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Iliad
Book 15, Line 430 by Samuel Butler (English)
He then aimed a spear at Ajax, and missed him, but he hit Lykophron a follower [ therapôn ] of Ajax, who came from Cythera , but was living with Ajax inasmuch as he had killed a man among the Cythereans. Hektor's spear struck him on the head below the ear, and he fell headlong from the ship's prow on to the ground with no life left in him. Ajax shook with rage and said to his brother, "Teucer, my good man, our trusty comrade the son of Mastor has fallen, he came to live with us from Cythera and whom we honored as much as our own parents. Hektor has just killed him; fetch your deadly arrows at once and the bow which Phoebus Apollo gave you."
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