Φιλοκτήτης :
Philoctētes, son of Poeas, from Meliboea in
Thessaly. A famous archer, he possessed the bow and arrows of
Heracles, without which Troy could not be taken. On the way to Troy he
was bitten by a serpent in the island of Chryse, near Lemnos, and the
Greeks left him behind sick in Lemnos, Il.
2.718, 725, γ 190, Od. 8.219.
Georg Autenrieth. A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1891.
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