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Nestor’s horses

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Canonical name
Nestor’s horses
Disambiguator
None
Kind
Animal
Scope
Collective
Editorial note
The team whose disabled member traps Nestor in the rout and which the squires then attend.

Aliases

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mares of Neleus

Descriptive reference · Direct

Location presence

Phase 6 currently covers 24 processed books.

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Pylos1 observation
·Remembered

Nestor’s horses were physically in Pylos when Neleus hid them.

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Minerva darted down by night from Olympus and bade us set ourselves in array; and she found willing soldiers in Pylos, for the men meant fighting. Neleus would not let me arm, and hid my horses

Claims

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·Direct

One of Nestor’s horses is struck atop the head; the arrow pierces its brain, and its anguished struggles throw the team into confusion.

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one of his horses was disabled. Alexandrus husband of lovely Helen had hit it with an arrow just on the top of its head where the mane begins to grow away from the skull, a very deadly place. The horse bounded in his anguish as the arrow pierced his brain, and his struggles threw others into confusion
·Direct

Nestor’s mares are lathered with sweat as they bear him from battle.

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the mares of Neleus, all in a lather with sweat, were bearing Nestor out of the fight
·Reported

Nestor said his team prepared by Antilochus was slow compared with rivals' horses.

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the horses themselves are very slow, and it is this that will, I fear, mar your chances. The other drivers know less than you do, but their horses are fleeter
·Direct

Nestor's horses feared Antilochus and briefly quickened.

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They feared the rebuke of their master, and for a short space went quicker.

Additional evidence

Evidence records not already represented by a claim.

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·Direct
one of his horses was disabled
·Direct
saw to Nestor’s horses
·Direct
the mares of Neleus
·Direct
his father’s horses

Passage preview

Book 8 · Passage 9

Idomeneus dared not stay nor yet Agamemnon, nor did the two Ajaxes, servants of Mars, hold their ground. Nestor knight of Gerene alone stood firm, bulwark of the Achaeans, not of his own will, but one of his horses was disabled. Alexandrus husband of lovely Helen had hit it with an arrow just on the top of its head where the mane begins to grow away from the skull, a very deadly place. The horse bounded in his anguish as the arrow pierced his brain, and his struggles threw others into confusion. The old man instantly began cutting the traces with his sword, but Hector’s fleet horses bore down upon him through the rout with their bold charioteer, even Hector himself, and the old man would have perished there and then had not Diomed been quick to mark, and with a loud cry called Ulysses to help him.