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Thootes

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Thootes
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The messenger Menestheus sends to the Ajaxes.

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great wall of the Achaeans1 observation
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Thootes runs along the Achaean wall to reach the Ajaxes.

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“The messenger did as he was told, and set off running along the wall of the Achaeans. When he reached the Ajaxes”

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“Menestheus, therefore, sent Thootes with a message to Ajax”

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Book 12 · Passage 14

Glaucus heeded his saying, and the pair forthwith led on the host of Lycians. Menestheus son of Peteos was dismayed when he saw them, for it was against his part of the wall that they came— bringing destruction with them; he looked along the wall for some chieftain to support his comrades and saw the two Ajaxes, men ever eager for the fray, and Teucer, who had just come from his tent, standing near them; but he could not make his voice heard by shouting to them, so great an uproar was there from crashing shields and helmets and the battering of gates with a din which reached the skies. For all the gates had been closed, and the Trojans were hammering at them to try and break their way through them. Menestheus, therefore, sent Thootes with a message to Ajax. ‘Run, good Thootes,’ he said, ‘and call Ajax, or better still bid both come, for it will be all over with us here directly; the leaders of the Lycians are upon us, men who have ever fought desperately heretofore. But if they have too much on their hands to let them come, at any rate let Ajax son of Telamon do so, and let Teucer, the famous bowman, come with him.’