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Deicoon

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Canonical name
Deicoon
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Individual
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Aliases

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son of Pergasus

Descriptive reference · Direct

comrade of Aeneas

Descriptive reference · Direct

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Claims

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Deicoon, Aeneas’s honoured and consistently foremost comrade, is struck through shield, belt, and belly.

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“the comrade of Aeneas, Deicoon son of Pergasus, whom the Trojans held in no less honour than the sons of Priam, for he was ever quick to place himself among the foremost. The spear of King Agamemnon struck his shield and went right through it, for the shield stayed it not. It drove through his belt into the lower part of his belly, and his armour rang rattling round him as he fell heavily to the ground.”

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·Direct
“Deicoon”

Passage preview

Book 5 · Passage 43

As he spoke he hurled his spear and hit one of those who were in the front rank, the comrade of Aeneas, Deicoon son of Pergasus, whom the Trojans held in no less honour than the sons of Priam, for he was ever quick to place himself among the foremost. The spear of King Agamemnon struck his shield and went right through it, for the shield stayed it not. It drove through his belt into the lower part of his belly, and his armour rang rattling round him as he fell heavily to the ground.