Leiokritos
mythological figure · 2 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
Leiokritos son of Euenor · Leiokritos son of Arisbas
in the texts
Odyssey
A suitor, son of Euenor, who mocks Mentor's appeal and dismisses the idea of Telemakhos's voyage.
Leiokritos, son of Euenor, answered him saying, "Mentor, what folly is all this, that you should set the people to stay us?
Thus spoke the stockman, and Odysseus struck the son of Damastor with a spear in close fight, while Telemakhos hit Leiokritos son of Euenor in the belly, and the dart went clean through him, so that he fell forward full on his face upon the ground.
Iliad
A follower of Lykomedes, speared and killed by Aeneas.
Aeneas speared Leiokritos son of Arisbas, a valiant follower of Lykomedes, and Lykomedes was moved with pity as he saw him fall;