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The Iliad 16.175–189

The Iliad 16.175–189
Him did fair Polydora, daughter of Peleus, bear to tireless Spercheius, a woman couched with a god, but in name she bare him to Borus, son of Perieres, who openly wedded her, when he had given gifts of wooing past counting. And of the next company warlike Eudorus was captain, the son of a girl unwed, and him did Polymele, fair in the dance, daughter of Phylas, bear. Of her the strong Argeiphontes became enamoured, when his eyes had sight of her amid the singing maidens, in the dancing-floor of Artemis, huntress of the golden arrows and the echoing chase. Forthwith then he went up into her upper chamber, and lay with her secretly, even Hermes the helper,1 and she gave him a goodly son, Eudorus, pre-eminent in speed of foot and as a warrior. But when at length Eileithyia, goddess of child-birth, had brought him to the light, and he saw the rays of the sun, then her did the stalwart and mighty Echecles, son of Actor,
ὃν τέκε Πηλῆος θυγάτηρ καλὴ Πολυδώρη Σπερχειῷ ἀκάμαντι γυνὴ θεῷ εὐνηθεῖσα, αὐτὰρ ἐπίκλησιν Βώρῳ Περιήρεος υἷι, ὅς ῥʼ ἀναφανδὸν ὄπυιε πορὼν ἀπερείσια ἕδνα. τῆς δʼ ἑτέρης Εὔδωρος ἀρήϊος ἡγεμόνευε παρθένιος, τὸν ἔτικτε χορῷ καλὴ Πολυμήλη Φύλαντος θυγάτηρ· τῆς δὲ κρατὺς ἀργεϊφόντης ἠράσατʼ, ὀφθαλμοῖσιν ἰδὼν μετὰ μελπομένῃσιν ἐν χορῷ Ἀρτέμιδος χρυσηλακάτου κελαδεινῆς. αὐτίκα δʼ εἰς ὑπερῷʼ ἀναβὰς παρελέξατο λάθρῃ Ἑρμείας ἀκάκητα, πόρεν δέ οἱ ἀγλαὸν υἱὸν Εὔδωρον πέρι μὲν θείειν ταχὺν ἠδὲ μαχητήν. αὐτὰρ ἐπεὶ δὴ τόν γε μογοστόκος Εἰλείθυια ἐξάγαγε πρὸ φόως δὲ καὶ ἠελίου ἴδεν αὐγάς, τὴν μὲν Ἐχεκλῆος κρατερὸν μένος Ἀκτορίδαο
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