| | | | | Antiphus hurled at him—
the son of Priam wearing a gleaming breastplate
let fly through the lines but his sharp spear missed
and he hit Leucus instead, Odysseus’ loyal comrade,
gouging his groin as the man hauled off a corpse—
it dropped from his hands and Leucus sprawled across it.
Iliad, 4.491-493 translated by Robert Fagles | | 48.1.004 | 2007 | | acrylic on wood | | 8" x 3" x 1" | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
