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Lysians
Alternative name · Reported
Phase 6 currently covers 24 processed books.
The Lycian host arrives against Menestheus’s part of the Achaean wall.
“Glaucus heeded his saying, and the pair forthwith led on the host of Lycians. Menestheus son of Peteos was dismayed when he saw them, for it was against his part of the wall that they came— bringing destruction with them”
The Lycians are physically at the Achaean wall, storming its battlements.
“the brave captains and leaders of the Lycians were storming the battlements as it were a thick dark cloud, fighting in close quarters”
The Lycians have reached and remain at the Achaean wall.
“The Lycians could not break through the wall and force their way to the ships, nor could the Danaans drive the Lycians from the wall now that they had once reached it.”
Sarpedon says he leads Lycians and stands against any foe.
“I head my Lycian soldiers and stand my ground against any who would fight me though I have nothing here for the Achaeans to plunder,”
Glaucus says the Lycians gave Bellerophon their best land, fair with vineyards and tilled fields.
“the Lycians gave him a piece of land, the best in all the country, fair with vineyards and tilled fields, to have and to hold”
Dolon places the Lycians among allied contingents on the side toward Thymbra.
“The Lysians and proud Mysians, with the Phrygians and Meonians, have their place on the side towards Thymbra”
The Lycian leaders storm the battlements in close combat like a thick dark cloud, raising a loud battle cry.
“the brave captains and leaders of the Lycians were storming the battlements as it were a thick dark cloud, fighting in close quarters, and raising the battle-cry aloud”
Shamed by Sarpedon’s rebuke, the Lycians press around their counsellor and king and hold at the wall, though they cannot break through.
“The Lycians, shamed by his rebuke, pressed closer round him who was their counsellor and their king. The Argives on their part got their men in fighting order within the wall, and there was a deadly struggle between them. The Lycians could not break through the wall and force their way to the ships, nor could the Danaans drive the Lycians from the wall now that they had once reached it”
Sarpedon’s Lycian comrades wear ungirdled tunics and are being overcome by Patroclus.
“his comrades, men who wore ungirdled tunics, being overcome by Patroclus son of Menoetius”
Glaucus rebukes Hector that the Lycian allies languish far from friends and home for Troy while unsupported.
“your allies, who languish here for your sake far from friends and home while you do nothing to support them.”
The Lycians, aligned with the Trojans, strengthen their battalions and fight desperately around Sarpedon’s body, shouting fiercely amid the din of armour.
“both sides, therefore, the Trojans and Lycians on the one hand, and the Myrmidons and Achaeans on the other, strengthened their battalions, and fought desperately about the body of Sarpedon, shouting fiercely the while. Mighty was the din of their armour as they came together”
The Lycians cannot stand firm when they see their king struck to the heart beneath a heap of corpses.
“Neither would the brave Lycians stand firm; they were dismayed when they saw their king lying struck to the heart amid a heap of corpses—for when the son of Saturn made the fight wax hot many had fallen above him.”
Glaucus predicts that the unrewarded Lycians will refuse further fighting and go home if they heed him.
“for you will get no Lycians to fight for you, seeing what thanks they have had for their incessant hardships. Are you likely, sir, to do anything to help a man of less note, after leaving Sarpedon, who was at once your guest and comrade in arms, to be the spoil and prey of the Danaans? So long as he lived he did good service both to your city and yourself; yet you had no stomach to save his body from the dogs. If the Lycians will listen to me, they will go home and leave Troy to its fate.”
Evidence records not already represented by a claim.
“Lycians”
“Trojans, Lycians, and Dardanians”
“Trojans and Lycians”
“Lycians, and Dardanians”
“Trojans, Lycians, and Dardanians good in close fight”
“If the Lycians will listen to me”