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son of Eumedes
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Dolon is rich in gold and bronze, ill-favored but a good runner, and the only son among five sisters of Eumedes.
“there was among the Trojans a certain man named Dolon, son of Eumedes, the famous herald—a man rich in gold and bronze. He was ill-favoured, but a good runner, and was an only son among five sisters.”
The fruitless oath makes Dolon keener; he slings a bow over his shoulder, wears grey wolf skin and a ferret-skin cap, and takes a pointed javelin.
“it made Dolon more keen on going. He hung his bow over his shoulder, and as an overall he wore the skin of a grey wolf, while on his head he set a cap of ferret skin. Then he took a pointed javelin”
Dolon passes the hidden pair unsuspectingly, mistakes pursuit for Trojan friends, then flees screaming like a doe or hare before trained hounds and is cut off.
“Dolon suspected nothing and soon passed them, but when he had got about as far as the distance by which a mule-plowed furrow exceeds one that has been ploughed by oxen (for mules can plow fallow land quicker than oxen) they ran after him, and when he heard their footsteps he stood still, for he made sure they were friends from the Trojan camp come by Hector’s orders to bid him return; when, however, they were only a spear’s cast, or less away form him, he saw that they were enemies as fast as his legs could take him. The others gave chase at once, and as a couple of well-trained hounds press forward after a doe or hare that runs screaming in front of them, even so did the son of Tydeus and Ulysses pursue Dolon and cut him off from his own people.”
Dolon freezes, trembles, chatters his teeth, pales, weeps, and begs for life, offering ransom from his father’s gold, bronze, and worked iron.
“He stood stock still, trembling and in great fear; his teeth chattered, and he turned pale with fear. The two came breathless up to him and seized his hands, whereon he began to weep and said, ‘Take me alive; I will ransom myself; we have great store of gold, bronze, and wrought iron, and from this my father will satisfy you with a very large ransom, should he hear of my being alive at the ships of the Achaeans.”
Trembling, Dolon says Hector’s vain flattery overcame his better judgment.
“Dolon answered, his limbs trembling beneath him: ‘Hector, with his vain flattering promises, lured me from my better judgement.”
Diomed says Dolon is captive and refuses ransom or release because he expects Dolon would return as spy or enemy.
“now you are in our hands, for if we ransom you or let you go, you will come some second time to the ships of the Achaeans either as a spy or as an open enemy, but if I kill you and an end of you, you will give no more trouble.”
Dolon reaches for Diomed’s beard in supplication, but Diomed cuts through his neck while he speaks and his head rolls in dust.
“Dolon would have caught him by the beard to beseech him further, but Diomed struck him in the middle of his neck with his sword and cut through both sinews so that his head fell rolling in the dust while he was yet speaking.”
Ulysses reports Dolon captured near the ships as a scout sent by Hector and the Trojans.
“we took a thirteenth man—a scout whom Hector and the other Trojans had sent as a spy upon our ships.”
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“there was among the Trojans a certain man named Dolon, son of Eumedes, the famous herald”