Fair-tressed daughter of great-hearted Arsinous (`arsinous-achaean`) whom the Achaeans chose for Nestor when Achilles sacked Tenedos — she mixed the warm potion and set the feast before the wounded captains in the *Iliad*.1
After Machaon was wounded, Nestor brought him to his hut and bade Hecamede heat a warm bath and wash the clotted blood away while he went to a place of outlook. She first drew before the twain a table fair with feet of cyanus, set on a basket of bronze an onion as a relish, and mixed for them a potion of Pramnian wine with grated goat's-milk cheese and barley-meal.2
When Agamemnon urged the captains to rally, he told Nestor to sit and quaff the flaming wine until fair-tressed Hecamede should heat a warm bath — the same serving-woman who attended the Pylians' elder throughout the war at Troy.3
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the spine ignites as you read · hover a bond on the card — every mention of them lights in the story