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Pergamus

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Pergamus
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high Pergamus

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ApolloDeity4 observations
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Apollo looks down and calls to the Trojans from Pergamus.

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“Apollo looked down from Pergamus and called aloud to the Trojans”
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Continuing Apollo's immediately preceding speech from Pergamus, the mighty god cries to the Trojans from that city.

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“Thus spoke the mighty god, crying to them from the city”
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Apollo took his seat on the top of Pergamus.

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“He then took his seat on the top of Pergamus”
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Apollo is physically looking on from Pergamus before going out to meet Minerva.

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“Apollo, who was looking on from Pergamus, went out to meet her”
AlexandrusCharacter1 observation
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Paris goes forth from high Pergamus.

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“even so went forth Paris from high Pergamus, gleaming like sunlight in his armour, and he laughed aloud as he sped swiftly on his way”
CassandraCharacter1 observation
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Cassandra stood on Pergamus.

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“Cassandra, fair as golden Venus standing on Pergamus”

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“Apollo looked down from Pergamus and called aloud to the Trojans”
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“high Pergamus”
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“Cassandra, fair as golden Venus standing on Pergamus”

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Book 4 · Passage 36

Forthwith Ajax, son of Telamon, slew the fair youth Simoeisius, son of Anthemion, whom his mother bore by the banks of the Simois, as she was coming down from Mt. Ida, where she had been with her parents to see their flocks. Therefore he was named Simoeisius, but he did not live to pay his parents for his rearing, for he was cut off untimely by the spear of mighty Ajax, who struck him in the breast by the right nipple as he was coming on among the foremost fighters; the spear went right through his shoulder, and he fell as a poplar that has grown straight and tall in a meadow by some mere, and its top is thick with branches. Then the wheelwright lays his axe to its roots that he may fashion a felloe for the wheel of some goodly chariot, and it lies seasoning by the waterside. In such wise did Ajax fell to earth Simoeisius, son of Anthemion. Thereon Antiphus of the gleaming corslet, son of Priam, hurled a spear at Ajax from amid the crowd and missed him, but he hit Leucus, the brave comrade of Ulysses, in the groin, as he was dragging the body of Simoeisius over to the other side; so he fell upon the body and loosed his hold upon it. Ulysses was furious when he saw Leucus slain, and strode in full armour through the front ranks till he was quite close; then he glared round about him and took aim, and the Trojans fell back as he did so. His dart was not sped in vain, for it struck Democoon, the bastard son of Priam, who had come to him from Abydos, where he had charge of his father’s mares. Ulysses, infuriated by the death of his comrade, hit him with his spear on one temple, and the bronze point came through on the other side of his forehead. Thereon darkness veiled his eyes, and his armour rang rattling round him as he fell heavily to the ground. Hector, and they that were in front, then gave round while the Argives raised a shout and drew off the dead, pressing further forward as they did so. But Apollo looked down from Pergamus and called aloud to the Trojans, for he was displeased. ‘Trojans,’ he cried, ‘rush on the foe, and do not let yourselves be thus beaten by the Argives. Their skins are not stone nor iron that when hit them you do them no harm. Moreover, Achilles, the son of lovely Thetis, is not fighting, but is nursing his anger at the ships.’