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And night coming on, they sent Ulysses and Diomedes as
spies; and these killed Dolon, son of Eumelus, and Rhesus, the Thracian （ who had
arrived the day before as an ally of the Trojans, and having not yet engaged in the battle
was encamped at some distance from the Trojan force and apart from
Hector）; they also slew the twelve men that were
sleeping around him, and drove the horses to the ships.1
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1 These events are narrated in the tenth book of the Iliad . Hom. Il. 10. They form the subject of Euripides's tragedy Rhesus, the only extant Greek drama of which the plot is derived from the action of the Iliad .
Apollodorus. Apollodorus, The Library, with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. Includes Frazer's notes.
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