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Lycaon’s body is cast into Scamander for its eddies to carry downstream.
“Then Achilles caught him by the foot and flung him into the river to go down stream, vaunting over him the while, and saying, ‘Lie there among the fishes, who will lick the blood from your wound and gloat over it; your mother shall not lay you on any bier to mourn you, but the eddies of Scamander shall bear you into the broad bosom of the sea.”
Achilles remains in the path of Scamander’s pursuing flood.
“Scamander did not slacken in his pursuit, but was still more furious with the son of Peleus”
Scamander is among the streams from Mount Ida foretold to be turned against the Achaean wall.
“they turned on to it the streams of all the rivers from Mount Ida into the sea, Rhesus, Heptaporus, Caresus, Rhodius, Grenicus, Aesopus, and goodly Scamander”
Xanthus joins Mars and the named divinities supporting Troy.
“Mars of gleaming helmet joined the Trojans, and with him Apollo of locks unshorn, and the archer goddess Diana, Leto, Xanthus, and laughter-loving Venus”
The mighty eddying river called Scamander by men and Xanthus by gods matches itself against Vulcan.
“the mighty eddying river whom men can Scamander, but gods Xanthus, matched himself against Vulcan”
Achilles declares that Scamander’s eddies will carry Lycaon into the broad sea.
“the eddies of Scamander shall bear you into the broad bosom of the sea.”
Scamander pursues Achilles more furiously, raises a high crest, and calls on Simois to combine torrents, waves, snags, and stones to bury Achilles beneath sand and shingle.
“Scamander did not slacken in his pursuit, but was still more furious with the son of Peleus. He lifted his waters into a high crest and cried aloud to Simois saying, ‘Dear brother, let the two of us unite to save this man, or he will sack the mighty city of King Priam, and the Trojans will not hold out against him. Help me at once; fill your streams with water from their sources, rouse all your torrents to a fury; raise your wave on high, and let snags and stones come thundering down you that we may make an end of this savage creature who is now lording it as though he were a god. Nothing shall serve him longer, not strength nor comeliness, nor his fine armour, which forsooth shall soon be lying low in the deep waters covered over with mud. I will wrap him in sand, and pour tons of shingle round him, so that the Achaeans shall not know how to gather his bones for the silt in which I shall have hidden him, and when they celebrate his funeral they need build no barrow.”
Scamander is fed by two contrasting springs, one steaming warm and the other icy cold even in summer.
“two fair springs which feed the river Scamander. One of these two springs is warm, and steam rises from it as smoke from a burning fire, but the other even in summer is as cold as hail or snow, or the ice that forms on water”
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“Scamander”
“banks of the river Scamander”
“So be it, Scamander, Jove-descended”
“Nevertheless Scamander did not slacken in his pursuit”
“two fair springs which feed the river Scamander”