Polyxo

Family: Lemnos · Role: nurse · First appears: Book I 5

Life events

• Polyxo proposes entrusting homes, stock, and the city to the strangers.(Book I 5 · 📍 Lemnos)
  • “But I bid you who are younger give good heed to this. For now at your feet a way of escape lies open, if ye trust to the strangers the care of your homes and all your stock and your glorious city.”

Book I 5

• with Hypsipyle (Polyxo is identified as Hypsipyle's nurse.) “and then rose up her dear nurse Polyxo, for very age halting upon her withered feet”

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