon by Echepolus son of Anchises, that he might not have to follow him to Ilius, but might stay at home and take his ease; for Jove had endowed him with great wealth and he lived in spacious Sicyon. This mare, all eager for the race”
Menelaus urged Aethe onward, predicting the opposing older horses would tire.
“‘Keep your pace, and slacken not; the limbs of the other horses will weary sooner than yours, for they are neither of them young.’”
Aethe feared the rebuke, accelerated, and nearly caught the others.
“The horses feared the rebuke of their master, and went faster, so that they were soon nearly up with the others.”
Aethe pulled increasingly strongly and nearly carried Menelaus past Antilochus.
“Agamemnon’s mare Aethe kept pulling stronger and stronger, so that if the course had been longer he would have passed him, and there would not even have been a dead heat.”
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“Agamemnon’s mare Aethe”