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  • And cloud-gathering Zeus was wroth and smote him, Eetion, and laid him low with a flaming thunderbolt, because he sought to lay hands upon rich-haired

    Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

  • She came from the Trojan area known as Cilicia in Thebes, and her father was the local king, Eetion, admired by most, respected by all.

    Ilium Simmons, Dan 1981

  • Achilles had killed her father, cutting Eetion down in combat when the swift-footed Achaean man-killer had led his men against the outlying Trojan cities shortly after the Greeks had landed.

    Ilium Simmons, Dan 1981

  • Cronos and bare Dardanus .... and Eetion .... who once greatly loved rich-haired Demeter.

    Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica Hesiod

  • Eetion, and laid him low with a flaming thunderbolt, because he sought to lay hands upon rich-haired Demeter.

    Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica Hesiod

  • Even to Miletus came the son of the Healer to succour the physician of diseases Nicias, who ever day by day draws near him with offerings, and had this image carved of fragrant cedar, promising high recompence to Eetion for his cunning of hand; and he put all his art into the work.

    Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology Anonymous 1902

  • She tore the tiring from her head and flung it from her, the frontlet and net with its plaited band, and the veil which golden Venus had given her on the day when Hector took her with him from the house of Eetion, after having given countless gifts of wooing for her sake.

    The Iliad of Homer 1898

  • It was part of the spoils which he had taken when he sacked the city of Eetion, and he was now diverting himself with it and singing the feats of heroes.

    The Iliad of Homer 1898

  • When he had gone through the city and had reached the Scaean gates through which he would go out on to the plain, his wife came running towards him, Andromache, daughter of great Eetion who ruled in

    The Iliad of Homer 1898

  • Eetion who brought me up when I was a child — ill-starred sire of an ill-starred daughter — would that he had never begotten me.

    The Iliad of Homer 1898

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