Dear son of Aesyetes, fostered of Zeus, who married Anchises' eldest daughter Hippodameia and led the second Trojan company beside Paris and Agenor — slain of Idomeneus, famed for his spear.1
I
When the allies stormed the wall, Paris and Alcathous and Agenor led the second company. Alcathous had wedded Hippodameia, eldest of Anchises' daughters, and excelled all maidens of her years in comeliness and handiwork.2
II
Poseidon roused Aeneas to bear aid to Alcathous, who had reared him in the halls when he was yet a little child; but Idomeneus had already slain him, and the Cretan king and Aeneas clashed over the body with long spears in the throng.3
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