Deiophontes

Family: The Trojans · Role: warrior · First appears: Book VIII · Part 2

Life events

• Agenor killed Deiophontes with two arrows.(Book VIII · Part 2)
  • With: Agenor
  • “Yet nigh him Deiophontes stood; the shaft Into his left eye plunged, passed through the ball, And out through his right ear, because the Fates Whither they willed thrust on the bitter barbs. Even as in agony he leapt full height, Yet once again the archer's arrow hissed: It pierced his throat, through the neck-sinews cleft Unswerving, and his hard doom came on him.”

Book VIII · Part 2

• with Teucer (Teucer's arrow kills Deiophontes.) “Yet nigh him Deiophontes stood; the shaft Into his left eye plunged, passed through the ball, And out through his right ear, because the Fates Whither they willed thrust on the bitter barbs.”

Also listed in The Trojans — Minor Figures

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Extracted from the original text of The Fall of Troy. Made with Rho MD.