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son of Creion
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son of Creontes
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Lycomedes is at the established Achaean-wall position and is told to stay there with Ajax son of Oileus.
“‘Ajax,’ said he, ‘do you two, yourself and brave Lycomedes, stay here and keep the Danaans in heart to fight their hardest.”
Lycomedes is among seven captains leading armoured sentinels, each with a hundred long-speared youths.
“The sentinels went out in their armour under command of Nestor’s son Thrasymedes, a captain of the host, and of the bold warriors Ascalaphus and Ialmenus: there were also Meriones, Aphareus and Deipyrus, and the son of Creion, noble Lycomedes. There were seven captains of the sentinels, and with each there went a hundred youths armed with long spears”
Telamonian Ajax directs Lycomedes to stay with Oilean Ajax and keep the Achaeans fighting their hardest.
“yourself and brave Lycomedes, stay here and keep the Danaans in heart to fight their hardest”
Moved by pity at Leiocritus’s fall, Lycomedes closes and spears Apisaon through the liver, killing him.
“Lycomedes was moved with pity as he saw him fall; he therefore went close up, and speared Apisaon son of Hippasus shepherd of his people in the liver under the midriff, so that he died;”
Evidence records not already represented by a claim.
“the son of Creion, noble Lycomedes”
“a valiant follower of Lycomedes”
“Lycomedes son of Creontes”