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famous bowman
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Teucer is standing along the Achaean wall near the two Ajaxes.
“he looked along the wall for some chieftain to support his comrades and saw the two Ajaxes, men ever eager for the fray, and Teucer, who had just come from his tent, standing near them”
Teucer attacks Sarpedon at the battlement of the Achaean wall.
“Ajax and Teucer then both of them attacked him. Teucer hit him with an arrow on the band that bore the shield which covered his body, but Jove saved his son from destruction that he might not fall by the ships’ sterns. Meanwhile Ajax sprang on him and pierced his shield, but the spear did not go clean through, though it hustled him back that he could come on no further. He therefore retired a little space from the battlement”
Teucer kills Aretaon.
“Polypoetes then killed Astyalus, Ulysses Pidytes of Percote, and Teucer Aretaon.”
Teucer fights beneath Ajax’s shield, peering out to shoot and repeatedly ducking back under cover like a child to its mother.
“Ninth came Teucer with his bow, and took his place under cover of the shield of Ajax son of Telamon. When Ajax lifted his shield Teucer would peer round, and when he had hit any one in the throng, the man would fall dead; then Teucer would hie back to Ajax as a child to its mother, and again duck down under his shield”
Teucer lays low eight named Trojans in succession with his bow.
“Which of the Trojans did brave Teucer first kill? Orsilochus, and then Ormenus and Ophelestes, Daetor, Chromius, and godlike Lycophontes, Amopaon son of Polyaemon, and Melanippus. these in turn did he lay low upon the earth, and King Agamemnon was glad when he saw him making havoc of the Trojans with his mighty bow”
Teucer says he has tirelessly sought targets, buried eight barbed shafts in warlike youths, yet cannot hit Hector.
“from the moment we began to drive them back to Ilius, I have never ceased so far as in me lies to look out for men whom I can shoot and kill; I have shot eight barbed shafts, and all of them have been buried in the flesh of warlike youths, but this mad dog I cannot hit”
Teucer aims at Hector but misses and strikes Gorgythion in the breast.
“he aimed another arrow straight at Hector, for he was bent on hitting him; nevertheless he missed him, and the arrow hit Priam’s brave son Gorgythion in the breast”
As Teucer draws, Hector’s stone breaks his arm sinew at the collarbone; he drops bow, falls to his knees, and is carried away groaning in pain.
“Teucer had just taken an arrow from his quiver and had laid it upon the bow-string, but Hector struck him with the jagged stone as he was taking aim and drawing the string to his shoulder; he hit him just where the collar-bone divides the neck from the chest, a very deadly place, and broke the sinew of his arm so that his wrist was less, and the bow dropped from his hand as he fell forward on his knees. Ajax saw that his brother had fallen, and running towards him bestrode him and sheltered him with his shield. Meanwhile his two trusty squires, Mecisteus son of Echius, and Alastor, came up and bore him to the ships groaning in his great pain”
Teucer, Ajax’s brother by the same father, accompanies him inside the wall to Menestheus’s tower, where they find Menestheus hard pressed.
“Teucer, his brother by the same father, went also, with Pandion to carry Teucer’s bow. They went along inside the wall, and when they came to the tower where Menestheus was (and hard pressed indeed did they find him”
Teucer sees Glaucus’s bare shoulder, aims an arrow at it, wounds him, and forces him to stop fighting.
“Then Teucer wounded Glaucus the brave son of Hippolochus as he was coming on to attack the wall. He saw his shoulder bare and aimed an arrow at it, which made Glaucus leave off fighting”
Teucer hits Sarpedon with an arrow on the band bearing his body-covering shield.
“Teucer hit him with an arrow on the band that bore the shield which covered his body”
Teucer kills Imbrius below the ear with a spear and springs to strip his armour.
“Teucer son of Telamon was the first to kill his man, to wit, the warrior Imbrius, son of Mentor, rich in horses. Until the Achaeans came he had lived in Pedaeum, and had married Medesicaste, a bastard daughter of Priam; but on the arrival of the Danaan fleet he had gone back to Ilius, and was a great man among the Trojans, dwelling near Priam himself, who gave him like honour with his own sons. The son of Telamon now struck him under the ear with a spear which he then drew back again, and Imbrius fell headlong as an ash-tree when it is felled on the crest of some high mountain beacon, and its delicate green foliage comes toppling down to the ground. Thus did he fall with his bronze-dight armour ringing harshly round him, and Teucer sprang forward with intent to strip him of his armour”
Idomeneus calls Teucer the finest Achaean archer and an able close fighter.
“Teucer, who is the finest archer of all the Achaeans, and is good also in a hand-to-hand fight.”
Teucer kills Prothoon and Periphetes.
“Teucer also killed Prothoon and Periphetes.”
Teucer is identified as Ajax’s brother and is told to fetch his deadly arrows and the bow Apollo gave him.
“Ajax shook with rage and said to his brother, ‘Teucer, my good fellow, our trusty comrade the son of Mastor has fallen, he came to live with us from Cythera and whom we honoured as much as our own parents. Hector has just killed him; fetch your deadly arrows at once and the bow which Phoebus Apollo gave you”
Teucer comes with bow and quiver, showers the Trojans with arrows, and hits Cleitus in the back of the neck.
“Teucer heard him and hastened towards him with his bow and quiver in his hands. Forthwith he showered his arrows on the Trojans, and hit Cleitus the son of Pisenor, comrade of Polydamas the noble son of Panthous, with the reins in his hands as he was attending to his horses; he was in the middle of the very thickest part of the fight, doing good service to Hector and the Trojans, but evil had now come upon him, and not one of those who were fain to do so could avert it, for the arrow struck him on the back of the neck”
Teucer draws and aims another arrow at Hector, but Jove breaks the bowstring; the arrow goes astray and the bow falls from his hands.
“Teucer then aimed another arrow at Hector, and there would have been no more fighting at the ships if he had hit him and killed him then and there: Jove, however, who kept watch over Hector, had his eyes on Teucer, and deprived him of his triumph, by breaking his bowstring for him just as he was drawing it and about to take his aim; on this the arrow went astray and the bow fell from his hands”
Teucer puts away his bow, hangs a four-hide shield on his shoulders, sets a well-wrought horsehair-crested helmet on his comely head, grasps a bronze-shod spear, and joins Ajax.
“Teucer then took his bow and put it by in his tent. He hung a shield four hides thick about his shoulders, and on his comely head he set his helmet well wrought with a crest of horse-hair that nodded menacingly above it; he grasped his redoubtable bronze-shod spear, and forthwith he was by the side of Ajax”
Teucer’s arrow wounded Glaucus while Teucer defended the wall against Glaucus’s assault.
“the wound which Teucer’s arrow had given him when Teucer was defending the wall as he, Glaucus, was assailing it.”
Teucer shot without promising Apollo a hecatomb; Apollo foiled his aim at the bird, though the arrow cleanly cut its tether.
“He let fly with his arrow forthwith, but he did not promise hecatombs of firstling lambs to King Apollo, and missed his bird, for Apollo foiled his aim; but he hit the string with which the bird was tied, near its foot; the arrow cut the string clean through so that it hung down towards the ground, while the bird flew up into the sky, and the Achaeans shouted applause.”
Evidence records not already represented by a claim.
“Teucer Aretaon”
“Ninth came Teucer with his bow”
“Teucer”
“Teucer also killed Prothoon and Periphetes”
“the followers moreover of Teucer”
“Then uprose King Teucer”