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shield of Nestor

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shield of Nestor
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The famed solid-gold shield Hector proposes to capture.

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·Reported

Hector says Nestor’s famous shield is solid gold, including its arm-rods, and hopes to capture it.

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“shield of Nestor, the fame of which ascends to heaven, for it is of solid gold, arm-rods and all”

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“the shield of Nestor, the fame of which ascends to heaven, for it is of solid gold, arm-rods and all”

Passage preview

Book 8 · Passage 18

Then he cried to his horses, ‘Xanthus and Podargus, and you Aethon and goodly Lampus, pay me for your keep now and for all the honey-sweet corn with which Andromache daughter of great Eetion has fed you, and for she has mixed wine and water for you to drink whenever you would, before doing so even for me who am her own husband. Haste in pursuit, that we may take the shield of Nestor, the fame of which ascends to heaven, for it is of solid gold, arm-rods and all, and that we may strip from the shoulders of Diomed. the cuirass which Vulcan made him. Could we take these two things, the Achaeans would set sail in their ships this self-same night.’