Meriones : Greek chieftain of Crete who joined Idomeneus in Trojan War.
... to the Ocean. She is the panic and mellay, War is her paean, the chariots thunder of Penthesilea. Doom was her coming, it seems, to the men of the West and their legions; Ajax sleeps for ever, Meriones lies on the beaches. One by one they are falling before you, the great in Achaia. Ever the wounded are borne like the stream of the ants when they forage Past my ships, and they hush their moans... protector, Heaven has sent us replacing a continent Penthesilea! Low has the heart of Achaia sunk since it shook at her war-cry. Ajax has bit at the dust; it is all he shall have of the Troad; Tall Meriones lies and measures his portion of booty. Who is the fighter in Ilion thrills not rejoicing to hearken Even her name on unwarlike lips, much more in the mellay Shout of the daughter of battles, ... armed with a spear that never has missed in the combat! There where my car-wheels run, good fruit gets the husbandman after. This thou knowest. Ajax has told thee, thy friend, in his dying. Has not Meriones' spirit come in thy dreams then to warn thee? Didst thou not number the Argives once ere I came to the battle? Number them now and measure the warrior Penthesilea. Such am I then whom thy dreams ...
... victims Have not fled far, and all may yet be saved. CEPHEUS Scour, captains, scour all Syria for the fugitives. Dercetes and thy troop, down to the coast, Scan every boulder: out, out, Meriones, Callias, Oridamas and Pericarpus, Ring in the countryside with cordons armed, Enter each house, ransack most private chambers, But find them. Dercetes and the captains go out with their soldiers ...
... that never has missed in the combat! There where my car-wheels run, good fruit gets the husbandman after. This thou knowest. Ajax has told thee, thy friend, in his dying. Has not Meriones' spirit come in thy dreams then to warn thee? Didst thou not number the Argives over ere I came to the battle? Number them now and measure the warrior Penthesilea. Page 50 ...
... martial interrelations strikes its note, both stern and tragic, in the vision of death's day-to-day events in a war: Ajax has bit at the dust; it is all he shall have of the Troad; Tall Meriones lies and measures his portion of booty. 2 Again and again, the drift of the least impulse, the lightest act, the most familiar situation is charged with the heroic, the high-souled, the u ...
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