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  • With a loud cry he called Deiphobus and asked him for one, but there was no man; then he saw the truth and said to himself, "Alas! the gods have lured me on to my destruction.

    The Iliad 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1868

  • Athene, as they say, took the form of Deiphobus for the sake of Hector, and the unshorn Phoebus for the sake of Admetus fed the trailing-footed oxen, and the spouse us came as an old woman to Semele.

    Is There Evidence For Mythicism? James F. McGrath 2010

  • Deiphobus, that carried me off by force to be his wife against the will of

    The Trojan Women 2008

  • Deiphobus, that carried me off by force to be his wife against the will of

    The Trojan Women 2008

  • Deiphobus; and Aias the son of Ileus, while trying to drag

    Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

  • Caesar and Pompey accord in Latin hell; yet Ajax, in Homer, endures not a conference with Ulysses; and Deiphobus appears all mangled in

    Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial 2007

  • Troy, Helen, who had, of her own free will, belonged successively to Paris, and to Deiphobus, afterwards returned to Menelaus, who never offered her any reproach.

    Satyricon 2007

  • Hector, Deiphobus, Helenus, Antenor, and all the gallantry of Troy: I would fain have armed to-day, but my Nell would not have it so.

    Troilus and Cressida 2004

  • Helen, after the death of Paris, married Deiphobus his brother, and at the taking of Troy betrayed him, in order to reconcile herself to Menelaus her first husband, who received her again into favour.

    The Iliad of Homer 2003

  • Othryoneus, Asius, and Alcathous: Deiphobus and AEneas march against him, and at length Idomeneus retires.

    The Iliad of Homer 2003

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