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horse-breeders of Thrace
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Peirous’s Thracian comrades wear topknots, surround his body with long spears, and drive back the tall, valiant Thoas.
“his Thracian comrades, men who wear their hair in a tuft at the top of their heads, stood round the body and kept him off with their long spears for all his great stature and valour; so he was driven back”
Dolon reports the newly arrived Thracians lying apart at the camp’s far end.
“there are the Thracians, who have lately come here and lie apart from the others at the far end of the camp”
Exhausted Thracian soldiers sleep with armor ordered in three rows and each man’s yoked horses beside him.
“company of Thracian soldiers, who were sleeping, tired out with their day’s toil; their goodly armour was lying on the ground beside them all orderly in three rows, and each man had his yoke of horses beside him.”
Thracian soldiers groan while being hacked, redden the earth with blood, and twelve are killed by Diomed.
“They made a hideous groaning as they were being hacked about, and the earth was red with their blood. As a lion springs furiously upon a flock of sheep or goats when he finds without their shepherd, so did the son of Tydeus set upon the Thracian soldiers till he had killed twelve.”
The Thracians are characterized as horse-breeders.
“the horse-breeders of Thrace”
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“Thracians”
“horse-breeders of Thrace”
“a very beautiful cup which the Thracians had given him”