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The most ill-favoured of the Greeks assembled before Troy, and also a man of evil tongue. He was severely chastised by Odysseus [Il. ii 212-277] for speaking evil of Agamemnon. According to later tradition, Achilles slow him with a blow of his fist for stabbing in the eye the Amazon Penthesilea, whom he had himself laid low, and also for falsely accusing Achilles [Quintus Smyrnaeus, i 768-823]. |
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