This text is part of:
nec . . . . Achilli, ‘Teucer is Achilles’ cousin as well as he.’ Cf. 31 n. Teucer was half-brother of Ajax, son of Telamon by Hesione, or Theaneira, whom he received as his prize for the help he gave to Hercules in his expedition against her father Laomedon, when he was the first to enter the walls of Troy. The expedition was undertaken to punish Laomedon for his faithlessness in refusing to Hercules the horses once given by Jove to Tros, the reward promised to Hercules when he delivered Hesione from the sea-monster sent by Neptune to ravage the land of Troy, Cf. 23 n., XI. 211-6.
Charles Simmons. Metamorphoseon XIII. xiv. The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books XIII. and XIV. Edited, with introduction, analysis, and notes by Charles Simmons. New York. Macmillan. 1899.
The National Endowment for the Humanities provided support for entering this text.
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.