Pandarus
mythological figure · 2 works · 4 mentions · 4 anchored passages
Pandaruses
in the texts
Orations
Trojan archer who broke the truce and was later killed
and the manner in which he died, his tongue cut out not long after, before Alexander could so much as say in words that he was grateful to him — relating these things so carefully, does he seem to be speaking about anything other than bribe-taking and impiety and, in sum, folly?
Pandarus swore to Menelaus, as did the rest of the Trojans, but nevertheless wounded him.
Republic
The Trojan War figure whose violation of a truce is, in Homer, attributed to divine instigation by Athena and Zeus.
But as to the violation of the oaths and the truce by Pandarus, if anyone affirms it to have been brought about by the action of Athena and Zeus, we will not approve, nor that the strife and contention of the gods was the doing of Themis and Zeus;
Don’t you remember that in the case of Menelaus too from the wound that Pandarus inflicted They sucked the blood, and soothing simples sprinkled?