Eurypylus
mythological figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 4 anchored passages
in the texts
Tusculan Disputations
Homeric warrior, wounded in battle, who is quoted bearing his wound with hardy composure and continuing to speak of the battle.
whereas that practiced veteran, and braver for that very reason, only asks for a surgeon to bind him up:
Even if Eurypylus could, Aesopus could not:
Orations
A figure of Homeric legend cited among the barbarian beauty examples.
nor among the barbarians Sesostris the Egyptian, or Memnon the Ethiopian, or Ninyas or Eurypylus or Pelops.
Republic
Wounded Homeric hero treated with a simple remedy, cited as an example of ancient medical restraint.
I infer this from the fact that at Troy his sons did not find fault with the damsel who gave to the wounded Eurypylus to drink a posset of Pramnian wine plentifully sprinkled with barley and gratings of cheese, inflammatory ingredients of a surety, nor did they censure Patroclus, who was in charge of the case.
But what he was to eat or drink thereafter they no more prescribed than for Eurypylus, taking it for granted that the remedies sufficed to heal men who before their wounds were healthy and temperate in diet even if they did happen for the nonce to drink a posset;