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Volume 4 · 78 words · 1815 Edition

or Hippodamia, in fabulous history, the wife of Mynes king of Lyrneffa. After Achille had taken that city, and killed her husband, she became his captive. That hero loved her tenderly; but Agamemnon taking her from him, she became the accidental cause of numberless disorders in the Grecian army. Achilles, enraged, retired to his tent; and, till the death of Patroclus, refused to fight against the Trojans. The resentment of this prince is finely painted in the Iliad.