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Dolon's spoils

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Dolon's spoils
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Editorial note
Dolon’s captured equipment, marked for retrieval and retained as a sacred offering to Minerva.

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blood-stained spoils of Dolon

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Dolon’s captured spoils comprise ferret-skin cap, wolf skin, bow, and long spear.

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They took the ferret-skin cap from his head, and also the wolf-skin, the bow, and his long spear
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Ulysses sets Dolon’s spoils on a tamarisk, and the pair marks the place with reeds and boughs for their return.

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he took the spoils and set them upon a tamarisk tree, and they marked the place by pulling up reeds and gathering boughs of tamarisk that they might not miss it as they came back
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Diomed places Dolon’s blood-stained spoils in Ulysses’s hands.

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placed the blood-stained spoils in the hands of Ulysses
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Ulysses hangs Dolon’s blood-stained spoils at his ship’s stern for a sacred offering to Minerva.

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Ulysses hung the blood-stained spoils of Dolon at the stern of his ship, that they might prepare a sacred offering to Minerva

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They took the ferret-skin cap from his head, and also the wolf-skin, the bow, and his long spear.
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Ulysses hung the blood-stained spoils of Dolon at the stern of his ship, that they might prepare a sacred offering to Minerva.

Passage preview

Book 10 · Passage 40

On this Dolon would have caught him by the beard to beseech him further, but Diomed struck him in the middle of his neck with his sword and cut through both sinews so that his head fell rolling in the dust while he was yet speaking. They took the ferret-skin cap from his head, and also the wolf-skin, the bow, and his long spear. Ulysses hung them up aloft in honour of Minerva the goddess of plunder, and prayed saying, ‘Accept these, goddess, for we give them to you in preference to all the gods in Olympus: therefore speed us still further towards the horses and sleepingground of the Thracians.’