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Aretus is one of two men who accompany Hector and Aeneas, hoping to kill the crew and capture the horses; the narrator foreshadows that they will not return unharmed from Automedon.
“Chromius and Aretus went also with them, and their hearts beat high with hope that they might kill the men and capture the horses—fools that they were, for they were not to return scatheless from their meeting with Automedon”
Automedon’s spear pierces Aretus’s shield, belt, and lower belly; Aretus bounds, falls backward, and dies with the spear quivering in him.
“He poised and hurled as he spoke, whereon the spear struck the round shield of Aretus, and went right through it for the shield stayed it not, so that it was driven through his belt into the lower part of his belly. As when some sturdy youth, axe in hand, deals his blow behind the horns of an ox and severs the tendons at the back of its neck so that it springs forward and then drops, even so did Aretus give one bound and then fall on his back the spear quivering in his body till it made an end of him.”
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“Chromius and Aretus went also with them”