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Alcimedon

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Alcimedon
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son of Laerces son of Haemon

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Claims

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·Direct

Noble Alcimedon, son of Laerceus, captains the fifth Myrmidon company.

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“Alcimedon, noble son of Laerceus of the fifth.”
·Direct

Alcimedon catches Automedon and rebukes the folly of front-rank fighting single-handed, reminding him that Patroclus is dead and Hector wears Achilles’s armour.

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“Alcimedon, son of Laerces son of Haemon caught sight of him and came up behind his chariot. ‘Automedon,’ said he, ‘what god has put this folly into your heart and robbed you of your right mind, that you fight the Trojans in the front rank single-handed? He who was your comrade is slain, and Hector plumes himself on being armed in the armour of the descendant of Aeacus.’”
·Reported

Automedon tells Alcimedon that no one except living Patroclus could control the immortal horses as well as he can.

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“there is no one else who can control and guide the immortal steeds so well as you can, save only Patroclus—while he was alive—peer of gods in counsel.”
·Direct

Alcimedon springs onto the chariot and takes up whip and reins.

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“Alcimedon sprang on to the chariot, and caught up the whip and reins”

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·Direct
“Alcimedon, noble son of Laerceus”
·Direct
“Alcimedon, son of Laerces son of Haemon”

Passage preview

Book 16 · Passage 9

Fifty ships had noble Achilles brought to Troy, and in each there was a crew of fifty oarsmen. Over these he set five captains whom he could trust, while he was himself commander over them all. Menesthius of the gleaming corslet, son to the river Spercheius that streams from heaven, was captain of the first company. Fair Polydora daughter of Peleus bore him to ever-flowing Spercheius—a woman mated with a god—but he was called son of Borus son of Perieres, with whom his mother was living as his wedded wife, and who gave great wealth to gain her. The second company was led by noble Eudorus, son to an unwedded woman. Polymele, daughter of Phylas the graceful dancer, bore him; the mighty slayer of Argos was enamoured of her as he saw her among the singing women at a dance held in honour of Diana the rushing huntress of the golden arrows; he therefore—Mercury, giver of all good—went with her into an upper chamber, and lay with her in secret, whereon she bore him a noble son Eudorus, singularly fleet of foot and in fight valiant. When Ilithuia goddess of the pains of child-birth brought him to the light of day, and he saw the face of the sun, mighty Echecles son of Actor took the mother to wife, and gave great wealth to gain her, but her father Phylas brought the child up, and took care of him, doting as fondly upon him as though he were his own son. The third company was led by Pisander son of Maemalus, the finest spearman among all the Myrmidons next to Achilles’ own comrade Patroclus. The old knight Phoenix was captain of the fourth company, and Alcimedon, noble son of Laerceus of the fifth.