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Quotes About Diomedes

But Phoebus Apollo called to blazing Ares, "Ares, Ares, destroyer of men, reeking blood, stormer of ramparts, can't you go and drag that man from the fighting? That daredevil Diomedes, he'd fight Father Zeus! He's just assaulted Love, he stabbed her wrist— like something superhuman he even charged at me!
~ Homer
Your loss," Odysseus called after him. "Don't mind him. His wife's a hellhound bitch, and that would sour anyone's temper. Now, my wife-----" "I swear." Diomedes' voice carried back up the length of the ship. "If you finish that sentence, I will throw you over the side and you can swim to Troy.
~ Madeline Miller
This is Lord Diomedes, King of Argos," Lycomedes said. "A comrade of Odysseus." And another suitor of Helen's, though I remembered no more than his name.
~ Madeline Miller
Don't mind him. His wife's a hellhound bitch, and that would sour anyone's temper. Now, my wife—" "I swear." Diomedes' voice carried back up the length of the ship. "If you finish that sentence, I will throw you over the side and you can swim to Troy.
~ Madeline Miller
I came to see that Penelope was twice as clever as her cousins and just as beautiful. So—" "As beautiful as Helen?" Diomedes interrupted. "Is that why she was twenty and unmarried?
~ Madeline Miller