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twelve yearling heifers promised to Minerva

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twelve yearling heifers promised to Minerva
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Animal
Scope
Collective
Editorial note
The specific unyoked sacrificial group promised conditionally in Helenus’s command and the women’s prayer.

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·Hypothetical

Helenus directs a promise of twelve yearling heifers that have never felt the goad.

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“promise to sacrifice twelve yearling heifers that have never yet felt the goad”
·Hypothetical

Hector directs a promise of twelve yearling heifers that have never felt the goad.

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“promise, moreover, to sacrifice twelve yearling heifers that have never yet felt the goad”
·Hypothetical

Theano promises twelve heifers that have never known the goad if Minerva protects Troy.

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“we will sacrifice twelve heifers that have never yet known the goad”

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“twelve yearling heifers that have never yet felt the goad”

Passage preview

Book 6 · Passage 9

With these words he put heart and soul into them all. And now the Trojans would have been routed and driven back into Ilius, had not Priam’s son Helenus, wisest of augurs, said to Hector and Aeneas, ‘Hector and Aeneas, you two are the mainstays of the Trojans and Lycians, for you are foremost at all times, alike in fight and counsel; hold your ground here, and go about among the host to rally them in front of the gates, or they will fling themselves into the arms of their wives, to the great joy of our foes. Then, when you have put heart into all our companies, we will stand firm here and fight the Danaans however hard they press us, for there is nothing else to be done. Meanwhile do you, Hector, go to the city and tell our mother what is happening. Tell her to bid the matrons gather at the temple of Minerva in the acropolis; let her then take her key and open the doors of the sacred building; there, upon the knees of Minerva, let her lay the largest, fairest robe she has in her house—the one she sets most store by; let her, moreover, promise to sacrifice twelve yearling heifers that have never yet felt the goad, in the temple of the goddess, if she will take pity on the town, with the wives and little ones of the Trojans, and keep the son of Tydeus from falling on the goodly city of Ilius; for he fights with fury and fills men’s souls with panic. I hold him mightiest of them all; we did not fear even their great champion Achilles, son of a goddess though he be, as we do this man: his rage is beyond all bounds, and there is none can vie with him in prowess.’