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Cebriones

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Cebriones
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Hector’s charioteer

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Cebriones, Hector’s nearby brother, obeys the order to take the reins after Archeptolemus falls.

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bade his brother Cebriones, who was hard by, take the reins. Cebriones did as he had said
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Cebriones recognizes Ajax by his broad shield and advises turning the chariot toward the fiercest fighting.

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I know him by the breadth of his shield: let us turn our chariot and horses thither, where horse and foot are fighting most desperately, and where the cry of battle is loudest
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Cebriones lashes the team through fallen bodies and shields until the chariot is splashed with blood.

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he lashed his goodly steeds, and when they felt the whip they drew the chariot full speed among the Achaeans and Trojans, over the bodies and shields of those that had fallen: the axle was bespattered with blood, and the rail round the car was covered with splashes both from the horses’ hoofs and from the tyres of the wheels
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Cebriones serves as third in command with Hector and Polydamas after Hector leaves his chariot to a less valiant soldier.

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Cebriones was also joined with them as third in command, for Hector had left his chariot in charge of a less valiant soldier
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Cebriones is struck in the forehead by Patroclus’s stone; his brow-bone shatters, his eyes fall at his feet, and he drops dead from the chariot.

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The stone hit him on the forehead and drove his brows into his head for the bone was smashed, and his eyes fell to the ground at his feet. He dropped dead from his chariot as though he were diving, and there was no more life left in him.
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Spears, arrows, and stones fall around Cebriones as his huge corpse lies in whirling dust, heedless now of chariot-driving.

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Many a pointed spear fell to ground and many a winged arrow sped from its bow-string about the body of Cebriones; many a great stone, moreover, beat on many a shield as they fought around his body, but there he lay in the whirling clouds of dust, all huge and hugely, heedless of his driving now.

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bade his brother Cebriones, who was hard by, take the reins
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Then Cebriones seeing the Trojans in confusion
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Cebriones
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stone struck Cebriones, Hector’s charioteer

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Book 8 · Passage 28

Again he aimed at Hector, for he was longing to hit him, and again his arrow missed, for Apollo turned it aside; but he hit Hector’s brave charioteer Archeptolemus in the breast, by the nipple, as he was driving furiously into the fight. The horses swerved aside as he fell headlong from the chariot, and there was no life left in him. Hector was greatly grieved at the loss of his charioteer, but for all his sorrow he let him lie where he fell, and bade his brother Cebriones, who was hard by, take the reins. Cebriones did as he had said. Hector thereon with a loud cry sprang from his chariot to the ground, and seizing a great stone made straight for Teucer with intent kill him. Teucer had just taken an arrow from his quiver and had laid it upon the bow-string, but Hector struck him with the jagged stone as he was taking aim and drawing the string to his shoulder; he hit him just where the collar-bone divides the neck from the chest, a very deadly place, and broke the sinew of his arm so that his wrist was less, and the bow dropped from his hand as he fell forward on his knees. Ajax saw that his brother had fallen, and running towards him bestrode him and sheltered him with his shield. Meanwhile his two trusty squires, Mecisteus son of Echius, and Alastor, came up and bore him to the ships groaning in his great pain.