![]() ![]() If the hunter strikes or wounds her first, even though pierced with the spear she does not cease from alkḗ, until she has come to grips or is killed” (21, 573ff.). “Like a panther, plunging forth from a deep thicket and coming face to face with a hunter, is unafraid at heart and does not take flight. The comparison is no empty one: the great beasts of prey in their hour of danger also give evidence of alkḗ. This hero, too, “confident in his alkḗ” now hurls himself forward, now comes to a halt, but “without retiring one step.” Like a lion that the shepherds cannot drive away from his prey “even so can the two Ajaxes not frighten Hector and hurl him back from the corpse” (18, 157f.). The two Ajaxes make a rampart before the corpse of Patroclus “clothed in alkḗ” they thrice repulse the assaults of Hector. On many occasions when the troops are giving way, the chief exhorts them to “remember alkḗ,” to stand fast without fear and not to retreat. Between Achilles and Aeneas there is a long exchange of challenges, which the latter concludes thus: “You will not with words deter me, burning with alkḗ, before we battle, face to face, with the bronze” (20, 256). I bid you get back into the throng.” But Euphorbus retorts: “The combat will decide: either alkḗ or flight” (17, 42). Menelaus, when he is defending the corpse of Patroclus against Euphorbus, threatens him: “I shall break your spirit if you confront me. These are always the alternatives: alkḗ or rout. Poseidon, in the guise of Calchas, addresses the two Ajaxes when the Achaeans are giving way under the assault of the Trojans: “You two go and save the Achaean army, having alkḗ in your hearts and not chilly rout” ( Il. ![]() Émile Benveniste, Indo-European Language and SocietyĢ: A Lexical Opposition in Need of Revision: sus and porcusġ1: An Occupation without a Name - Commerceġ: The Importance of the Concept of PaternityĢ: Status of the Mother and Matrilineal Descentģ: The Principle of Exogamy and its ApplicationsĤ: The Indo-European Expression for "Marriage"Ħ: Formation and Suffixation of the Terms for Kinshipħ: Words Derived from the Terms for KinshipĦ: The Latin Vocabulary of Signs and Omens ![]()
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