Lycomedes : king of Scyros; in his court Achilles was sent by his mother Thetis to hide to prevent his being of slain in Trojan War as ordained by the gods. Odysseus found & enlisted him in the Greek armies against Troy.
... passions Painting Time with the red of our hearts on the web they have woven, How on the Ocean's bosom she hid thee in vine-tangled Scyros Clothed like a girl among girls with the daughters of King Lycomedes,— Art thou not fairer than woman's beauty, yet great as Apollo?— Fearing Paris' shafts and the anger of Delian Phoebus. Now in the night has a vision three times besieged me from heaven. Over ...
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