·Direct
Rhesus’s horses are driven over the Achaeans’ trench by Ulysses.
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“He laughed as he spoke and drove the horses over the ditch”
Animal · Collective
Rhesus's horses
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- Canonical name
- Rhesus's horses
- Disambiguator
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- Kind
- Animal
- Scope
- Collective
- Editorial note
- The exceptional Thracian horse team described by Dolon and carried off in the raid.
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Location presence
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Location presence
Phase 6 currently covers 24 processed books.
Achaeans’ trench1 observation
Claims
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·Reported
Dolon says Rhesus’s horses are the finest and strongest he has seen, white as snow and faster than wind.
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“His horses are the finest and strongest that I have ever seen, they are whiter than snow and fleeter than any wind that blows”
·Direct
Rhesus’s horses are tethered beside their sleeping king to the chariot’s topmost rim.
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“hard by him his horses were made fast to the topmost rim of his chariot.”
·Direct
Rhesus’s horses are not used to corpses, so Ulysses clears their path to prevent fright.
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“that the horses might go forward freely without being frightened as they passed over the dead bodies, for they were not yet used to them.”
·Direct
Rhesus’s horses fly toward the Achaean ships under Ulysses’s bow.
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“Ulysses beat them with his bow and they flew onward to the ships of the Achaeans.”
·Direct
Rhesus’s horses are discovered missing from their place.
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“saw that the horses were no longer in their place”
·Direct
Rhesus’s horses surge eagerly toward the ships under the lash as though by their own will.
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“then he lashed the horses onwards, and they flew forward nothing loth towards the ships as though of their own free will.”
·Simile
Rhesus’s horses are likened to sunbeams, and Nestor says he has never seen or heard of their equal.
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“They are like sunbeams. I am well conversant with the Trojans, for old warrior though I am I never hold back by the ships, but I never yet saw or heard of such horses as these are.”
·Reported
Ulysses reports the captured horses newly arrived from Thrace.
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“These horses, however, about which you ask me, are freshly come from Thrace.”
·Direct
Rhesus’s horses are tied with leather thongs at Diomed’s manger beside his corn-eating team.
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“they tied the horses with thongs of leather to the manger, where the steeds of Diomed stood eating their sweet corn”
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·Reported
“His horses are the finest and strongest that I have ever seen, they are whiter than snow and fleeter than any wind that blows.”
·Direct
“Rhesus was sleeping in the middle, and hard by him his horses were made fast to the topmost rim of his chariot.”