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Othryoneus from Cabesus, a sojourner, who had but lately
come to take part in the war. He sought Cassandra, the fair-
est of Priam’s daughters, in marriage, but offered no gifts of
wooing, for he promised a great thing, to wit, that he would
drive the sons of the Achaeans willy nilly from Troy; old
King Priam had given his consent and promised her to him,
whereon he fought on the strength of the promises thus
made to him. Idomeneus aimed a spear, and hit him as he
came striding on. His cuirass of bronze did not protect him,
and the spear stuck in his belly, so that he fell heavily to the
ground. Then Idomeneus vaunted over him saying, ‘Othry-
oneus, there is no one in the world whom I shall admire
more than I do you, if you indeed perform what you have
promised Priam son of Dardanus in return for his daughter.
We too will make you an offer; we will give you the loveliest
daughter of the son of Atreus, and will bring her from Ar-
gos for you to marry, if you will sack the goodly city of Ilius
in company with ourselves; so come along with me, that we
may make a covenant at the ships about the marriage, and
we will not be hard upon you about gifts of wooing.’
With this Idomeneus began dragging him by the foot
through the thick of the fight, but Asius came up to protect
the body, on foot, in front of his horses which his esquire
drove so close behind him that he could feel their breath
upon his shoulder. He was longing to strike down Idome-
neus, but ere he could do so Idomeneus smote him with his
spear in the throat under the chin, and the bronze point
went clean through it. He fell as an oak, or poplar, or pine
which shipwrights have felled for ship’s timber upon the