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Antimachus

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Antimachus
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·Reported

His sons say Antimachus has abundant gold, bronze, and wrought iron to pay a large ransom.

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Our father Antimachus has great store of gold, bronze, and wrought iron, and from this he will satisfy you with a very large ransom
·Reported

Agamemnon says Antimachus once proposed killing Menelaus and Ulysses when they came as envoys.

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Antimachus, who once at a council of Trojans proposed that Menelaus and Ulysses, who had come to you as envoys, should be killed and not suffered to return

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the two sons of Antimachus, Pisander and brave Hippolochus

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Book 11 · Passage 9

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 Agamemnon took his two sons, both in the same chariot, trying to bring their horses to a stand—for they had lost hold of the reins and the horses were mad with fear. The son of Atreus sprang upon them like a lion, and the pair besought him from their chariot. ‘Take us alive,’ they cried, ‘son of Atreus, and you shall receive a great ransom for us.