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Alcimus

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Alcimus
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Location presence

Phase 6 currently covers 24 processed books.

2
tent of Achilles2 observations
·Direct

Alcimus attended Achilles inside the house.

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The old man went straight into the house where Achilles, loved of the gods, was sitting. There he found him with his men seated at a distance from him: only two, the hero Automedon, and Alcimus of the race of Mars, were busy in attendance about his person
·Direct

Alcimus accompanied Achilles through the door of the house.

See evidence text
Then the son of Peleus sprang like a lion through the door of his house, not alone, but with him went his two squires Automedon and Alcimus

Claims

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·Direct

Alcimus helps harness Achilles’s horses by fastening bands, placing bits, and drawing the reins toward the chariot.

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Automedon and Alcimus busied themselves with the harnessing of his horses; they made the bands fast about them, and put the bit in their mouths, drawing the reins back towards the chariot
·Direct

Alcimus is one of only two attendants serving Achilles.

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only two, the hero Automedon, and Alcimus of the race of Mars, were busy in attendance about his person

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·Direct
Automedon and Alcimus busied themselves with the harnessing of his horses
·Direct
Alcimus of the race of Mars

Passage preview

Book 19 · Passage 28

He also drew his father’s spear out of the spear-stand, a spear so great and heavy and strong that none of the Achaeans save only Achilles had strength to wield it; this was the spear of Pelian ash from the topmost ridges of Mt. Pelion, which Chiron had once given to Peleus, fraught with the death of heroes. Automedon and Alcimus busied themselves with the harnessing of his horses; they made the bands fast about them, and put the bit in their mouths, drawing the reins back towards the chariot. Automedon, whip in hand, sprang up behind the horses, and after him Achilles mounted in full armour, resplendent as the sun-god Hyperion. Then with a loud voice he chided with his father’s horses saying, ‘Xanthus and Balius, famed offspring of Podarge—this time when we have done fighting be sure and bring your driver safely back to the host of the Achaeans, and do not leave him dead on the plain as you did Patroclus.’