Idomeneus

further, let some chief man among us be in command, either Ajax, or Idomeneus, or yourself, son of Peleus, mighty warrior that you are, that we may offer sacrifice and appease the anger of the god.

The famous spearsman Idomeneus led the Cretans, who held Knossos, and the well-walled city of Gortys;

All these were led by Idomeneus, and by Meriones, peer of murderous Ares.

Idomeneus, again, lost no men at sea, and all his followers who escaped death in the field got safe home with him to Crete.

I have left as much more behind me for my children, but am fleeing because I killed Orsilokhos son of Idomeneus, the fleetest runner in Crete.

"My house grew apace and I became a great man among the Cretans, but when Zeus counseled that terrible expedition, in which so many perished, the people required me and Idomeneus to lead their ships to Troy, and there was no way out of it, for the judgment of the dêmos insisted on our doing so.

Only at the end he says that Ajax the Locrian watched too unbecomingly and reviled Idomeneus about the horses of Eumelus.

When he was writing to Idomeneus and calling him back from a showy life to a faithful and steadfast glory—Idomeneus, then a minister of the royal power, and one who handled great affairs—he says:

Who would know Idomeneus, had not Epicurus graven him with his letters?

Read Epicurus's letter that bears on this matter, the one inscribed to Idomeneus.