Sthenelus rebukes Agamemnon, boasts that his generation surpassed their fathers, and recalls taking stronger-walled Thebes with fewer men through divine omens and Jove’s help.
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“the son of Capaneus took up his words and said, ‘Son of Atreus, tell no lies, for you can speak truth if you will. We boast ourselves as even better men than our fathers; we took seven-gated Thebes, though the wall was stronger and our men were fewer in number, for we trusted in the omens of the gods and in the help of Jove, whereas they perished through their own sheer folly; hold not, then, our fathers in like honour with us”
·Direct
Sthenelus draws the arrow from Diomed’s wound, releasing blood through the hole in his shirt.
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“Sthenelus sprang from his chariot, and drew the arrow from the wound, whereon the blood came spouting out through the hole that had been made in his shirt.”
·Direct
Sthenelus sees Aeneas and Pandarus approaching and urges Diomed to retreat rather than risk death.
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“Sthenelus, son of Capaneus, saw them coming and said to Diomed, ‘Diomed, son of Tydeus, man after my own heart, I see two heroes speeding towards you, both of them men of might the one a skilful archer, Pandarus son of Lycaon, the other, Aeneas, whose sire is Anchises, while his mother is Venus. Mount the chariot and let us retreat. Do not, I pray you, press so furiously forward, or you may get killed.”
·Direct
Sthenelus secures his team, captures Aeneas’s horses, entrusts them to Deipylus, and drives in search of Diomed.
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“He made his own horses fast, away from the hurly-burly, by binding the reins to the rim of the chariot. Then he sprang upon Aeneas’s horses and drove them from the Trojan to the Achaean ranks. When he had so done he gave them over to his chosen comrade Deipylus, whom he valued above all others as the one who was most like-minded with himself, to take them on to the ships. He then remounted his own chariot, seized the reins, and drove with all speed in search of the son of Tydeus.”
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Minerva catches hold of Sthenelus and lifts him from the chariot to the ground.
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“she caught hold of Sthenelus and lifted him off the chariot on to the ground.”
·Direct
Sthenelus and Eurymedon jointly tend Nestor’s horses.
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“Sthenelus and kind-hearted Eurymedon, saw to Nestor’s horses”
·Hypothetical
Diomed vows that Sthenelus will fight beside him to Ilius even if the others sail home.
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“Sthenelus and myself will still fight on till we reach the goal of Ilius, for heaven was with us when we came”
·Direct
Sthenelus promptly handled the first prize and unyoked the horses.
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“brave Sthenelus now lost no time, but at once brought on the prize, and gave the woman and the ear-handled cauldron to his comrades to take away. Then he unyoked the horses.”