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[525] From the 'Telephus' of Euripides, in which he introduces Achilles playing at dice.
The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes
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Nor need we labour to identify a host of others; Iccius, Grosphus, Dellius; who figure as mere dedicatory names; nor persons mentioned casually, such as Telephus of the rosy neck and clustering hair (I, xiii; III, xix), whom Bulwer Lytton, with fine memories of his own ambrosial petted youth, calls a "typical beautyman and lady-killer."
Horace William Tuckwell 1874
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Euripides's play survives only in fragments - which are gathered in a new Loeb edition which also includes lost chunks of his Oedipus and Telephus.
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Euripides's play survives only in fragments - which are gathered in a new Loeb edition which also includes lost chunks of his Oedipus and Telephus.
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And Auge bare Telephus of the stock of Areas, king of the
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But Telephus routed the spearmen of the bronze-clad Achaeans and made them embark upon their black ships.
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Eurypylus the son of Telephus arrives to aid the Trojans, shows his prowess and is killed by Neoptolemus.
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Neoptolemus who slays Eurypylus, son of Telephus, the making of the wooden horse, the spying of Odysseus and his theft, along with
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Telephus comes out to the rescue and kills Thersander and son of Polyneices, and is himself wounded by Achilles.
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Machaon was killed by Eurypylus, the son of Telephus.
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