Leucus

First appears: BOOK IV

Life events

• Antiphus kills Leucus, and Ulysses retaliates by killing Democoon.(BOOK IV · 📍 Abydos)
  • With: Antiphus Ulysses Democoon
  • “Thereon Antiphus of the gleaming corslet, son of Priam, hurled a spear at Ajax from amid the crowd and missed him, but he hit Leucus, the brave comrade of Ulysses, in the groin, as he was dragging the body of Simoeisius over to the other side; so he fell upon the body and loosed his hold upon it. Ulysses was furious when he saw Leucus slain, and strode in full armour through the front ranks till he was quite close; then he glared round about him and took aim, and the Trojans fell back as he did so. His dart was not sped in vain, for it struck Democoon, the bastard son of Priam, who had come to him from Abydos, where he had charge of his father’s mares.”

BOOK IV

• friends with Ulysses “But he hit Leucus, the brave comrade of Ulysses, in the groin, as he was dragging the body of Simoeisius over to the other side;”

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