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Phorbas

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Phorbas
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Individual
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rich flock-master Phorbas

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Claims

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Mercury favoured Phorbas, a rich flock-master, and endowed him with greater wealth than any other Trojan.

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“rich flock-master Phorbas, whom Mercury had favoured and endowed with greater wealth than any other of the Trojans.”

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“the daughter of Phorbas lovely Diomede”
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“rich flock-master Phorbas”

Passage preview

Book 9 · Passage 30

On this they took every man his double cup, made their drink-offerings, and went back to the ships, Ulysses leading the way. But Patroclus told his men and the maid-servants to make ready a comfortable bed for Phoenix; they therefore did so with sheepskins, a rug, and a sheet of fine linen. The old man then laid himself down and waited till morning came. But Achilles slept in an inner room, and beside him the daughter of Phorbas lovely Diomede, whom he had carried off from Lesbos. Patroclus lay on the other side of the room, and with him fair Iphis whom Achilles had given him when he took Scyros the city of Enyeus.