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Pedasus

mortal steed

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Read-only identity and editorial metadata.

Canonical name
Pedasus
Disambiguator
mortal steed
Kind
Animal
Scope
Individual
Editorial note
Distinct from inherited person and place homonyms.

Aliases

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No aliases recorded.

Location presence

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No presence observations in the processed scope.

Claims

2
·Direct

Pedasus is set in the side traces; though mortal, he can take his place beside the immortal horses.

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“In the side traces he set the noble horse Pedasus, whom Achilles had brought away with him when he sacked the city of Eetion, and who, mortal steed though he was, could take his place along with those that were immortal.”
·Direct

Sarpedon aims at Patroclus and misses, but his spear strikes Pedasus in the right shoulder; the horse screams and lies groaning in the dust until it dies.

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“Sarpedon then aimed a spear at Patroclus and missed him, but he struck the horse Pedasus in the right shoulder, and it screamed aloud as it lay, groaning in the dust until the life went out of it.”

Additional evidence

Evidence records not already represented by a claim.

2
·Direct
“the noble horse Pedasus”
·Direct
“the horse Pedasus in the right shoulder, and it screamed aloud as it lay, groaning in the dust until the life went out of it.”

Passage preview

Book 16 · Passage 7

As he spoke Patroclus put on his armour. First he greaved his legs with greaves of good make, and fitted with ancleclasps of silver; after this he donned the cuirass of the son of Aeacus, richly inlaid and studded. He hung his silverstudded sword of bronze about his shoulders, and then his mighty shield. On his comely head he set his helmet, well wrought, with a crest of horse-hair that nodded menacingly above it. He grasped two redoubtable spears that suited his hands, but he did not take the spear of noble Achilles, so stout and strong, for none other of the Achaeans could wield it, though Achilles could do so easily. This was the ashen spear from Mount Pelion, which Chiron had cut upon a mountain top and had given to Peleus, wherewith to deal out death among heroes. He bade Automedon yoke his horses with all speed, for he was the man whom he held in honour next after Achilles, and on whose support in battle he could rely most firmly. Automedon therefore yoked the fleet horses Xanthus and Balius, steeds that could fly like the wind: these were they whom the harpy Podarge bore to the west wind, as she was grazing in a meadow by the waters of the river Oceanus. In the side traces he set the noble horse Pedasus, whom Achilles had brought away with him when he sacked the city of Eetion, and who, mortal steed though he was, could take his place along with those that were immortal.