Meleager

Further, their cousin had been Meleager, the noblest of the Greeks.

Has he not, then, drawn a more wretched lot and a far more unfortunate destiny than they say Meleager, the son of Althaea and Oeneus, obtained—for whom they say a certain firebrand held in keeping the span of his life:

and if someone should say that he is a huntsman, and surpasses Hippolytus himself or Meleager in courage and love of toil, but should appear to do nothing of the kind—neither possessing dogs nor nets nor a horse, nor going out to the hunt at all, but neither having his body burned by the sun nor able to endure cold, but reared in the shade and soft and most like a woman—is there any way you would …

inferior in judgment to his brother Meleager, yet through his warrior skill lending his name to equal praise, for he had found in arms a perfect science;

Thereon the elders of the Aetolians besought Meleager;

Meleager, then, stayed at home with Cleopatra, nursing the anger which he felt by reason of his mother's curses.

but they now gave him nothing of those rich rewards that they had offered earlier, and though he saved the city he took nothing by it.

And you, son of Diodotus, emulating the warrior Meleager, emulating Hector and Amphiaraus, breathed out your blossoming youth in the front ranks, where the best men sustained the strife of war at the limit of their hopes.