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Xanthus

Hector’s horse

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Canonical name
Xanthus
Disambiguator
Hector’s horse
Kind
Animal
Scope
Individual
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Claims

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·Reported

Hector addresses Xanthus among the four horses he says Andromache feeds with corn and wine-water, and urges the team to pursue.

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“Xanthus and Podargus, and you Aethon and goodly Lampus, pay me for your keep now and for all the honey-sweet corn with which Andromache daughter of great Eetion has fed you, and for she has mixed wine and water for you to drink whenever you would, before doing so even for me who am her own husband. Haste in pursuit”

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·Direct
“Then he cried to his horses, ‘Xanthus and Podargus”

Passage preview

Book 8 · Passage 18

Then he cried to his horses, ‘Xanthus and Podargus, and you Aethon and goodly Lampus, pay me for your keep now and for all the honey-sweet corn with which Andromache daughter of great Eetion has fed you, and for she has mixed wine and water for you to drink whenever you would, before doing so even for me who am her own husband. Haste in pursuit, that we may take the shield of Nestor, the fame of which ascends to heaven, for it is of solid gold, arm-rods and all, and that we may strip from the shoulders of Diomed. the cuirass which Vulcan made him. Could we take these two things, the Achaeans would set sail in their ships this self-same night.’