Character · Individual
son of Hippasus
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Socus rushes to help Charops and challenges Ulysses to kill both brothers or fall to his spear.
“Socus, hero that he was, made all speed to help him, and when he was close to Ulysses he said, ‘Far-famed Ulysses, insatiable of craft and toil, this day you shall either boast of having killed both the sons of Hippasus and stripped them of their armour, or you shall fall before my spear”
Socus drives his spear through Ulysses’ shield and cuirass and tears his side, but Minerva stops it reaching the entrails.
“he struck the shield of Ulysses. The spear went through the shield and passed on through his richly wrought cuirass, tearing the flesh from his side, but Pallas Minerva did not suffer it to pierce the entrails of the hero”
As Socus flees, Ulysses’ spear passes from his back through his chest and kills him.
“Socus had turned in flight, but as he did so, the spear struck him in the back midway between the shoulders, and went right through his chest. He fell heavily to the ground and Ulysses vaunted over him saying, ‘O Socus, son of Hippasus tamer of horses, death has been too quick for you”
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“Socus, son of Hippasus tamer of horses”