Aethe
animal · 2 works · 2 mentions · 4 anchored passages
Agamemnon's mare · Aithe
in the texts
Iliad
Agamemnon's mare, given by Echepolos, which Menelaos drives in the chariot race.
Next to him, yellow-haired Menelaos son of Atreus rose and yoked his fleet horses, Agamemnon's mare Aithe, and his own horse Podagros.
He had soon caught him up again, for Agamemnon's mare Aethe kept pulling stronger and stronger, so that if the course had been longer he would have passed him, and there would not even have been a dead heat.
but you must overtake the horses of the son of Atreus and not be left behind, or Aethe who is so fleet will taunt you.
Quomodo adolescens poetas audire debeat
A fleet mare given to Agamemnon by the rich but cowardly Echepolus so that he might be excused from military service, the animal at the center of an episode debating bribery versus sound judgment.
It does indeed at the first blush cast a shrewd suspicion on Agamemnon of taking a bribe, when Homer tells us that he discharged that rich man from the wars who presented him with his fleet mare Aethe: