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Pylians

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Canonical name
Pylians
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None
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Character
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Collective
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Claims

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·Direct

Nestor arrays the Pylians with knights and chariots first, trusted infantry behind, and unwilling cowards in the middle.

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He placed his knights with their chariots and horses in the front rank, while the foot-soldiers, brave men and many, whom he could trust, were in the rear. The cowards he drove into the middle, that they might fight whether they would or no

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·Direct
the Pylians
·Remembered
the leading Pylians assembled
·Direct
Antilochus had left the Pylians
·Remembered
the Pylians themselves

Passage preview

Book 1 · Passage 23

With this the son of Peleus dashed his gold-bestudded sceptre on the ground and took his seat, while the son of Atreus was beginning fiercely from his place upon the other side. Then uprose smooth-tongued Nestor, the facile speaker of the Pylians, and the words fell from his lips sweeter than honey. Two generations of men born and bred in Pylos had passed away under his rule, and he was now reigning over the third. With all sincerity and goodwill, therefore, he addressed them thus:—