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The Iliad 3.182–190

The Iliad 3.182–190
and there I saw in multitudes the Phrygian warriors, masters of glancing steeds, even the people of Otreus and godlike Mygdon, that were then encamped along the banks of Sangarius. For I, too, being their ally, was numbered among them on the day when the Amazons came, the peers of men. Howbeit not even they were as many as are the bright-eyed Achaeans.
μάκαρ Ἀτρεΐδη μοιρηγενὲς ὀλβιόδαιμον, ῥά νύ τοι πολλοὶ δεδμήατο κοῦροι Ἀχαιῶν. ἤδη καὶ Φρυγίην εἰσήλυθον ἀμπελόεσσαν, ἔνθα ἴδον πλείστους Φρύγας ἀνέρας αἰολοπώλους λαοὺς Ὀτρῆος καὶ Μυγδόνος ἀντιθέοιο, οἵ ῥα τότʼ ἐστρατόωντο παρʼ ὄχθας Σαγγαρίοιο· καὶ γὰρ ἐγὼν ἐπίκουρος ἐὼν μετὰ τοῖσιν ἐλέχθην ἤματι τῷ ὅτε τʼ ἦλθον Ἀμαζόνες ἀντιάνειραι· ἀλλʼ οὐδʼ οἳ τόσοι ἦσαν ὅσοι ἑλίκωπες Ἀχαιοί.
Lattimore commentary
The Amazons, women warriors of the east, were in an unspecified past enemies of Troy and its allies (6.186). Yet the Cyclic epic sequel to the Iliad, the Aithiopis, opens with their arrival at Troy as reinforcements.
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