Source-groundedThe Iliad
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Achaean hounds

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Canonical name
Achaean hounds
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None
Kind
Animal
Scope
Collective
Editorial note
The specific hounds struck first by Apollo among the Achaean host.

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Claims

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·Direct

The Achaean hounds are struck with the mules before Apollo turns his shafts on the people.

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“First he smote their mules and their hounds, but presently he aimed his shafts at the people themselves”

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·Direct
“their hounds”

Passage preview

Book 1 · Passage 6

Thus did he pray, and Apollo heard his prayer. He came down furious from the summits of Olympus, with his bow and his quiver upon his shoulder, and the arrows rattled on his back with the rage that trembled within him. He sat himself down away from the ships with a face as dark as night, and his silver bow rang death as he shot his arrow in the midst of them. First he smote their mules and their hounds, but presently he aimed his shafts at the people themselves, and all day long the pyres of the dead were burning.