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Deiphobus

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Canonical name
Deiphobus
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Individual
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Location presence

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Claims

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·Remembered

Deiphobus accompanies Helen when she circles the wooden horse.

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“{43} At that moment you came up to us; some god who wished well to the Trojans must have set you on to it and you had Deiphobus with you.”

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·Remembered
“you had Deiphobus with you”
·Reported
“the house of Deiphobus”

Passage preview

Book 4 · Passage 22

Then Menelaus said, ‘All that you have been saying, my dear wife, is true. I have travelled much, and have had much to do with heroes, but I have never seen such another man as Ulysses. What endurance too, and what courage he displayed within the wooden horse, wherein all the bravest of the Argives were lying in wait to bring death and destruction upon the Trojans. {43} At that moment you came up to us; some god who wished well to the Trojans must have set you on to it and you had Deiphobus with you. Three times did you go all round our hiding place and pat it; you called our chiefs each by his own name, and mimicked all our wives—Diomed, Ulysses, and I from our seats inside heard what a noise you made. Diomed and I could not make up our minds whether to spring out then and there, or to answer you from inside, but Ulysses held us all in check, so we sat quite still, all except Anticlus, who was beginning to answer you, when Ulysses clapped his two brawny hands over his mouth, and kept them there. It was this that saved us all, for he muzzled Anticlus till Minerva took you away again.’