Echepolus

Echepolus goes down, as Homer likes to say, like a toppled tower.

Ilium Simmons, Dan 1981

Echepolus is the first Trojan captain to die in the Achaean attack.

Ilium Simmons, Dan 1981

I realize then that Echepolus has only hours to live; that if Athena is successful in using Laodocus to break the peace, this Trojan — at least according to Homer — is going to get an Argive spear through his skull.

Ilium Simmons, Dan 1981

Echepolus, son of Thalysius, fighting in the foremost ranks.

The Iliad of Homer 1898

First Antilochus slew an armed warrior of the Trojans, Echepolus, son of Thalysius, fighting in the foremost ranks.

The Iliad 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1868

The mare had been given to Agamemnon by Echepolus son of Anchises, that he might not have to follow him to Ilius, but might stay at home and take his ease; for Jove had endowed him with great wealth and he lived in spacious Sicyon.

The Iliad 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1868

Antilochus first killed a Trojan warrior, Echepolus, son of Thalysias, valiant in the van.

The Iliad of Homer (1873) 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1840

Her Echepolus, the son of Anchises, had presented as a gift to Agamemnon, that he need not follow him to wind-swept Ilium, but staying there might be delighted; for Jove had given him great wealth, and he dwelt in wise Sicyon.

The Iliad of Homer (1873) 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1840

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Plutarch's Lives: Tr. from the Original Greek; with Notes Critical & Historical, & a New Life of ... 1795

Earlier, I had cloaked myself from mortal view and started to move forward to where I could see Athena behind Achaean lines — soon joined by Hera, both goddesses invisible to men — but the fighting had erupted too quickly and escalated too fiercely, so I’d left the front lines after Echepolus fell, trusting to my enhanced vision and shotgun microphone to keep me in touch with events.

Ilium Simmons, Dan 1981