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Eetion

of Imbros

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Canonical name
Eetion
Disambiguator
of Imbros
Kind
Character
Scope
Individual
Editorial note
Distinct from inherited Eetion, king of the Cilicians; this guest-friend is explicitly identified as of Imbros.

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Claims

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·Direct

Eetion of Imbros, acting as Lycaon’s guest-friend, pays a great sum to free him and sends him to Arisbe.

See evidence text
“a guest-friend, Eetion of Imbros, freed him with a great sum, and sent him to Arisbe, whence he had escaped and returned to his father’s house.”

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·Remembered
“a guest-friend, Eetion of Imbros, freed him with a great sum”

Passage preview

Book 21 · Passage 3

There he found Lycaon, son of Priam seed of Dardanus, as he was escaping out of the water; he it was whom he had once taken prisoner when he was in his father’s vineyard, having set upon him by night, as he was cutting young shoots from a wild fig-tree to make the wicker sides of a chariot. Achilles then caught him to his sorrow unawares, and sent him by sea to Lemnos, where the son of Jason bought him. But a guest-friend, Eetion of Imbros, freed him with a great sum, and sent him to Arisbe, whence he had escaped and returned to his father’s house. He had spent eleven days happily with his friends after he had come from Lemnos, but on the twelfth heaven again delivered him into the hands of Achilles, who was to send him to the house of Hades sorely against his will. He was unarmed when Achilles caught sight of him, and had neither helmet nor shield; nor yet had he any spear, for he had thrown all his armour from him on to the bank, and was sweating with his struggles to get out of the river, so that his strength was now failing him.