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Thrasymedes is among seven captains leading armoured sentinels, each with a hundred long-speared youths.
“The sentinels went out in their armour under command of Nestor’s son Thrasymedes, a captain of the host, and of the bold warriors Ascalaphus and Ialmenus: there were also Meriones, Aphareus and Deipyrus, and the son of Creion, noble Lycomedes. There were seven captains of the sentinels, and with each there went a hundred youths armed with long spears”
Thrasymedes supplies Diomed with sword and shield because Diomed left his own at his ship.
“Brave Thrasymedes provided the son of Tydeus with a sword and a shield (for he had left his own at his ship”
Thrasymedes has exchanged shields with his father, carrying Nestor’s while his own bronze-gleaming shield lies in Nestor’s tent.
“the shield of his son Thrasymedes that was lying in his tent, all gleaming with bronze, for Thrasymedes had taken his father’s shield”
Valiant Thrasymedes, one of Nestor’s sons, strikes Maris before Maris can deal his blow, severs the muscles at the root of his arm down to the bone, and kills him.
“Maris then sprang on Antilochus in hand-to-hand fight to avenge his brother, and bestrode the body spear in hand; but valiant Thrasymedes was too quick for him, and in a moment had struck him in the shoulder ere he could deal his blow; his aim was true, and the spear severed all the muscles at the root of his arm, and tore them right down to the bone, so he fell heavily to the ground and his eyes were closed in darkness. Thus did these two noble comrades of Sarpedon go down to Erebus slain by the two sons of Nestor”
Thrasymedes is one of two valiant reserve fighters who have not heard of Patroclus’s death; together they believe him alive and leading the van and remain in reserve under Nestor’s orders.
“the two valiant heroes, Thrasymedes and Antilochus, had not yet heard of the death of Patroclus, and believed him to be still alive and leading the van against the Trojans; they were keeping themselves in reserve against the death or rout of their own comrades, for so Nestor had ordered when he sent them from the ships into battle.”
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“Nestor’s son Thrasymedes”
“shield of his son Thrasymedes”
“the two valiant heroes, Thrasymedes and Antilochus”