Aenius

Mortal man

In Greek mythology, Aenius (Ancient Greek: Αἴνιον, romanized: Aīnion or Aínion, lit. 'praiseworthy' or 'praise') was a Paeonian soldier who participated in the siege of Troy. He sided with the Trojans during the Trojan War and was killed by the hero Achilles.

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A. T. Murray, Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press, 1924 · Homer, Iliad with an English Translation · CC BY-SA 3.0 US

“and Mnesus and Thrasius and Aenius and Ophelestes; and yet more of the Paeonians would swift Achilles have slain, had not the deep-eddying River waxed wroth and called to him in the semblance of a man, sending forth a voice from out the deep eddy: O Achilles, beyond men art thou in might, and beyond men doest deeds of evil;”
Il. 21.210–214

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Стих 21.210: «Мнеса и Фрасия, также и Эния, и Офелеста» — Эний назван среди убитых Ахиллесом.

but Achilles went his way after the Paeonians, lords of chariots, who were still huddled in rout along the eddying river, when they saw their best man mightily vanquished in the fierce conflict beneath the hands and sword of the son of Peleus. There slew he Thersilochus and Mydon and Astypylusand Mnesus and Thrasius and Aenius and Ophelestes; and yet more of the Paeonians would swift Achilles have slain, had not the deep-eddying River waxed wroth and called to him in the semblance of a man, sending forth a voice from out the deep eddy: O Achilles, beyond men art thou in might, and beyond men doest deeds of evil;
Il. 21.209–210

Il. 21.209–210

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Wikidata Q15781904

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