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Rhesus's twelve companions

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Canonical name
Rhesus's twelve companions
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Collective
Editorial note
The twelve companions reported killed with the Thracian king.

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Claims

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·Direct

Diomed attacks the Thracian soldiers and kills twelve of them.

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“so did the son of Tydeus set upon the Thracian soldiers till he had killed twelve.”
·Reported

Ulysses reports that Diomed killed Rhesus’s twelve bravest companions with their king.

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“Diomed killed their king with the twelve bravest of his companions”

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·Reported
“Diomed killed their king with the twelve bravest of his companions.”

Passage preview

Book 10 · Passage 42

Thereon Minerva put courage into the heart of Diomed, and he smote them right and left. They made a hideous groaning as they were being hacked about, and the earth was red with their blood. As a lion springs furiously upon a flock of sheep or goats when he finds without their shepherd, so did the son of Tydeus set upon the Thracian soldiers till he had killed twelve. As he killed them Ulysses came and drew them aside by their feet one by one, that the horses might go forward freely without being frightened as they passed over the dead bodies, for they were not yet used to them. When the son of Tydeus came to the king, he killed him too (which made thirteen), as he was breathing hard, for by the counsel of Minerva an evil dream, the seed of Oeneus, hovered that night over his head. Meanwhile Ulysses untied the horses, made them fast one to another and drove them off, striking them with his bow, for he had forgotten to take the whip from the chariot. Then he whistled as a sign to Diomed.